Chapter I

Rev. William Robinson--Botham and Bishop Sherlock--Death
of Dr. Chesilden--The Scott separation--South Lodge,
Enfield--“Chinese pomp”--A letter to Edward Montagu--Mount
Morris--Archibald Bower--“Madonna”--Inoculation--Books
to read--History of the Popes--G. L. Scott--The Delany
lawsuit--Turkey Pye--The joyous Berenger--Death of Bishop
Berkeley--A woman in vapours--Mrs. Laurence Sterne--Lady
Bute’s Assembly--A perfect woman--Pitt’s insomnia--Rent
of lodgings--The Penshurst pictures--Trinity College,
Cambridge, Library--Gibside--Stonelands--“Minouets”--Beau
Nash--Pitt at Hayes--The new post-chaise--Bullstrode
menagerie--Richardson’s _Sir Charles Grandison_--Lucian’s
_Triumph of the Gout_--Schoolgirls’ bills--Death of
Pelham--“Tom” Lyttelton--West appointed to Chelsea
Hospital--Elizabeth Canning--Molière’s _Precieuses
Ridicules_--Hateley the artist--Lillingston
Dayrell--History of Bath--Pitt’s engagement and
marriage--Bishop Warburton and Bolingbroke--Pitt’s
honeymoon--“Gossip” Joan--Nathaniel Hooke 1–66

CHAPTER II.

Lord Montfort’s suicide--Mrs. Pococke--Lord
Baltimore’s house--Mr. Bower’s
cottage--Torriano’s marriage--Hatchlands--Sheep
Leas--Painshill--Reading--Sarah Scott’s daily
life--The calm, meek Miss Pococke--The Garrett
Wellesleys--Fears of French invasion--Garrick at Drury
Lane--Earthquake at Lisbon--Death of West--Wortley
Montagu’s pious pamphlet--Captain Robert Robinson’s
death--Byng--David Hume--Morris Robinson’s marriage--The
eccentric Matthew Robinson--Pitt buys Hayes
house--Viscount Pitt’s birth--Lyttelton a peer--The
famous _bas bleu_ assemblies--Emin--Windsor election
riot--Stillingfleet--Culham Court--George Stevens--Battle
of Hastenbeck--The Severn and Wye--Elizabeth
Wilmot--Battle of Kollin--A description of Emin--“Is got
pure well”--The Mordaunt Expedition--Dr. Monsey--Admiral
and Mrs. Boscawen--Battle of Rosbach 67–122