1. Hoskin M. A. William Herschel and the construction of the heavens (London, 1963), 20–24.
2. Chronicle, 32, states the Alexander was apprenticed in a Guild of Music, though it would be surprising if so small a town as Coppenbrügge had a Guild. George Griesbach's memoir makes it clear he was in fact apprenticed to his uncle, and that Griesbach actually took the boy with him when he moved from Hanover to Coppenbrügge. Caroline, who as we shall see blamed Griesbach for Alexander's defects of character, later wrote of “his spirits being infinitely broken during the few years he was under the care of my sister's husband while our father was wasting his last strength in the campaign of the 7 years war”, BL Microfilm 588(4).