Chapter V (3)

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