{41} Mr. Lane, of East Horsley Park.

{42} Mr. Evelyn, afterwards Sir John, then M.P. for Helstone, had
offered him an appointment at the Board of Green Cloth, which he at
first, by the wish of his wife, declined to accept; but a few days
afterwards, being better advised, he was glad to find that he could
still have it. The following note was among the Memoranda which he
left of his early life.--'Nothing could be pleasanter than our
situation at the Board of Green Cloth. The Principals were all
members of the House of Commons. We sat in the same room, at the
same green cloth table, with them, by whom we were treated rather
as associates than as clerks.' Mr. Bray was at first only an
assistant, together with Mr. Selwyn, a barrister, afterwards in
large practice; Mr. Blenman, also of the Bar, and Mr. Fanshawe, but
they rose to be chief clerks. His usual attendance was from 11 to
3. He took a house in Holles Street, and settled there December
14th, but in the following year he moved to Great Russell Street.

{43} This child died in July,

{44} After a Royal birth caudle was given to the Clerks of the
Green Cloth and others in office at St. James's.

{45} Of Bury Hill, now Mr. Barclay's.

{46} Of the Rookery, now Mr. Fuller's. His son, Thomas Robert
Malthus, was the great writer on Population. His youngest daughter
married Mr. Bray's son Edward.

{47} His son Edward, who married Miss Malthus, and left a large