Chapter V

Journey to London--The floods--A faithful steward--The
Rogers’ pedigree--A curious letter--Mr. Montagu’s visit
to Newcastle --Birth of “Punch”--Inoculation--Baby
clothes--Sandleford Priory --A parson and his
wife--Countess of Granville--Correspondence with
Duchess of Portland--Courayer--Woman’s education--Lord
Orford’s letter to General Churchill--Preparation for
inoculation--Elizabeth’s letter to her husband--Army
discipline--Physicians’ fees--Pope’s grotto--A
highwayman--Dangers of a post-chaise--“Punch’s” chariot--A
Bath ball--“Mathematical inseration”--Midgham--A
footpad--The Ministry--Pope’s _Dunciad_--Mrs.
Pococke--Sugar tax--The Pretender--Sir Septimus
Robinson--“Hide” Park--Gowns and fans--The wearing
of “Punch”--A wet-nurse--Aprons--Orange trees--Lord
Anson--Clothes and table-linen--Stowe--Thoresby--Death
of “Punch”--Loss of an only child--Submission to God’s
will--Duchess of Marlborough’s death--A Raree Show--Cattle
disease--Mrs. Robinson’s illness 141–197

CHAPTER VI.

Correspondence with the Duchess of Portland--Donnington
Castle--Tunbridge Wells--Dr. Young and Colley
Cibber--Buxton--Tonbridge Castle--The 1745 rising in
Scotland--George Lewis Scott--National terrors--Wade’s
army--County meeting at York--The Northern gentry--General
Cope’s defeat at Preston Pans--Sussex privateers--Tunbridge
ware--Walnut medicine--D. Stanley’s letter to Duke of
Montagu--Cattle murrain--Fears of invasion--The Law
regiment--Romney Marsh--A footman--A brave gamekeeper 198–226

CHAPTER VII.

Correspondence with Duchess of Portland--Death of Mrs.
Robinson--Lydia Botham--The Hill Street house--“Such
a Johnny”--Courayer--Mr. Carter’s death--Denton
estate--Elixir of vitriol and tar-water--Dr. Shaw--Young
Edward Wortley Montagu--General election--Huntingdon
Election--Dr. Pococke--Mrs. Theophilus Cibber--Courayer’s
figure--A high and dry residence--Lady Fane’s grottoes--In
search of an axletree--Winchester Cathedral--Mount
Bevis--The New Forest--Wilton House--Savernake--Courayer’s
letter--Matthew Robinson, M.P. for Canterbury--Lyttelton’s
_Monody_--Thomas Robinson’s death--Coffee House,
Bath--Cambridge--Richardson’s _Clarissa_--Peace of
Aix-la-Chapelle--Spa--The Hague--James Montagu’s
death--Price of tea 227–263