Chapter V

Chapter V

1761--DEATH OF ADMIRAL BOSCAWEN--CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD BATH--CORONATION OF GEORGE III.--IN LONDON, AT SANDLEFORD, AND AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS.

[Year: 1761]

Matthew Robinson, Mrs. Montagu’s eldest brother, who had been member for the borough of Canterbury, did not propose to offer himself for re-election to the new parliament, but presented the Canterbury address to the new king at Court. He was clad in such a peculiar and uncourtierlike garb that his sister writes to her husband at Newcastle--

“I am glad he is gone into the country, but he has made a most astonishing appearance at court with the Canterbury address. Morris says he hears of nothing else. I wish the Beefeaters had not let him pass the door. Lord Harry Beauclerc on the buzz his appearance occasioned, desired the people to be quiet, for that he had never seen the gentleman so well dressed before.”

[Page heading: ADMIRAL BOSCAWEN ILL]

Mr. Montagu, having attended the Durham election in favour of Sir Thomas Clavering, was preparing to go to Huntingdon for his own re-election. In Mrs. Montagu’s next letter she says--

“I told you in my last that Admiral Boscawen was ill of a fever, I hope he is out of danger. The noble admiral does not fight so well with a fever as he does with the French; he will not lye in bed, where he would soonest subdue it. Poor Mrs. Boscawen is very anxious and unhappy about the Admiral, and indeed the loss to her and her children would be as great as possible.”

In this letter she remarks upon having heard from Mrs. William Robinson, her sister-in-law, from Lisbon dated November 12: “they are all well, and going on to Madrid.” “They” were the Rev. William Robinson, his wife, and her brother, Mr. Richardson, who, being in bad health, was ordered abroad, and was going to Italy. On December 20, Admiral Boscawen is reported as out of danger, but on the 27th Mrs. Montagu writes--

“His fever still hangs upon him, his strength is quite subdued; any sudden attack, any degree more of fever, and my dear Friend loses a good husband, her children a fond father, their situation in life will suffer a grievous alteration, and the publick will be deprived of a man who serves it with zeal and ability and is always more tender of the honour of his country than of his own person.”

The admiral had a relapse, and Mrs. Montagu, with her husband’s permission, flew to see her friend, but, to avoid alarming the admiral, slept at Mr. Botham’s at Albury. She, however, returned to London, as the admiral could not bear his wife out of his sight, and begrudged any friend taking her away from him for an instant. In this same letter she mentions that old Mr. Wortley Montagu was very ill.

Dr. Monsey, who himself was very unwell, wrote on January 9 to tell Mrs. Montagu he was sure the admiral would not recover; he begs her to remember it is God’s will, and “to try and guard Mrs. Boscawen’s mind and let money and the world be thrown into the Coal Hole.”

[Page heading: DEATH OF ADMIRAL BOSCAWEN]

The admiral expired on January 10 at 7 a.m. He died of a putrid fever, and before death sent for his sister, Mrs. Frederick, to desire her to take his wife and children to London the moment he was dead. Mrs. Montagu went at once to her friend to endeavour to comfort her. Mr. Montagu, with his characteristic kindness, begged Mrs. Boscawen to go to Hill Street, but she remained at the Admiralty. Mrs. Montagu writes of her on January 17--

“I thank God her mind is very calm and settled, she endeavours all she can to bring herself to submit to this dire misfortune; I know time must be her best comforter, so that I oppose her lamentations rarely and gently, but when they continue long, set before her the merit of her five children, the want they will have of her, and the comfort she may derive from them.... Mr. Boscawen has left all his fortune, except a purchase he made in Cornwall, to Mrs. Boscawen at her entire disposition, the land in Cornwall he has left her only for life, and then to his eldest son. This estate cost but £10,000, and so is a small part of his fortune, so that the children are entirely dependent on her. I hear old Mr. Wortley can last but a very short time. It is supposed Lady Mary will come to England.”

[Page heading: DEATH OF OLD MR. WORTLEY MONTAGU]

Writing to her husband, still at Newcastle, at the end of January, Mrs. Montagu says--

“I believe it will be agreeable to you to hear that Lord Sandwich called on me this morning to desire me to write you word that he hopes that the second week in February you will be ready for Huntingdon; his Lordship says he will give you only two days’ trouble, one to canvass, another to be elected.... Mr. Wortley Montagu dyed last night, the disposition of his effects not known as yet, by next post you shall hear.”

In her next letter she says--

“I have had a full account of Mr. Wortley’s will, it runs thus:--‘To his son £1000 per annum rentcharge,’ with an order it should not be liable to his debts, which by-the-bye is nonsense. The Leicestershire estate, we know to our sorrow is his. If the present wife[313] dyes and he has legitimate issue, that issue is to have the Wortley estate. In case he has not such issue, then the whole of his personal and real estate is to go to Lady Bute’s second son, he taking the noble name of Wortley. Two thousand pounds apiece indeed to each of Lady Bute’s younger children! The old gentleman’s wealth is reckoned immense.”

[313] Caroline Feroe, née Dormer.

In another letter his estate is stated to be £800,000 in money, and £17,000 per annum in land, mines, etc.!

Mr. Montagu writes in reply to this--

“I am extremely sorry that Mr. Wortley has made such a will as you mention. I think he has been unworthy of being a Father. I cannot pretend to say but his son gave him too good reason to take care he should not waste and consume his estate, it was mine and the opinion of others that, as the phrase is, he would have tyed him up, but if he had done it in the literal sense he would have been less cruel to him; this poor man was not without very good parts, he was greatly altered; if he had done kindly by him, it was not impossible that he might have been reclaimed and have yet made some figure in life. What is now to become of him I don’t know. I suppose he is not to come into Parliament again, and if so I cannot see what he can do but leave his native country, and live in perpetual banishment abroad. I cannot but greatly commiserate this poor man, and reflect with horror on his cruel unrelenting parent.”

On February 15 Mr. Montagu writes from Hinchingbrooke, as he spells it--

“MY DEAREST,

“We got here on Friday night. Our canvassing the town is put off to Tuesday. Lord Hinching[314] is here, who is much grown and every way improved. My Lord has made considerable alterations to the house, and by the addition of two or three rooms is very convenient, and he says without much expense.... Calling at Barnet j heard poor Wortley’s stock upon his farme was the day before sold by auction, and fetched a thousand pounds, which j fear will be devour’d by the creditors.”

[314] Viscount Hinchinbrook, afterwards 5th Earl of Sandwich; born 1742–3, died 1814.

[Page heading: “MONTAGU MINERVA!”]

Soon after this Mr. Montagu joined his wife in Hill Street. A folio letter from James Stuart[315] (Athenian Stuart) ends the month of February. In it he represents himself as an English horse--a hunter dragging Greek treasures to Mrs. Montagu, whom he addresses in verse as--

“Fairest and best! hail Montagu Minerva! Smile on my labours. Say that my rich freightage Amply deserved the Price and Pains it cost. So that the Muses thy companions dear, The Graces and the Virtues all approve My bold Emprise: And end at once and recompense my toil.”

[315] James Stuart, born 1713, died 1788; author of “Antiquities of Athens.”

[Page heading: VOLTAIRE’S TANCRED]

Lord Bath writes March 4, 1761--

“MADAM,

“I am sorry that I cannot wait on you this evening, being engaged to go to Lady Strafford’s,[316] and afterwards to Lady Darlington’s[317] to play at cards; but on Saturday I will have the honour to call on you and stay the evening with you, if you are not otherwise engaged, and your feverish disorder will allow you to come down stairs. I have sent for your amusement Voltaire’s Tancred, which has many fine lines in it, but the speeches are too long, as they generally are in French Plays. When I have the honour of waiting on you I will bring with me Emin’s letter.

“I am, Madᵐᵉ, “Yours most truly, “B.”

[316] Lady Strafford, Anne, second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Argyll.

[317] Lady Darlington was a cousin of Lord Bath’s; her mother was a Pulteney.

[Page heading: MACPHERSON’S “FINGAL”]

To this Mrs. Montagu replies--

“MY LORD,

“I return the Tragedy with many thanks. The character your Lordship gave of it kept up my hopes and my spirits through the long tedious speeches with which it opens, and upon the whole it appears to me to be one of the best of Voltaire’s Tragedies, as it is, what few of his are, interesting. Pompous declamation season’d with Moral reflections is surely far from the perfection of dramatick writing, tho’ in a nation too much polish’d and refin’d, it is prefer’d to the natural sallies of passion in our Shakespear, as fops love essences better than the flowers from whence they are extracted. I find in this Tragedy many petty larcenies from Corneille. The character of Aménaide is in part an imitation of the Sister of Horatius, but the Roman name supports the fierté of her character, born in any other city I should call her a termagant, there I consider her as a She Roman, the female of the Lion. The fair Amenaide is too much an esprit fort in regard to her duties to please me. She does not follow Virtue as by law establish’d, but despises forms and follows sentiment, a dangerous guide. Design’d by Nature to act but a second part, it is a woman’s duty to obey rules, she is not to make or redress them. I must confess that Aménaide is noble and heroick, and a proper mistress for a Knight Errant, whose motto is ‘l’amour et l’honneur.’ I have seen many poems form’d on the manners of Chivalry, but I never saw them before in Drama. They admit of the bombast in honour and love, which the French and Spanish Theater affect, and will furnish those brilliant sentiments they so much admire, but which indeed come better from any Muse but the pathetick Melpomène.

“I shall be very glad of the honour of your Lordship’s company on Saturday evening. I was to have gone to the play that night, but if my fever should have left me by that time, I have a cough which would be louder than Mrs. Prichard.[318] I have taken the liberty to enclose Mr. Macpherson’s proposals, and if your Lordship designs to subscribe to the work, and have not already done so, I should be very glad to have the honour of your name on my list. I have read the first canto,[319] which far exceeded my expectation. The various incidents recited take off that sameness of character which appeared in the detached pieces, and which were their greatest fault. The original Ersh is to be seen at Mr. Millar’s. I have also enclosed a letter from Edinburgh which gives an account of these poems. By this long letter I have taken some revenge upon your Lordship for not coming here last night, and now I am in perfect charity, mix’d with some compassion for the trouble I have given you.

“My Lord, “Your Lordship’s Most obliged and obedient Hᵇˡᵉ Serᵛᵗ, “E.M.”

[318] Celebrated actress.

[319] This must be “Fingal.”

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S LETTER TO MRS. CARTER]

At this period Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Carter went to stay with Lord Bath at Ives Place.[320] Dr. Monsey was to have accompanied them, but he was suffering with acute pain in his back, for which Dr. Gataker gave him a plaister, which he said would pull his head to his back.

[320] His country house near Maidenhead.

Lord Bath writes to Mrs. Montagu the following:--

“MADAM,

“I am going to entrust you with a most prodigious secret; and in order to engage you the better to keep it, must desire you to be a joynt agent with me in conducting it, and carrying it on, and yet it is not every woman neither that can keep that very important secret of joynt agency, but you, I am very sure, will be true to me when I tell you what it is. You must know, Madam, that I have a great desire of making a small present to Mrs. Carter, to make her fine, when she comes to Tunbridge, and I must beg of you to take the trouble of buying the silk or Damask, or what you please, and in order to engage her to have no difficulty or scruples in accepting it, I will send with it the following letter:--

“‘To Mrs. Carter.

“‘MADAM,

“‘I have sent you a trifling present which I desire you will accept, and that you may have no difficulty in doing it I will tell you the plain truth. The first thing is this--I have found in my Library some books, which tho’ they may be very good ones, can be of no use to me, as they are in Greek,[321] and possibly they may be of service to you. The next thing is that I have two pounds of very bad tea, which I cannot so much as take myself, nor offer to anybody else, unless it be to you: the last thing is this: I found in the drawer of an old India Cabinet a piece of silk with this wrote in a paper upon it: Enough for a Mantua and petty coat. Now, Madam, as I neither wear a mantua nor pettycoats, I do not know what to do with it, unless you will accept of it, which you may very readily do, since you may perceive that it lays you under no manner of obligation to your, etc.

“‘BATH.’

“But after all I have said, if you think, Madam, giving you the two enclosed Bank bills of 20 pounds each to send privately to her without letting her know or guess from whom they come, may be of more real use and service to her, you may do it as you think fit, and I can venture to say of the Bank Bills just what I have done of the Greek books, that they are of little use to me, and possibly may be of great service to her, and more in that I hope than any other.

“I am, Madam, “Your most obedient and very humble servant, “BATH.

“Piccadilly, April 2, 1761.

“P.S.--I am afraid you will be puzzled at first to know what all this nonsensical stuff can mean, but you may remember that when you were at Ives Place, I mentioned something of this kind to you.”

[321] This is an affectation, as he constantly uses Greek phrases in Greek character in his later letters.

[Page heading: GOING TO WELLWYN]

Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Carter proposed a visit to Dr. Young at Welwyn, and on April 9 he writes as follows--

“DEAR MADAM,

“Your letter, etc., lay me under great obligations, but the greatest lies in the kind promise you make me that I shall kiss the hands of two fair Pilgrims at Wellwyn. I hope they are too much Protestants to think there is anything sacred in the shrine you speak of. I have too many sins beside, to pretend that I am a Saint. Was I a Saint and could work miracles I would reduce you two ladys to the common level of your sex being jealous for the credit of my own; which has hitherto presum’d to boast an usurp’d superiority in the realms of genius and the letter’d world. For you, Madam, I shall say nothing, for who can say enough? Miss Carter has my high esteem for showing us in so masterly a manner that Christianity has a foil in one of the brightest jewels of Pagan Wisdom, a jewel which you will allow she has set in gold. Might not such an honour from a fair hand, make even an Epictetus proud without being blamed for it? Nor let Miss Carter’s amiable modesty become blameable, by taking offence at the truth, but stand the shock of applause, which she has brought upon herself; for tho’ it pains her, it does credit to the publick, and she should support it patiently, as her Stoical Hero did his broken leg. I rejoice that you are recovered; I too, Madam, have been very ill of late, and stand in no small need of a cordial: hasten therefore your favour, which the sooner it is, will be the kinder to, dear Madam,

“Your most obedient and obliged, humble servant, “E. YOUNG.”

On April 28 Lord Bath writes to Mrs. Montagu--

“MADAM,

“I would sooner have answer’d your letter, and sent you back the enclosed Dialogue, but that I went out to take the air in my chaize. You may depend upon my secrecy, but should it ever be published, it will be known to be yours, because nobody can write like it. I will endeavour to wait on you when you return from Dr. Young’s, unless I go to Ives Place for a day or two.

“I am, with the greatest regard and truth,

“Your most humble and obedient servant, “BATH.”

[Page heading: ANOTHER DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD]

[Page heading: BERENICE V. CLEOPATRA]

[Page heading: THE “WORLD WELL LOST!”]

This is the dialogue which I believe has not yet been published:--

“BERENICE AND CLEOPATRA.”

Berenice. The similitudes and dissimilitudes of our fortune have long made me wish to converse with you, if the charming, the victorious Cleopatra by her lover prefer’d to glory, to empire, to life, will deign to hold converse with the forsaken, the abandon’d, the discarded Berenice.

Cleopatra. The scorns of Octavius, the bite of the aspic, the waters of Lethe have so subdued my female vanity, that I will own to you I greatly suspect my greater success with my lover did not arise so much from my charms as in my skill of management of them.

Berenice. I can scarce understand you. Beauty and love I thought to be the greatest attractions. In the first you must have excell’d me, but in the second you certainly could not: I had beauty, youth, regal dignity, and an elevated mind. I was distinguished by many qualities and accomplishments which were so dedicated to my Lover, that of all I had been and all I could be, I was, I would be, only l’amante of Titus. I thought the next person in merit and dignity to Titus himself was the woman who ador’d him, and I was more proud of the homage I paid him, than of all I had receiv’d from lovers or subjects. But you, Cleopatra, had loved Cesar before Anthony, and other passions besides the gentle one of love seemed still to have your heart. Yet for you Anthony despised the dangers of war, the competition of a rival in Empire, the motives of military glory, and the resentment of a Senate and people not yet taught to submit to or flatter the passions of a master. Over these you triumph’d; but I was sacrificed to the low murmurs of the people, and the cautious counsels of gray-headed Statesmen. Was it that Minerva desired to triumph over Venus in the noblest and gentlest heart that ever was contain’d in the breast of mortal? Tell me, Cleopatra, for 1700 years have not made me forget my love and my grief?

Cleopatra. I have often with attention listen’d to your story; and your looks, on which still remain the sadness of a lover’s farewell, move my compassion. I wish I could have assisted you with my counsels when Titus was meditating your departure. I would have taught you those arts by which I enslaved the Soul of Anthony, and brought Ambition and the Roman Eagles to lye at my feet.

Berenice. Your arts would have been of little service to me, I had no occasion to counterfeit love. From Titus’s perfection one learn’d to love in reality beyond whatever fiction pretended; no feigned complaisance could imitate my sympathy; if he sigh’d I wept, if he was grave I grew melancholy, if he sicken’d I dyed. My heart echoed his praises, it beat for his glory, it rejoiced in his fortunes, it trembled at his dangers.

Cleopatra. Indeed, Berenice, you talk more like a Shepherdess than a great Queen. You might perhaps in the simplicity of pastoral life have engaged some humble Swain, but there was too much of nature and too little of art in your conduct, to captivate a man used to flattery, to pleasures, to variety. I find you was but the mirror of Titus, you gave him back his own image, while I presented every hour a new Cleopatra to Anthony. I was gay, voluptuous, haughty, gracious, fond and indifferent by turns; if he frown’d on me, I smiled on Dollabella; if he grew thoughtful, I turn’d the Banquet to a Riot. I dash’d the soberness of counsels by the vivacity of mirth, and gilded over his disgrace by show and magnificence; if his reason began to return, I subdued it by fondness, or disturb’d it by jealousy. Thus did I preserve my conquest, establish my fame, and put Anthony first in the list of

“all the mighty names by love undone.”

Had I only wept when honour and Octavia call’d him home I might have been the burthen of a love ballad, or subject of a tender Elegy, who now am the glory of our sex, and the great instance of beauty’s power. Do not you wish you had used the same managements?

Berenice. I might have used them had I loved the same man: Cleopatra, the coquette was a proper mistress for the Reveller Anthony; but the god-like Titus, the delight as well as Master of Mankind, left no part of the heart unengaged and at liberty to dissemble. What had not yielded to his wisdom, submitted to his witt, was subdued by his magnanimity, or won by his gentleness; when affection does not vary, behaviour cannot change; and methinks Anthony should have quitted you from distrust of your love, and Titus have retain’d me from confidence in mine. After what you have told me, I am more than ever surprised at your fate and my own.

Cleopatra. If you want this explain’d ask Eneas, Theseus, Jason, and the infinite multitude of faithless lovers, but if my authority will pass, believe me Anthony was preserved by his doubt of my love, and Titus was lost by his confidence in yours. Do not look so concern’d. From the era of your disaster to this very day you will find every faithful and fond Berenice discarded, while the gay, vain, and capricious fair one is to her Anthony a Cleopatra and the “world well lost.”

From the following letter of Dr. Young’s to Mrs. Montagu it would appear that she had sent this dialogue for him to read.

“DEAR MADAM,

“I hope you will allow that a curiosity is better than a good thing. I send you a paper which may be called a curiosity, as it is printed, but not for the publick, only for your ease in perusing it.

“I much thank you for the bright specimen of genius you was so kind as to send me. I admire it as much as you. I hope you are recover’d of the Indysposition you mention’d in your Last, and that you, the cloud remov’d, will continue to shine on,

“Dear Madam, “Your most obedient and Humble Servᵗ, “E. YOUNG.”

“May 26, 1761.”

[Page heading: LIKENESS TO FREDERICK THE GREAT]

Emin, from “Standgate Creek, on board of the ship Northumberland,” writes on May 5 to Mrs. Montagu, addressing her thus--

“To the wisdom of Europe, sister to the great King of Prussia, excellent Mrs. Montagu.”

Not only did he think Mrs. Montagu equal in cleverness to Frederick the Great, but he considered her forehead and eyes like his, to the great indignation of Lord Bath and Dr. Monsey, who pronounced it impossible she should resemble so bloodthirsty a character.

Mrs. Carter took leave of Mrs. Montagu on May 18, and that very evening Mrs. Montagu writes to her--

“You left London only this morning, and I am writing to you to-night; does it not seem unreasonable? I hope not, as you must know there are habits which it is hard to break, and alas! I was in the habit of conversing with you every day. I feel like a traveller, who by the chearfull light of the Sun has pleasantly pursued his day’s journey, but seeing it below the horizon, enjoys and would fain prolong the twilight, which tho’ it has not the warmth and lustre of the noon-day, yet is a kind interposition between it and the gloom of the night.”

She dates her letter from Ealing, where she had gone to the Botham’s for the night, “imagining I should hear your tones better from the nightingale than in the din and chatter of London.” So much did Mrs. Carter value Mrs. Montagu’s letters that she always noted the day and year of their reception of them, which is a great help to an editor in compiling, as many of Mrs. Montagu’s letters are undated. In the end of this letter she mentions that she is returning to London next day to spend the evening with Mrs. Boscawen, who was to leave the Admiralty that day for her new house.

“She will be too apt to reflect on the change of her condition upon such an occasion, and the less time she has to dwell on the subject the better. Alas, how few people are there so happily situated that they can intrepidly look on their condition! Mr. Melmoth[322] made me a visit this evening. I exhorted him to give his leisure hours to the publick, and hope he will do it, as his health is now much improved.”

[322] William Melmoth, born 1710, died 1799. English scholar; translated the “Letters of Pliny,” etc., etc.

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S HOUSE IN PICCADILLY]

A most curious anonymous letter to Lord Bath concerning his house in Piccadilly, dated June 5, 1761, is next in order. The handwriting is large and bold.

“MY LORD,

“A zeal for the glory of the Nation and of the town, also of your Lordship, induces me to recommend to you to modernize your house in Piccadilly, at least externally, by facing it with stone or Stucco, as brick has an ignoble appearance, and is considered by foreigners only fit for a Maison bourgeoise; a Portico with a Rampe,[323] as at the Hotels of Prince Eugene and Swartzenburg at Vienna, unites Conveniency, Elegance, and Grandeur, as chairs and coaches can go up the Rampe and under the Portico, whereas a Perron[324] or open steps are always inconvenient, and often dangerous in snowy, wet, and frosty weather. I hope that your Lordship will give a Proof and monument of your Taste, Spirit, and Generosity in architecture, contributing thereby to the embellishment of the Metropolis. A House of Distinction sho’d be always insulated without any Building contiguous thereto, which insulation has many advantages.

“I have the Honour to be, with Respect, “ETC.

“June 5, 1761.”

[323] Means a rising gradient.

[324] A flight of steps.

[Page heading: THE BRITISH MUSEUM]

The British Museum, containing the library and collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the Cottonian and Harleian MSS., etc., had been established in Montagu House, bought of the Earl of Halifax, and opened in 1759. The following letter from Mr. Charles Morton, the curator, will show the conditions under which the Museum was then shown. The Earl of Halifax, who had owned Montagu House, was a cousin of Mr. Montagu’s.

“To Mrs. Montagu.

“MADAM,

“I am extremely sorry not to have received the Honour of your Message before eleven o’clock last night, being detained abroad by Business till that Time. I flatter myself, however, that the affair you mention will not have suffered by my absence; for on fridays and mondays the Museum is open in the afternoon only, at the Hours of four and six, calculated to accommodate for a few months persons of a different class, and on Saturdays the Museum is shut up. I have therefore secured places for Mrs. Montagu and her company for Tuesday sennight, at one o’clock, and promise myself the Pleasure to send the Tickets on Wednesday next, unless the Time I have engaged should be inconvenient to you; in which latter case, I beg the Honour of a note to-morrow some time before noon.

“Madam, I remain, with great respect,

“Your most obedient and most humble Servant, “CHAS. MORTON.

“Montagu House, June 7, 1761.”

[Page heading: A COUNTRY GENTLEWOMAN]

[Page heading: GESNER’S “MORT D’ABEL”]

From Sandleford, on June 23, Mrs. Montagu writes to Mrs. Carter--

“DEAR MADAM,

“I told you in my last that I was going to take a flight into Berkshire; and here I have been ever since Friday evening, leading a Pastoral life in the finest weather I ever saw. Tho’ the most sage Horace says we change our climate without changing our disposition, I must be of another opinion, for by only the difference of latitude and longitude between Hill Street and Sandleford I am become one of the most reasonable, quiet, good, kind of country gentlewoman that ever was. In the days when misses employ’d their crimping and wimpling irons upon cheese-cakes and tarts, not on flounces and furbelows, and matrons used no rouge, but a little cochineal to give a fine colour to a dried neat’s-foot tongue, they could not be further from the temper and qualities and conditions of a fine lady than your humble servant at this present writing. My health is much improved by the country air; I saunter all day, and when Phœbus sets in the material world, he rises in the Intellectual; then I sit down to read what he has inspired, and I find the amusements of the day here prepare me well for my evening’s lecture....

“The mention of poetry puts me in mind to tell you I am very well satisfied with the share of praise you give to Cowley.[325] He had a rich vein of thought, but being too ostentatious of it, we are disgusted at the proud display of his treasures, as at the pomp of a rich man, when it goes beyond the bounds modesty and a sound judgment should set to it. I agree with you that his love verses are insufferable. I think you and I who have never been in love, could describe it better were we ask’d, what is it like? I think some of his verses, like Anacreon, very pretty, and the verses by the god of love in honour of Anacreon are very pretty tho’ a little too long. I think you was too temperate in your commendation of ‘La Mort D’Abel.’[326] I was infinitely delighted with it as a work of genius. On your recommendation I lent it to my Lord Lyttelton, who sent it back with great approbation. But to be sincere in spite of you both, some silly prejudices against the Author and the language the poem was originally written in, a little damped my expectations, and the beginning, in which he imitates Milton, with all the faintness of reflected beams, make me advance very soberly. But what a feast is the Patriarchal dinner! How sweetly innocent their manners! Eve’s horror at the first storm, her surprize at Adam’s fastening up the mouth of the cave, concern at the first sight of death, which is finely supposed to seize a dove, because in that animal only could the grief of a surviving friend be shown, with ten thousand other circumstances in hers and Adam’s narration, all so natural and yet so new that I must call Mr. Gesner a Poet. A Poet should create, but he should not make monsters. I think our Author has not the sublime, but his genius suits his subject. What a noble piety! what a purity of heart in Abel! and how finely is his character contrasted with Cain’s. Abel’s are virtues of disposition and temper in a great degree, and so are Cain’s vices, which rightly imagined in a state of life where example and discipline could not have so much influence as in a larger society and more mix’d life. Milton’s and Mr. Gesner’s pastoral scenes are so ennobled and refined by Religion, that the Shepherds and Shepherdesses who worship the wanton Pan and drunken Silenus, make a mean figure when compared to them. I agree with you in liking Mr. Gesner’s Pastorals extreamly, but let him still keep to the more than golden age of the Poets. I would fain propose to him to take the story of Joseph next. He has a fine genius for Drama! The last three books of Abel make a noble tragedy. Did you not drop a tear at the lamentation of Cain’s children over Abel’s body? Il ne se reveillera plus! Il ne se reveillera plus! How simple! how natural! how affecting! What a witchcraft is there in words! repeat, il est mort, it is nothing, but the simplicity of children who had not a name for death and the words at once signifying the circumstance is very touching.... I have taken a house at Tunbridge from the 3rd of July. I hope my dear friend will be ready to come to me. I shall send the post-chaize to you as soon as I am at Tunbridge.

“I am, my dear Madam, “With most sincere and tender affection, “Yours, “E. MONTAGU.”

[325] Abraham Cowley, born 1618, died 1667; poet.

[326] By Salomon Gesner, born 1730, died 1788. “Tod Abels.”

[Page heading: GOING TO TUNBRIDGE]

[Page heading: CHARACTER OF LORD BATH]

Writing from Sandleford on June 26 to Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Montagu mentions that she is going to Tunbridge

“for 6 or 7 weeks perhaps, and the rest of the summer I shall pass at Sandleford, except my excursion to Bath Easton. Mrs. Carter is to come to Tunbridge to me as soon as I get thither, and, I hope, stay with me the whole season. I was so fortunate as to enjoy her company much longer in town this year than usual, but that only makes me wish the more to have her again. She was not in the house with me in town, preferring the quiet of a lodging to herself, and indeed it would not be any delight to Mr. Montagu to have her in the house; tho’ he says she would be a good sort of woman if she was not so pious.[327] My Lord Bath told me he was to go to Bath on Wednesday, the day we dined with him....

“I shall have Mrs. Boscawen for my neighbour at Tunbridge; she is to be at Sir Sydney Smythe’s, only three miles from the Wells. Lady Frances Williams is in the deepest affliction for Lady Coningsbye.[328] To show the last respect to her, Lady Frances staid in the house with the dead body in spite of all her friends could do; she did not leave Lady Coningsbye’s house till last Saturday; she has been so singularly unfortunate that, had she not the strongest piety and the strongest reason to support her, she must sink under the repeated strokes of affliction.... I suppose you have read Dr. Hawkesworth’s[329] ‘Oriental Tales,’ it is not written with so much spirit as the Oriental tales in ‘the Adventurer’ which were by him, but there are some fine things in it.... I have heard my Lord Bath speak with great regard for you and Lady Bab Montagu. I believe we shall call on him on Monday, on our way to London. We were asked to dine or lye there in our journey down, and at our return. He has recovered his health and spirits and is the most delightfull companion imaginable. I think he has great good qualities, and I do not perceive the least of that covetousness which was attributed to him while his wife lived; he lives nobly, entertains generously, and I know many acts of generosity he has done, and I have known them from the report and acknowledgements of the persons obliged, for by his behaviour to such of them as I have seen at his house you would think he had received favours from them, which nobly enhances the benefit. He seems to have the strongest sense of Religion, and on all occasions to show it without the ostentation of one who wants to be praised for piety, nor does he ever in the gayest of his conversation forget the respect due to every moral duty. It would give one pain to discover any faults in one who has such extraordinary perfections and endowments, and I think his Lordship has outlived the errors which the hustling of a mighty Spirit may in youth have led him: as to his consort, she was, in Milton’s phrase, a cleaving mischief in his way to virtue.

“I am glad Lord Bath is to be at Tunbridge. Mrs. Carter is a great favourite, and I hope we shall have a good deal of his company.”

She winds up her letter with high commendation of Gesner’s “Death of Abel” mentioned before.

[327] Mr. Montagu, though a most moral man and a Church attendant, objected to religious conversation.

[328] Her sister.

[329] John Hawkesworth, LL D., essayist and novelist, died 1773.

[Page heading: BLIND MAN’S BUFF]

Dr. Young now writes--

“DEAR MADAM,

“You and I are playing blind man’s buff; we both fancy we are catching something, and we are both mistaken. You say you have sent me two somethings, and I have not received so much as one, and you expected one from me, which is not yet come to your hand, which will kiss your hand this week, and if you are at the trouble of reading it over you will find a sufficient excuse for my delay. By what you say in your kind letter, you give me a very keen appetite for both the books which you promise. I have heard nothing yet of the time of my going to Kew: when I am there I shall make it my endeavour to enjoy as much of you as I can. I have been in very great pain with my rheumatism for some time, but now, I bless God, I hope the worst is over. May health and peace keep company with that benevolence and genius which are already with you.

“I am, dear Madam, “Your much obliged and most obedient humble Servt., “E. YOUNG.

“Mrs. Hallows[330] sends her best respects.

“Wellwyn, the 2nd July, ’61.”

[330] Mrs. Hallows was Dr. Young’s lady housekeeper.

Dr. Young’s allusion to Kew was the fact that he had recently been appointed Clerk of the Closet to the Princess Dowager of Wales.

[Page heading: THE FUTURE QUEEN]

On July 7 Mrs. Montagu started for Tunbridge Wells, and on the following Monday sent her post-chaise to fetch Mrs. Carter, and Lord Bath arrived from London on the same day. Mr. Montagu, who was going to Sandleford for a while, mentions in a letter of July 11 to his wife that

“there was a great appearance of the privy council when the King declar’d his intention of demanding the Princess of Mecklenburgh in marriage, a request that can never be denied. The family is ancient, and the blood high, but I suppose the Dukedom not very rich, but this may be helped with subsidies, etc., but this is not much to be grudged if by making our young Monarch happy it contributes to that of the Nation, tho’ Princes are under a disadvantage from which their subjects are free, of marrying those whom they have never seen or convers’d with, still I hope there is reason to be believed that this alliance, as it was of the young Monarch’s choosing and not of the imposing of a Father, and as money, etc., is out of the case, that care has been taken by those employ’d to give a true information both of the perfections of the mind and body of this Princess, and he will be happy.”

Mr. Montagu adds that the pictures at Newbold Verdon were to be sold for Mr. Edward Wortley-Montagu’s debts, but that a list of them had been sent to him by Mr. E. Wortley-Montagu, who desired to know which he would accept of as a present. Mr. Montagu had marked his brother’s portrait (Mr. James Montagu), and asks his wife to say if there were any she wished for. Very probably the picture by Sir Peter Lely of the first Earl of Sandwich, Mr. Montagu’s grandfather, which I possess, came from there.

Lord Bath conveyed Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Carter “to Mr. Pratt’s[331] place, call’d Bayham Abbey, which I believe you once saw with Mr. Pitt. The ruins of the Abbey are very noble. Tho’ the Gothick buildings have not in their time of utmost perfection the beauty of the Græcian; time seems to have a greater triumph in the destruction of strength than of grace.... I have just now the pleasure of hearing Pondicherry[332] is taken. I hope this will depress the spirits of the French.... Lord Bath and Lord Lyttelton and Mrs. Carter and Doctor Smythe and many others desire their compliments.”

[331] Afterwards Lord Camden.

[332] Pondicherry in the East Indies was taken on January 15, 1761.

On July 20 Dr. Stillingfleet writes from Stanlake, Berks, the seat of his friend, Richard Neville Aldworth, expressing his regret that he cannot accept Mrs. Montagu’s kind invitation to Tunbridge Wells, as his friend, Mr. Aldworth, had made him promise to spend a summer with him at Stanlake. “This friend has had his constitution broken so by the gout, that he is become a valetudinarian, and therefore I can the less think of leaving him. He is ordered by his Physician to drink the Sunning Hill Waters, and we are going there as soon as he is able.” Mr. Aldworth was an ancestor of Lord Braybrooke’s.

[Page heading: MR. RICHARDSON’S DEATH]

Mr. Richardson, the author of “Clarissa Harlowe,” etc., died on July 4, to the great grief of Dr. Young, who was a bosom friend of his. Mrs. Montagu bade Dr. Young come to Tunbridge to cheer his spirits. He writes--

“DEAR MADAM,

“On your very kind invitation I have inquired if it is in my power to accept of it, but I am not yet satisfied in that point. Probabilities will not excuse me if her R. H. should go to Kew. I should be very happy to be with you. I have so much to say to you that at present I shall say nothing. You will hear further of me in a little while. I beg my humble service to Mrs. Carter. May the Waters continue to be as serviceable to you as I would be if it was in my power.

“I am, dear Madam, “Your obliged and most obedient humble Servt., “E. YOUNG.

“July 21, 1761.”

[Page heading: “COOLING STANZAS!”]

On July 30 Dr. Young writes that he is obliged to refuse Mrs. Montagu’s kind invitation “as he had a friend with him he could not leave,” and as “her Royal Highness sent me word she would send for me when she wanted me; for these reasons I deny myself the great pleasure of waiting on you. I have ordered some Stanzas to be sent to you; they are of a cooling nature, and may qualify your waters.”

In this year (1761) a complete collection of the doctor’s works was printed.

[Page heading: UPON THE FUTURE QUEEN]

On the 8th of July George III. had announced his intention of demanding in marriage the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz; negotiations were immediately commenced. Mrs. Montagu writes from Tunbridge Wells to her husband thus--

“We are all disappointed here at hearing our new Queen is fair; the first report was that by a lively bloom she would cast a shade over the white complexions of our royal family. The sight of our brilliant Court, the salutations of our navy on her arrival, the opulent appearance of our towns, and the greatness of our capital city will astonish her. I hope her mind is more proportioned to her lot in marriage than such a situation is to her present circumstances. A noble mind will fill a great situation, and enjoy it with pleasure and gratitude, without the swellings of insolence, but such a change is dangerous where there is a mediocrity of sense and virtue. I heartily wish she may be worthy of our young King, be pleasing in the domestick scene, and great in the publick; his good nature will impart to her a share of power and a degree of confidence, and I wish for the publick she may never abuse the one, nor misapply the other. There seems not to be a very good choice of ladies about her, there is not one who is quite fit to teach her even the forms of her publick conduct, none at all equal to advise her private, ignorant as she must be of the behaviour that will be expected of her, she should have had some woman of quality of remarkable discretion, character, and politeness, whom high birth and great situation had approached as nearly as a subject can to the station of a Queen. Lady Bute would have been the properest person, but I suppose she might out of delicacy avoid putting herself about the Queen’s person, as thinking it might look like watching her, and indeed so happy as Lady Bute is in her circumstances, the slavery of personal attendance is more than anything but great ambition could pay her for. I think, however, they have chosen the ladies[333] of the bedchamber; her Majesty must consult Lady Bute upon everything.... Lord Bath always inquires after you and sends his compliments. Lord Lyttelton is gone on a party of pleasure with Mr. Selwyn.[334] This place is pretty full of I know not who. Sir Edward Dering and his family and the Lambarts breakfasted at Tunbridge, and go back again.

“I am, my Dearest, “With the greatest gratitude and affection, your most faithful wife, “E. M.”

[333] The Duchess of Ancaster and Duchess of Hamilton were sent to escort Queen Charlotte to England.

[334] George Selwyn, celebrated wit; born 1719, died 1791.

[Page heading: A LETTER OF ADVICE]

[Page heading: LES BELLES LETTRES]

[Page heading: THE FEAR OF GOD]

Mrs. Montagu’s letter of advice to Mr. Thomas Lyttelton, who had now left Eton and gone to Christ Church, Oxford, though undated, may be placed here.

“Tunbridge, 28 (July?).

“DEAR SIR,

“I have often check’d my inclination to write to you while you were at Eton for fear of calling you off from your school exercises; but as you are now in a situation, where there is a vacancy of business and pleasure, I do not feel the same scruples, may write you long letters, and expect full answers to them. However, I will be so far reasonable, that if you send me a card, to signify that you are engaged for the week, or month, to Cicero or Livy, it will be a more valid excuse to me than if, on inviting you to dinner, you told me you were engaged to a beauty or a Duchess. My love for you, my hope of you, my wishes for you, and my expectations from you, unite in giving me a respect for your time, and a deep concern for your employment of it. The morning of life, like the morning of the day, should be dedicated to business. On the proper use of that ‘sweet hour of prime’ will depend the glory of your noon of life, and serenity of the evening. Give it, therefore, dear Mr. Lyttelton, to the strenuous exertion and labour of the mind, before the indolence of the meridian hour, or the unabated fervour of the exhausted day renders you unfit for severe application. I hope you will not (like many young men who have been reckoned good scholars at Eton and Westminster) take leave of it there, and fall into the study of les belles lettres, as we call our modern books. I suppose from the same courtesy the weakest part of the rational species is styled the fair sex, though it can boast of few perfect beauties, and perhaps the utmost grace and dignity of the human form is never found in it. As you have got a key to the sacred shades of Parnassus, do not lose your time in sauntering in the homely orchards or diminutive pleasure gardens of the latter times. If the ancient inhabitants of Parnassus were to look down from their immortal bowers on our labyrinths, whose greatest boast is a fanciful intricacy, our narrow paths where genius cannot take his bounding steps, and all the pert ornaments in our parterres of wit, they would call them the modern’s folly; a name the wise farmer often gives to some spot from whence the Squire has banished the golden harvest, to trim it up for pleasure with paltry ornaments and quaint conceits. I should be sorry to see you quit Thucydides for Voltaire, Livy for Vertot, Xenophon for the bragging Memoirs of French Marshals, and the universal Tully and deep Tacitus for speculative politicians, modern orators, and the dreamers in Universities or convents. I will own that in Natural Philosophy and some of the lesser branches of learning the Moderns excel; but it would not be right for a person of your situation to strike into any private paths of Science. The study of History will best fit you for active life. From history you will acquire a knowledge of mankind, and a true judgment in politics; in moral, as well as physical enquiries, we should have recourse to experiments. As to the particular study of eloquence, I need hardly exhort you to do it; for eloquence is not only the most beautiful of all the daughters of wisdom, but has also the best dowry; and we may say of her, as Solomon did of her Mother, riches and honours are in her right hand. Elevation of sentiment and dignity of language are necessary to make an orator; modern life and modern language will hardly inspire you with either. I look upon Virtue as the muse of Eloquence, she inspired the phillippics of the Grecian and Roman Orator, her voice awakened Rome, slumbering in the snares of Catiline. Public spirit will teach the art of public speaking better than the rules of rhetoric, but above all things, the character of the orator gives persuasion, grace, and dignity to the Oration. Integrity of Manners gives the best testimony of sincerity of speech. If you form your conduct upon the sacred book which gives rules far more perfect than human wisdom could contrive, you will be an honour to religion, a support to your country, and a blessing to your family. It may seem strange that I have last mentioned what should be first regarded. The Bible alone will make a good man; human learning without the fear of God, which is the beginning of Wisdom and the knowledge of Him, which is understanding, will produce but a poor inconsistent character; but duties are enlarged and multiplied by the power and circumstances with which God has intrusted us, and in which He has placed us. Your talents and situation will fit you for public trusts; it is a duty in you to qualify yourself for them, to give your virtue every strength, and then to employ it in the service of your country in its most important interests, true religion, and good government. I hope you will excuse my having said so much, that has the air of advice to one who wants it so little, but young people are apt to be prodigal of time because they think they have so many years before them; but if life be long, the season for improvement is short.

“I hope Mrs. Fortescue[335] liked the Indian paper; it is new and uncommon, and I thought much prettier than any I could get at a moderate price. I beg my respects to her and my dear Miss Lyttelton.[336] I hear there will be a turnpike road between Oxford and Newbury, and I hope you will frequently make use of it. I shall leave Tunbridge on Monday. I have enjoyed perfect health here, and the society of some of my best friends, so you may believe I have passed the season very happily, but a happy life seems always a short one. Mrs. Carter was so good as to give me her company in my house. My Lord Lyttelton and my Lord Bath were often with us; having had their characters continually before me, you will not wonder I should think great acquirements as well as great talents necessary to make all possible perfection. I am sure you will be pleased to hear that my Lord Bath greatly approves and admires that part of my Lord Lyttelton’s history which is already printed. I believe there is not any one living whose approbation would give Lord Lyttelton so much pleasure; talents and virtues and extensive knowledge all in the highest degree join to make him a perfect judge, and his great reputation gives him a decisive authority; your Father is proud of his praise as a critick, and pleased with it on motives of friendship, which touch his heart more nearly than any where vanity has a part, tho’ he is an author and a poet. His Lordship’s Muse met him in the shades of Penshurst, and with love or flattery prompted two charming pieces, one to Mrs. Carter, and one to my Lord Bath. Mrs. Carter, Dr. Monsey and Mr. Montagu desire their compliments to you.

“I am, dear Sir, “Your most sincere and affectionate friend and obedient humble Servant, “E. MONTAGU.”

[335] Mr. Lyttelton’s grandmother.

[336] His sister.

[Page heading: A BLOOM-COLOURED COAT]

Dr. Monsey, who had recovered from a severe illness, had joined the party at Tunbridge, and had appeared in a new bloom-coloured coat, to the amusement of the Montagu circle, who chaffed him upon it.

On August 22 Mr. Charles Morton wrote to Mrs. Montagu the following:--

“MADAM,

“As I conceive the following article which I have just received in a letter from Paris, to relate to the Countess of Pomfret,[337] I thought it might be agreeable to you to acquaint Her Ladyship therewith.

“‘Monsʳ Bejot, who, since the death of the Abbé Sallier, has care of the manuscripts in the King’s Library, is a most worthy and obliging gentleman; he has promised me to have copies drawn of the curious Cuts in the beautiful Manuscript of Froissard’s Chronicle, for an English lady, a great friend to Oxford.’ This letter is dated Paris, August 1st; the writer is the Butler who travels with Mr. Howard, nephew to the Duke of Norfolk. I am much obliged to you for the Highland Poems; and have the honour to remain, Madam,

“Your most obliged and most humble servant, “CHARLES MORTON.

“Museum, August 22, 1761.”

[337] Lady Pomfret, widow of the 1st Earl Pomfret, had in 1755 presented the University of Oxford with a portion of the Arundel marbles which had been purchased by her husband’s father. She was the daughter of the second and last Baron Jeffreys, of Wem. She had been Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline.

[Page heading: DR. YOUNG]

Mrs. Montagu quitted Tunbridge Wells on August 30. On September 2 she wrote to Mrs. Carter--

“I found on my table a poem on ‘Resignation’[338] by Dr. Young; he sent me a copy for you which I will send by the Deal coach.... You will be pleased I think with what he says of Voltaire, you know we exhorted him to attack a character whose authority is so pernicious. In vain do Moralists attack the shadowy forms of Vice while the living Temples of it are revered and admired.”

[338] “Resignation” was written with a view of consolation for Mrs. Boscawen on her husband’s death.

Dr. Young writes on September 2--

“Dear MADAM,

“I was in too much haste and ordered a thing to be sent to you (which I suppose you have received) before I had read it myself. On reading it, I find my distance from the Press has occasioned many errors; so that in some parts I have had the impudence to present you with perfect nonsense.

“Page 18, Stanza 2nd, should be thus (viz.)--

“‘Earth, a cast Mistress then disgusts, etc.’

“Page 34: It should be thus (viz.)--

“‘Receive the triple prize, etc.’

“Pray pardon this trouble from, dear Madam,

“Your much obliged and most obedient “H. Servant, “E. YOUNG.

“P.S.--I know not how to direct the enclosed, excuse my insolence in desiring you to do it for me.”

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S PORTRAIT]

Lord Bath was having his picture (now in the National Portrait Gallery) painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for Mrs. Montagu. He left London for Ives Place, and writes--

“I shall be in town again in a few days, but not till after the Queen’s arrival, for I have had the opportunity of making my excuses, in the proper place, for not attending the marriage ceremony. You will judge of the likeness of the Picture best, when I am not present, if it could speak, it would tell you, what I can scarce venture to do. How much I love and am, etc.”

[Page heading: THE CORONATION]

Mrs. Montagu went to London for the coronation, which took place September 22, leaving Mr. Montagu at Sandleford. She writes to him--

“I have not got any cold or mischief from the coronation, at half an hour after four I got into the coach, went by Fulham to Lambeth, from whence I crossed the water in a boat which landed me at the cofferer’s office, where I was to see the Show. I had a perfect view of the procession to and from Westminster to the Abbey, and I must say it rather exceeded my expectation. The ladies made a glorious appearance; whenever there was any beauty of countenance or shape or air they were all heightened by the dress. Lady Talbot was a fine figure. The Queen, being very little, did not appear to advantage. The King had all the impressions of decent satisfaction and good-natured joy in his face; looked about him with great complacency, and tried to make himself as visible as he could to the mob, but the canopy carried over his Majesty’s head and the persons who carried his train made him not so conspicuous. His behaviour at the Abbey pleased much. It was perfectly dark before the Procession returned from the Abbey, so we lost the second view. I got into a barge which I hired for 7_s._ 6_d._, and got to the coach which waited at Yorke buildings. Mr. Botham and his daughters are just gone. Lord Lyttelton was near fainting away just as the procession set out from the Hall, and was obliged to sit down and take drops till a chair could be got to carry him home. Lady Albemarle fainted presently after. Lord Grantham was ill, but able to go thro’ the ceremony.

“The early hour the Peers and Peeresses are forced to rise at and the weight of their robes and all the whole affair is fatiguing, but they make a good figure, for there is something very majestick in the dress.

“I believe my Lord Bath will come down to us about Wednesday or perhaps Tuesday. I shall be at Sandleford on Monday.”

[Page heading: HIS MAJESTY’S BEHAVIOUR]

In another letter describing the coronation to Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Montagu says--

“It is impossible to say enough of the behaviour of the King. During the procession his countenance expressed a benevolent joy in the vast concourse of people and their loud acclamations, but with not the least air of pride or insolent exultation. In the religious offices his Majesty behaved with the greatest reverence and deepest attention; he pronounced with earnest solemnity his engagements to his people, and when he was to receive the Sacrament he pulled off his crown. How happy that in the day of the greatest worldly pomp and adorned with the ensigns of regal power he should remember his duty to the King of Kings. The Archbishop pleased much in the Coronation Service. I am indeed grieved at the heart for Mrs. Chapone:[339] all calamities are light in comparison of the loss of what one loves, uniquement; after that dear object is lost the glories of the golden day are for ever overcast, and there is no tranquillity under the silent moon, the soft and quiet pleasures are over, business may employ and diversions amuse the mind, but the soul’s calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy can never be regained. Mrs. Chapone has great virtues, and if she has the Martyr’s sufferings will have the martyr’s reward.”

[339] Née Hester Mulso, a friend of Mr. S. Richardson’s, and authoress of “Letters on the Improvement of the Mind”; born 1727, died 1801.

[Page heading: LADY POMFRET]

The following letter is from Lady Pomfret:--

“Richmond Hill, October 4, 1761.

“DEAR MADAM,

“The reason you give for my being deprived of the pleasure of a visit from you before you left London doubles the mortification. I was in hope Tunbridge had established your Health. The return of my fever (which has left me but a few daies) was the cause that I made no attempt to wait on you, the week you stayed after the Coronation, and when I did found you had been gone the day before; but soon after, Froissart and your letter informed me that your goodness to me subsisted, in all the bustle of magnificence and oppression of sickness, since you found time to read my old Chronicle with my Lord Lyttelton, to whom, and to you, I know not how to express my gratitude enough, but I really feel a great deal.

“Your criticism delights me, as it was always my opinion that such words as you mention ought to be changed for more intelligible ones, and that it might be done, with propriety, without altering the idiom, but I was so charged not to deviate from the old language that, till I had such authorities as you and my Lord Lyttelton, I did not dare to follow my own judgment, but shall now with alacrity go about it, being very happy in your approbation of the rest of the book, which I hope will be finish’d before the meeting of the Parliament, and that I shall have the assistance of such friends for the perfecting of it. Your partiality to me, dear Madam, is very flattering; but let Mrs. Montagu know that if I ever was or am proud of my discerning faculty ’tis because I see her in her true light; of brightness with modesty, Reason without Vanity, and a thorough knowledge of this and the next world as far as is permitted to mortals; this I might have heard, but I glory that I see it. I need not add what must be the consequence; that

“I am, Madam, “Your sincere admirer: and “Most faithful Humᵉ servᵗ, “J. POMFRET.

“Lady Sophia Carteret and Mrs. Shelley beg your acceptance of their best respects.”

Lady Pomfret died on December 16, 1761, at Marlborough, Wilts.

[Page heading: LORD LYTTELTON’S LETTER]

On October 5 Lord Lyttelton writes to Mrs. Montagu from Hagley a long letter, an extract of which I give--

“Tom proposes to give a ball to some young people of the neighbourhood on this day sennight, which will add to our number and our jollity. He desires me to tell you that if you were within twenty miles of our Ball-room he would invite you to it among the handsome young women; which you may notify to the cynic Monsey, when he talks to you next of the horrid gulph of forty, and bid him hold his fool’s tongue. I believe you fib about your age and make yourself at least ten years older than you are, to be nearer to Lord Bath. I hope you have been, and are still as happy with him at Sandleford as your heart can desire. You will not think it a compliment to either of you when I say, that I would be glad to exchange all the mirth of our ball for the dullest of your evenings; but I will add in great truth, that I would give up the finest day in Hagley Park for a rainy one in your company. I had a letter last post from the Dean,[340] in which he says, ‘Your Lordship must not be surprised if you hear in a post or two of Mr. Secretary Pitt’s and Lord Temple’s being out of their employments. Unless something extraordinary happens, this event will certainly take place in a few days. I have this intelligence not from common report, but from the best authority. The reason given for their resignation is the opposition made in the Cabinet to Mr. Pitt’s proposal of sending a fleet immediately to intercept the Spanish Flota daily expected home, and likewise to attack their men-of-war wherever they are to be found, but your Lordship knows there are other causes of discontent.’ If this should be true, I imagine Lord Egremont[341] will be Secretary of State and Lord Hardwick[342] Privy Seal. Mr. James Grenville will probably lay down with his brother, which will make a vacancy at the Cofferer’s Office, one of the few I might take if there was an inclination to bring me into employment. I wish much to know Lord Bath’s opinion of Pitt’s advice. To me it seems to be that of a man who (in a political sense) fears neither God nor man. It certainly must be founded upon a supposition that a war with Spain is inevitable, which I should hope is not true; and even in that case I think England ought to be very cautious not to appear the aggressor, which this conduct would make her. But I had rather hear his Lordship’s judgment upon this question than give my own.”

[340] Charles Lyttelton, Dean of Carlisle.

[341] Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, born 1710, died 1763.

[342] Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwick, born 1690, died 1764.

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S JOURNEY]

[Page heading: THE POSITION OF MINISTERS]

Lord Bath had left Sandleford before this letter arrived there.

On October 8 he writes--

“I can never sufficiently, Madam, acknowledge my great obligations to you and to Mr. Montagu for the honours I received at Sandleford. Six more agreeable days I never passed in my whole Life, but when one has been excessively happy we always pay most severely for the change, when forced to quit it. This made the Doctor’s[343] journey and mine most excessively stupid and melancholy. He was seized with such a soporifick Torpor (as if a deluge of rain was hanging in the clouds), and yet we had not a drop the whole way, and I was so wretchedly miserable, that all I could say to him was, ‘Doctor, I passed over this same ground yesterday from coming from Padworth much more cheerfully and happily than I do now, but one comfort is that we are allowed the liberty of hoping for a renewal of the same happiness some other time.’ When we got to Reading, where we stopped for 10 or 12 minutes (without getting out of our chaize), our landlady seeing we looked melancholy, endeavoured to comfort us by telling us a piece of good news, that an express was just arrived with an account of a complete victory obtained by the King of Prussia over the Russians. On this we speculated and ruminated for some time, when we met Mr. Cambridge, who assured us it was all a lye, but that another event had occurred which would surprize us extremely, and then told us Mr. Pitt[344] had quitted the seals; this astonished the Doctor more than it did me, who had received some hint of it before, but we both agreed it was a very unlucky time for adventuring on such rough measures, so near the Meeting of Parliament, and before anything was fixed for the obtaining of peace, or preparing for a further prosecution of the War; in short, we ended in wishing all Ministers at the Devil, rather than that their disagreements and dissentions amongst one another should bring any difficulties or dishonour on the best man in the world, the master of all of them.... I will make this reflection upon all human happiness, that the state and duration of it is extremely uncertain. A minister may be a very great and think himself a very happy man one day, and nothing at all the very next. Just so was I, Madam, happy beyond measure a few days ago, and now forced at a terrible distance to be assuring you that I am, with all possible respect,

“Your Ladyship’s most humble and most obedient Servant, “BATH.”

[343] Dr. Monsey.

[344] Mr. Pitt resigned the Seals on October 5, 1761.

Lord Lyttelton writes on October 14 to Mrs. Montagu--

“Since my last, Mr. Pitt has brought his bark into a happy port. A Barony for his wife and a pension of £3000 a year for three lives are agreeable circumstances in a retreat, which delivers him from the difficulty of carrying on the War, or making the Peace, and keeps all his laurels green and unfading on his brow. No Minister in this country has ever known so well the times and seasons of going in and coming out with advantage to himself. I hope there will be new gold boxes sent to him by the cities and Boroughs to express their sense of his noble and disinterested conduct, and to assure him that their lives and fortunes are all at his service. In effect, I hear that all over this country since first we had the news of his resigning the Seals, the cry of the people in Taverns and Alehouses is, ‘No Pitt, no King.’ However, I imagine that as he has condescended to accept of this mark of royal favour, he will be so good as to allow the King to remain on the throne.”

[Page heading: AN ACT OF HUMILITY]

On the same day as this last letter Dr. Monsey writes from St. James’s to Mrs. Montagu. This paragraph is interesting--

“But here’s a Rout about giving a patriot 3_s._ 6_d._ for his past services either for speaking to the purpose, or holding his tongue for a very good one. Why, he might have been Governor-General of all North America with a pension of £5000. This was confidently said at the ‘Mount’ Coffee House as offered by the King, and was told by Manby as coming from P----, no joke indeed, no more than he has advertised seven good horses, ‘late Mr. Pitt’s,’ to be sold. There’s an act of humility for you.”

Miss Mary Pitt, Mr. Pitt’s sister, writes to Mrs. Montagu--

“DEAR MADAM,

“Tho’ I suppose you know all that has happened since last Monday, I cannot forbear talking to you upon what the King has been so very gracious as to do for my family, in granting a pension of three thousand pounds a year to Mr. Pitt for three lives, and as he knows that he feels a repugnancy to having his name upon the Irish pensions, his is upon the American Duties, and the Peerage which his Majesty has also done him the honour to bestow upon his family is given to Lady Hester,[345] who is made Baroness of Chatham, by which means he is left still at liberty to be an Alderman; as to all the rest, which you may know, I will do comme si vous ne saviez pas. My Lord Egremont received the Seals of Secretary of State yesterday, my Lord Temple gave up his seals yesterday, and I was informed last night that my Lord Hardwick was to be Privy Seal, which I do not doubt, tho’ it is not declared. Mr. George Grenville is not to be Speaker, that he may have the management of the House of Commons. My Lord Temple is very angry with him, and I believe very much disappointed; at the same time I am assured that my Lord Bristol writes in the strongest manner everything that can give satisfaction to the present Ministry with regard to the intentions of the Spanish Court, and those despatches are said to have come Wednesday last.... I heard a few days ago from Paris that the Duc de Nivernois[346] had got a passport for my nephew.” This was for Mr. Tom Pitt.

[345] Lady Hester’s patent made out on December 4, 1761.

[346] French ambassador and writer.

At this period Dr. Gregory lost his wife, and was in great despair; she was a daughter of William, Lord Forbes.

[Page heading: WIDOWS’ WEEDS]

At the end of October Mrs. Montagu set out on a short visit to her sister, Mrs. Scott, and Lady Bab Montagu at Bath Easton. Dr. Monsey was then at Bath, whither later Mrs. Montagu also repaired. Bath society was enthusiastic upon the subject of Mr. Pitt and a political letter he wrote at this period. From a letter written from Bath to Mrs. Carter about a Mrs. Talbot, a reduced lady, who was an applicant for a lady’s-maid situation, we learn that £10 per annum were regarded as adequate wages for such an attendant. I subjoin a curious paragraph as to a widow’s dress--

“The fashionable dress for a widow is a gown with two broad plaits in the back, a short cuff which comes a little below the elbow, round double ruffles very shallow. The dress weed is made of silk made on purpose, undress crape, a black silk long apron, black handkerchief, black hood, and a plain sort of night-cap. Either a night-gown or sack may be worn with a short train, no flounce or ornament of any sort, and if a sack scanty, and only two broad plaits. Many women of condition who are not young, wear merely a common crape sack, the younger sort wear the dress that denotes their widowhood, and in a country town I should suppose the full form must be observed. I imagine your enquiry is for poor Mrs. Primrose.”

[Page heading: A CALL FOR POETRY]

On November 17 Mrs. Montagu writes from Hill Street to Mrs. Carter--

“MY DEAR FRIEND,

“I had this day the pleasure of receiving my dear Friend’s most charming ode. I, alas! am like Monsr. Jourdain, I speak nothing but prose, but I believe my heart feels with all the enthusiasm of poetry.... My Lord Bath is vastly happy that you are to be in town the 1st of January. My Lord Lyttelton is better, but his fever is not quite gone.... I think you should print the verses my Lord Lyttelton addressed to you from Penshurst. Pray write some more odes, and let your seamstresses do your plain work, and the Clerk transcribe your verses.”

This year an edition of Mrs. Carter’s various works was printed. When Mrs. Carter was in London she lodged with Mrs. Norman in Clarges Street. Mrs. Montagu having ascertained that she could have her lodgings there from the 1st of January, adds--

“You do not deign to mention Fingal, etc., but that I could pardon, for Poet Ossian has been dead full many a day, but there is a head on which laurels now grow, and it bears more than Parnassian bays, even wreaths of sacred Virtue, and this head is apt to ake, and then my heart akes for sympathy. Poor Lady Pomfret by weary stages reached Marlborough, from thence she yesterday morning quitted the weary journey of human life and passed with resignation to a better. I am angry with Dr. James for sending her in so hopeless a state from her quiet home to the noise and inconvenience of Inns.... I think Mr. Rivington must be bewitched. I will send the books as you direct. I had a quadrille table last night; and last week the Bard Macpherson and many others of the tuneful train and we had the feast of shells and drank out of a nautilus to the immortal memory of Ossian. The Nautilus, you know, is a perfect sailor as the other is a poet by nature. I am a little mortified that you had not a word to fling at Ossian. Take a modern Poet Laureate and put out his eyes and see whether he will sing as sweetly, tho’ he sings darkling.”

[Page heading: THE BAS-BLEUS AND SHELLS]

The bas-bleus from this time constantly celebrated, amongst their intimates, the feast of shells mentioned in Ossian by drinking out of them on any particular occasion.

Lord Bath’s portrait, not satisfying Mrs. Montagu, had been returned to Mr. Reynolds for amendment, and Lord Bath writes--

“MADAM,

“I will sitt to Mr. Reynolds either Wenesday or Saturday next, whichever is most convenient to him, and shall be glad to meet Mr. Tristram Shandy (as you call him) or Mr. Sterne (as I must call him) there, but where it is to be you do not mention. If the alteration can be made in a quarter of an hour, it is scarce worth taking the Picture out of your house, but if it is to be altered at Mr. Reynolds’ I will be there on either of the days mentioned. Last night I slept extreamely well and the better since I went from Mrs. Vesey’s, happy in seeing you look so charmingly and well....

“3 a clock, Dec. 26th, 1761.”

[Page heading: LAURENCE STERNE]

Lord Bath had remarkably penetrating and brilliant eyes, and one of the faults found with the picture was in the representation of this feature.

The next letter from Lord Bath runs--

“How cruel was it, before I got out of bed, to receive a letter forbidding me coming to you this night! but I hope nothing will prevent me from having that happiness to-morrow. On Wenesday about one of the Clock, I will most certainly be at Mr. Reynolds’ to mend my sickly looks, and to sitt down in my chair, as I should do; instead of being half standing, which criticism of Mr. Sterne’s I think perfectly right; as for my looks, I fear they will not be much mended by any Physick of Mr. Reynolds. He has made an old man look as if he was in pain, which an old man generally is, and so far he is right.”

Mrs. Montagu took Mr. Sterne to the sittings so that he might amuse Lord Bath with his bons mots! Surely this would form a pretty and historical picture if any artist would paint it.

On the publication of her poems, to which Mrs. Carter looked forward in a nervous frame of mind, Mrs. Montagu says--

“I am sorry for your tremors and trepidations, but they are mere nervous disorders, and the manuscript must be printed, so my dear Urania, away with your lamentations, sit down, revise, correct, augment, print, and publish. I am sure you will have a pleasure in communicating the pious, virtuous sentiments that breathe in all your verses. My inferior Soul will feel a joy in your producing such proofs of genius to the world.... The very best of your poetical productions have never been published, they may indeed have been seen by a few in manuscripts, but the finest things on sheets are soon lost--

‘Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria Ventis.’

Print them and bind them fast I beg you.”

Writing to her brother, William Robinson, then at Rome, at this period, Mrs. Montagu congratulates him on the prospect of a son or daughter--

“I desire to have all the share I can in the little one, shall be happy to be accepted as a godmother, and thank you for being so obliging as to intend it my name if it is a girl; it will not disgrace her if she should be a toast, for I once knew a Miss Betty Robinson that set up for one; if it is not disagreeable to you I should be glad if it was christened Elizabeth Montagu, which will be also a compliment to my husband. I envy you, my dear brother, the pleasure of seeing at your leisure the Queen of Cities, Imperial Rome.”

[Page heading: STERNE GOES ABROAD]

[Page heading: STERNE’S “MEMORANDUMS”]

The Rev. Laurence Sterne had been in bad health for some time; he had just completed his fifth and sixth volumes of “Tristram Shandy,” and with permission from the Archbishop of York for absence for a year or more, he left Coxwould for the South of France, leaving the following paper with Mrs. Montagu, who, it will be remembered, was his cousin by marriage.

“December 28, 1761.

“Memorandums left with Mrs. Montagu in case I should die abroad.

“L. STERNE.

“My sermons in a trunk at my friend Mr. Hall’s, St. John’s Street, 2 Vols. to be picked out of them.--N.B. There are enough for 3 Vols.--

“My Letters in my bureau at Coxwould and a bundle in a trunk with my sermons.--

“Note. The large piles of letters in the garrets at York, to be sifted over, in search for some either of Wit, or Humour--or what is better than both--of Humanity and good Nature--these will make a couple of Volumes more, and as not one of ’em was ever wrote, like Pope’s or Voiture’s, to be printed, they are more likely to be read--if there wants ought to serve the completion of a 3rd volume--the Political Romance I wrote, which was never publish’d--may be added to the fag end of the volumes.... Tho’ I have 2 reasons why I wish it may not be wanted--first an undeserved compliment to one, whom I have since found to be a very corrupt man--I knew him weak and ignorant--but thought him honest. The other reason is I have hung up Dr. Topham in the romance in a ridiculous light--which upon my soul I now doubt whether he deserves it--so let the Romance go to sleep not by itself--for ’twil have company.

“My Conscio ad Clinum in Latin which I made for Fountayne, to preach before the University to enable him to take his Doctor’s Degree--you will find 2 copies of it, with my sermons--

“--He got Honour by it--What got I?--Nothing in my lifetime, then let me not (I charge you Mrs. Sterne) be robbed of it after my death. That long pathetic letter to him of the hard measure I have received--I charge you, to let it be printed--’Tis equitable you should derive that good from my sufferings at least.

“I have made my will--but I leave all I have to you and my Lydia--you will not Quarrel about it--but I advise you to sell my estate, which will bring 1800 pds. (or more after the year), and what you can raise from my Works--and the sale of the last copyright of the 5th and 6th Vols. of Tristram--and the produce of this last work, all of which I have left (except 50 pds. in my bookseller Becket’s hands, and which Mr. Garrick will receive and lay out in stocks for me)--all these I would advise you to collect--together with the sale of my library, &c., &c.--and lay it out in Government Securities--If my Lydia should marry--I charge you,--I charge you over again (that you may remember it the more)--That upon no Delusive prospect, or promise from any one, you leave yourself DEPENDENT; reserve enough for your comfort--or let her wait your Death. I leave this in the hands of our Cosin Mrs. Montagu--not because she is our cosin--but because I am sure she has a good heart.

“We shall meet again.

“--Memᵈᵘᵐ. Whenever I die--’tis most probable, I shall have about £200 due to me from my living--If Lydia should dye before you; Leave my Sister something worthy of your self--in case you do not think it meet to purchase an annuity for your greater comfort; if you chuse that--do it in God’s name--

“--The pictures of the Mountebank and his Macaroni--is in a Lady’s hands, who upon seeing ’em most cavaliery declared she would never part with them--and from an excess of civility--or rather weakness I could not summon up severity to demand them.

“--If I dye, her Name, &c., is inclosed in a billet seal’d up and given with this--and then you must demand them--If refused--you have nothing to do but send a 2d. message importing--’tis not for her Interest to keep them.

“LAURENCE STERNE.

“Memorandums left by Mr. Sterne in Mrs. Montagu’s hands before he left England.”

[Page heading: TWO TEARDROPS]

Two teardrops are on this paper, which indicate Sterne’s emotional temperament.

[Page heading: FINIS]

And now, patient reader, I, the Editress of this literary mosaic of my great-great-aunt’s letters and those of her friends, take leave of you. If life and eyesight are vouchsafed to me, I hope to write the remainder of her life some day, for she lived till 1800. Each year added to her enormous circle of clever acquaintance, British and foreign. The letters of Garrick and his wife, later ones of Sterne and Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Vesey, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and a host of other notabilities, belong to a different period. As it is, the compilation of this work has occupied me five years. One whole winter was devoted to arranging the correspondence in chronological order, as very few of the letters are dated.

APPENDICES.

“LONG” SIR THOMAS ROBINSON.

Sir Thomas was the eldest of the seven sons of William Robinson, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, by his wife, née Anne Walters. He was born and baptized at Rokeby in 1700. After his school-days he made the grand tour, as was the fashion of the day, and then entered the Army. At the death of his father in 1719, he succeeded to the family estates in Yorkshire. At the General Election of 1727 he became M.P. for Morpeth. On October 25, 1728, he was married at Belfreys, in Yorkshire, to Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas, Lord Lechmere, and daughter of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Between the years 1725 and 1730 he rebuilt the house at Rokeby, removed the church which stood behind the house and rebuilt it in another spot, he added a stone wall all round the park, made a bridge over the Greta river, and erected an obelisk to his mother’s memory in 1730. All these acts were recorded on two stone piers at the Greta entrance of the park. He planted many trees at Rokeby. He designed the west wing of Castle Howard for his brother-in-law, Lord Carlisle. In 1731 he was made a Baronet of England, with remainder to his brothers. His nickname of “Long” Sir Thomas Robinson was given to him from his great height, and to distinguish him from another Sir Thomas Robinson, a diplomat of note, afterwards created Lord Grantham. These two men were the reverse of each other in appearance, “Long” Sir Thomas being exceptionally tall, and the other very short and fat. One of Lady Townshend’s bon mots about the two was, “Why one should be preferred to the other I can’t imagine, there is but little difference, the one is as broad as the other is long;” and Lord Chesterfield, on being told “Long” Sir Thomas was reported to be “dying by inches,” said, then it would be some time before he was dead. On April 10, 1739, his wife, to whom he was tenderly attached, died at Bath, and was taken to Rokeby and buried under the new church he had erected. A monument was erected to her there. In accordance with Sir Thomas’s will, though he himself was buried at Merton Abbey, Surrey, a cenotaph was placed in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, to his and his wife’s memory, with medallion portraits of her and himself, and bearing the following inscription:--“To perpetuate his grateful sense of the pleasure he had in the conversation of an accomplished woman, a sincere friend, and an agreeable companion.” They had no children, so the English baronetcy went to his next brother, William.

Sir Thomas was greatly given to hospitality; too much so for his income. On October 22, 1741, he gave a great ball, as Horace Walpole relates, “to a little girl of the Duke of Richmond’s; there are already 200 invited, from miss in a bib and apron to my Lord Chancellor in bib and mace.” The ball began at 8 p.m., and ended at 4 a.m. A few days after Horace Walpole writes, “There were a 197 persons at Sir Thomas’s, and yet it was so well conducted that nobody felt a crowd. He had taken off all his doors, and so separated the old and the young that neither were inconvenienced by the other. The ball began at 8; each man danced one minuet with his partner, and then began country dances. There were four-and-twenty couple, divided into twelve and twelve; each set danced two dances, and then retired into another room, while the other set took their two, and so alternately.... We danced till 4, then had tea and coffee and came home.” A month later he writes about a second ball. What with his numerous entertainments and his building at Rokeby and elsewhere, he became impoverished, and accepted the Governorship of Barbadoes in January, 1742, from which he was recalled in 1747. In Barbadoes he married his second wife, a widow named Salmon, née Booth. She had a considerable fortune, but on her husband’s return to England, she refused to accompany him, preferring Barbadoes. Sir Thomas was intimate with Lord Chesterfield, who made an epigram on him, beginning--

“Unlike my subject will I make my song, It shall be witty, and it shan’t be long.”

He must have been a bore, for Sir John Hawkins says of him, “Sir Thomas Robinson was a man of the world, or rather of the town, and a great pest to persons of high rank or in office. He was very troublesome to the Earl of Burlington, and when in his visits to him he was told his lordship had gone out, would desire to be admitted to look at a clock, or play with a monkey that was kept in the hall, in hopes of being sent for to the Earl. This he had so frequently done that all the household were tired of him. At length it was concerted amongst the servants that he should receive a summary answer to his usual questions; and accordingly, at his next coming the porter, as soon as he had opened the gate, and without waiting for what he had to say, dismissed him with these words, ‘Sir, his lordship is gone out, the clock stands, and the monkey is dead!’” The Duchess of Portland used to name him to Mrs. Montagu as “your inimitable cousin!”

Appearing in Paris one day at a dinner in his hunting suit of green and gold, and booted and spurred, a French abbé asked who he was, and, on being told his name, and looking at his attire, inquired if he was Robinson Crusoe. His house at Whitehall he sold to Lord Lincoln, and he afterwards lived at Prospect Place, Chelsea. He bought the gardens once belonging to Lord Ranelagh, and, with other shareholders, erected the Rotunda in 1741–42. This place of amusement lasted for quite forty years; the site of it is in the gardens of Chelsea Hospital.

At the Coronation of George III. Sir Thomas, probably from his great height and majestic presence, was chosen to represent the mock Duke of Normandy and Acquitaine, the kings of England still pretending to own those provinces.

In 1769 he sold the estate of Rokeby, Yorks, to John Saurey Morritt, the father of Sir Walter Scott’s friend. The Rokeby estate had been in the possession of the Robinsons 160 years. On March 3, 1777, Sir Thomas Robinson died at his house in Prospect Place, Chelsea, at the age of seventy-six.

SANDLEFORD PRIORY, BERKS.

Sandleford Priory was founded for Austin Canons by Geoffrey, 4th Count of Perche, and his wife, Matilda of Saxony, grand-daughter of Henry II. of England, and niece of King Richard Cœur de Lion, and King John, before the year 1205. The town and manor of Newbury, in Berkshire, were bestowed on the first Count of Perche, who accompanied the Conqueror to England. The Priory was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist. A dispute arising between the Prior and Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of Salisbury and Dean of Windsor about 1480, the religious forsook the house, and King Edward IV. allowed the Priory to be annexed to the Chapel of St. George’s, Windsor. In the Ayscough Register, folio 50, will be found an account of irregular and scandalous behaviour of the Prior of that period, which probably was the cause of the disruption. The Priory now formed a parcel of the properties of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and it is stated by the commissioners of Henry VIII. (vide c. 3, Henry VIII.) to be worth £10 annually.

In the reign of James I. Sandleford was declared to be a separate parish from Newbury, and not subject to tithes which had hitherto been paid to the Rector of Newbury. After this a commutation was made that the lessee of the house paid £8 a year to the Rector of Newbury, and for that sum had a pew in perpetuity. It is stated that after this award the chapel of the Priory was allowed to fall into decay. This chapel was separate from the house, and continued to be so till 1781–2, when Mrs. Montagu employed Wyatt to build her an octagonal drawing-room with ante-chambers, which united the house and the chapel. Long previous to this it was used as a bedroom or bedrooms, and in the Montagu manuscripts Hannah More and others are described as sleeping in the chapel bedroom when the rest of the house was occupied. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the lessees of Sandleford were the Pitt Rivers of Strathfieldsaye, and they were succeeded by the Montagu family as early as 1730, or perhaps earlier. At any rate, at that date Mr. Edward Montagu was resident there, and as his mother, née Sarah Rogers, lived with him (as is shown by a letter of 1733 which I possess), it is possible Mr. Charles Montagu had been lessee before his son. He died in 1721. At what period the chapel was dismantled I have no record, but it may have been done by order of the Dean and Canons of Windsor before their letting it as a residence. Elias Ashmole, the great antiquarian, who died in 1692, describes the chapel as he saw it, and says, “Upon the first ascent of steps towards the high altar lyes a freestone tomb of a knight in mail, cross-legged, with a deep shield on his left arm, and seeming to draw his sword, his feet resting on a dragon. Written on the west wall is a Latin inscription.” In a paper belonging to my uncle, the last Baron Rokeby, it is stated the inscription was “written on the north wall of the chapel, but more anciently on the west wall.”

This was the inscription:--

“Lancea, crux, clavi Spine, mors quam tolleravi, Demonstrant qua vi Miserorum Crimmia lavi In Cruce sum prote qui peccas Desine pro me desine, do Veniam Die culpam, Corrige Vitam.”

As to the monument, it has been stated to have been that of the founder, Geoffrey, Count of Perche; but as he died in France at the siege of Acre, it is more likely to have been his son Thomas, Earl of Perche, who died at the battle of Lincoln in 1217; or else it is quite possible that it might be one of the Earls Marshal of Pembroke, as at the death of Thomas, Earl de Perche, his uncle William, Bishop of Chalons, seems to have claimed the property and sold it to William, 2nd Earl Marshal. Anyhow, not a trace of this monument is now to be found. And it would be very interesting to ascertain if it was removed to the Temple church, where the other Earls Marshal of Pembroke are buried and a very similar monument exists; but this is only my surmise. Behind the chapel, when Mrs. Montagu made her alterations in house and garden in 1780 to 1782 with the designs of Wyatt and “Capability Browne,” a number of skulls and bones were found, and, with the characteristic irreverence of the eighteenth century, were buried in what is now called “Monkey Lane,” near Newbury. The present library was originally the refectory. In 1836 Edward, 5th Baron Rokeby, parted with the lease of Sandleford to Mr. William Chatteris, who eventually, in 1875, enfranchised the property from the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and, dying a widower and without issue, he left Sandleford to his second wife’s nephew Mr. Alpin Macgregor. Mrs. Chatteris was the second daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, the friend of Nelson. Mrs. Myers, who has a lease of Sandleford now, will not use the chapel as a dining-room. Hannah More, writing in 1784, whilst staying at Sandleford, says, “There is an irregular beauty and greatness in the new buildings, and in the cathedral aisles which open to the great Gothic window (alluding to the east end of the chapel, still all glass), which is exceedingly agreeable to the imagination. It is solemn without being sad, and Gothic without being gloomy.”

DENTON HALL, NEAR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

The history of Denton Hall dates from the ancient Britons, and a burial-place of theirs, with an urn and bones, was found near the Roman wall within a quarter of a mile from the hall. It subsequently became the site of a Roman camp, which was occupied by a garrison of Hadrian’s soldiers, and a wall was built to keep out the Picts and Scots. Of the Roman relics there still exist an altar dedicated to Jupiter, and several carved stones, and in Mrs. Montagu’s time many Roman coins and objects were discovered. In No. 7, Vol. 2, of the Proceedings of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1885, Mr. W. Aubone Hoyle, then living with his brother at the hall, writes, “A little to the south-west stood a chapel, of which a baptismal font remains and a few sculptured stones; adjoining these was a burial-ground, which is now included in the garden. An incised slab, with a memorial cross and sword, was found here some years ago, as well as some large stone coffins; and a cist of ancient British times, containing a funeral urn. The chapel was removed shortly after the Reformation. The earliest record we have of the occupants is of a family of the name of Denton, in the tenth century, who continued to hold lands here and in the neighbourhood, and also at Newcastle.”

The Widdringtons seem to have succeeded the Dentons, and Mr. Hoyle continues, “The manor of Denton, saving these rents paid to the Widdringtons, had been, in 1380, granted to the Prior and Convent of Tynemouth, and was used by them as a country residence or grange. Tradition relates that they had an underground passage leading from Denton to their residence at Benwell Tower. The present building was probably erected by them at the beginning of the sixteenth century--1503 being the date of erection. The Roman wall skirting its grounds appears to have supplied the materials, as most of the stones are of the Roman type. The roof was formed of flags fastened with pins made of sheep bones. These have gradually been done away with until only a few courses remain, and the flags have been replaced by tiles. At the Dissolution in 1539, the Widdringtons lost their interest in Denton, and the Erringtons appear.”

The Erringtons being Jacobites, Mr. Hoyle continues, “Their loyalty to the Stuarts cost them their estates, which now passed to a family of Rogers, related to the Earl of Sandwich.” As has been shown in this book, Mr. Edward Montagu, at the death of his cousin, Mr. Rogers, became owner, to quote his wife’s words, “of Denton; Mr. Montagu has half the estate by descent, a share by testamentary disposition, and a part by purchase.” At the death of Mrs. Montagu in 1800, the estate passed into the possession of her nephew and adopted son, Matthew Montagu, afterwards 4th Baron Rokeby, who let the hall to Mr. Richard Hoyle, and his descendants occupied the house till 1889. Henry, 6th Baron Rokeby, dying in 1883, left the estate of Denton to his grandson, Lord Henry Paulet, now 16th Marquis of Winchester, who in 1886 sold the whole estate. The hall was bought by Mr. John Henderson, of Allendale, who resold it to Mr. William Andrew I’Anson, the present owner. The Denton ghost, called “Old Silky” by the miners, one of the most authentic on record, is a beneficent spirit, for she is said on various occasions to have warned the miners against coal-damp. A song about her is still sung, I am told, in Newcastle, but hitherto I have failed to obtain it, or to discover who “Silky” was. A further account of her can be read in Ingram’s “Haunted Homes,” under “Denton Hall.”

INDEX.

The figures in italics refer to the notes only.

A

Abbas, Shah, ii. 99

Abel, ii. 245

Achard, Mr., tutor, afterwards secretary to Duke of Portland, i. 44, 48, 61, 90, 158, 185

Adam, ii. 245

Adventurer, the, ii. 25

Advertiser, the, ii. 123

Æsop’s Fables, i. 73

Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, i. 259

Albemarle, George Keppel, 15th Earl of, ii. 220

Albemarle, Lady, ii. 259

Aldworth, Richard Neville, ii. 250

Alexander, William, ii. 98, 108

Alexander, Mrs. W. (née Monsey), ii. 98

Allen, Lady, i. 267, 268; ii. 121

Allison, A., i. 179

Alnwick Castle, ii. 166

Alstone, Mr. and Mrs., i. 286

Ameen, Joseph. See Emin, Joseph

Amelia, Princess (daughter of George II.), ii. 152, 213, 214

Amesbury, i. 249

Amherst, General, ii. 134, 140, 154

Amyand, Mr., i. 167; ii. 163

Ancaster, Duchess of, ii. 252

Ancaster, Peregrine, 3rd Duke of, i. 279

Ancram, Lady, i. 269

Andover, Mary, Lady (Mrs. Botham’s intimate friend and patroness), i. 55, 95, 102, 115, 144, 194; ii. 19; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 230, 231

Andover, William, Lord, i. 55, 144, 224, 230

Anne, Queen, i. 245

Anson, Admiral Lord, i. 107, 268; ii. 89, 154; captures a Spanish treasure-ship, i. 186; A Voyage round the World, i. 259

Anson, Lady, i. 268, 269; ii. 142

Anstey, Christopher, New Bath Guide, i. 19, 256; ii. 87

Anstey, Miss, i. 256, 259, 270, 275; ii. 54, 56, 70, 82; works a panel of Mrs. Montagu’s feather screen, i. 268; her death, ii. 87; letters from Mrs. Montagu to, i. 19, 281; ii. 18, 77; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 23

Apreece, Mr. and Mrs., i. 286

Archdeacon, Dominick, ii. 129

Archdeacon, Mrs. D. (Mary Creagh), ii. 129

Archdeacon, William, ii. 160

Arezzo, Collection of, ii. 15

Argyll, John, 2nd Duke of, and Duke of Greenwich, i. 117; ii. 38, 233

Argyll, Duchess of (Elizabeth Gunning), i. 270, 287, 288

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of, ii. 165, 167, 195

Argyll, John, 5th Duke of, i. 270

Arran, Earl of, ii. 155

Arran, Elizabeth, Countess of, ii. 155

Ascham, Miss, i. 286

Ashe, Miss, called by Walpole, the “Pollard Ashe,” i. 287, 288

Askew, Dr., ii. 128, 144

Athole, Duncan de Atholia, Earl of, i. 1

Athole, John Murray, 3rd Duke of, ii. 168

Atkinson, Mr., farm bailiff at Sandleford, i. 145; ii. 147

Atterbury, Bishop, i. 194

Audley, Dr., i. 129

Audley, Mr. (Hinchinbroke House), i. 270

Augusta, Princess (daughter of George II.), i. 53

Austin, Sir Robert, i. 27

Austria, Emperor of, ii. 146

Aveiro, Duke of, ii. 180

Aylesbury, Lord, i. 233

Aylesford, Countess of, i. 269

Aylesford, Heneage, 1st Earl of, i. 39

Aylesford, Heneage, 2nd Earl of, i. 41, 55, 144; ii. 19, 55

Aylmer, Lord, ii. 15

Ayscough, D.D., Rev. Francis, ii. 40, 63

Ayscough, Mrs. (née Lyttelton), ii. 63

B

Baden, Prince of, i. 286

Bagshot Heath, ii. 74

Balchen, Admiral Sir John, ii. 92

Balmerino, Lord, i. 231

Baltimore, Lord, ii. 70

Banbury, Charles Knollys, 3rd Earl of, i. 22

Banks, Miss, ii. 45

Barbarini, i. 92

Bareil, M. de, ii. 158

Barrington, Dowager Lady, i. 269

Barrington, 2nd Viscount, ii. 185

Barrow, Rev. Dr. Isaac, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, ii. 91

Barrows, Mrs., i. 241

Barry, Spranger, Irish actor, i. 279

Bas bleus, the, ii. 98; and shells, ii. 268

Basildon, Lady Fane’s grottoes at, i. 245

Bateman, Lord, ii. 95

Bateman, Richard, ii. 192

Bath, i. 36–41, 254; “Coffee House” at, i. 255

Bath, William Pulteney, 1st Earl of, i. 102; ii. 11, 29, 47, 145, 155, 185, 193, 204, 219, 223, 225, 241, 246, 250, 252, 262, 267; his wife’s death, ii. 152; Letter to Two Great Men, ii. 178; “Patriot and Philosopher,” ii. 179; his character, ii. 189, 247; “is fall’n desperately in love with Mrs. Montagu,” ii. 200, 201, 212; on green tea and snuff, ii. 207; and Mrs. Carter, ii. 235, 236; on Mrs. Montagu’s Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 237; Reynolds’ portrait of, ii. 258, 268, 269; letters from Mrs. Montagu to, ii. 220, 222, 233; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 222, 224, 226, 233, 237, 263, 268, 269

Bath, Countess of (Anna Maria Gumley), a “screw,” ii. 29; death of, ii. 152, 189

Bath, Thomas, 1st Marquis of, i. 17

Bath, Elizabeth, Marchioness of (née Bentinck), i. 17

Bathing tubs, i. 89

Bathurst, Lady Selina, i. 139

Bathurst, Lord, i. 280

Bathurst, Mr. (Lady Selina’s son), i. 167

Bayham Abbey, ii. 250

Beau, description of a, i. 133

Beauchamp, Richard, Bishop of Salisbury, i. 151

Beauclerc, Lord Aubrey, i. 80

Beauclerc, Lord Harry, ii. 228

Beauclerk, Lord and Lady Vere, i. 269

Beaufort, Cardinal, i. 247

Beaufort, 4th Duke of, i. 39, 41, 42

Beaulieu, i. 248

Beaulieu, Edward Hussey, Earl of, i. 201

Beauties of England and Wales, ii. 14

Beckford, Alderman, ii. 127, 128, 153, 220

Bede, Venerable, History of the British Nation, etc., ii. 138

Bedford, Duchess of, i. 63, 269

Bedford, John, 4th Duke of, i. 63, 216, 218, 219, 248, 266

Bejot, Monsieur, ii. 257

Bell and Sons, George, publishers, ii. 174

Bellardine, Harry, Governor of Hurst Castle, i. 248

Bellegarde, Marquis de, i. 286

Belle-Isle, Duc de, French Marshal, i. 197

Benson, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, i. 234

Bentinck, Lord Edward Charles, i. 178

Bentinck, Lady Elizabeth (afterwards Marchioness of Bath), i. 17, 150

Bentinck, Lady Frances, i. 69, 100, 146

Bentinck, Lord George, i. 46, 48, 98

Bentinck, Lady Harriet, ii. 197

Bentinck, Lady Isabella, i. 23

Bentinck, Lady Margaret, i. 33

Bentley, Richard, ii. 23, 24

Berenger, Moses, i. 284

Berenger, R., “the little Marquis,” History and Art of Horsemanship, i. 283, 284; ii. 1, 24, 226

Berenice, ii. 238

Berkeley, Elizabeth (afterwards Lady Noel Somerset), i. 42

Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, ii. 15, 25, 26

Berkeley, Mrs. George, ii. 25, 26

Berkeley, James Symes, of Stoke Gifford, i. 42

Berkeley, Lord, i. 167; ii. 95

Berkshire, 4th Earl of, i. 39, 41, 224

Berkshire, Lady (Catherine Grahame), i. 39, 66, 224

Berkshire, Tom, 6th Earl of, i. 39

Bernard, Dr., head master of Eton, ii. 150

Best, Mrs. T. (Caroline Scott), i. 86, 103, 121, 184

Best, Thomas, i. 121, 184; ii. 50

Bevern, Prince of, ii. 114

Bevis Mount, Lord Peterbrough’s place, i. 22

Bewdley, Sir George, ii. 78

Biographia Britannica, ii. 18

Birch, Rev. Thomas, Life of Archbishop Tillotson, ii. 20

Blackett, Sir Walter, ii. 138, 201, 202

Bland, Military Discipline, ii. 100

Blooding, panacea of, i. 33, 83, 98, 100, 135

“Blue Stockings,” first allusion to, ii. 98

Boccacio, Decameron, i. 61

Boileau, Nicholas Despreaux, i. 154, 282

Bolingbroke, Lady, ii. 116

Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 89, 280; Dissertations upon Partys, i. 176; The Idea of a Patriot King, i. 265; An Occasional Letter, i. 281; “that foul fiend,” ii. 61; his “pompous Rhetorical and inconsistent Declamations,” ii. 63; his marriage, ii. 116; Voltaire v., ii. 163

Bolton, Duchess of (Lavinia Fenton, alias “Polly Peacham”), ii. 37

Bolton, 3rd Duke of, i. 248; ii. 37

Bonus, Mr., picture cleaner, ii. 172

Boscawen, Admiral the Hon. Edward, i. 277; ii. 81, 83, 84, 123, 151, 155, 156, 170, 190; captures two French men-of-war, ii. 74; blockades Louisburg, ii. 76; the Martinico ships, ii. 90; recalled, ii. 111, 116; Mrs. Montagu’s opinion of, ii. 118; receives a fresh commission, ii. 118, 121; “had saved North America,” ii. 134; captures Louisburg, ii. 140; the thanks of Parliament, ii. 154; defeats French off Cape Lagos, ii. 167; his illness and death, ii. 228–230; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 95

Boscawen, Mrs. Edward (Frances Glanville), i. 277; ii. 69, 74, 81, 83, 170, 196, 217, 229, 230, 242, 247, 257; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 278; ii. 20, 40, 52, 70, 88, 118; her letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 133

Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ii. 161, 174

Boteler, Sir Philip, ii. 227

Botham, Rev. John, i. 55, 265, 278; ii. 43, 46, 73, 88, 129, 241, 259; a legacy, i. 84; his “sermonical lullaby,” i. 96; rector of Yoxall, Staff., and chaplain to Lord Aylesford, i. 144; wishes for a King’s chaplaincy, i. 180, 181; the Albury living, i. 230; “such a Johnny,” i. 231; farming his glebe, i. 235; his appeal for further preferment, ii. 2, 3; inoculation of his children, ii. 17; his wife’s last illness and death, ii. 26–29; a school-girls’ bill, ii. 48; in the North with Edward Montagu, ii. 51, 53; appointed to Ealing, ii. 54, 55, 58; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 76

Botham, Mrs. John (Lydia Lumley), i. 3, 55, 95, 143, 152, 194, 224, 265, 268; ii. 4; an opportune legacy, i. 84; her character, i. 180, 181; excessive melancholy of, i. 230; Mrs. Montagu’s advice, i. 233; curious remedies, i. 235; her state of health, ii. 11, 19, 20; her five children inoculated, ii. 16; illness and death of, ii. 26–29; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 84, 228

Botham, Miss, ii. 29, 33, 37, 46, 185

Botham, Miss Kitty, ii. 47, 48

Botham, Miss Molly, ii. 47, 48

Bower, Archibald (History of the Popes), ii. 11, 15, 16, 19, 35, 42, 70, 72, 90, 178; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 50, 81, 94

Bower, Mrs. A., ii. 16

Bowes, George, of Streatlam Castle, and Gibside, Durham, i. 234, 290; ii. 36, 138, 201, 203

Braganza, Catherine, wife of Charles II., i. 111

Braganza, Duke of, ii. 158

Branson, Mr., i. 241

Braybrooke, Lord, ii. 250

Breadalbane, Lord, ii. 165, 168

Bridport, 1st Viscount, i. 278; ii. 135

Bridport, Maria, Viscountess (née West), i. 278; ii. 10, 22, 30, 32, 40, 57, 86, 87, 92, 115, 135

Bridgewater, Dowager Duchess of, ii. 95, 191

Bridgewater, Scroop, 1st Duke of, ii. 191

Bristol, George William, 2nd Earl of, i. 234; ii. 266

Bristol, Viscount, i. 265

British Museum, established at Montagu House, Harleian MSS. in, i. 8, 83; ii. 243; Cottonian MSS. in, ii. 243

Broadley’s Bath Collection, i. 255

Brocchi, Carlo (Farinelli), i. 16

Brockman, James, of Beachborough, i. 15, 76, 108, 225,; ii. 13, 15

Brockman, Miss, i. 147

Bromedge, Mr., i. 294

Brown, Lieut.-General George, i. 222; ii. 142

Brown, D.D., John, Essays on Lord Shaftesbury’s Characteristics, ii. 18

Bruce, Lord, i. 250

“Brusher” Mills, the New Forest snake-catcher, ii. 151

Brydges, Sir Egerton, Biography, ii. 93

Brydges, Mary, Lady (née Robinson), ii. 93

Buchan, Earl of, i. 33

Buckley, Mr., i. 125, 202, 234

Bullstrode, i. 13, 49

Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress, i. 73

Burgess, Dr., ii. 77

Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, the Dauphin, i. 291, 295

Burlington, Richard, 3rd Earl of, i. 191; ii. 145

Burlington, Lady, ii. 145, 146

Burke, Edmund, ii. 100, 101, 108, 144; Vindication of Natural Society, ii. 156; Sublime and Beautiful, ii. 159; Lady Bab Montagu and, ii. 163; and the Madrid Consulship, ii. 170; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 169, 173

Burke, Mrs. (née Nugent), ii. 171

Burnet, Bishop, History of the Reformation, i. 101

Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of, i. 237; ii. 84, 97, 214, 226

Bute, Mary, Countess of (née Montagu), i. 51, 237, 244; ii. 44, 197, 214, 217, 252

Butler, Lady Emily, ii. 155

Byng, Admiral John, ii. 88–93, 97, 102

C

Cadaval, Duc de, ii. 180

Cadogan, Lord, ii. 83

Caffarelli, Gaetano Majoriano, Italian singer, i. 27

Cain, ii. 245

Caledon, 1st Earl of, ii. 98, 108

Calves Pluck water, ii. 163

Cambridge, Richard Owen, ii. 263; Scribbleriad, ii. 54, 61

Cambridge University, i. 256, 257

Camden, Pratt, 1st Earl, Lord Chancellor, and Lord President of the Council, ii. 217

Camelford, Thomas Pitt, Junr., 1st Lord, ii. 150, 153

Campbell, General, i. 267

Campion, Pitt’s chef, ii. 64

Canning, Elizabeth, ii. 53

Canterbury Cathedral, ii. 12, 14

Canterbury Races, i. 9, 17, 31

Cape Lagos, naval battle of, ii. 167

Cardigan, Lady, i. 267; ii. 217, 218

Carlisle, Bishop of, ii. 96

Carlisle, 7th Earl of, i. 104, 209

Carlisle, surrendered to the rebels, i. 218

Carnarvon, 6th Earl of, ii. 38

Caroline, Princess, wife of Christian VII. of Denmark, i. 256

Caroline, Queen, i. 255

Carr, Lord Robert, i. 167

Carte, Rev. Thomas, History, i. 194

Carter, Edward, agent to Lord Aylesbury, afterwards to Edward Montagu, i. 130, 139, 233, 234, 289, 291; ii. 51

Carter, Hannah, Memoirs of her Life, ii. 189

Carter, Miss, ii. 29, 33, 37, 38, 46, 51, 52

Carter, Mr., “Old Trusty,” Edward Montagu’s steward and agent, i. 107, 118, 141–143, 147, 166, 182, 184; death of, i. 233

Carter, Mrs. (wife of above), ii. 51

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, the Greek scholar, i. 111; ii. 235, 236, 246, 248, 250, 251, 255, 256; an edition of her Works, ii. 267; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, ii. 130, 138, 159, 160, 162, 163, 182, 183, 207, 241, 244, 257, 259, 266, 267, 269

Carter, D.D., Rev. Nicholas, ii. 130.

Carter, William, i. 130, 182

Carteret, John, 2nd Baron (afterwards Earl Granville), Secretary of State, i. 102, 135, 179, 187

Carteret, Lady (Lady Sophie Fermor), i. 179, 181

Carteret, Lady Sophia, ii. 261

Carthagena, naval battle of, i. 79

Cathcart, 9th Lord, ii. 101, 168

Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II., i. 111

Cattle disease, i. 196, 219

Cesar, Miss, i. 46

Chalmers, Anne (Mrs. James Gregory), i. 179

Chalmers, Dr., of Ripon, i. 213

Chandler, Mrs., i. 265

Chandos, 1st Duke of (the “Princely Duke”), i. 273

Chandos, 2nd Duke of, ii. 22, 23

Chandos, 3rd Duke of, ii. 22

Chandos, Duchess of (née Wells), formerly Mrs. Jefferies, ii. 22, 23

Chandos, Dowager Duchess of (née Van Hatten), i. 281; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 273, 274

Chapone, Mrs. (Hester Mulso), Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, ii. 260

Charlemagne, i. 59

Charles II., i. 80, 111; ii. 211

Charles XII. of Sweden, ii. 181

Charlotte, Queen, ii. 249, 251, 252, 258–260

Charters, Mr., ii. 166

Chateauneuf, Mdlle. de, i. 44

Chatham, Baroness of. See Pitt, Lady Hester

Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of. See Pitt, William

Chaucer, Geoffrey, i. 155, 199

Chaucer, Thomas (son of above), i. 198

Cheer, Mr., ii. 42

Chenevix, Mrs., her famous bric-à-brac shop, i. 187, 294

Chesilden, Dr. William, i. 196; ii. 4

Chester, Mrs., ii. 42

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (Letters), i. 198, 238, 253, 262; ii. 87, 113, 121, 181, 207, 223

Chinese rooms, Mrs. Montagu’s, ii. 8

Christian VII. of Denmark, i. 256

Chudleigh, Miss, maid-of-honour (afterwards Duchess of Kingston), i. 265

Churchill, Arabella, i. 156

Churchill, General Charles, commonly called “old Charles Churchill,” i. 156

Cibber, Colley (Apology for his Life), i. 91, 200, 242

Cibber, Theophilus, i. 242

Cibber, Mrs. Theophilus (Anna Maria Arne), i. 242; as “Cordelia,” i. 253

Cistercians, i. 248

Clare, Earls of, i. 204

Clarendon, Lord, History of the Rebellion, ii. 157

Clarke, D.D., Samuel, i. 61; ii. 62

Clarke, William, of Merivale Abbey, i. 2

Clarke, Dr. W., i. 88, 91

Clavering, Sir James, i. 144, 147

Clavering, Sir Thomas, i. 290; ii. 37, 138, 139, 202, 203, 223, 228

Clayton, Robert, Bishop of Killala, afterwards of Clogher, i. 85; ii. 21, 124, 163

Clayton, Mrs. Robert, i. 25, 85, 93, 129; ii. 27, 163, 164

Clayton, Sir William, ii. 163

Clegg, Jenny, i. 139

Cleopatra, ii. 238

Cleveland, Mr., ii. 134

Clifton, Sir Robert, ii. 135

Cobham, Viscount, ii. 60

Cobham, Sir Richard Temple, Baron, i. 102, 189

Cobham, Lady, ii. 1, 41, 71, 77, 86

Cock, Sarah (Mrs. John Rogers), i. 111

Cocoa Tree Coffee-house, ii. 217

Coke, Lady Mary, ii. 38

Coke, Lord, ii. 38; on Lyttelton, ii. 226

“Cold Loaf” = a picnic, ii. 12

Colebrooke, Sir James, ii. 202

Collet, Sir James, i. 2

Collingwood, Mrs., i. 48

Colman, the Elder, George, The Jealous Wife, ii. 226.

Colman, Mrs. George (née Gumley), ii. 227

Concini, Signor, ii. 83

Coningsby, Earl of, ii. 115, 140, 141

Coningsby, Lady, ii. 247

Conway, Lord, i. 265

Conway, Miss Jenny, i. 265

Conway, General Seymour Henry, ii. 114, 120, 156, 158

Cooke, Lord, i. 235

Cookham, ii. 41, 42

Coombe Bank, i. 267

Cope, Sir John, Commander-in-Chief for Scotland, i. 206, 210–212

Cornbury, Lord, i. 101, 104

Cornwallis, Colonel, ii. 114

Cotes, Dr., i. 95, 158, 160, 162; ii. 34

Cotes, Mrs., i. 95, 98, 163–166, 181, 224, 271

Cottington, Mr. and Mrs., i. 52

Cottonian MSS., ii. 243

Courayer, LL.D., Peter Francis le (“the little Père”), i. 124, 126, 154, 201, 232, 241–244, 247, 294; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, i. 250

Courtenay, Lady, ii. 19

Courtenay, Sir William, afterwards 1st Viscount, ii. 19

Courteney, Mr., i. 240

Coventry, Countess of (Maria Gunning), i. 270, 287, 288; ii. 172

Coventry, Earl of, i. 270; ii. 18

Cowley, Abraham, ii. 244

Cowper, Henrietta, Countess, i. 19; ii. 158

Cowper, William, 2nd Earl, i. 19

Cowper, William, poet, i. 268

Cradock, William, i. 151

Cranwell, Mrs., i. 240

Cranworth, 1st Baron, ii. 98

Craon, Princesse de, i. 284

Crashaw, Richard, poet, i. 283

Crawford, John, 17th Earl of, and 7th Earl of Lindsey, i. 41

Creagh, Mary (Mrs. D. Archdeacon), ii. 129

Creed, Mr., ii. 50

Crewe, Lady (Dorothy Forster), i. 188

Crewe of Stene, Nathaniel, Baron, i. 188, 190; ii. 155

Croker, John Wilson, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ii. 146, 147

Croker, Mr., Mrs. Donnellan’s Six Clerk and Manager, ii. 21

Cromartie, Lord, i. 232

Cromwell, Oliver, i. 270

Crosby, Mrs., Mrs. Montagu’s housekeeper, ii. 146, 147

Cruickshank, Dr., ii. 99

Culham Court, Berks., ii. 105

Cullen, John, Edward Montagu’s gamekeeper, i. 226

Cumberland, Duke of, acts as proxy at Princess Mary’s wedding, i. 53; Septimus Robinson, Governor to, i. 177; his tutor, Dr. Robert Smith, i. 200; Edward Montagu’s wish, i. 208; and young Wortley Montagu, i. 238; dangerously ill, ii. 18; praises Admiral Boscawen, ii. 74; and Emin, ii. 101, 108; battle of Hastenbeck, ii. 108–111; “is gone to plant cabbages,” ii. 119; passes through the city, ii. 120; the gout, ii. 152; will of George II., ii. 212–214

Cumberland, Richard, dramatist, ii. 2

Cunningham, Captain, ii. 76

Cunninghame, Mr., ii. 134

Curll, Edmund, i. 38

Cutler, Sir John, ii. 202

D

Dale, Dorothy, afterwards Lady Forbes, i. 179

D’Alembert, ii. 159

Dalrymple, Sir Hugh, ii. 166

D’Ancre, the Marechalle, ii. 83

D’Arcy, Sir Conyers, afterwards 6th Earl of Holdernesse, i. 209, 293; ii. 6

Darlington, Lady, ii. 233

Darlington, Lord, ii. 202

Dartmouth, William, 2nd Earl of, i. 231

Dashwood, Miss, the “Delia” of the poet Hammond, i. 25, 42, 46, 103; ii. 91; her letter to Mrs. Montagu, i. 116

Dashwood, Sir Francis, afterwards Lord Le Despencer, leader of the Hell Fire Club, i. 27, 218

D’Aubigné, Mdlle. (Madame de Maintenon), i. 38

Davall, Sir Thomas, i. 273

Davis, Governor, ii. 101

Davis, Sir Paul, i. 194

Dayrell, Mr. and Mrs., of Lillingston Dayrell, ii. 57

Delany, Mrs. (formerly Mrs. Pendarves), Memoirs, i. 56, 57, 153, 156, 170, 173, 187, 235, 293, 294; ii. 2, 5, 6, 21, 45, 123, 124. See also Pendarves, Mrs.

Delany, Rev. Dr. Patrick, Dean of Down, Bishop of Clogher, i. 153, 170, 173, 187, 293, 294; ii. 6, 21, 85, 208; the protracted lawsuit, ii. 123, 124

Delaval, Anne (afterwards Mrs. John Rogers), i. 145

Delaval, Sir John, ii. 129

Delawarr, Lord, i. 248

Delves, Lady, i. 17

Demoivre, Abraham, The Doctrine of Chances, etc., ii. 67

Demosthenes, ii. 41

Denton Hall, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, i. 289; ii. 137, 281, 282

Dering, Sir Edward, ii. 33, 252

Desbouveries, Miss, ii. 227

des Champs, Monsieur, ii. 186

Dettemere, Mrs., Mrs. Montagu’s lady’s-maid, i. 183, 258, 259, 272

Dettingen, battle of, i. 154, 157

“Devil’s Drops,” i. 252

Devonshire, Duke of, i. 266; ii. 95

Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, ii. 148

D’Ewes, John, i. 47

D’Ewes, Mrs. John (née Granville), “Pip,” i. 47, 56, 57, 101; ii. 5, 80

Dialogues of the Dead, by Lord Lyttelton and Mrs. Montagu, ii. 181, 182, 200, 204, 207, 238

Dickens, Sergeant, i. 82

Dictionary of National Biography, i. 7, 97; ii. 15, 146, 189

Dido, Queen of Tyre, i. 64

Dingley, Colonel, ii. 100

Ditched, Mrs., ii. 84

Doddington, Mr., ii. 84

Dodsley, ii. 174

Dohna, Count, ii. 142

Domville, Mr., ii. 189

Donnellan, Rev. Christopher, i. 25, 41; ii. 2

Donnellan, Nehemiah, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Ireland, i. 41

Donnellan, Mrs. Nehemiah (Martha Usher), i. 41

Donnellan, “Mrs.” Anne, i. 25, 40, 41, 43, 52, 84, 124, 146, 197, 232, 240, 242–244, 252; ii. 2, 5, 13, 21, 26, 51, 183; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 44, 53, 58, 70, 80, 85, 92, 93, 99, 102, 112, 128, 139, 161, 168, 169, 186, 187, 194, 253, 259, 293; ii. 6, 21, 45, 80, 116, 120, 147; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 56, 68, 72, 86, 91, 92, 96, 139, 159, 160, 184, 248, 254–256, 281

Donnington Castle, i. 155, 198

Dorchester, Countess of (Lady Caroline Sackville), i. 53

Dorset, Duke of, i. 53; ii. 2

Dorset, Duchess of (Elizabeth Colyear), i. 53

Douglas, Colonel, i. 80

D’Oyley, Christopher, ii. 186

D’Oyley, Mrs. (Sarah Stanley), ii. 186

Drake, Councillor Robert, of Cambridge, i. 4

Drake, Elizabeth (Mrs. Matthew Robinson), i. 4

Drake, Mrs. Robert (Sarah Morris), afterwards Mrs. Conyers Middleton, i. 4, 5, 119

Drakes of Ashe, Devon, the, i. 4

Dufour, Mdlle., Mrs. Montagu’s French maid, i. 89, 91

Dummer, Mr., of Cranbury Park, i. 247

Duncan, Dr., ii. 77

Duncan, king of Scotland, i. 1

Dupplin, Viscount (afterwards 8th Earl of Kinnoull), i. 8, 9, 44, 46, 54; ii. 84, 85, 168, 179

Duncannon, Lord, ii. 95

Durham, Bishop of, ii. 202

E

Earle, Mr., i. 93, 94

Earthquake, in London (1750), i. 274; in Lisbon (1755), ii. 85

Eau de luce, Mrs. Montagu’s accident with, ii. 144

Edgecumbe, Mr., ii. 95

Edinburgh, taken by the rebels in 1745, i. 205, 209

Edward IV., i. 151

Edwin, Mrs., ii. 42, 45

Egerton, Lady A. Sophia, ii. 122

Egerton, Bishop, i. 180

Eglinton, 10th Earl of, i. 269, 286

Egmont, 1st Earl, i. 41, 186; ii. 84

Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of, ii. 217, 262; Secretary of State, ii. 265

Elibank, Lord and Lady, i. 269

Elixir of vitriol, a remedy for asthma, i. 235

Elliot, Mr., ii. 95

Elliot, Mrs., i. 164

Ellis, Lady (afterwards Lady Dashwood), i. 218

Ellis, Mrs. W. (née Stanley), ii. 186

Ellis, Welbore (afterwards Lord Mendip), ii. 186

Elstob, Mrs., i. 133

Emerson, William, Doctrine of Fluxions, etc., i. 111, 234

Emin, or Ameen, Joseph, an Armenian, ii. 99, 115, 122, 165, 214; his flight to England, ii. 100; Duke of Northumberland’s kindness to, ii. 101, 102; his patron Burke, ii. 101, 108, 144, 156, 171; his letter from Limburg to “all his ladies and Patronesses,” ii. 108–110; Mrs. Montagu’s description of, and tribute to, ii. 114, 117, 154; his application to Pitt, ii. 125, 126; joins Frederick the Great’s army, ii. 127, 132, 141; his description of Frederick the Great, ii. 143, 154; his letters to Mrs. Montagu--“My Queen of Sheba,” ii. 102, 114; “To the most learned and most magnanimous Mrs. Montagu,” ii. 162; “To the Montagu the Great,” ii. 168; “To the wisdom of Europe,” ii. 241

England v. France in Canada--the Mordaunt Expedition, ii. 116–122; the attempted invasion at St. Malo, ii. 126, 127

Erringtons, the, i. 144

Essex, Lady (née Williams), ii. 162

Euston, George, Earl of, i. 17

Eve, ii. 245

Evelyn, Mrs. Ann, ii. 75

Evelyn, Sir John, Sylva, or Discourse on Forest Trees, etc., ii. 75, 145

F

Falconer, R. N., Lieutenant, i. 287

Falmouth, 1st Viscount, i. 277

Fane, Charles, 1st Viscount, i. 87, 245

Fane, Miss Charlotte, ii. 11, 102

Fane, Miss Dorothy, afterwards Lady Sandwich, q.v.

Fane, Mary Stanhope, Viscountess, once Maid-of-Honour to Queen Anne, her grottoes, i. 245

Farinelli (Carlo Brocchi), i. 16

Fauconberg, Viscount, i. 209

Fausan, M. and Mdlle., i. 48

Fawcet, Mr., i. 140

Feather screen, Mrs. Montagu’s, i. 268

Fenelon, i. 296

Fenton, Lavinia, alias Polly Peacham, Duchess of Bolton, ii. 37

Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince, ii. 165, 178

Ferdinand VII. of Spain, ii. 158

Ferguson’s lectures on philosophy, ii. 191

Fermor, Lady Sophie (afterwards Lady Carteret), i. 179

Ferrers, Robert, 1st Earl, i. 39

Ferrers, Laurence, 2nd Earl, executed at Tyburn, ii. 183

Feversham, Lord and Lady, ii. 187

Fielding, Captain and Mrs., i. 21

Fielding, Lady Betty, i. 21

Fielding, Henry (novelist), i. 21, 164

Finch, Lady Anne, i. 39

Finch, Lady Charlotte, i. 21

Fisher, Kitty, ii. 160

Fitz-Adam, Adam, ii. 25

FitzGilbert, Richard, i. 204

Fitzroy, Lord Augustus, i. 17

Fitzwalter, Lord and Lady, i. 269

Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl, i. 209, 294

Fitzwilliam, Lady, i. 294; ii. 185

Foley, Thomas, 1st Baron, i. 83

Foley, Thomas, 2nd Baron, i. 46

Fontenoy, battle of, i. 237

Foote, the actor, ii. 19

Forbes, Lady (Dorothy Dale), i. 179; ii. 226

Forbes, William, 13th Baron, i. 179; ii. 266

Forster, Sir James William, i. 188

Forster, Dr., ii. 99

Forster, Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles Montagu), i. 111, 188

Fortescue, Chichester, ii. 80

Fortescue, Mrs. C. (née Wesley), ii. 80, 255

Fortescue, Hugh, of Filleigh, Devon, i. 110

Fountayne, Dr., Dean of York, ii. 174

Fox, M.P. for York City, i. 209

Fox, Captain, ship Walpole, ii. 100

Fox, Lady Caroline, ii. 97

Fox, Henry, 1st Lord Holland, ii. 81, 84, 94, 103, 104

Fox, Stephen, i. 105.

France v. England, in Canada--the Mordaunt Expedition, ii. 116–122; the attempted invasion at St. Malo, ii. 126, 127

Franking letters, use and abuse of, i. 12

Frederick, Mrs., ii. 230

Frederick the Great, ii. 120, 123, 124, 132, 154, 178, 225, 241; his defeat at Kollin, Bohemia, ii. 114; battle of Rosbach, ii. 122; Zorndorff, ii. 141, 142; Emin’s description of, ii. 143

Frederick William, of Prussia, i. 206

Frederick V., King of Denmark, ii. 111

Freind, Rev. Dr. Robert, Head Master of Westminster School, i. 30, 52, 192

Freind, Mrs. Robert (Jane de l’Angle), i. 52

Freind, Rev. William, Dean of Canterbury, i. 30, 52, 57, 114, 122, 148, 174, 180, 189, 233, 235; ii. 45; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 66, 79, 191, 192; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 49, 52, 58, 63, 75, 78, 81, 106, 109, 131, 177, 179, 190, 219, 225, 248, 269

Freind, Mrs. William (Grace Robinson), i. 30, 40, 66, 143, 148, 174, 177, 189, 191, 233; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 49, 122, 227

French invasion, fears of, i. 174–177, 219–226; ii. 82, 114

Freydag, Major, ii. 109

Froissart, Chronicles, ii. 257, 260

Fromantel, Mr., i. 145

Furnese, Lady Anne, i. 39

G

Gage, Miss, i. 39

Galissionière, Admiral, ii. 90

Garrick, David, i. 92, 131, 284; ii. 11, 16, 19, 83, 129, 130, 145; as “Richard III.,” i. 107; “King Lear,” i. 177, 253; “Hotspur,” i. 237; “Romeo,” i. 279; “Antony,” ii. 158; his marriage, ii. 146

Garrick, Mrs. (Eva Marie Veilchen, “La Violette”), ii. 129, 130, 145

Gascoigne, Sir Crispe, Lord Mayor of London, ii. 53

Gataker, Dr., ii. 235

Gay, John, poet, Court of Death, i. 39, 249

Gazette, ii. 122

Gee, Mr., i. 261

George, Prince, ii. 20

George I., i. 206

George II., i. 53, 94, 236, 256; ii. 83, 87; his offer to Prince of Wales, i. 99; creates Walpole Earl of Oxford, i. 100; the Hanoverian troops, i. 135; pardons Lord Cromartie, i. 232; makes Lyttelton a peer, ii. 96; a fainting fit, ii. 116; his reception of Mordaunt and Hawke, ii. 120; Frederick the Great’s report of Zorndorff victory, ii. 142; his illness, ii. 152; and Pitt, ii. 153; death, ii. 208–215

George III., i. 177, 280; ii. 160, 209–215; and G. L. Scott, ii. 44, 97; Lady Yarmouth, ii. 126; his first speech as king, ii. 217; Bishop Sherlock’s letter to, ii. 221; Lord Chesterfield’s bon mot, ii. 223; his engagement and marriage, ii. 249, 251, 252; coronation, ii. 259

Germain, Lady Betty, i. 269

Germain, Lord George, ii. 165

Geronsterre waters, the, i. 53

Gesner, S., La Mort d’Abel, ii. 245, 248

Gilbert, Dr., Archbishop of York, ii. 73, 190, 270

Giles, i. 193

Glamis Castle, ii. 168

Glanville, William Evelyn, ii. 118

Gloucester, Duke of, i. 177

Gloucester, Richard de Clare, Earl of, i. 204

Gloucester, Duchess of, ii. 160

Goddard, Harry, i. 73, 74

Godolphin, 1st Earl of, i. 285; ii. 98, 102, 132, 142, 147

Godolphin, Lady Harriet, afterwards Duchess of Leeds, i. 51

Godolphin, Lady Mary, i. 51

Godolphin, Mr., ii. 209

Godschall, Miss, i. 265

“Golden Ball,” the, i. 15, 16

Goodwin, John, i. 216

Goring, Viscount, i. 286

Grafton, 2nd Duke of, i. 17

Graham, Sir R., i. 209

Grahame, J., of Levens, Westmoreland, i. 39

Grammont, Memoirs of the Count de, ii. 172

Granby, Marchioness of, i. 269

Granby, Lord, i. 269

Grantham, Lord (“Short” Sir Thomas Robinson), i. 259, 260, 277, 288; ii. 259

Granville, Anne (Mrs. Pendarves’ sister), afterwards Mrs. D’Ewes, i. 47, 56, 57

Granville, Anne (Mrs. Pendarves’ aunt), afterwards Lady Stanley, i. 46

Granville, Countess, i. 195

Granville, Grace, Viscountess Carteret and Countess, i. 153

Granville, Mr. (brother of Mrs. Pendarves), i. 46, 236

Granville, Mrs., i. 254

Granville, Miss, i. 196

Granville, John, i. 18

Granville, John, Earl, i. 102, 104

Granville, the Misses (Lord Lansdowne’s daughters), i. 50

Gray, Thomas, the poet, i. 119, 253, 285; ii. 23, 24, 87, 183

Green, Dr., musician, i. 60

Green, Dr. John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 249, 275

Greenland, Augustine, of Belle Vue, Kent, ii. 92

Greenland, John, of Lovelace, Kent, ii. 92

Greenwich, Caroline, Baroness, i. 117

Gregory, James, inventor of the Gregorian telescope, i. 179

Gregory, Dr. James, i. 179

Gregory, Dr. John, Professor of Philosophy at Edinburgh, i. 179; ii. 73, 76, 204, 211, 226, 266

Gregory, Mrs. John (Elizabeth Forbes), i. 179; ii. 226

Gregory, Lady Mary, ii. 155

Grenville, Mr., i. 54

Grenville, George, ii. 90, 95, 266

Grenville, James, ii. 95, 262

Grenville, Jenny, ii. 90

Grenville, Richard, ii. 60, 83, 84

Greville, Mr., i. 167

Greville, Mrs., i. 39

Grey, Mr., i. 147

Grey, Rev. Dr. Zachary, i. 62

Griffith, Edward Montagu’s valet, i. 136, 140, 143

Grinfield, Miss, dresser to George III.’s daughters, i. 256; ii. 84

Grosmith, Rev. ----, i. 85

Grosvenor, Mrs., i. 255

Grosvenor, Sir Richard, 1st Earl, ii. 156, 217

Grounen, Mr., i. 261

Guerin, Mr., i. 183

Guilford, Earl of, i. 63

Gunning, John, of Castle Coote, Roscommon, i. 270

Gunning, Elizabeth, (1) Duchess of Hamilton, (2) Duchess of Argyll, i. 270, 287, 288; ii. 252

Gunning, Kitty, Mrs. Robert Travers, i. 270

Gunning, Maria, Countess of Coventry, i. 270; ii. 18

H

Habeas Corpus Bill, ii. 127

Hagley House, Lyttelton’s place, ii. 192

Halifax, Anne, Lady (née Dunk), i. 201

Halifax, William, 2nd Marquis of, i. 18; ii. 145

Halifax, 2nd Earl of, i. 256

Halifax, George, 5th Earl of, i. 104, 201; ii. 243

Hallows, Mrs., Dr. Young’s lady housekeeper, ii. 248

Hamilton, Mr., of Painshill, ii. 75

Hamilton, Duke of, i. 167, 270

Hamilton, Duchess of (Elizabeth Gunning), i. 270, 287, 288; ii. 252

Hamilton, Lord William, ii. 2

Hammond, the poet, i. 25

Hampton, the Temple at, ii. 130

Hampton Court, Herefordshire, ii. 140, 141

Handcock, Mrs., ii. 192

Handcock, William, i. 267

Handel, George Frederick, i. 27, 44, 70, 92, 131, 274

Hanmer, Lady Catherine, i. 162

Hanoverian troops, employed by England, i. 130, 134, 135, 137, 173

Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of, i. 7; ii. 127, 192, 212, 262, 266

Hardwicke, 2nd Earl of, ii. 127, 217

Hare, Dr. Francis, Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester, i. 50

Hare, Mrs., i. 50

Harleian MSS. in British Museum, i. 8, 83; ii. 243

Harley, Lady Margaret Cavendish. See Portland, Duchess of

Harley, Mr., i. 104

Harrington, William Stanhope, 1st Earl of, i. 48; President of the Council, i. 102; Viceroy of Ireland, i. 260

Harris, History of Kent, i. 7; ii. 14

Hart, Governor, ii. 106

Hartley, Dr. David, i. 254

Hastenbeck, battle of, ii. 56, 58

Hawke, Sir Edward, Lord, ii. 89, 116, 118, 120, 121

Hawkesworth, LL.D., John, Oriental Tales, ii. 247

Hawkins, Mr., Surgeon, i. 158, 161–163

Hay, Lord Charles, ii. 116

Hay, Rev. Robert, Archbishop of York, i. 47

Hay, Hon. John, i. 51, 61

Hay, Dr., ii. 95

Hayton Farm, i. 66

Hearne, Thomas, Diary, i. 12; ii. 62

Heberden, Dr. William, i. 276

Hell Fire Club, i. 218

Helvetius, Claud Adrien, De l’Esprit, ii. 157

Henrietta Maria, Queen, i. 264

Henry II., i. 150

Henry IV. of France, ii. 18

Henry VIII., i. 151

Heraclius II., King of Georgia and Armenia, ii. 101

Heraclius, Prince, ii. 162

Herbert, Mr., of Highclere Castle, Hants, i. 253; ii. 38, 39, 103

Hereford, 6th Viscount, i. 39

Hereford, Lady, i. 39

Herring, Thomas, Archbishop of York, i. 209; ii. 53, 54, 61, 63, 71, 78

Herring, Mrs., ii. 54, 65

Herring, Dr., Chancellor of York, ii. 175

Hertford, Lord, i. 249

Hervey, John, Lord, Pope’s “Sporus,” ii. 192

Hervey, Rev. James, The Complaint, or Thoughts on Time, Death, and Friendship, i. 136, 138

Hervey, George William, Baron, 2nd Earl of Bristol, i. 234

Hervey, Lady (Mary Lepell), ii. 178, 192, 201, 207

Hesse Cassel, Frederick, Landgrave of, i. 53

Hessians, the, i. 221

Hickman, Dr., i. 149

“Hide” Park, i. 178, 179

Hillsborough, Lady, ii. 123

Hillsborough, Lord, ii. 96

Hinchinbroke, Lady (Elizabeth Popham), ii. 113

Hinchinbroke, Lord, afterwards 5th Earl of Sandwich, i. 138, 271; ii. 113, 232

Hinchinbroke House, Huntingdon, i. 269

Hinxham, John, bookseller, ii. 174

Hoadley, Dr. Benjamin, The Suspicious Husband, i. 236

Hoare, Mr., of Stourhead, the banker, ii. 206

Hoare, artist, his portrait of Mrs. Montagu, i. 265, 272

Hoare, Mrs., i. 58

Hog, Mrs., French maid to the Duchess of Portland’s children, i. 89

Holborn, Admiral, ii. 74

Holdernesse, Sir Conyers D’Arcy, 6th Earl of, i. 209, 293; ii. 6

Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron, i. 105; ii. 94, 95

Holler’s Prints, i. 103

Hollins, Dr., i. 162

Honeywood, General, i. 161

Hood, Admiral, 1st Viscount Bridport, ii. 135

Hooke, Nathaniel, Duchess of Marlborough’s Memoirs, i. 103, 296; History of Rome, i. 296; ii. 12, 18, 19, 41, 45, 46, 70, 90; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 65

Hopetoun, Lord, ii. 168

Hoquart, Admiral, ii. 74

Horace, i. 71, 72

Hounslow Heath, i. 164

Howard, Brigadier-General, i. 39

Howard, Thomas, 6th Earl of Berkshire and 14th Earl of Suffolk, i. 39, 46

Howard, Lord, i. 46

Howe, Captain, ii. 126

Hoyle, on Chess, i. 252

Hume, David (History of James I. and Charles I.), i. 263; ii. 68, 91, 195, 211

Hume, Mrs. David, ii. 91

Hunter, Mr., ii. 95

Huntingdon, Francis, 10th Earl of, ii. 214

Huntingdon, Lady, the patroness of the “Huntingdon Connexion” branch of the Methodists, ii. 214

Huntingdon Ball, i. 270

Hurst Castle, i. 248

Hussey, Edward, Earl of Beaulieu, i. 201, 267

Hutchinson, Rev. John, Moseis Principia, ii. 87

I

Inoculation for smallpox, i. 149, 158

Inquisition, Court of, ii. 15

Inverary Castle, ii. 165

Iremonger, Mrs., of Wherwell, Hants, ii. 23

Irvine, Henry, Viscount, i. 95

Irwin, Lord, i. 164

Isaacson, Anthony, ii. 129, 151

Isaacson, Mrs. Anthony (Mary Creagh), ii. 129, 151

Isaacson, Montagu, ii. 151, 156

Isted, Mrs., Mrs. Montagu’s housekeeper, i. 292; ii. 8, 12, 19, 20, 56

Ives, Mrs., ii. 57

J

James II., i. 156

Jarret, a jobmaster, ii. 188

Jefferies, Judge, i. 49

Jefferies, an ostler at the Pelican Inn, Newbury, ii. 23

Jeffreys, Baron, of Wem, ii. 257

Jenny, Sarah Robinson’s maid, i. 164

Jersey, Earl of, i. 50

Jew Bill, ii. 33

Johnson, B., Volpone, ii. 24

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, ii. 54, 105, 162; Lives of the Poets, i. 283; on R. Berenger, i. 284; Rasselas, ii. 161; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 161, 173

Jones, a merchant of Huntingdon, ii. 39

Jones, Inigo, i. 242; ii. 35

Jordain, Monsieur, ii. 37, 267

Joseph I., of Portugal, ii. 158; attempted assassination of, ii. 180

“Jumps,” a kind of stays, i. 259

Jurin, Dr. James, i. 268

K

Keith, Field-Marshal, i. 95

Kennet, Mrs., wet-nurse, i. 148, 183

Kent, Duchess of (Sophia Bentinck), i. 60, 61

Kent, Henry (Grey), 1st Duke of, i. 60

Kilmarnock, Earl of, i. 231

King’s lectures, ii. 38, 40

Kingston, Duchess of (née Chudleigh), i. 265

Kingston, Evelyn, Duke of, i. 50, 237

Kingston, 2nd Duke of, i. 149, 190, 286;

Kinnoull, 7th Earl of, i. 47, 61

Kinnoull, 8th Earl of, i. 8, 9, 44, 46, 54; ii. 84, 85, 168, 179

Kirke, Gilbert, i. 55

Kirke, Thomas, i. 55

Kloster-Seven, Convention of, ii. 111

Knatchbull, Sir Wyndham, 5th Baronet, i. 20, 32, 36

Knatchbull, Lady, i. 21

Knatchbull, Miss, i. 21

Knight, Mrs. (née Robinson), i. 179, 256

Knollys, Lady Katherine, afterwards Law, i. 22, 33

Kollin (Bohemia), Frederick the Great defeated at the battle of, ii. 114

Kouli Khan, ii. 99

L

Lambard, Mr., ii. 188

Lambarts, the, ii. 253

Lane, Mrs., of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, ii. 37

Langham, Lady, ii. 43, 55, 57, 87

Langham, Lord John, i. 278

l’Angle, Rev. Samuel de, Prebendary of Westminster, i. 52

Lansdowne, Lady (Lady Mary Villiers), i. 50

Lansdowne, George Granville, Lord, i. 50

La Perche, Count Thomas de, i. 151

La Perche, Geoffry, 4th Earl de, i. 150

Laud, Archbishop, i. 75

Law, John, the financier, i. 22, 23

Law, Lady Katherine (née Knollys), i. 22, 23

Layton, Francis, of Rawdon, i. 55

Layton, Lucy, afterwards Mrs. Leonard Robinson, i. 2, 4

Le Despencer, Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord, i. 218

Lee, Colonel, i. 60

Lee, Dr., i. 93, 94

Lee, Lady Betty (afterwards Young), i. 59, 60

Leeds, Duchess of (Lady Harriet Godolphin), i. 51

Leeds, Thomas, 4th Duke of, i. 51; ii. 209

Legge, Hon. Harry, Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 231; ii. 49, 83, 84, 95, 153

Leicester, Lord, ii. 165

Leigh Place, Sir John Evelyn’s, ii. 75

Leland, Dr., Observations of Lord Bolingbroke’s Letter, ii. 25; Life of Philip of Macedon, ii. 159

Lely, Sir Peter, his portrait of 1st Earl of Sandwich, ii. 249

l’Enclos, Ninon de, ii. 113

Leslie, Mr., i. 293, 294

Lestock, i. 177

Levens Hall, Westmoreland, Lord Berkshire’s seat, i. 224

Lichfield, Earl of, i. 60

Lichfield, Marquis of, i. 93

Liddell, Mr., of Newton, ii. 224

Light, Anthony, i. 2, 55

Light, Mrs. Elizabeth (née Clarke), afterwards Mrs. Thomas Robinson, i. 2

Light, Lydia, afterwards Mrs. Thomas Kirke, then Mrs. Robert Lumley, i. 55

Ligonier, Field Marshal John, Earl of, i. 216, 218

Lincoln, Lady (Catherine Pelham), ii. 187

Lindsey, John, 7th Earl of, and 17th Earl of Crawford, i. 41

Linnell, Mr., i. 294; ii. 17

Lisbon, earthquake at, ii. 85

Lisle, Miss, i. 245

Locke, ii. 61, 62

Lodge, Peerage of Irish Peers, i. 191

Lodomie, dentist, ii. 209

Lombe, John, inventor of silk-weaving engine, i. 201

Lonsdale, 3rd Viscount, i. 209

Loudoun, Earl of, i. 206; Commander-in-Chief of English in America, ii. 115

Louis XIV., i. 291, 295; ii. 18

Louis XV., i. 175

Louisburg, ii. 76, 116, 134; taken, ii. 140, 154

Lovat, Lord, beheaded, i. 235, 253

Lowther, Mrs., ii. 149

Lucian, Triumph of the Gout, i. 283; ii. 47

Lumley, Elizabeth (Mrs. Laurence Sterne), i. 3, 55, 73–75, 84, 230

Lumley, Rev. Robert, i. 55, 230

Lumley Castle, ii. 139

Lyster, Mrs., ii. 167

Lyttelton, Rev. Charles, Dean of Exeter, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, i. 201, 284; ii. 96, 115, 136, 149, 208, 209, 262

Lyttelton, Sir George, 1st Lord, i. 64, 278; ii. 8, 11, 22, 25, 30, 32, 35, 60, 93, 168, 245, 250, 252, 255, 260, 267; Observations on Cicero, i. 82; Mrs. Montagu on his Verses, i. 90; his first marriage, i. 110; Monody, i. 253, 254; Dissertation on Saint Paul, i. 283; his second marriage, ii. 11; his friend Bishop Berkeley, ii. 15; calls Mrs. Montagu “Madonna,” ii. 16, 50, 72; Hagley, ii. 41, 192; cofferer, ii. 49; Bower’s fervid Italian, ii. 50; his tour in North Wales, ii. 72; Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 84; Gilbert West’s reinstatement at Chelsea, ii. 85; a peer, ii. 96; History of Henry II., ii. 96, 148, 159, 192, 256; “is got pure well,” ii. 115; reproves Lord Temple in the House of Lords, ii. 127; his amusing letter to Dr. Monsey, ii. 132; Mrs. Montagu’s eau de luce accident, ii. 145; Dr. Monsey’s doggerel verses on, ii. 154; Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 181, 182, 200, 204, 207; at the Coronation, ii. 259; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 81, 90, 94, 135, 140, 148, 150, 165, 172, 178, 179, 186, 192, 201, 203–205, 209, 212, 213, 261, 264; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, ii. 89, 96, 134, 164, 167, 172, 185, 191, 194, 205, 210, 215

Lyttelton, Lucy, Lady (née Fortescue), 1st wife, i. 110, 253

Lyttelton, Lady (née Rich), 2nd wife, ii. 11, 72, 115

Lyttelton, Miss, ii. 255

Lyttelton, Sir Richard, ii. 95, 191

Lyttelton, Thomas, 2nd Lord, i. 253; ii. 50, 86, 89, 140, 150, 165, 167, 168, 261; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 141, 166, 168, 179; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, ii. 139, 193, 253

Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, ii. 182

Lyttelton, William Henry, created Baron Westcote of Ballymore, i. 284; ii. 32; Governor of South Carolina, ii. 68, 78; Governor of Jamaica, ii. 182

M

Macartney, Mr., ii. 6

Macpherson, Highland Poems, ii. 194, 197, 205, 211, 234, 257, 268

Mahon, Lady (Hester Pitt), afterwards Lady Stanhope, ii. 82

Maillebois, Field Marshal Jean Des Marets, i. 220

Maintenon, Madame de, i. 38; ii. 19; Memoirs of, ii. 154

Mainwaring, Mrs., i. 177

Mallet, David, Scottish poet, i. 54

Malton, 6th Baron of, i. 209

Manchester, Isabella, Duchess of, i. 201; remarries Edward Hussey, i. 267

Manchester, 2nd Duke of, i. 201

Mangey, Rev. Dr., ii. 54

Mann, Horace Walpole’s Letters to Sir H., i. 264, 274, 287

Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, Lord Chief Justice, “Silver-tongued Murray,” i. 138; ii. 124, 127, 190

March, 3rd Earl of, afterwards Duke of Queensberry, i. 269, 286

Marchmont, Lord, ii. 211

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, ii. 114, 146

Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, i. 51, 267; ii. 118

Marlborough, Charles Spencer, 2nd Duke of, i. 51; ii. 116

Marlborough, Charles, 3rd Duke of, i. 54, 104, 154, 161, 171; ii. 102, 126, 142, 152, 154

Marlborough, Elizabeth, Duchess of, ii. 152

Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, i. 54, 94, 157, 165; her Account of Her Conduct (Memoirs), i. 103, 296

Marriott, Mr., ii. 185

Marsh, Mrs., i. 280

Mary of Hesse, Princess (George II.’s daughter), i. 53

Mason, Caractacus, ii. 161

“Matadors,” term used in card-games, i. 40

Matilda of Saxony (Countess de La Perche), i. 150

Matthews, Admiral Thomas, i. 176, 177

May, Mrs., i. 181

Mead, Dr. Richard, i. 17, 82, 86, 88, 98, 128, 153, 155, 158, 160, 162, 199

Meadowcourt, Rev. ----, Vicar of Lindridge, Worcester, ii. 135, 136, 203

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Charlotte of, marries George III. ii. 249, 251, 252, 258–260

Medows, Sir Philip, i. 277; ii. 82, 145

Medows, Sir Sydney, i. 111; ii. 177

Medows, Jemima, Lady (née Montagu), i. 111, 117, 128, 148, 149, 153, 154, 158, 184, 248, 262, 266, 273; ii. 12, 61, 129, 144, 151, 163, 177; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 22, 57, 82

Medows, Dorothy (née Boscawen), i. 277

Melmoth, William, Letters of Pliny, ii. 242

Mendip, Lord (Welbore Ellis), ii. 186

Merle, M. de, French Ambassador to Portugal, ii. 181

“Merlin chair,” i. 92

Mersham Hatch, Sir W. Knatchbull’s place, i. 20, 32, 36

Micklem, General E., ii. 106

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, i. 4, 5, 233, 275; Life of Cicero, i. 6, 29, 70, 71, 82; his second marriage, i. 10, 11, 14, 16; fails to obtain the Mastership of the Charter House, i. 19; Letters on the Use and Study of History, i. 90; his second wife’s death, i. 198; An Account of the Roman Senate, i. 234; his third wife, i. 237, 239, 241, 257; Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers, i. 263; death of, i. 276, 285, 292; his bust by Roubilliac in Trinity College, Cambridge, ii. 35, 36, 91; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 119, 123

Middleton, Mrs. Conyers, No. 1 (previously Mrs. Drake), i. 5, 6

Middleton, Mrs. Conyers, No. 2 (Mary Place), i. 10, 11, 14, 16, 180, 198

Middleton, Mrs. Conyers, No. 3 (Anne Powell), i. 237, 241, 257, 275, 285, 292; ii. 35, 36, 91

Middleton, 3rd Viscount, ii. 156

Middleton’s Academy, ii. 100

Midgham, seat of Mr. Poyntz, i. 169.

Millar, architect, ii. 90, 121

Millar, publisher, ii. 167, 234

Miller, Joe, Book of Jests, i. 73

Milles, Rev. Isaac, i. 172

Milner, Sir William and Lady, ii. 91

Milton, John, i. 172; ii. 245

Mincing, Mrs., i. 65

Minden, battle of, ii. 165

Minorca, ii. 140

Mirepoix, M., French Ambassador, i. 284, 291; ii. 74

Mirepoix, Madame, i. 284

Mitchell, Mr., ii. 143

Moivre, M. de, i. 286

Molière, L’École des Femmes, i. 16; Precieuses Ridicules, ii. 55.

Molyneux, Miss, i. 168

Money, History of Newbury, i. 150

Monkey Island, i. 54, 154

Monsey, Dr. Messenger, private physician to Lord Godolphin, afterwards to Chelsea Hospital, ii. 98, 108, 111, 115, 117, 121, 129, 132, 134, 136, 145–147, 150, 152, 154, 165, 171, 186, 187, 194, 200, 212, 220, 225, 229, 235, 241, 262, 263, 266; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 133, 142, 155, 204, 208, 224; Mrs. Montagu’s letter to, ii. 102

Montagu, Charles (Edward’s father), his first wife Elizabeth Forster, his second wife Sarah Rogers, i. 111, 188

Montagu, Charles (Edward’s cousin), ii. 152

Montagu, Crewe (Edward’s brother), i. 111; ii. 129

Montagu, Edward, of Allerthorpe, i. 110; short account of, i. 111; marries Elizabeth Robinson, i. 114; the honeymoon, i. 117; his Whig principles, i. 127; guardian and manager to John Rogers and his estate, i. 146, 199, 234, 289–291; ii. 36; arms his tenants, i. 226; death of his steward and agent, i. 233; Edward Wortley Montagu, Junior, i. 237, 238, 243; ii. 167; the Huntingdon Elections, i. 239; ii. 39; James Montagu’s death, i. 262; Duke of Montagu’s death, i. 266; death of Edward Carter, ii. 51; John Rogers’ death and will, ii. 128, 137; Elizabeth’s eau de luce disaster, ii. 144; his illness, ii. 164; Durham Election, ii. 223, 228; old Wortley Montagu’s will, ii. 231; the Newbold Vernon picture, ii. 249

Letters from his wife, i. 123, 127, 136, 159, 200, 235, 240, 252, 266, 270, 276, 281, 284, 285, 288, 291, 292; ii. 6, 11–13, 16, 30, 33–35, 37–40, 49, 51–53, 56, 74, 90, 103, 107, 111, 112, 114, 123, 124, 126, 129, 151, 153, 156–158, 185, 187, 193, 199, 215–217, 219, 223, 226, 228–231, 251, 258

His letters to his wife, i. 129, 134–137, 146, 147, 171, 173–175, 182, 201, 205, 209, 211, 212, 233, 234, 239–241, 269, 282, 285, 286, 289, 290, 292; ii. 4, 14, 35, 36, 39, 84, 104, 106, 112, 188, 218, 223, 231, 232, 249

Montagu, Edward (Elizabeth’s godson), i. 271

Montagu, George, Horace Walpole’s Letters to, i. 275; ii. 178

Montagu, James (Edward’s half-brother), i. 111, 188, 232; ii. 249; death of, i. 262

Montagu, Hon. James (Edward’s cousin), ii. 152

Montagu, Jemima (Edward’s sister), afterwards Lady Medows, q.v.

Montagu, John (Edward’s brother), i. 111; ii. 129

Montagu, John, “Punch” (Edward’s son), i. 149, 165, 166, 168, 169, 178, 182–186, 188; death of, i. 191; ii. 119

Montagu, Captain John, i. 240

Montagu, Hon. Mrs. Sarah, i. 151

Montagu, Captain William, i. 286

Montagu, Edward Wortley, i. 51, 237, 239; ii. 87, 112; illness and death, ii. 229–231

Montagu, Junr., Edward Wortley, i. 51, 237–240, 243, 261, 286, 287; ii. 167, 197, 249

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (née Pierpoint), i. 50, 51, 237; introduces inoculation into England, i. 35

Montagu, Hon. Sidney Wortley, i. 237, 239, 244

Montagu, Hon. Mrs. Sidney Wortley (Anne Wortley), i. 237

Montagu, Matthew (Elizabeth’s nephew), 4th Baron Rokeby, The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, i. 6

Montagu, Lady Barbara, i. 256, 260, 266, 270, 284, 293; ii. 7, 11, 29, 58, 59, 75, 78, 79, 87, 93, 105, 163, 247, 266

Montagu, John, 2nd Duke of, Master of the Wardrobe, and Grand Master of the Order of the Bath, i. 182, 201, 216, 218, 219, 237, 238, 244, 248, 266, 267

Montagu, 3rd Duke of, ii. 92, 113

Montfort, 1st Baron, i. 286; ii. 67

Moor, Captain, i. 80

Moore, Deputy Governor of Jamaica, ii. 182

Moore, Edward, publisher of The World, ii. 25

Mordaunt, Sir John, ii. 116, 118, 120, 121, 158

More, Hannah, i. 284

Morgan, Rev. ----, curate of Newtown, i. 271, 272

Morgan, Jacky and Nanny, i. 272

Morley, Dr., ii. 77, 185

Mornington, Garrett Wesley or Wellesley, 1st Earl, i. 169; ii. 80

Mornington, Baron, ii. 80

Morris, Matthew Robinson (Elizabeth’s brother), i. 194; ii. 13

Morris, Morris Drake, i. 4, 5, 73

Morris, Sarah (Mrs. Robert Drake), i. 4

Morris, Thomas, i. 4, 229

Morritt, John B. Saurey, i. 2

Morton, Charles, Curator of British Museum, ii. 243, 256, 257

Mount Bevis, i. 247, 248

Mount Edgecumbe, Countess of (née Gilbert), ii. 73

Mount Morris, or Monk’s Horton, near Hythe, home of the Robinsons, i. 4, 7, 73, 74, 229; ii. 14

Mountrath, 6th Earl of, i. 169

Murrain, cattle, i. 219

Murray, Secretary, i. 235

N

Nash, Miss, i. 167

Nash, Richard (“Beau Nash”), i. 167; ii. 39; his threatened History of Bath, etc., ii. 59, 60

National Biography, Dictionary of, i. 7, 97; ii. 15, 146, 189

National Portrait Gallery, ii. 258

Naylor, Miss Maria, i. 286, 287

Ned, Montagu’s head-groom, ii. 188, 199

Nedham, Mrs., ii. 94

Neustra Signora de Cabodonga, Spanish treasure-ship captured by Lord Anson, i. 186

Newbold Vernon, i. 188

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mrs. Montagu’s description of, ii. 138

Newcastle-on-Tyne, John Holles, 1st Duke of, i. 7

Newcastle-under-Lyne, Thomas Pelham, 1st Duke of, i. 51, 288; ii. 49, 94, 95, 142, 187, 212, 217

Newcastle, Duchess of, i. 288; ii. 121

Newton, Dr., Dissertation on the Prophecies, ii. 159

Newton, Mr., valuer, i. 290

Newton, Sir Isaac, ii. 91

Newton, Sir T., Roubilliac’s statue of, ii. 36

Nicholson, Bishop, ii. 15

Nicholson, John, i. 145

Nivernois, Duc de, ii. 266

Nixon’s drawing of the Coffee-house, Bath, i. 255

Norfolk, Dowager Duchess of (née Sherburne), i. 39, 42

Norfolk, Duchess of (Mary Blount), i. 17, 102, 125, 288

Norfolk, Edward, 9th Duke of, i. 17, 102

Norfolk, 15th Duke of, i. 39

Norfolk, Edward Howard, 16th Duke of, i. 125; ii. 257

Norman, Mrs., ii. 267

Norris, Admiral Sir John, i. 176

North, 7th Baron, afterwards Earl of Guilford, i. 63

North, Lady, i. 93

North American campaign, ii. 134

Northampton, Elizabeth, Countess of, i. 273

Northampton, 11th Earl of, i. 273; ii. 161

Northfleet Fair, i. 99

Northumberland, Hugh Smithson, 15th Earl, 1st Duke of, ii. 99, 101, 102, 146, 154, 166

Norwood, J. D., i. 97, 255

Notes and Queries, ii. 23

Nottingham Castle, i. 121

Nugent, Mr., ii. 95

O

Offleys, the, i. 167

Ogle, Mrs., ii. 173

Oglethorpe, General James Edward, i. 210, 213

Old and New London, i. 46

Onslow, 3rd Baron, i. 286

Orange, Princess of, i. 86; ii. 156

Orford, Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of, i. 100, 101, 104, 156, 157, 171, 190

Orrery, Charles Boyle, 4th Earl, Observations on the Life and Writings of Dr. Swift, ii. 18, 85

Osborne, Admiral, ii. 154

Ossian, ii. 267, 268

Otway, Thomas, Orphan, i. 177

Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of, i. 9, 83, 104

Oxford, Edward, 2nd Earl of, i. 7, 8, 46, 54–57, 62, 82, 83

Oxford, Edward Harley, 24th Earl of, ii. 140, 141

Oxford, Countess of (Henrietta Cavendish), i. 7, 8, 54, 83, 86, 133, 157, 226

P

Page, Sir Gregory, i. 28

Page, Mr. (brother of above), i. 28, 29

Palgrave, Mr., ii. 208

Palmer, Sir Thomas, of Wingham, Kent, i. 21

Panmure, Lord, ii. 216

Pannel, Captain, ii. 188

Panton, Master of the King’s Racers, i. 279

Paul, Father, History of the Council of Trent, i. 124

Pegu, king of, ii. 124

Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, i. 100, 102, 171, 220; ii. 49, 187

Pembroke, Earl of, i. 249

Pembroke, Henry, 28th Earl of, i. 273

Pembroke, Henry, 29th Earl of, ii. 160

Pembroke, Lady, ii. 185

Pendarves, Mrs. (née Granville), afterwards Mrs. Delany, “Pen,” i. 18, 25, 40, 43–47, 50, 56, 57, 98, 103, 116, 146; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 101, 116, 131. See also Delany, Mrs.

Pendarves, W., i. 18

Penshurst pictures, ii. 34

Percival, Lord, i. 94

Percival, Mrs., i. 160, 288

Percival, Hon. Philip, i. 41, 160, 259

Perth, 3rd titular Duke of, i. 213

Peter the Great, i. 95

Peterborough, Lady (Anastasia Robinson), i. 22, 169

Peterborough, Earl of, i. 22, 247

Petrowna, Czarina Elizabeth, i. 95

Philip, Agnes (Mrs. Ralph Robinson), i. 2

Pierce, Jerry, ii. 4

Pigott, Captain, i. 260

Pinchbeck, Christopher, i. 46

Pitt, Miss Anne, i. 58, 64, 255; ii. 213, 216

Pitt, Mrs. George (Penelope Atkyns), i. 265; ii. 158, 163

Pitt, Miss Hester, afterwards Lady Mahon, then Stanhope, ii. 82

Pitt, Lady Hester (née Grenville), ii. 60, 63, 65, 77, 78, 81, 82, 94, 115, 158; created Baroness of Chatham, ii. 265

Pitt, John, Viscount, ii. 95

Pitt, Miss Mary, i. 64; ii. 51, 53, 69, 73, 77, 78, 81, 94, 95, 158, 170, 265

Pitt, Thomas, of Boconoc, Cornwall, ii. 153, 266; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 180

Pitt, William, afterwards 1st Earl of Chatham, “the great commoner,” i. 58, 64; ii. 1, 22, 35, 41, 45, 53, 77, 78, 83, 85, 111, 173, 216; his speeches in the House of Commons, i. 137, 138, 171; ii. 153, 156; Sarah Robinson on, i. 167; obtains for Gilbert West the Clerkship of the Privy Council, ii. 4; his house, South Lodge, Enfield, ii. 8, 10; his hospitality to West, ii. 9; authorship of The Adventurer attributed to, ii. 25; his insomnia, ii. 30–33; at Tunbridge Wells, ii. 37, 40; King’s lectures, ii. 38; Bath, ii. 43; gout in his hand, ii. 51; appoints West paymaster of Chelsea. College, ii. 51, 52; marries Lady Hester Grenville, ii. 60, 61, 63, 64; his daughter’s birth, ii. 82; v. Fox, ii. 84; purchases Mrs. Montagu’s Hayes house, ii. 94; his son John’s birth, ii. 95; a sharp attack of gout, ii. 96, 98; Secretary of State, ii. 96, 262; the Mordaunt Expedition, ii. 116; and Lord Royston, ii. 128; and Emin, ii. 154; his “great compliments” to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 157; Burke’s application for the Madrid consulship, ii. 170; the pictures at Hagley, ii. 172; a mark of the City’s affection, ii. 213; Duke of Newcastle and, ii. 217; and the Lord Mayor, ii. 220; the intended expedition to France, ii. 226; receives a barony for Lady Hester and a pension for three lives, ii. 264; his “act of humility,” ii. 265

Place, Rev. Conyers, i. 10

Place, Mary, afterwards Mrs. Conyers Middleton, i. 10, 11, 14, 16, 180, 198

Plumtree, Dr., i. 276

Pocock, Mrs. (née Milles), i. 172, 173

Pococke, Mrs., ii. 69, 208

Pococke, Miss, ii. 79

Pococke, Rev. Dr. Richard, Bishop of Ossory and Meath, i. 173; ii. 61, 69, 204, 208, 211; Descriptions of the East, etc., i. 241

Polignac, Madame de, ii. 98

Pomfret, Countess of, ii. 256, 260; her death, ii. 261, 267, 268

Pomfret, 1st Earl of, i. 179; ii. 256

Pondicherry, taken by the English, ii. 250

Pope, Alexander, i. 7, 54; ii. 57, 113; his epitaph--“Under the marble, etc.,” i. 24; Dunciad, i. 38, 172; Letters, i. 89; his villa at Twickenham, i. 163; at Mount Bevis, i. 247; Universal Prayer, i. 248; “ill health is an early old age,” ii. 8; on Silence, ii. 55; on Virtue, ii. 82; “the story of the great, etc.,” ii. 123; conscience “the god within the mind,” ii. 157; “Sporus,” ii. 192; on Sir John Cutler’s funeral, ii. 202

Porpora, i. 16, 27

Portland, Duchess of (Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley), i. 8, 12, 13, 23, 44–46, 48–50, 55, 56, 60–62, 65, 69, 76, 81, 86, 87, 103, 146, 160; ii. 43–45, 80, 148; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 13, 22, 26, 82–85, 99, 100, 102, 103, 124, 128, 133, 149, 157, 176; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 8–12, 14, 16–20, 27, 28, 31, 36, 38–43, 66, 99, 114, 120, 125, 131, 133, 138, 152–155, 158, 163, 169, 170, 172; ii. 196

Portland, William Henry, 1st Duke of, i. 81

Portland, William, 2nd Duke of, i. 12, 44, 45, 48, 61, 92, 100, 115, 170; ii. 43, 80; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 34, 36, 76

Portland, William Henry, 3rd Duke of, i. 26, 28

Portland, Earl of, i. 49

Potter, Mr., ii. 111

Potts, Mr., i. 189

Powell, Anne, 3rd Mrs. Conyers Middleton, q.v.

Powis, Lord, i. 269

Poyntz, Stephen, of Midgham, i. 169; ii. 147

Poyntz, Mrs., i. 148

Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden, ii. 217, 250

Preston Pans, i. 206

Pretender, the, i. 174, 175, 205, 216; ii. 39

Price, Robert, ii. 136

Prichard, Mrs., actress, ii. 234

Primrose, Anne, Lady (née Drelincourt), i. 235; ii. 192

Primrose, 3rd Viscount, i. 235; ii. 192

Primrose, Mrs., ii. 267

Prior, Matthew, i. 38, 57

Pulses, the Miss, ii. 12, 22

Pulteney, General, ii. 11, 185

Pulteney, Lord, ii. 227

Purdie, Mrs., i. 254

Q

Quadrille, a card-game, i. 40

Quarle, Emblems, i. 73

Quebec, taken by English, ii. 171, 172

Queensberry, Catherine Hyde, Duchess of (Prior’s “Kitty”), i. 57, 63

Queensberry, Charles, 3rd Duke of, i. 57, 63, 286

Queensborough, Duke of, i. 249

Quin, the actor, i. 47; as “Falstaffe,” i. 237

R

Ramsay, Allan, poet, The Gentle Shepherd, etc., ii. 195

Ramsay, Allan (son of above), portrait painter, i. 279; ii. 147, 195, 211

Ramsay, Mrs. Allan, ii. 195

Ramsay, Dr., ii. 133

Ranelagh, a masquerade at, i. 264

Ravensworth, Lord, ii. 138, 165, 201

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his portrait of Lord Bath, ii. 258, 268, 269

Rich, Field Marshal Sir Robert, ii. 72

Richardson, Adam, ii. 183, 184, 229

Richardson, Miss M. (afterwards Mrs. William Robinson), ii. 183, 184

Richardson, Samuel, Sir Charles Grandison, Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, etc., i. 258; ii. 46, 250, 260

Richmond, Charles, 2nd Duke of, i. 100; ii. 97

Richmond, 7th Duke of, i. 216, 218

Ridley, Mayor of Newcastle, i. 210

Risback, ii. 168

Rivers, George Pitt, Lord, i. 265

Rivers, Pitt, of Stratfieldsaye, i. 151

Rivington, Mr., ii. 208

Roberts, E. Sage, ii. 48

Robertson of Strowan, 7th Baron, i. 2

Robertson, William, of Kendal, i. 2

Robertsons of Struan, or Strowan, the, i. 1

Robinson, Charles, “Poor Pigg” (brother), i. 5, 121, 130, 131, 136, 139, 182, 224, 262, 272; ii. 52

Robinson, Deborah, Lady (née Collet), i. 2

Robinson, George, i. 216

Robinson, Grace, afterwards Mrs. William Freind, q.v.

Robinson, Henry (brother of above), i. 80

Robinson, Henry, of Kendal, i. 2

Robinson, John (brother), i. 5, 121, 130, 131, 136, 139, 247, 253, 258; ii. 7

Robinson, Sir Leonard, i. 2, 4

Robinson, Matthew (father), i. 2, 3, 6, 11, 14, 16, 34, 76, 118, 129, 219, 232, 243; ii. 23, 156; his letter to his daughter Elizabeth, i. 237; Elizabeth’s letters to, i. 54, 62, 104, 236, 287; ii. 201

Robinson, Mrs. Matthew, Elizabeth Drake (mother), i. 4, 7, 34, 35, 149, 215, 227; her letters to her daughter Elizabeth, i. 176, 180–182, 196, 198, 222, 225; Elizabeth’s letters to, i. 46, 48, 50, 61, 87, 88, 93, 94, 116, 141, 180, 226

Robinson, Matthew (brother), afterwards 2nd Baron Rokeby, i. 5, 34, 70, 74, 83, 84, 86, 87, 91, 129, 186, 229, 240, 259, 265, 270, 282, 291; ii. 14, 65, 69, 93; M.P. for Canterbury, i. 252, 253; presents address to George III., ii. 228; his letters to his sister Elizabeth, i. 73, 77, 260

Robinson, Rev. Dr. Matthew, i. 122

Robinson, Matthew (son of Morris), 4th Baron Rokeby, i. 1, 6, 254; ii. 92, 174

Robinson, Morris (brother), i. 5, 107, 129, 166, 174, 187, 233, 235; ii. 13, 49, 92, 123, 129, 152, 184, 191, 228

Robinson, Mrs. Morris (Jane Greenland), ii. 92, 111, 184

Robinson, Morris (son of above), 3rd Baron Rokeby, ii. 111

Robinson, Ralph, i. 2

Robinson, Rev. Dr. Richard (cousin), Archbishop of Armagh, 1st Baron Rokeby, ii. 2

Robinson, Captain Robert (brother), i. 5, 18, 24, 47, 128, 131, 182, 224, 233, 262, 266, 279, 282; ii. 10, 88

Robinson, Sarah (sister), afterwards Mrs. George Lewis Scott, “Pea,” i. 5, 21, 34, 37, 78, 117, 135, 143, 146, 148, 158, 163–165, 174, 194, 195, 208, 213, 224, 252, 256, 260, 266, 293; ii. 10, 52, 87, 88, 93, 94, 105, 266; engagement, i. 270; marriage, i. 284; and separation, ii. 5–7, 44; her daily life at Bath Easton, ii. 78, 79; Millenium Hall, by a Gentleman on his Travels, ii. 79; her letters to her sister Elizabeth, i. 64, 164, 166–168, 219, 280; ii. 59, 97, 144; Elizabeth’s letters to, i. 45–47, 53, 56, 60, 61, 63, 65, 74, 88–90, 95–97, 108, 149, 165, 178, 183, 184, 186, 187, 215, 248, 258, 262, 264, 271, 279; ii. 1, 20, 29, 33, 54, 58, 67, 69, 75, 79, 86, 118, 184, 246

Robinson, Sir Septimus, i. 177; ii. 2

Robinson, “Short” Sir Thomas, Lord Grantham, i. 259, 260, 277, 288

Robinson, Lady (wife of above), i. 277

Robinson, “Long” Sir Thomas, i. 2, 30, 47, 100, 112, 123; ii. 2, 42, 275–277

Robinson, Thomas, i. 2, 3

Robinson, Thomas (brother), Common Law of Kent, or Customs of Gavelkind, i. 5, 32, 97, 129, 137, 140, 251, 254, 255

Robinson, Mrs. Thomas (afterwards Mrs. Anthony Light), i. 55

Robinson, Ursula, i. 2

Robinson of Rokeby, William, i. 2, 177; ii. 2

Robinson, Rev. William (brother), i. 5, 121, 130, 131, 136, 139, 247, 253, 258, 285; Rector of Burghfield, Berks, ii. 1, 2, 9, 87, 93, 183, 184, 229, 270

Robinson, Mrs. William (wife of above), née Richardson, ii. 183, 184, 229

Robinson, Sir William (cousin), ii. 2

Robinsons and Sternes, pedigree of the, i. 3

Rochester, Earl of, ii. 113

Roger family of Oxwell Park, ii. 37

Rogers, a grocer, ii. 100

Rogers, John, of Newcastle, i. 111, 144, 145

Rogers, Mrs. John (Sarah Cock), i. 111

Rogers, Junr., John, i. 144–147, 151, 234, 285, 289, 290; ii. 17, 51, 53, 128, 129, 151, 201

Rogers, Junr., Mrs. John (Anne Delaval), ii. 129

Rogers, Mrs. Elizabeth, ii. 129

Rogers, Sarah (Mrs. Charles Montagu), i. 111, 144

Rokeby, Sir Thomas, i. 2

Rokeby, Rev. Dr. Richard Robinson, 1st Baron, Bishop of Killala, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, ii. 2

Rokeby, Matthew, 2nd Baron. See Robinson, Matthew (brother)

Rokeby, Morris Robinson, 3rd Baron, ii. 111

Rokeby, Matthew Robinson, 4th Baron, i. 1, 6, 254; ii. 92, 174

Rolfe, Rev. Edmund, ii. 98

Rolfe, Mrs. (née Alexander), ii. 98

Rollin, ii. 25

Rolt, Mrs., i. 202, 203

Romney, 2nd Baron, i. 275; ii. 77

Romney, Lady (Priscilla Pym), i. 275, 284; ii. 77

Romney Marsh, i. 223

Rook, Mrs., i. 128

Rooke, Heyman, i. 4

Rosbach, battle of, ii. 122

Rosebery, Lord, i. 235

Roubilliac, Louis François, sculptor, ii. 35, 36; his bust of Shakespeare, ii. 130

Rousseau, ii. 159

Rowe, Nicholas, Poet Laureate, Fair Penitent, i. 177

Royston, Lord, afterwards 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, ii. 127, 217

Rush, Lady, i. 246

Russia, revolution in (1741), i. 95

Russians, defeated by Frederick the Great at Zorndorff, ii. 142

Rust, Mr., travelling companion to Mr. Hoare’s son, ii. 206

Rutland, 3rd Duke of, i. 216

Ryder, Sir Dudley and Lady, i. 277

S

Sackville, Lady Caroline (afterwards Countess of Dorchester), i. 53

Sackville, Lord George (afterwards Lord George Germaine), ii. 165, 212, 216

St. Albans, 1st Duke of, i. 80

St. Evremont, ii. 113

Saint Germain, Comte de, French General, i. 222

St. Lazare, i. 80

St. Malo, attempted invasion of France at, ii. 126–127

St. Real, C. V. de, i. 70

Sallier, Abbé, ii. 257

Sandford, Lieutenant, i. 80

Sandleford Priory, Berks, i. 150–152; ii. 278–280

Sandwich, 1st Earl of, Lord High Admiral of the Fleet to Charles II., i. 51, 111, 151, 237; Lely’s portrait of, ii. 249

Sandwich, 3rd Earl of, ii. 113

Sandwich, John, 4th Earl of, “Jemmy Twitcher,” i. 87, 138, 174, 218, 219, 238, 240, 243, 244, 259–261, 265, 266, 268, 270, 286; ii. 33, 39, 69, 113, 230

Sandwich, John Montagu, 5th Earl of, i. 138, 271; ii. 113, 232

Sandwich, Dowager Countess of (Elizabeth Wilmot), ii. 113

Sandwich, Dorothy, Lady (née Fane), i. 87, 138, 218, 244, 259–261, 265, 266, 269, 271; ii. 51, 69, 76, 113; her letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 103

Sandys of Ombersley, Samuel, 1st Baron, Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 102, 105, 130

Sandys, Dr., i. 33, 45, 48, 54, 61, 98, 127, 138, 160

Saumaize, M., i. 86

Saunders, Admiral, ii. 89

Savernake Forest House (Lord Bruce’s), i. 250

Saxes, Maurice, Comte de, Field Marshal of France, i. 175

Scarborough, 3rd Earl of, i. 63

Scarborough, Lady, i. 63

Scarron, Paul, French satirist, Le Roman comique, etc., i. 38; ii. 19

Scheemackers, sculptor, i. 190

Schulenburg, Count, ii. 154

Scotland, the 1745 rising in, i. 205–209, 214, 215

Scott, Mrs., of Scott’s Hall, i. 35, 86; ii. 15

Scott, “Cally” (afterwards Mrs. T. Best), i. 86, 103, 121, 184

Scott, Cecilia, i. 86

Scott, George, of Bristo, Scotland, i. 206

Scott, George Lewis, i. 206, 211, 213, 219, 260, 280, 287, 292, 293; engagement, i. 270; marriage, i. 284; and separation, ii. 5–7, 44; dismissed from tutorship to the Princes, ii. 20; Commissioner of the Excise, ii. 97

Scott, Mrs. George Lewis. See Robinson, Sarah

Scudamore, Miss (Mrs. Scudamore), ii. 72, 185

Secker, Thomas, Bishop of Oxford, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 71; ii. 42, 160, 260

Secker, Mrs. Thomas, i. 71

Selwyn, George, ii. 252

Severn river, ii. 112

Sevigné, Madame de, Letters, ii. 68

Shadwell, Sir John and Lady, i. 50

Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of, Characteristics, i. 138; ii. 18

Shaftoe, Mr., ii. 202

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i. 47; King Lear, i. 253; Hamlet, ii. 20; Roubilliac’s bust of, ii. 130; his Plays compared with Greek Plays, ii. 206

Shaw, Dr., of Tunbridge Wells, i. 289; ii. 11, 17

Shaw, Dr. Thomas, Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford, traveller, botanist, antiquary, etc., i. 44, 189, 236, 258, 259, 288; ii. 88, 90, 121

Sheep Leas (Mr. Weston’s place), ii. 75

Shelley, Mrs., ii. 261

Shenstone, William, poet, ii. 135

Sherlock, Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury, and of London, i. 249, 269, 284; ii. 2, 3, 42, 43, 54, 55, 73, 77, 132, 147, 194, 220; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 198; his letter to George III., ii. 221

Sherlock, Mrs. T., i. 249, 269; ii. 3, 42, 147

Shirley, Lady F., i. 35

Shobbington family, the, i. 49

Shrewsbury, Lord, ii. 2

Shuttleworth, Mrs., i. 160; ii. 6

Sidney, Sir Philip, Arcadia, i. 56, 249

Skerrit, Miss, i. 100, 101

Skipper, Mr., i. 105

Skipton, Dr., i. 82

Sleidan, History of the Reformation, i. 124

Sloane, Sir Hans, and his Museum, i. 103, 128; ii. 26, 98, 186, 243

Sloper, Simon Adolphus, of West Woodhay House, i. 166, 242

Smallpox, inoculation for, i. 35, 149, 158

Smith, Dr. Robert, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, founder of “Smith’s Prize,” i. 200; ii. 35, 36

Smith, Sir Sidney, ii. 140, 247

Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ii. 2

Smythe, Dr., ii. 250

Solis, Antonio de, History of the Conquest of Mexico, ii. 135

Somerset, Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of, i. 260

Somerset, Charles, 6th Duke of (“The Proud Duke”), i. 269

Somerset, Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of, ii. 101

Somerset, Duchess of (Lady Algernon Seymour), ii. 101

Somerset, Edward Adolphus, 11th Duke of, i. 49

Somerset, Lord Noel, afterwards 4th Duke of Beaufort, i. 39, 41, 42

Sophia, Princess, George I.’s daughter, i. 206

Sophocles, Œdipus Coloneus, ii. 191; Philoctetes, ii. 206

Soubise, Prince, ii. 122

South Lodge, Enfield (Pitt’s house), ii. 8–10

Southwell, Right Hon. Edward, i. 40, 253, 293

Southwell, Mrs. Edward, i. 253, 293; ii. 80, 84, 107, 111, 164

Southwell, Sir Thomas, i. 40

Spectator, the, i. 39

Speed, Miss, ii. 71

Spencer, Hon. John, i. 95, 195

Spencer, Mrs., i. 195

Spencer, Georgina, Lady, ii. 147, 148

Spencer, John, 1st Earl, ii. 148

Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl, ii. 148

Spinckes, Miss, i. 87

Spirit Tax, 1742–43, i. 174

Squire, Mr., i. 216

Stamford and Warrington, Henrietta, Countess of, i. 19

Standen, i. 241

Stanhope, Mr., i. 201; ii. 123

Stanhope, Captain, ii. 182

Stanhope, Sir Charles, ii. 101

Stanhope, the Ladies, daughters of 1st Viscount Stanhope, i. 264

Stanhope, Lady Hester, ii. 82

Stanhope, Lady Lucy, i. 255

Stanhope, Philip, 2nd Earl of, i. 18

Stanhope, 1st Viscount, i. 264

Stanley, Anne, afterwards Lady Mendip, ii. 186, 193

Stanley, Sarah, Mrs. Charles D’Oyley, ii. 186, 193

Stanley, Right Hon. Hans, of Paultons, Hants, Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 186, 220

Stanley, Mrs., ii. 45, 186

Stanley, D., his letter to the Duke of Montagu, i. 216

Stanley, Anne, Lady (née Granville), i. 46

Stanley, Sir John, i. 46, 101

Sterne, Jacob, i. 75

Sterne, Rev. Laurence, i. 3, 55, 73–75; Tristram Shandy, ii. 174, 268–270; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 175; his “memorandums,” ii. 270

Sterne, Mrs. Laurence (née Lumley), i. 3, 55, 73–75, 84, 230; her letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 27, 176

Sterne, Miss Lydia, Mrs. Montagu’s godchild, i. 90; ii. 28

Sterne, Richard, Archbishop of York, i. 75

Sternes and Robinsons, pedigree of, i. 3

Steuart, Edward, ii. 128

Stevens, Captain, ii. 83

Stevens, George, his edition of Shakespeare, ii. 105–107

Stewart, Captain, i. 206, 212

Stewart, Sir James, Lord Advocate of Scotland, i. 206

Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester, Eirenicon, ii. 128

Stillingfleet, Dr. Benjamin (Cabinet of Flora, etc.), ii. 73, 86, 93, 95, 98, 99, 102, 160; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 104, 185, 250; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, ii. 114, 117, 127, 136, 149

Stonehenge, i. 249

Stonelands (now called “Buckhurst”), Duke of Dorset’s seat in Surrey, ii. 37

Strafford, Anne, Lady (2nd Duke of Argyll’s daughter), ii. 233

Strathmore, John Lyon, 7th Earl of, ii. 180

Stuart, James (“Athenian” Stuart), The Antiquities of Athens, ii. 150, 232

Stuart, Mrs., ii. 146

Suffolk, 11th Earl of, i. 144

Suffolk, Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of, i. 39

Suffolk, Lady, i. 229

Sugar, proposed tax on, i. 174

Sully, Duc de, Memoires, i. 281; ii. 18

Sunderland, ii. 139

Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, i. 162

Sunderland, 4th Earl of, i. 233

Sunderland, Lady (Judith Tichborne), afterwards wife of Sir Robert Sutton, i. 162, 233

Sundon, William Clayton, Baron, i. 80

Sussex privateers, i. 212

Sutton, Right Hon. Sir Robert, i. 162, 232, 246

Sutton, Miss, i. 233

Swale river, i. 122

Swift, Dean, i. 7, 25, 41, 153, 184, 196; ii. 2, 85; Letters, i. 89; Four Last Years of Queen Anne, i. 104; his Yahoos, i. 113; “Friend, you make the very crowd you blame,” i. 288; Life and Writings, ii. 18

T

Taafe, Mr., i. 287

Talbot, Edward, Bishop of Durham, i. 71, 234, 290; ii. 113

Talbot, Mrs., ii. 113, 266

Talbot, Miss, i. 71; ii. 160, 212

Talbot, D.D., Rev. W., i. 71

Talbot, William, 2nd Baron, afterwards Earl Talbot and Baron Dinevor, i. 104, 266

Talbot, Mary, Lady (née de Cardonnel), i. 266, 268, 269; ii. 259

Tanfield of Calthorpe, i. 213

Tatton, Miss, i. 46

Tar water, i. 235

Tavora, Marquis of, ii. 158, 180

Tavora, Marchioness of, ii. 180

Taylor, Perspective, i. 252

Taylor’s Sermons, ii. 121

Temple, Penelope (Mrs. M. Berenger), i. 284

Temple, Richard Grenville, Earl, ii. 22, 64, 85, 95, 127, 262, 265

Temple, Lady, ii. 60

Temple, Sir Richard, of Stowe, i. 278

Temple, Sir William, i. 184

Tennison, Mrs., i. 35

Thanet, 7th Earl of, i. 19, 22, 64

Thanet, Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of, i. 22

Thanet, Mary, Lady, i. 18–21, 29, 86

Thompson, Mr., of Coley Park, Berkshire, ii. 15

Thompson, E., Resident in Paris, i. 175

Thomson, James, Seasons, i. 54, 177; Tancred and Sigismund, i. 236

Throckmorton, Lady, i. 48

Throckmorton, Sir Robert, 4th Baronet, i. 48

Thynn, J., i. 50

Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 20

Titchfield, Marquis of, i. 26, 28, 295; ii. 80

Tonbridge Castle, i. 204

Topham, Dr., ii. 174

Torgau, battle of, ii. 225

Torriano, Samuel, i. 277; ii. 72, 73, 86, 95, 99, 160, 175, 176, 185, 190; his letter to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 97

Torriano, Mrs. (née Scudamore), ii. 72, 185

Townsend, Charles, ii. 84

Townsend’s Translation of the Conquest of Mexico, i. 259

Townshend, General, ii. 171

Townshend, George, 4th Viscount and Marquis, ii. 220

Townshend, Lady, ii. 171

Traill, Life of Laurence Sterne in the Englishmen of Letters series, i. 74; ii. 174

Travers, Robert, i. 270

Travers, Mrs. Robert (Kitty Gunning), i. 270

Travile, Mrs. Montagu’s lady’s-maid, ii. 76–78, 82

Trelawney, i. 107

Trentham, Lord, i. 286

Trevor, 2nd Baron, ii. 152

Trevor, Mrs. G., i. 255

Trevor, Mrs. John Morley (née Montagu), i. 264

Tufton, Lady Mary, i. 64

Tull, Jethro, inventor of the four-wheeled post-chaise, i. 266

Tullibardine, William Murray, Marquis of, i. 231

Tunbridge Wells, i. 9, 17, 199, 202, 269; ii. 11

Turner, M.P. for Yorkshire, i. 209

Turvin, Lieutenant, i. 80

Twisden, Sir Roger, ii. 188

Twycross, Captain, i. 135, 141, 213

Tyers, Mr., ii. 52

V

Vaillante, bookseller, i. 275

Valentia, Arthur, Viscount, i. 253

Valentia, Lucy, Viscountess (née Lyttelton), i. 253; ii. 95

Vanburgh, Mr., i. 167

Vandyck, i. 249

Vane, Anne, Lady (née Hawes), afterwards Lady William Hamilton, ii. 2

Vane, Lord, ii. 2

Vanharen, Mr., i. 261

Vaughan, chair of, a sedan chair, ii. 6

Ventriloquism, ii. 40

Vere, Baron, of Hanworth, ii. 45

Verney, Mrs., i. 45

Vernon, Admiral, i. 58, 79, 91, 97, 107, 208, 222, 224

Vertue, George, engraver, etc., i. 62

Vesey, Agmondesham, M.P. for Harris Town, i. 267; ii. 214

Vesey, Mrs. A. (formerly Mrs. William Handcock), i. 267; ii. 73, 77, 192, 214, 268

Vesey, Sir Thomas, Bishop of Ossory, i. 267

Viper broth, ii. 151

Voltaire, i. 207; ii. 19, 120, 163; L’Orphelin de la Chine, ii. 85; Tancred, ii. 233; Dr. Young on, ii. 257

Vourse, Mr., ii. 4

W

Wade, Field Marshal George, i. 177, 207, 208, 212, 214, 216

Wadman, Mrs., i. 166

Waldegrave, 2nd Earl, ii. 160

Waldegrave, Maria, Countess (née Walpole), afterwards Duchess of Gloucester, ii. 160

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, i. 95, 99, 280

Wales, Augusta of Saxe Gotha, Princess Frederick of, i. 103, 284; ii. 17, 44, 83, 84, 97, 214, 217, 249, 251

Wall, Dr. John, founder of porcelain manufactory at Worcester, ii. 104

Waller, the poet, i. 108

Wallingford, Lady (Mary Katherine Law), i. 22, 25, 33, 35, 44, 48, 160, 196, 199, 235

Wallingford, Lord, i. 22, 48, 49

Walmoden, Amelia S. de, created Lady Yarmouth, ii. 126

Walnut medicine, i. 215

Walpole, Sir Edward, i. 28, 29, 156; ii. 160

Walpole, Horace, i. 28, 33, 124; ii. 24, 38, 114, 207; Letters to Sir Horace Mann, i. 264, 274, 287; Letter to George Montagu, i. 267, 275; ii. 67, 177; Memoir of the Reign of George III., ii. 44; Memoir of George I., ii. 178

Walpole, Sir Robert (Earl of Orford), i. 28, 94, 99, 100

Walton, Miss, i. 8

Warburton, Colonel, ii. 76

Warburton, Dr. William, Bishop of Gloucester, Pope’s Works, ii. 18; on Lord Bolingbroke, ii. 61, 63

Watson, R.A., Colonel, i. 80

Webster, attorney in Cheapside, ii. 100

Wedderburn, Sir John, ii. 195

Weller, Jane (Mrs. Greenland), ii. 92

Wells and Hartley, i. 181

Wemyss, James, 5th Earl of, i. 177

Wentworth, M.P. for York City, i. 107, 209

Wentworth, Edward, 9th Baron, i. 201

Wentworth, General, i. 210

Weser river, ii. 109

Wesley, or Wellesley, Garrett, 1st Earl Mornington, i. 169; ii. 80

West, LL.D., Gilbert T., “Tubby,” i. 278, 279, 288; ii. 1, 11, 12, 38, 40, 72; translation of Pindar, i. 90; and of Lucian’s Triumph of the Gout, i. 283; ii. 47; Clerk of the Privy Council, ii. 4; introduces Bower to. Mrs. Montagu, ii. 163; his “evergreen-nevergreen” garden, ii. 19; Paymaster to Chelsea Hospital, ii. 51, 52, 85; death of son, ii. 68; his death, ii. 86, 87; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 9, 24, 28, 30–32, 42–44, 54, 57, 63, 71, 77, 81; Mrs. Montagu’s letters to, i. 294, 295; ii. 8, 9, 17, 19, 20, 25, 41, 43, 46, 47, 55, 60, 61, 65, 71, 73, 74, 78, 82, 83, 86

West, Mrs. Gilbert T. (Catherine Bartlett), i. 90, 278, 279; ii. 1, 4, 10, 16, 18, 30, 32, 40, 63, 68, 71, 86, 88; letter from Mrs. Montagu, ii. 21

West, Maria (Viscountess Bridport), i. 278; ii. 10, 23, 30, 32, 40, 57, 86, 87, 92, 115, 135

West, Dr. Richard, i. 278

West, Richard, ii. 12, 25, 38, 54, 63, 68, 71

West, Admiral Temple, ii. 1, 57, 83, 87, 89, 90

West, Mrs. Temple, ii. 22

Westcote, of Ballymore, William Henry, Baron, i. 284; ii. 32; Governor of South Carolina, ii. 68, 78; Governor of Jamaica, ii. 182

Westmorland, Lord, i. 90, 104

Wey Hill Fair, ii. 57

Weymouth, Lady, i. 50

Wharton, Duke of, i. 60

Wheatears, i. 160, 200, 286; ii. 197

Whiston, Mr., ii. 223

Whitehead, Paul, ii. 84

Widdrington, Lady, i. 39

Willes, John, Lord Chief Justice, i. 222; ii. 217

William Rufus, i. 204, 247

William of Wickham, i. 247

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, ii. 115, 124

Williams, Lady Frances, ii. 115, 124, 162, 216, 247

Williams, Mrs., ii. 161, 162

Williamson, Mr., i. 142

Wilmington, Earl of, i. 100

Wilmot, Elizabeth (Countess Sandwich), ii. 113

Wilmot, Dr., i. 162, 254

Wilson, Dr., ii. 217

Wilton House, Lord Pembroke’s place, i. 249

Wimpole, Lord Oxford’s seat, i. 7

Winchester, Dr., ii. 17

Winchester Cathedral, i. 247

Winchilsea, Lady (Molly Palmer), i. 21

Winchilsea, Daniel, 7th Earl of, i. 21

Winchilsea, Daniel, 8th Earl of, i. 102

Windsor, Lord, i. 166

Windsors, Miss, i. 39

Winnington, Mr., i. 100

Witney blankets, i. 179

Woffington, Margaret, i. 92, 93

Wolfe, Brigadier-General, ii. 134, 140, 155, 172

Woodward, Dr. John, geologist, i. 241

Worksop Manor, i. 125

Wortley, Mrs. Anne, i. 51

Wortley, Sir Francis, i. 237

Wortley, Sidney (Montagu), i. 237

Wright, John, publisher, ii. 161

Wye river, ii. 112

Y

Yarmouth, Lady (Amelia S. de Walmoden), ii. 126, 154

York, county meeting at, i. 209

Yorke, Mr., ii. 217

Yorke, Mrs., i. 129, 194, 195

Yorke, General, ii. 142, 143, 154

Young, Dr. Edward (Night Thoughts), i. 59–61, 84, 85, 90, 91, 95, 133, 169, 199, 202–204, 213; ii. 199, 200, 236, 250; Clerk of the Closet, ii. 249; his letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 240, 248, 251, 257; Resignation, ii. 257

Young, Sir William, i. 100, 235

Z

Zincke, Christian Frederick, miniature painter, i. 45–48

Zorndorff, battle of, ii. 142

ROBINSON PEDIGREE

The Robinsons are said to be originally descended from the Robertsons of Struan, or Strowan, in Perthshire, Scotland; the Clan Donachie, of whom are many descendants to this time, 1905. For descent, vide “The New Peerage,” by William Owen, of 1785; “Collins’ Baronetage,” 1741; “Lodge’s Irish Peerage,” 1739; “Longmate’s Irish Peerage,” 1808, etc.

The Robertsons of Struan, or Strowan, Perthshire, N.B., afterwards Barons of Struan, descended from the “Comes de Atholia,” Earls of Athole in the direct line.

+---- |1 WILLIAM ROBERTSON 7th Baron of Struan. | = |A DAUGHTER OF CREIGHTON. +---- | | +---- |-|1.1 ROBERT ROBINSON, of Struan, from whom descended the | |Alexander Robertsons, of Struan. | +---- | | +---- +-|1.2 WILLIAM ROBERTSON, who was deprived of his younger |son’s portion by the Earl of Athole. He fled to England, and |settled at Kendal, Westmoreland, in the time of Henry VIII. | = |(?) Wife’s name unknown to me. +---- | | +---- +-|1.2.1 RALPH ROBINSON, settled at Brignall, Yorkshire. | | = | |AGNES PHILIP, eldest dau. and coheiress of James Philip, | |of Brignall, by his wife, -- Bainbrigge. She died 1633. Vide | |Visitation of Yorkshire for curious cursing stones on | |Gatherley Moor, of this family. | +---- | | | | +---- | +-|1.2.1.1 WILLIAM ROBINSON, of London and Brignall. He | |purchased Rokeby, Yorks, from Sir Thomas Rokeby, on June 7, | |1610. He was the first Robinson who lived at Rokeby. He died at | |a great age in 1643. He compounded by fine to avoid knighthood | |at the coronation of Charles I. | | = | |MARY, daughter of Thomas Hill, Esq., of Thornton, Yorks; | |buried, Jan. 21, 1633. | +---- | | | | +---- | +-|1.2.1.1.1 THOMAS ROBINSON, b. 1590; mar. at Rokeby, 1621; , | | |died in a skirmish at Leeds, June, 1643; buried at Leeds, | | |June 21, 1643. He was a barrister of law; raised a troop | | |of horse at his own expense for the Parliamentary army. He | | |was one of the sesquestrators of estates in the North Riding. | | |He left the Parliamentary army to join the King owing to | | |their vehemence. | | | = | | |FRANCES, daughter of Leonard Smelt, Esq., of Kirby | | |Fletham, Yorks. Her mother was an Allanson. | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.1 MARY ROBINSON, married at Rokeby, | | | |June 9, 1640. | | | | = | | | |SIR CHRISTOPHER BLENCOWE, son and heir of Sir Henry | | | |Blencowe, of Blencowe in Cumberland; descended from Adam | | | |De Blencowe, standard bearer of Edward III. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2 WILLIAM ROBINSON, born at Rokeby, 1624; | | | |m. there in 1644; surnamed “The Justice” from his great | | | |knowledge of law. | | | | = | | | |MARY, eldest dau. and coheiress of Frances Layton, of | | | |Bawdon, Yorks, who was younger brother of John Layton, of | | | |West Layton Hall and Kirkby Hall, Yorks. West Layton Hall | | | |descended to Sir Leonard Robinson, and from him to his son | | | |and grandson. | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.1 FRANCES ROBINSON, bap. at Rokeby, | | | | |Jan. 25, 1646; m. April 23, 1667. | | | | | = | | | | |MICHAEL PICKERING, of Thornborough, Yorks. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2 THOMAS ROBINSON, of Rokeby, bap. | | | | |Jan. 4, 1650; buried, June 26, 1719, at Merton Abbey, | | | | |Surrey. | | | | | = | | | | |GRACE, dau. of Sir Henry Stapylton, of Mytton, | | | | |Yorks, and Elizabeth, dau. of Conyers, Lord D’Arcy, | | | | |created Baron Holdernesse. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.1 ELIZABETH ROBINSON, b. 1674; | | | | | |d. unmarried, 1739; buried at Merton Abbey; Co. of | | | | | |Surrey. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2 WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Rokeby; | | | | |bap. there, Sept. 23, 1675; m. 1698; d. Feb. 24, 1720; | | | | |buried at Merton Abbey. Seven sons and two daughters. | | | | | = | | | | |ANNE, dau. of Robert Walters, of Cundall, North | | | | |Riding, Yorks. She died in 1730. Her mother was a | | | | |Stordale, of Belton Park, Yorks. Buried at Merton | | | | |Abbey. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.1 ANNE ROBINSON, b. York, 1699; m., | | | | | |first Robert Knight, of Barrels, Warwickshire, | | | | | |father of the Earl of Catherlough, by whom she had a | | | | | |son, who died early; secondly, James Cresset, | | | | | |secretary to the Princess Dowager of Wales, and | | | | | |Comptroller of Army Accounts. She died in 1759. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | |ELIZABETH (1st wife), dau. of Charles Howard, 3rd | | | | | |Earl of Carlisle, widow of Nicholas, Lord Lechmere. | | | | | |She died at Bath April 10, and was buried at Rokeby, | | | | | |April 24, 1739. A monument to her and Sir Thomas in | | | | | |Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey, with medallion | | | | | |portraits. | | | | | | = | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.2 SIR THOMAS ROBINSON, nicknamed | | | | | |“Long Sir T. R.,” Bart. of Great Britain, March 10, | | | | | |1730–31. b. in 1700; 1727, M.P. for Morpeth. First | | | | | |marriage, Oct. 25, 1728, at Belfreys, Yorks; 1735 to | | | | | |1742 Commissioner of Excise; Governor of Barbadoes, | | | | | |Jan. 1742–47. Sold Rokeby in 1769 to John Saurey | | | | | |Morritt. It had been 160 years in the family. Died at | | | | | |Prospect House, Chelsea, March 3, 1777. | | | | | | = | | | | | |SARAH, (2nd wife) dau. of Booth, Esq., of the | | | | | |family of Delaware, and widow of Samuel Salmon, of | | | | | |Barbadoes. She preferred to remain in Barbadoes when | | | | | |her second husband returned to England. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.3 ROBERT, 2nd son, died, | | | | | |ætat 14. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.4 SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, b. 1702; | | | | | |succeeded to the baronetage in 1777, at the death of | | | | | |his brother, Sir Thomas Robinson; d. 1785. Unmarried. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.5 HENRY ROBINSON, Major in the Army; | | | | | |killed at the attack on Fort Lazare, near Carthagena, | | | | | |1741–42. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.6 JOHN ROBINSON, died young, | | | | | |unmarried. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.7 SIR RICHARD ROBINSON, Archbishop | | | | | |of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland; b. 1709; educated | | | | | |at Westminster and Christchurch, Oxford; B.A. 1730; | | | | | |M.A. 1733; B.D. and D.D. 1738; chaplain to the | | | | | |Archbishop of York, 1738; Rector of Elton, Prebend of | | | | | |York, and Vicar of Aldborough, Suffolk; Bishop of | | | | | |Killala, Jan. 19, 1752; Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, | | | | | |1759; Bishop of Kildare, April 13, 1761; Dean of | | | | | |Christchurch, Dublin, 1761; Primate of Ireland, | | | | | |Jan. 19, 1765; made Baron of Ireland, as 1st Baron | | | | | |Rokeby, Feb. 26, 1777; English baronet in 1785 at his | | | | | |brother William’s death; died at Clifton, | | | | | |Oct. 10, 1794, ætat 86. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.8 GRACE ROBINSON, b. 1718, m. 1739, | | | | | |d. Dec. 28, 1776; left 4 surviving children. | | | | | | = | | | | | |The REV. WILLIAM FREIND, succeeded his father, the | | | | | |Rev. Robert Freind, as Rector of Witney, Oxon., in | | | | | |1739; made Prebend of Westminster, Oct. 17, 1744; | | | | | |also Royal Chaplain, 1747; Rector of Islip; Canon of | | | | | |Christchurch, May 15, 1756; Dean of Canterbury, | | | | | |June 14, 1760. Rebuilt Witney Rectory; built and | | | | | |endowed Hailey Chapel, Witney. He died Nov. 26, 1766. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.8.1 ROBERT FREIND, b. 1740; | | | | | | |d. 1780. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.8.2 WILLIAM MAXIMILIAN. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.8.3 REV. SIR JOHN, b. 1754; | | | | | | |Archdeacon of Armagh; assumed the name of Robinson, | | | | | | |and became principal heir to his uncle, the 1st | | | | | | |Baron Rokeby, and Primate of Ireland. He was made a | | | | | |baronet, Dec. 14, 1819. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.8.4 GRACE, m. 1765: d. 1807. | | | | | | = | | | | | |LIEUT.-GENERAL DUNCAN CAMPBELL, R. M. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.9 SIR SEPTIMUS ROBINSON, 7th son, | | | | |b. Jan. 30, 1710; educated at Westminster and | | | | |Christchurch, Oxford; served one year in the French | | | | |Army with Marshal Clermont in six campaigns; then in | | | | |the English Army, under General Wade, in 1745; | | | | |three campaigns with Marshal Ligonier in Holland; | | | | |1751 to 1760 Governor to the Dukes of Gloucester and | | | | |Cumberland. He was knighted in 1761, and made Usher | | | | |of the Black Rod at the accession of George III. He | | | | |died at Brough, Westmoreland, Sept. 6, 1765; buried | | | | |at Rokeby. His monument, by Nollekins, erected by his | | | | |brothers, Sir William and Sir Richard Robinson. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.2.3 ANNE, bap. Dec. 8, 1665; d. Dec., 1665. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.3 FRANCES, bap. July 15, 1627; m. 1646; | | | |d. July 10, 1661. | | | | = | | | |GEORGE GRAY, of Sudwich, Durham; | | | |descended from the Grays of Chillingham and Wark. | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.3.1 The REV. GEORGE GRAY, who succeeded | | | |his uncle, the Rev. Matthew Robinson, as Vicar of | | | |Burneston. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.4 The REV. MATTHEW ROBINSON, Vicar of | | | |Burneston, Yorks; b. 1628; m. Oct. 12, 1657; d. Nov. 27, | | | |1694. Remarkable for his piety and learning in law and | | | |physic; great judge of horses and dogs. | | | | = | | | |JANE PICKERING, dau. of Mark Pickering, and sister and | | | |heiress of William Pickering, of Eworth, Yorks. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.5 JOHN, bap. Dec. 9, 1632; d. Oct., 1638. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.6 THOMAS, bap. May 16, 1635; | | | |d. Dec., 1635. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.7 THOMAS, bap. Dec. 10, 1637; merchant of | | | |York. In his will, 1660, he left his brother, the Rev. | | | |Matthew Robinson, his executor and heir. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | | |LUCY LAYTON (1st wife), of West Layton, descended | | | |from John Layton, eldest son of Francis Layton, of West | | | |Layton Hall and Kirkby Hall, Yorks. Died s.p. | | | | = | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8 SIR LEONARD ROBINSON, bap. June 23, 1643; | | |knighted, Oct. 29, 1692; d. 1696. Was Chamberlain of the | | |City of London. He was a posthumous son, born a few days | | |after his father’s, Thomas Robinson’s, death in the | | |skirmish at Leeds. | | | = -----------------------------------------------+ | | |DEBORAH (2nd wife), dau. of Sir John | | | |Collet, Sheriff of London. She was the ancestress | | | |of the 2nd House of Robinson. | | | +---- | | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1 THOMAS ROBINSON, b. 1667; d. 1720. | | | | = | | | | ----+ | | | |2. ELIZABETH, dau. of William Clarke, of | | | | |Merivale Abbey, Warwickshire, and sister and heir | | | | |of her brother, William Clarke. She had been | | | | |previously married to Anthony Light, Esq., by whom | | | | |she had one daughter, Lydia, who married, first, | | | | |Thomas Kirke, Esq., and, secondly, the Rev. Robert | | | | |Lumley, by whom she had two daughters; one married | | | | |the Rev. John Botham; the other, the Rev. Laurence | | | | |Sterne. | | | | +---- ----+ | | | | | | | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | |2.1 LYDIA. | | | | | = | | | | |REV. JOHN BOTHAM. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|2.1.1–5 Five children. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | |2.2 ELIZABETH. | | | | | = | | | | |The REV. LAURENCE STERNE. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|2.2.1 LYDIA, died an infant. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|2.2.2 LYDIA. | | | | | = | | | | |ALEXANDER DE MEDALLE. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|2.2.2.1 son died young. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1 MATTHEW ROBINSON, of the city of York, | | | | |Edgeley, and West Layton, Yorks.; b. at York, 1694; m. | | | | |at 18, in 1712; d. Oct. 1778, ætat 85; Gentleman | | | | |Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge. He had 12 | | | | |children, 9 of whom survived. | | | | | = | | | | |ELIZABETH, dau. of Councillor Robert Drake (of the | | | | |Drakes of Ash, Devon), and sister and heir of her | | | | |brother, Morris Drake Morris, of Coveney, Cambridge, | | | | |and Mount Morris, in the parish of Horton, near Hythe, | | | | |Kent; m. 1712; d. 1744; buried at Monk’s Horton. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.1 MATTHEW ROBINSON, b. April 6, | | | | | |1713; bap. at York, April 12, 1713. Educated at | | | | | |Trinity Hall, Cambridge; graduated 1734; became a | | | | | |Fellow; elected M.P. for Canterbury, July 1, 1747; | | | | | |re-elected, 1754; between these dates assumed the | | | | | |additional name of Morris, on inheriting his mother’s | | | | | |property at Mount Morris, near Hythe, Kent; | | | | | |d. Nov. 30, 1800; buried at Monk’s Horton, Dec. 8, | | | | | |ætat 87. Became 2nd Baron of Rokeby on the death of | | | | | |his cousin, the Archbishop of Armagh, in 1794. Author | | | | | |of several political pamphlets. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.2 THOMAS ROBINSON, barrister of | | | | | |Lincoln’s Inn, b. 1714. Wrote a treatise on | | | | | |Gavelkind and borough English in 1741, of which | | | | | |there have been three or more editions. d. 1747; | | | | | |unmarried. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3 MORRIS ROBINSON, of Lincoln’s Inn | | | | | |Fields and of the Six Clerks’ Office, b. 1715; d. in | | | | | |Dublin, 1777, ætat 61; buried in Armagh | | | | | |Cathedral. He was solicitor in Chancery and agent to | | | | | |John, Duke of Montagu, etc. | | | | | | = | | | | | |JANE GREENLAND, dau. of John Greenland, of Lovelace, | | | | | |co. Kent, and his wife, née Jane Waller, of | | | | | |Kingsgate House, Rolveden, Kent. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3.1 MORRIS ROBINSON, b. July 14, | | | | | | |1757; bap. in the parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; | | | | | | |barrister of the Middle Temple; succeeded his | | | | | | |uncle, Matthew, as 3rd Baron Rokeby, in 1800. He | | | | | | |died, unmarried, in 1829, ætat 71. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3.2 MATTHEW MONTAGU, b. Nov. 23, | | | | | |1762; bap. at St. Andrew’s, Holborn; assumed the | | | | | |name and arms of Montagu by virtue of the King’s | | | | | |Sign Manual, June 3, 1776, and Dec. 21, 1776; M.P. | | | | | |for Tregony, Cornwall, 1788 to 1790, then for St. | | | | | |Germans; became 4th Baron Rokeby in 1829. Died at | | | | | |Montagu House, Sept. 1, 1837, ætat 68. | | | | | | = | | | | | |ELIZABETH CHARLTON, sole heir of Francis Charlton, | | | | | |by his wife, née Elizabeth Southby; m. July 9, | | | | | |1785; d. March 7, 1817, leaving thirteen surviving | | | | | |children. Her grandmother was of royal descent from | | | | | |Edward I. and Edward III. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.4 ROBERT ROBINSON, a captain in the | | | | | |East India service; d. in China, 1756; unmarried. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.5 The REV. WILLIAM ROBINSON, b. | | | | | |1726. Educated at Westminster and St. John’s College, | | | | | |Cambridge; m. in 1760; Rector of Denton, Kent; lived | | | | | |at Denton Court, Kent, from Nov. 23, 1764 to 1785; | | | | | |Rector of Burghfield, Berks; died there Sept. 9, | | | | | |1803, ætat 76. He was the great friend of the poet | | | | | |Gray. | | | | | | = | | | | | |MARY RICHARDSON, dau. of Adam Richardson, and heiress | | | | | |of her father and brother, William Richardson, of | | | | | |Kensington. She died April 8, 1789, ætat 64, | | | | | |leaving one son and two daughters. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.5.1 REV. MATTHEW ROBINSON, Rector | | | | | | |of Coveney and Manea, Cambs.; d. Aug. 10, 1827, at | | | | | | |Burghfield, Berks., where he had succeeded his | | | | | | |father as rector. Unmarried. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.5.2 SARAH. | | | | | | | = | | | | | | |SAMUEL TRUMAN. | | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.5.3 MARY. | | | | | | = | | | | | |SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES, as his second | | | | | |wife; several children by him. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.6 JOHN ROBINSON, Fellow of Trinity | | | | | |Hall, Cambridge; d. 1800; unmarried. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.7 CHARLES ROBINSON, | | | | | |b. 1733; Recorder of Canterbury in 1763, and M.P. for | | | | | |same 1780 to 1790; d. 1807. | | | | | | = | | | | | |MARY, 2nd dau. of John Greenland, and sister of | | | | | |Mrs. Morris Robinson. She was a wealthy widow. 1st | | | | | |husband, R. Dukes, Esq. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.7.1 SARAH, an only child. | | | | | | = | | | | | |WILLIAM HOUGHAM, of Barton Court, Kent. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.8 ELIZABETH ROBINSON, b. Oct. 2, | | | | | |1720, at York; m. Aug. 5, 1742; d. Aug. 25, 1800, at | | | | | |Montagu House, Portman Square, in her 80th year. | | | | | |Elizabeth was the eldest daughter, but the fourth | | | | | |child of her parents. | | | | | | = | | | | | |EDWARD MONTAGU, son by second marriage of Charles | | | | | |Montagu, 5th son of 1st Earl of Sandwich. His mother, | | | | | |née Sarah Rogers, of East Denton, | | | | | |Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. He was born on | | | | | |Nov. 13, 1692; d. May 20, 1775, ætat 83. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.8.1 JOHN MONTAGU, nicknamed | | | | | |“Punch,” b. May, 1743; died at Allerthorpe, Yorks, | | | | | |the end of August, 1744, aged 15 months. Buried at | | | | | |Burneston, Yorks, but afterwards removed to | | | | | |Winchester Cathedral, and reinterred with his | | | | | |parents by order of his mother’s will. | | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | | | +---- | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.9 SARAH ROBINSON, b. Sep. 21, 1723; | | | | |m., 1751, George Lewis Scott, a barrister, son of | | | | |George Scott, of Bristow, N.B., by his wife, née | | | | |Marion Stewart. Mrs. Scott died at Catton, Norwich, | | | | |Nov. 3, 1795, without issue. She was authoress of | | | | |Millennium Hall and other works. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.2 THOMAS, R.N., died without issue. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.3 LEONARD, died unmarried. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.2 DEBORAH. | | | | = | | | |THOMAS BAKER, of Westminster. Consul at Algiers in 1698. | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.2.1 HONOR. | | | | | = | | | | |WILLIAM CHETWYND, afterwards 3rd Viscount Chetwynd. | | | | +---- | | | | | | | +---- | | | |1st, GIBBONS, Esq. | | | | = +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.3 FRANCES. |1.2.1.1.1.7.3.1 LEONARD. | | | | = --------------------------|1.2.1.1.1.7.3.2 JOHN | | | |2nd, BOURNE, Esq. +---- | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.4 MARY | | | | = | | | |WILLIAM SNELL, Esq. | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.4.1 JAMES. | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.4.2 WILLIAM. | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.4.3 DEBORAH. | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.4.4 ANNE. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.5 SARAH | | | | = | | | |THOMAS KNIGHT, of Barrels, Warwickshire. | | | +---- | | | | | | | | +---- | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.5.1 ROBINSON KNIGHT, a barrister. | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.5.2 DEBORAH. | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.5.3 SARAH. | | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.6 MARGARET. | | | = | | |ELMES SPINKS. | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.6.1 ELMES SPINKS. | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.6.2 DEBORAH. | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.6.3 SARAH. | | +---- | | | | +---- | +-|1.2.1.1.2 The REV. JOHN ROBINSON, Vicar of Burneston, | | |Yorks. | | | = | | |CATHERINE, dau. of Dr. Wilson. | | +---- | | | | | | +---- | | +-|1.2.1.1.2.1 WILLIAM ROBINSON, bap. Feb. 14, 1636, | | |ob. s.p. | | +---- | | | | +---- | | |PERCIVAL PHILIPS | | |(1st husband), of | | |Wensleydale, +---- co-heiresses. | | |Co. York. |1.2.1.1.3.1 MARY. | | | = -----------------------------|1.2.1.1.3.2 LUCY. | +-|1.2.1.1.3. |1.2.1.1.3.3 ANNE. | |CATHERINE ROBINSON +---- | |Hers the first | |marriage at Rokeby in 1613. +---- | | = -----------------------------|1.2.1.1.3.4 WILLIAM, | |RICHARD SMITH |and other issue. | |(2nd husband), of Cottingham. +---- | |Second marriage took place | |at Rokeby, Oct. 1, 1626. | +---- | | +---- +-|1.2.2 HENRY ROBINSON, a citizen of London; bought | |Cranstay, Northamptonshire, from Sir Thomas Cecil; d. 1585; left | |issue. | | = | |ALICE WILKES, dau. of Thomas Wilkes, of Islington; she | |died 1613. She married, secondly, William Elkin; thirdly, Thomas | |Owen, Judge of Common Pleas. | +---- | | | | +---- | +-|1.2.2.1 SIR HENRY ROBINSON, of Cranstay, d. 1637. | | = | |MARY, daughter of Sir William Glover. | +---- | | | | +---- | +-|1.2.2.1.1 HENRY, b. 1625. | | = | |ANNE BIRCH, by whom he had three sons and one | |daughter. | +---- | | +---- +-|1.2.3 URSULA ROBINSON. | = |THOMAS MORE, a London merchant. +----

Transcribers’ Note

Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, punctuation and spelling are retained, however a few changes have been made to correct apparent errors, these are listed below.

Page headings have been moved to appropriate positions. Dates from these headings have been retained for each new year. Both page headings and years are shown here in square brackets.

Footnotes have been moved to end of the paragraph or letter to which they refer.

In captions of illustrations, “Mr.” “Mrs.” “1st.” were originally printed with all but the first character as superscripts, and variant spellings of “née” have been standardized.

In the printed book there were a few blanks where characters or parts of characters did not print. These have been corrected.

Mismatched quotation marks have been made standard.

The Robinson Pedigree chart was printed on a loose sheet of paper, and inserted inside the back cover of Volume One. It is shown here at the end of Volume Two. It has been rearranged to fit within the confines of this file. Entries have been numbered.

In the index punctuation, the use of volume numbers, and the use of italics have been standardized.

Other changes that have been made: Volume 1

Page 14: “be” changed to “he” in “he brought me out a whole face”.

Page 74: “perferment” changed to “preferment” in “prospect of better preferment”.

Footnote 214: “Freind” changed from “Friend” in “Mrs. Freind’s brother”.

Page 167: the paragraph starting “Last night in the middle of the dancing” has been formatted as an extract from a letter.

Page 266: “neé” changed to “née”.

Footnote 476: “Febuary” changed to “February”.

Page 264: Please note that the apostrophe has been left as printed in “the Lady Stanhopes’”

Other changes that have been made: Volume 2

Footnote 47: “Sir T. Newton” changed to “Sir I. Newton”. Note that “Roubilliac” has been left as printed.

Page 69: Duplicate “of” removed from “To complete the measure of of his good usage”.

Page 88: “souffre douelur” changed to “souffre douleur”.

Footnote 145: “Northumerland” changed to “Northumberland”.

Page 148: In “... the gold pap boat; and Lady Besborough.” the semicolon was originally printed as a full stop. Note that “Besborough” has been left as printed.

Footnote 312: “In 1775, Colman” changed to “In 1757, Colman”.

Page 278: “neé” changed to “née”.

The following changes have been made to the entries in the Index:

“Fitz-Adam, Adam”: “FitzAdam” changed to “Fitz-Adam”.

“Hawkesworth, LL.D., John, Oriental Tales”: “Hawksworth” changed to “Hawkesworth”, and the entry has been moved up one to keep it in alphabetic order.

“Helvetius, Claud Adrien, De l’Esprit”: “Adrian” changed to “Adrien”.

“Lyttelton, Sir George, 1st Lord,”: sub-entry for “a pea” changed to “a peer”.

“Thanet, Sackville Tufton”: “Tutton” changed to “Tufton”.

“Place, Rev. Conyers”, the reference has been changed from volume ii. to volume i.

Robertson Pedigree: In the entry for Thomas Robinson, bap. May 16, 1635, his year of death has been changed from 1655 to 1635. In the entry for Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Councillor Robert Drake, “heir of” was originally repeated. William Robinson’s year of birth has been changed from 1720 to 1726.

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