[7] He was initially rejected for a fellowship at Oxford, but was admitted after the intercession of the Bishop of Winchester, Richard Willis, who threatened to sack all of those involved if Ayscough was not appointed in 15 minutes.

[8] In 1735 it was Ayscough as Chaplain to the Prince of Wales who was called on to give a sermon to the House of Commons to commemorate the "martyrdom of Charles I".

[9] The boy's father retained Francis' services, but in 1749 he made a further appointment of an assistant to Ayscough.

The new assistant, Lewis Scott, was a mathematician and a member of the Royal Society and it was through him that George III became the first British monarch to have a scientific education.

[4] Anne, his wife, outlived him and died in their house in London in 1776 aged 64.