Chapter XXIII: Appendix (3)

And I direct that my funeral may be made private, and with no more expense than decency requires; and that no mourning be given to any one, except such of my servants as shall attend at my funeral.

As concerning my estate, I give the same in manner and form following.

I devise to Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq., their heirs, &c., all my manors, parsonage, rectory, advowsons, messuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments in the several counties of Surrey, Oxford, Buckingham, and Huntingdon, which were lately the several estates of Richard Holditch, Francis Hawes, William Astell, and Robert Knight, Esqrs.

And also my manors, &c., in the said county of Buckingham, which were late the estate of Richard Hampden, Esq., deceased.

And also my manor, rectory, &c., in the county of Buckingham, which were some time the estate of Sir John Wittewronge, Bart., deceased.

And also my manor, &c. in the same county, formerly the estate of Sir Thomas Tyrrel, Bart., deceased.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Bedford, which were late the estate of Sir John Meres, Knight.

And also my freehold and copyhold messuages, &c. in the county of Bedford, which were late the estate of Bromsall Throckmorton, Esq.

And also my manor, &c. in possession and reversion, in the county of Bedford, which were late the estate of Edward Snagg, Esq.

And also my rectory and tithes of Steventon, in the county of Bedford, which were late the estate of Peter Floyer, Esq.

And also my lands, &c. in the county of Bedford, which were the estate of John Culliford, Esq., and Mary his wife.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Berks, which were the estate of Richard Jones, Esq.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Berks, which were the estate of Robert Packer, Esq.

And also my messuage, lands, &c. in the county of Berks, which were late the estate of Thomas Bedford, clerk.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Oxford, which were late the estate of Sir Cecil Bishop, Bart.

And also my manors, &c. in Northamptonshire, which were late the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Wiseman.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Northampton, late the estate of Sir William Norwich, Bart.

And also my manor, &c. in the county of Northampton, late the estate of Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham.

And also that part of my estate at St. Albans still retained by me.

And also my manors, &c. in the county of Stafford, which were the estate of Viscount Fauconberg.

And also my manor, &c. freehold and copyhold, in the county of Norfolk, late the property of Gabriel Armiger, Esq.

And also my manors, &c. in the county of Leicester and Northampton, which were the estates of Sir Thomas Cave.

And all other my manors, &c. in the counties of Surrey, Oxford, Huntingdon, Buckingham, Bedford, Berks, Northampton, Hertford, Stafford, Norfolk, and Leicester, (always subject to charges made by indenture on the marriage of my grandson, John Spencer, Esq. to Georgiana Carolina, his now wife, daughter to Lord Carteret.)

John Spencer, the son of my said grandson John Spencer, shall have, arising from the said estates &c., an annuity (during the life of his father) of 2,000_l._, which he shall be empowered legally to enforce.

And whereas the late Duke of Marlborough directed by his will that a yearly sum of 3,000_l._ should be charged upon the estates devised upon Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, for each and every of the sons which may be born to Charles Spencer, (now Duke of Marlborough,) and the grandson of the same; I, with a desire to carry out such intention, hereby direct that the said sum be chargeable upon the said estates so devised, during the joint lives of the said Charles Duke of Marlborough and such son or grandson: Always provided that such son or grandson shall not covenant to do or do any act which shall set aside or bar any intent declared or expressed in the will of the late Duke of Marlborough; in which case such annuity shall utterly cease.

Upon such son or grandson marrying and attaining the age of twenty-one years, the said annual sum of 3,000_l._ shall no longer be paid to him; but an annual charge not exceeding 1,500_l._ shall be paid to any woman with whom he shall marry, for the term of her life.

Provided always, that my said estates shall never be chargeable with more than one such annuity, as a provision for any such woman, at one and the same time.

And all my said manors, &c. devised to Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, subject to the annuities and charges therein expressed, I will and direct the same to be in TRUST for my grandson John Spencer, for and during the term of his natural life; and after that, to the USE of the said Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, and their heirs, during the natural life of John Spencer, in TRUST, to preserve the contingent uses thereof; the said John Spencer to receive the rents and profits thereof, (with similar covenants relating to John Spencer the younger, and succeeding heirs.)

And whereas the dean and chapter of Christ’s Church—Canterbury, did lease unto me the scite and court lodge of the manor of Agney, in the county of Kent, I hereby bequeath the said court lodge, &c.

And also my lands, &c. held on lease in the county of Buckingham.

And also all other my leasehold estates (excepting such as I shall otherwise dispose of) to the USE of the said Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, in TRUST for such uses and persons as are herein expressed concerning my various manors and freeholds.

ITEM, I give unto Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, all my manor of Wimbledon, &c. in Surrey.

And also my leasehold rectory of Wimbledon, for their USE, and in trust, &c. (with similar covenants respecting John Spencer and his heirs.)

And my will is, that all my household goods, pictures, and furniture that shall be in my said buildings and gardens at Wimbledon, shall be considered as heirlooms.

And my will is, and I hereby expressly declare, that if the said John Spencer (my grandson) shall become bound or surety for any person or persons whatever for any sum or sums of money, or if he, or any person or persons in _trust_ for him, shall take from any king or queen of these realms any pension, or any office or employment, civil or military, (except the rangership of the great or little parks at Windsor,) then shall all these my intents and covenants in behalf of the said John Spencer become void, as if he were actually dead.

(_The same with regard to John Spencer the younger._)

And whereas by lease from the crown I am possessed of all that capital messuage which I now inhabit, called _Marlborough-house_, with all its appurtenances, within or near the parishes of St. James, the liberty of Westminster, and St. Martin in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlesex, for the term of fifty years:

Now I hereby give and bequeath all my interest in the said capital messuage, &c. unto my executors (subject to such charge thereon as is hereinafter mentioned) upon the TRUSTS following: That is to say, in _trust_ for the said John Spencer the father, for so long a period of the fifty years as he shall live; and then in trust for George Spencer, commonly called Marquis of Blandford, eldest son and heir apparent of Charles Duke of Marlborough; and after his decease, in trust for any son of the said George Spencer who shall attain his majority.

Provided the said George Spencer shall have no son, then in _trust_ for Charles Spencer, second son of Charles Duke of Marlborough, and his son, (with similar provisions, provided Charles Spencer shall have no son, conferring the interest upon such other son of Charles Duke of Marlborough as shall attain his majority.)

Provided always, that should any attempt be made by any of these legatees to dispose, let, exchange, or give up possession in any manner of Marlborough-house, or commit any act likely to subvert any of the declared intentions of the late Duke of Marlborough with respect to his will, such bequest shall become utterly void, and my executors are hereby empowered to dispose of all my interest in the said messuage, and pay over the money as part of my personal estate.

I am likewise possessed of another lease from the crown, bearing date Feb. 13, 1728, not yet expired.

Now I give and bequeath the said lease to my executors in _trust_ for the holder of Marlborough-house for the time being, and subject to the same conditions and limitations.

And whereas I am empowered by the Duke of Marlborough’s will to dispose of such goods as are my own in Marlborough-house, and of which there is an inventory:

Now I bequeath all such goods, furniture, pictures, &c., to my grandson John Spencer, his executors, &c.

ITEM, I give unto my grandson, Charles Duke of Marlborough, all my furniture, pictures, &c., which shall be in Blenheim-house, in Oxfordshire, at the time of my decease; but upon the express condition that he do not remove any of the goods or furniture from Althorp-house, but permit the same to be enjoyed by my grandson, John Spencer, except the same shall be of greater value than those in Blenheim-house; then may he remove such part thereof as shall leave no more in value than shall be equal to that which at the time of my decease was in Blenheim-house; and should he not perform this condition, then I leave the said furniture, &c. in Blenheim-house, to John Spencer my grandson, his executors, &c.

And my will is, that all my goods, &c. in my mansion-house at Holywell, in St. Albans, in the county of Hertford, shall continue there, and be always held therewith, as far as the law will permit of.

And whereas by letters patent on the 18th day of July, in the eighth year of her reign, her late majesty Queen Anne granted me the _rangership of Windsor Great Park_, giving the said place in TRUST to James Craggs, Samuel Edwards, and Charles Hodges, for me and my heirs:

Now I will that the said Samuel Edwards shall hold the same in trust for my grandson John Spencer, his heirs, &c.

And I give all the goods, &c., which may be in the chief lodge, belonging to me, to my said grandson John Spencer. (_Similar provisions with regard to the Little Park._)

I give unto my granddaughter Isabella Duchess Dowager of Manchester all my piece of ground and the messuage thereon in Dover-street, in the county of Middlesex; together with all the goods, furniture, &c., in the said messuage.

I give unto Hugh Earl of Marchmont, and Beversham Filmer, Esq., and James Stephens, all my leasehold piece of ground and brick messuage in Grosvenor-street, in the parish of St. George’s, Hanover-square, in _trust_ for _John Spencer the son_.

ITEM, I hereby give unto Hugh Earl of Marchmont, Beversham Filmer, Thomas Lord Bishop of Oxford, and James Stephens, my joint executors, 2,000_l._ each, for their care and trouble about this my will.

All other property whatsoever, comprising money, mortgages, securities, &c., after payment of my just debts, and such bequests as herein before or after in any codicil mentioned, I bequeath to my said executors, in trust for John Spencer, my grandson.

* * * * *

This will, which occupies in the original eight skins of parchment, is witnessed by the following persons, and signed and sealed by the Duchess.

FANE.
EDMUND LONDON.
W. LEE.
JOHN SCROPE.

THE CODICIL.

This is a CODICIL to the last will and testament of me, _Sarah Duchess Dowager of Marlborough_, which I duly made and published, bearing date the eleventh day of August instant, and which will I do hereby ratify and confirm in all respects.

Whereas I am possessed of several long annuities, amounting to the yearly sum of two thousand six hundred pounds,

Now I bequeath the same to my executors, in _trust_ for the following uses—

To James Stephens, 300_l._ yearly.

To Grace Bidley, 300_l._ yearly.

To Robert Macarty, Earl of Clancarty, the yearly sum of 1000_l._

To Elizabeth Arbor, the yearly sum of 200_l._

To Anne Patten, the yearly sum of 130_l._

To Olive Lofft, the yearly sum of 40_l._

To John Griffiths, the yearly sum of 200_l._

To Hannah Clarke, the yearly sum of 200_l._

To Jeremiah Lewis, the yearly sum of 50_l._

To John Dorset, the yearly sum of 50_l._

To each of my two chairmen, John Robins and George Humphreys, the yearly sum of 20_l._

To Walter Jones, the yearly sum of 30_l._, and to each of my footmen that shall continue in my service to the time of my decease, the yearly sum of 10_l._

To Margaret and Catherine Garmes, the yearly sum each of 10_l._

The overplus of such long annuities to be paid to John Spencer.

I give to John Spencer ALL my gold and silver plate, seals, trinkets, and small pieces of japan.

I give to the wife of John Spencer, the son of my said grandson, (if he should live to be married,) my diamond pendants, which have three brilliant drops to each, and all the rest of my jewels which I shall not otherwise dispose of; and in case he die unmarried, I give the same to his father.

I give to my granddaughter, Mary Duchess of Leeds, my diamond solitaire, with the large brilliant diamond it hangs to; also the picture in water colours of the late Duke of Marlborough, drawn by Lens.

I give to my daughter, Mary Duchess of Montagu, my gold snuff-box, that has in it two pictures of her father, the Duke of Marlborough, when he was a youth. Also a picture of her father covered with a large diamond, and hung to a string of small pearls for a bracelet, and two enamelled pictures for a bracelet of her sisters, Sunderland and Bridgewater.

I give to Thomas Duke of Leeds 3000_l._

I give to my niece, Frances Lady Dillon, 1000_l._

I give to Philip Earl of Chesterfield, out of the great regard I have for his merit, and the infinite obligations I have received from him, my best and largest brilliant diamond ring, and 20,000_l._

I give to William Pitt, Esq., the sum of 10,000_l._, upon account of his merit in the noble defence he made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.

I give to Mr. Burroughs, Master in Chancery, 200_l._ to buy a ring.

I give to my executors 500_l._ each to buy them rings.

I give to the Earl of Clancarty, above what I have already given him, 1000_l._

Whereas John Earl of Stair owes me 1000_l._ upon bond, and his wife bought me some things in France, but always declined telling me what they cost, I desire him to pay my Lady Stair, and to accept the residue of the 1000_l._, together with such other sums as I have lent to him.

I give to Juliana Countess of Burlington my bag of gold medals, and 1000_l._ to buy a ring, or something in remembrance of me.

I give to the Duchess of Devonshire my box of travelling plate.

I give to James Stephens, over and above what I have already given him, the sum of 1300_l._, and as a further compensation for the great trouble he will have as my acting executor, the yearly sum of 300_l._

To Grace Ridley I give, over and above what I have already given, the sum of 15,000_l._; an enamelled picture of the Duke of Marlborough; a little picture of the Duke in a locket, and my own picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and my striking watch, which was the Duke of Marlborough’s.

I give to Anne Ridley the sum of 3000_l._

I give to Mrs. Jane Pattison my striking watch, which formerly belonged to her mistress, Lady Sunderland.

One half of my clothes and wearing apparel I give to Grace Ridley, and the other half equally between Anne Patter and Olive Lofft.

I give to each of my chairmen 25_l._

I give to each of my servants one year’s wages.

I give to the poor of the town of Woodstock 300_l._

I desire that Mr. Glover and Mr. Mallet, who are to write the history of the Duke of Marlborough, may have the use of all papers and letters relating to the same found in any of my houses. And I desire that these two gentlemen may write the said history, that it may be made publick to the world how truly the late Duke of Marlborough wished that justice should be done to all mankind, who, I am sure, left King James with great regret, at a time when ’twas with hazard to himself; and if he had been like the patriots of the present times, he might have been all that an ambitious man could hope for, by assisting King James to settle Popery in England.

I desire that no part of the said history may be in verse.

And I direct that the said history shall not be printed without the approbation of the Earl of Chesterfield and my executors.

I give to Mr. Glover and Mr. Mallet 500_l._ each for writing the history.

(Here follows a contingent provision for the younger children of Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough.)

I give to Thomas Duke of Leeds my estate near St. Albans, and my freehold at Romney Marsh, Kent.

I give to Philip Earl of Chesterfield my manor at Wimbledon, and also my manors in Northampton and Surrey.

I give to the Earl of Clancarty my manors and lands in the county of Buckingham.

To William Pitt I give my manor, &c., in the county of Buckingham, late the estate of Richard Hampden, Esq.; and leasehold in Suffolk; and lands, &c. in Northampton.

And to —— Bishop, Esq., my grandson, my manor, &c. in Oxford, with the furniture, &c.

To Hugh Earl of Marchmont, my manor, &c. in Buckingham, late the estate of Sir John Witteronge, Bart.; and also my manor, &c. in the same county, late the estate of Sir Thomas Tyrrel.

To Thomas Lord Bishop of Oxford, my manor, &c. in Bedford.

To Beversham Filmer, Esq., my manors, &c. in Leicester and Northampton, late the estates of Sir Thomas Cave.

To Dr. James Stephens, my estates, &c. in Berks and Huntingdon.

And all other undisposed of estates or effects to John Spencer, his heirs, &c.

SARAH MARLBOROUGH.

Dated August 15th, 1744.

(Witnessed by)

SANDWICH.
GEO. HEATHCOTE.
HENRY MARSHALL.
RICHARD HOARE.

THE END.

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Footnote 1:

Royal and Noble Authors, art. Peterborough.

Footnote 2:

Pope’s Letters to Swift, p. 76.

Footnote 3:

Noble, vol. ii. p. 43.

Footnote 4:

The Earl married, first, Carey, daughter of Sir Alexander Frazer, and,
secondly, the accomplished Anastasia Robinson, the daughter of a
painter. The story of his lordship’s lovesuit to this lady shows at
once the licentiousness and the eccentricity of his character. Whilst
he admired the virtues of Miss Robinson, and her efforts in her
vocation as an opera singer and a teacher of music and Italian, to
support an aged father, he did not deem it beneath him to endeavour to
make her his mistress. His arts were unsuccessful, and Anastasia
became privately his wife. In 1735 it suited his fancy to proclaim his
marriage. Being at Bath, in the public rooms, a servant was ordered to
call out distinctly, “Lady Peterborough’s carriage waits;” on which
every lady of rank and respectability rose, and wished the new
Countess joy.—Granger, vol. ii. p. 45.

Footnote 5:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 4.

Footnote 6:

Lady M. W.’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 168.

Footnote 7:

Coxe, vol. i. p. 232.

Footnote 8:

Cunningham, b. vi. p. 328.

Footnote 9:

Noble, vol. ii. p. 36.

Footnote 10:

Boyer, App., p. 46.

Footnote 11:

Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 197.

Footnote 12:

Cunningham, b. vi. p. 328.

Footnote 13:

Boyer.

Footnote 14:

Walpole’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 401.

Footnote 15:

Coxe, vol. i. p. 284.

Footnote 16:

Cunningham, book vi. p. 350.

Footnote 17:

Conduct, p. 159.

Footnote 18:

Conduct, p. 141.

Footnote 19:

Burnet.

Footnote 20:

Conduct, p. 171.

Footnote 21:

Conduct, p. 172.

Footnote 22:

Coxe.

Footnote 23:

Cunningham, b. vi. p. 351.

Footnote 24:

Ibid.

Footnote 25:

Examiner, No. 26.

Footnote 26:

Boyer, p. 472.

Footnote 27:

Coxe, p. 280.

Footnote 28:

Coxe, p. 279.

Footnote 29:

Ibid.

Footnote 30:

Coxe, p. 294, and Cunningham.

Footnote 31:

Cunningham, b. vi. p. 369.

Footnote 32:

Conduct, p. 145.

Footnote 33:

Somerville, vol. i. p. 48.

Footnote 34:

Coxe, p. 295.

Footnote 35:

Conduct, p. 145.

Footnote 36:

Conduct, p. 156.

Footnote 37:

Burnet, vol. v. p. 157.

Footnote 38:

Conduct.

Footnote 39:

Burnet.

Footnote 40:

Coxe, vol. i. p. 239.

Footnote 41:

Cox, vol. i. p. 246.

Footnote 42:

Ibid.

Footnote 43:

Lediard, vol. i. p. 365.

Footnote 44:

As prisoners.

Footnote 45:

Cunningham, b. vii. p. 402.

Footnote 46:

Coxe, vol. i. p. 306.

Footnote 47:

Lediard.

Footnote 48:

Ibid.

Footnote 49:

Cunningham, p. 402.

Footnote 50:

History of Europe. Lediard. Coxe.

Footnote 51:

History of Europe. Lediard. Coxe.

Footnote 52:

Lediard, p. 478.

Footnote 53:

Cunningham, book viii. p. 442.

Footnote 54:

Conduct, p. 147.

Footnote 55:

Lediard. Cunningham.

Footnote 56:

Conduct, p. 156.

Footnote 57:

Conduct, p. 150.

Footnote 58:

Conduct, p. 155.

Footnote 59:

Cunningham, p. 456.

Footnote 60:

See Conduct. Somerville, chap. vi. p. 113.

Footnote 61:

Conduct, p. 159.

Footnote 62:

Cunningham, p. 458.

Footnote 63:

Cunningham.

Footnote 64:

Lediard, vol. iii.

Footnote 65:

Cunningham, b. viii. p. 461.

Footnote 66:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 3.

Footnote 67:

Cunningham, p. 452.

Footnote 68:

Conduct, p. 161. Cunningham. Lediard.

Footnote 69:

Conduct, p. 170.

Footnote 70:

Ibid. p. 165–167.

Footnote 71:

Conduct, p. 173.

Footnote 72:

Ibid. p. 174.

Footnote 73:

Coxe, p. 515.

Footnote 74:

He was made Lord Keeper in 1705, and Lord Chancellor in 1707.

Footnote 75:

MSS. Letters British Museum, Coxe Papers, 45, 4to. p. 2.

Footnote 76:

Conduct, p. 171.

Footnote 77:

Ibid. p. 176.

Footnote 78:

Conduct, 161.

Footnote 79:

Other Side, p. 259.

Footnote 80:

Ibid. p. 261.

Footnote 81:

Conduct, p. 162.

Footnote 82:

Other Side, p. 261.

Footnote 83:

Cunningham, b. ix. p. 77.

Footnote 84:

Cunningham, p. 77.

Footnote 85:

Cunningham, p. 55, and Biographia Britannica.

Footnote 86:

Conduct.

Footnote 87:

Conduct, p. 177–181.

Footnote 88:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 2.

Footnote 89:

Letters on the Study of History. Letter IV.

Footnote 90:

Conduct, p. 176.

Footnote 91:

In her letter (supposed to Bishop Burnet) endorsed “An answer to the
person that asked what first stuck with me,” in the Coxe MSS. the
Duchess calls Mr. Hill “a merchant, or projector,” who was in some way
related to Mr. Harley, and by profession an Anabaptist.—Coxe MSS. vol.
xlv. p. 11.

Footnote 92:

Conduct.

Footnote 93:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlv. p. 11.

Footnote 94:

Ibid.

Footnote 95:

Political pamphlet, entitled a “Continuation of the Review of a late
Treatise,” &c. London, 1741, p. 31.

Footnote 96:

MSS. B. M. Coxe Papers, vol. xliv.

Footnote 97:

Conduct, p. 183.

Footnote 98:

Mr. Masham was first page of honour to Queen Anne and to Prince
George, and also equerry to the latter. In 1710 he was preferred to
the command of a regiment of horse, and advanced to the rank of
brigadier-general. At the famous creation in 1711, he was made a peer,
by the title of Lord Masham of Oates, in the county of Essex. By his
lady, who died in 1734, he had three sons and two daughters. Anne, his
lordship’s eldest daughter, married, in 1726, Henry Hoare, grandson of
Sir Richard Hoare, formerly Lord Mayor of London.—_London Chronicle._

Footnote 99:

Conduct, p. 181.

Footnote 100:

MS. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson, B. M.

Footnote 101:

Conduct, p. 185.

Footnote 102:

Coxe, Papers vol. xlv. p. 13.

Footnote 103:

Conduct, p. 190.

Footnote 104:

Other Side of the Question, p. 311.

Footnote 105:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 63.

Footnote 106:

Ibid. p. 105.

Footnote 107:

MS. Letter, British Museum.

Footnote 108:

Preface to Lord Wharncliffe’s Ed. of Lady M. W.’s Letters, p. 74.

Footnote 109:

Conduct, p. 197.

Footnote 110:

Cunningham, b. ix. p. 82.

Footnote 111:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 5.

Footnote 112:

Other Side, p. 316.

Footnote 113:

B. ix. p. 80.

Footnote 114:

Conduct, p. 70.

Footnote 115:

Lediard.

Footnote 116:

Conduct, p. 191.

Footnote 117:

Conduct, p. 202.

Footnote 118:

Coxe Papers, vol. xliv.

Footnote 119:

London Chronicle, 1763.

Footnote 120:

MS.

Footnote 121:

See Appendix.

Footnote 122:

Conduct.

Footnote 123:

Conduct.

Footnote 124:

Coxe, book i. p. 377.

Footnote 125:

Burnet, vol. v. p. 358.

Footnote 126:

Coxe, p. 370–372.

Footnote 127:

Correspondence, vol. i. p. 83.

Footnote 128:

Ibid. p. 84.

Footnote 129:

Cunningham, b. ix. p. 141.

Footnote 130:

Cunningham, vol. x. p. 132.

Footnote 131:

Burnet, p. 373.

Footnote 132:

Burnet.

Footnote 133:

See Lives of St. John Lord Bolingbroke, by Goldsmith. Biog.
Britannica, &c.

Footnote 134:

Cunningham.

Footnote 135:

Letters on History.

Footnote 136:

See Lives of Bolingbroke—Coxe, Burnet, Lediard.

Footnote 137:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 9.

Footnote 138:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 9.

Footnote 139:

Burnet, b. v. p. 384.

Footnote 140:

Conduct, p. 214.

Footnote 141:

Ibid. 216.

Footnote 142:

Ibid.

Footnote 143:

Conduct, p. 222.

Footnote 144:

Conduct, p. 219.

Footnote 145:

Aug. 19, 1708.

Footnote 146:

Conduct, p. 222.

Footnote 147:

Preserved in the Coxe MSS. B. M., and given in the Appendix to this
volume.

Footnote 148:

Burnet, vol. iv. p. 247.

Footnote 149:

Conduct. Also Narrative, by the Duchess, of the events which took
place after the Prince of Denmark’s death. Coxe, vol. iv. p. 234.

Footnote 150:

Macauley. History of England from the Revolution, p. 218.

Footnote 151:

Cunningham.

Footnote 152:

Cunningham, book ii. p. 300.

Footnote 153:

MS. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson. This curious and natural account of an
amusing scene is contained in a manuscript Vindication of the Duchess,
addressed to Mr. Hutchinson, preserved in the Coxe MSS. in the British
Museum, and has never before been quoted or published.—See Coxe
Papers, vol. xliv. p. 2. “The good-nature yet weakness of Anne’s
character is strongly exemplified in the details in the text.”

Footnote 154:

Lady Hyde, afterwards Countess of Rochester, from whom the Duchess
states herself to have received many affronts on the back-stairs.—Coxe
MSS. vol. 44.

Footnote 155:

The Duchess of Somerset, wife of the proud Duke of Somerset, so called
from his excessive pride of rank and ostentation, was a Percy; and, as
such, considered to merit precedence, and great deference, both by her
husband and by the Duchess of Marlborough, who always called her “the
great lady.” There seems to have been a friendly understanding between
the two Duchesses, for Mr. Maynwaring, in one of his letters to the
Duchess of Marlborough, says, “I am glad the Duke and Duchess of
Somerset were to dine with you, for notwithstanding the faults of the
one, and the spirit of Percy blood in the other, I think they both
naturally love and esteem you very much.”—Coxe MSS. vol. xli. p. 248.

Footnote 156:

MS. Letter. Coxe Papers, p. 44.

Footnote 157:

Conduct, p. 230.

Footnote 158:

Conduct, p. 230.

Footnote 159:

Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.

Footnote 160:

Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.

Footnote 161:

Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.

Footnote 162:

Cunningham, book xii. p. 282.

Footnote 163:

Conduct, from p. 238 to 244.

Footnote 164:

See another account of this scene, in Private Correspondence of the
Duke of Marlborough, vol. i. p. 295.

Footnote 165:

Conduct, p. 244.

Footnote 166:

Burnet’s History, b. iv. vol. vi. p. 314.

Footnote 167:

Biographia Britannica, art. Gilbert Burnet.

Footnote 168:

Biographia Britannica.

Footnote 169:

The Countess de Soissons was one among many ladies of rank, and some
belonging to the court, who, merely to satisfy curiosity, ever
powerful in female hearts, visited a woman of the name of Voisin, who
carried on a traffic in poisons, and was convicted by the _Chambre
Ardente_, and burnt alive on the twenty-second of February, 1680. This
woman kept a list of all who had been dupes to her imposture; and in
it were found the names of the Countess de Soissons, her sister the
Duchess de Bouillon, and Marshal de Luxembourg. In order to avoid the
disgrace of imprisonment without a fair trial, the Countess fled to
Flanders; her sister was saved by the interest of her friends; and the
Marshal, after some months’ imprisonment in the Bastile, was declared
innocent.—_See_ _Beckman’s History of Inventions_, vol. i. p. 94, 95.

Footnote 170:

Burnet, Hist. p. 290.

Footnote 171:

Conduct, p. 254.

Footnote 172:

Cunningham, Burnet, Tindal.

Footnote 173:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 317.

Footnote 174:

Conduct, p. 260.

Footnote 175:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 343.

Footnote 176:

Ibid. p. 351.

Footnote 177:

Private Correspondence, p. 366.

Footnote 178:

Conduct, p. 261.

Footnote 179:

See Cibber’s Apology. Lady M. Wortley Montague, preface.

Footnote 180:

Swift’s Letters, xiii p. 47.

Footnote 181:

Examiner, No. xvii.

Footnote 182:

Conduct, p. 263.

Footnote 183:

Conduct, p. 273.

Footnote 184:

Conduct, p. 279.

Footnote 185:

Conduct, p. 282.

Footnote 186:

Alluding, probably, to the custom of touching for the King’s evil.

Footnote 187:

Cunningham, b. xix. p. 348.

Footnote 188:

Conduct, p. 269. See Appendix.

Footnote 189:

Ibid. p. 270.

Footnote 190:

Coxe, MS. vol. xliii.

Footnote 191:

Lediard, p. 283.

Footnote 192:

Lediard, p. 278.

Footnote 193:

See Coxe—Lediard—Biog. Brit.

Footnote 194:

Warton’s Essay on Pope, p. 119.

Footnote 195:

See Archdeacon Coxe.

Footnote 196:

The Duchess herself remarks it, as an extraordinary occurrence, that
her husband should, even upon a most trying occasion, be betrayed into
anger. When he received from Queen Anne the letter containing his
dismissal, he flung it, she says, “in a passion,” into the fire. Coxe,
MS. vol. xliii.

Footnote 197:

Biog. Britannica.

Footnote 198:

Swift’s Works, vol. xiii. p. 36.

Footnote 199:

See Swift’s Letter.

Footnote 200:

Lediard, vol. ii. p. 399.

Footnote 201:

Lediard, p. 391.

Footnote 202:

See Appendix.

Footnote 203:

Lord Cowper’s Diary.

Footnote 204:

Ibid. vol. iv. p. 229.

Footnote 205:

Somerville, chap. xxiii. p. 125.

Footnote 206:

Somerville, p. 554, 555.

Footnote 207:

Sheridan’s Swift, p. 143.

Footnote 208:

Conduct.

Footnote 209:

Coxe MSS. vol. xliv. p. 2.

Footnote 210:

Swift’s Correspondence, vol. xv. p. 111.

Footnote 211:

Swift’s Correspondence, vol. xv. p. 73.

Footnote 212:

Ibid. p. 76.

Footnote 213:

Swift’s Correspondence, vol. xv. p. 77.

Footnote 214:

Swift’s Letters.

Footnote 215:

Coxe, p. 297.

Footnote 216:

Letter of Erasmus Lewes to Swift, vol. xv. p. 108.

Footnote 217:

Boyer, p. 714.

Footnote 218:

Boyer. Arbuthnot’s Letter to Swift, vol. xv.

Footnote 219:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 147.

Footnote 220:

Her early medical attendant, and that of her family, Dr. Ratcliffe,
the singular benefactor of Oxford, was not present at her sick-bed. He
died soon afterwards. This humorist, and shrewd physician, had
offended her Majesty some time previously, by saying that her
complaint was nothing but “_vapours_.” Possibly he was so far right,
that repose, not medicine, was what the poor, harassed Queen required.
Dr. Ratcliffe had been sent for to Prince George by the Queen’s
express desire. On that occasion he had given her Majesty no hopes;
telling her that however common it might be for surgeons to use
caustics in cases of burning and scalding, “it was irregular for
physicians to expel watery humours by the same element.” To this
dogmatic assertion he added a promise that the dying Prince should
have an easy passage out of this world, since he had been so “tampered
with,” he could not live more than six days.—_Ingram’s Memorials of
Oxford_, vol. iii. p. 8.

For some further notice of this extraordinary man, see the concluding
portion of this volume.

Footnote 221:

Somerville, Appendix II p. 656.

Footnote 222:

Lediard, p. 447.

Footnote 223:

Coxe, vol. vi. p. 296.

Footnote 224:

Ibid. p. 305.

Footnote 225:

Lediard, p. 453.

Footnote 226:

Coxe, p. 6. 308.

Footnote 227:

Macauley. Lediard.

Footnote 228:

Macaulay. Chesterfield.

Footnote 229:

Coxe, vol. iii. p. 610.

Footnote 230:

A portion of that task, namely, her letter to Mr. Hutchison, she is
stated, in a note in Dr. Coxe’s handwriting, to have begun during her
residence abroad.

Footnote 231:

The principal of Sir J. Vanburgh’s works, besides Castle Howard and
Blenheim, were Eastleving, in Dorsetshire; King’s Weston, near
Bristol; the Opera House, and St. John’s Church, Westminster—not to
mention his own residence at Whitehall, of which Swift writes—

“At length they in the rubbish spy
A thing resembling a goose-pie.”

Footnote 232:

Swift’s pun on this occasion was, that he might now “build houses.”

Footnote 233:

Hist. Vanburgh’s House, 1708.

Footnote 234:

This anecdote is pronounced by Mr. D’Israeli, in his “Curiosities of
Literature” (1823), to be a mere invention.

Footnote 235:

Vanburgh died in 1726.

Footnote 236:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 76.

Footnote 237:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 76.

Footnote 238:

Coxe Papers.

Footnote 239:

Coxe Papers. See Appendix.

Footnote 240:

Coxe Papers, vol. xlvi. p. 148.

Footnote 241:

This marriage, unhappily for the Duke, was childless, thus
disappointing his hopes of being able proudly to deduce the origin of
his posterity from the great Marlborough.—Coxe Papers, vol. xlvi. p.
148.

Footnote 242:

This letter, together with the rest of this curious correspondence, is
to be seen in the Appendix.

Footnote 243:

Coxe MSS.

Footnote 244:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 148.

Footnote 245:

Ibid. p. 145.

Footnote 246:

See Swift’s Letters.

Footnote 247:

Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 131.

Footnote 248:

Swift’s Letters, vol. xiv. p. 90.

Footnote 249:

Coxe, vol. vi. quarto, p. 615.

Footnote 250:

See Cunningham and others.

Footnote 251:

See Appendix.

Footnote 252:

Coxe, p. 361.

Footnote 253:

See Coxe, p. 619, and also Lord Sunderland’s answer.

Footnote 254:

Coxe, vol. iii. p. 645.

Footnote 255:

Hogarth personated the Ghost of Brutus, but, being wholly deficient in
memory, he was unable to commit to memory the few lines which
constituted his part. The verses he was to deliver were therefore
pasted in very large letters on the outside of an illuminated lantern,
so that he could read them as he came on the stage, with that
appropriate implement in his hand.

Footnote 256:

Biographical Dict., Art. Hoadly.

Footnote 257:

Coxe.

Footnote 258:

The play-bill of “All for Love; or the World Well Lost,” has been
given at length by Dr. Coxe. It runs as follows:

_Marc Anthony_, Captain Fish, Page of the Duchess.
_Ventidius_, Old Mr. Jennings.
_Sarapion, the High Priest_, Miss Cairnes.
_Alexis_, Mrs. La Vie.
_Cleopatra_, Lady Charlotte Macarthy.
_Octavia_, Lady Anne Spencer.
_Children of Marc Anthony_, Lady Anne Egerton, Lady Diana Spencer.
(Scene, the Bow-window Room.)
(Great screens for changing scenes.)

Footnote 259:

Coxe.

Footnote 260:

His second wife. He married first a Miss Talbot, niece of the Duke of
Shrewsbury.—Burke’s Peerage.

Footnote 261:

Coxe.

Footnote 262:

Biographia Britannica.

Footnote 263:

Biographia Britannica.

Footnote 264:

Macauley, p. 290.

Footnote 265:

Coxe.

Footnote 266:

Anecdotes of Lady M. W., edited by Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 74.

Footnote 267:

Coxe, vol. i. p. 625.

Footnote 268:

Macauley, p. 308.

Footnote 269:

Coxe.

Footnote 270:

Biographia Britannica.

Footnote 271:

Coxe.

Footnote 272:

Political and Literary Anecdotes of his Own Time, by Dr. King.

Footnote 273:

Scott’s Life of Swift.

Footnote 274:

Lord Chesterfield’s Characters.

Footnote 275:

Lord Chesterfield. Horace Walpole.

Footnote 276:

Such was also the case even with the great Lord Clarendon, after many
years of exile. See Mr. James’s Life of Louis Quatorze, vol. iii.

Footnote 277:

Coxe, p. 629.

Footnote 278:

Mem. of Lord Walpole. Coxe, p. 8.

Footnote 279:

The origin of Mr. James Craggs is said by Lady Mary W. Montague to be
derived from a very low source. His father was footman to the Duchess
of Norfolk, and a footman of the old school, who managed his
mistress’s intrigues as well as other household affairs.—Lady M. W.
M.’s Letters. Hence the epigram in Horace Walpole’s Letters.

Footnote 280:

Coxe, Appendix.

Footnote 281:

Life of Lord Walpole, p. 20.

Footnote 282:

Horace Walpole, Reminiscences.

Footnote 283:

For the rest of this curious letter, see Appendix. It was kindly
pointed out to me by Deputy Holmes, Esq. keeper of the Manuscripts,
British Museum. That gentleman found it crumpled up among Dr. Coxe’s
papers, while he was arranging those manuscripts in their present
convenient form. To this letter there is neither date nor address: on
the back it is endorsed, “From the Duke of Marlborough;” Mr. Holmes
surmises, in the handwriting of Lord Godolphin. Archdeacon Coxe has
not noticed the Duke’s perplexity on the point expressed in this
letter.

Footnote 284:

See Opinions.

Footnote 285:

Horace Walpole, Reminiscences.

Footnote 286:

Coxe, p. 646.

Footnote 287:

Coxe, vol. vi. octavo, p. 646.

Footnote 288:

“Our bishops,” says the Duchess, writing of the Princess, whose
condescension she had so greatly extolled, “are now about to employ
hands to write the finest character that ever was heard of Queen
Caroline; who, as it is no treason, I freely own that I am glad she is
dead. Upon her great understanding and goodness there come out
nauseous panegyrics every day, that make one sick, so full of nonsense
and lies. There is one very remarkable from a Dr. Clarke, in order to
have the first bishoprick that falls, and I dare say he will have it,
though there is something extremely ridiculous in the panegyric; for,
after he has given her the most perfect character that ever any woman
had, or can have, he allows that she had sacrificed her reputation to
the great and the many, to show her duty to the King and her love to
the country. These are the clergyman’s words exactly, which allows she
did wrong things, but it was to please the King,—which is condemning
him. I suppose he must mean some good she did to her own country, for
I know of none she did in England, unless taking from the public
deserves a panegyric.”—Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 169.
Duchess of Marlborough’s Opinions.

Footnote 289:

See Dr. Coxe, p. 648.

Footnote 290:

Coxe, p. 649.

Footnote 291:

Newspapers of the day.

Footnote 292:

Coxe Papers, vol. xli. p. 76.

Footnote 293:

Warton’s Essay on Pope, vol. ii. p. 303.

Footnote 294:

Swift’s Correspondence, vol. xv. p. 236.

Footnote 295:

Biographia.

Footnote 296:

London Chronicle, November 21, 1758.

Footnote 297:

His avarice has been attributed greatly to the Duchess’s influence.

Footnote 298:

Collins’s Baronage, vol. ii.

Footnote 299:

See Lady M. W. Montague’s Letters.

Footnote 300:

Coxe, p. 653.

Footnote 301:

Coxe, p. 653.

Footnote 302:

See some curious letters in the Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 70.

Footnote 303:

Burke’s Extinct Peerage, art. Coningsby.

Footnote 304:

By Frances, daughter of the Earl of Ranelagh.

Footnote 305:

Oct. 8, 1722. The Duke died June 16, 1722.

Footnote 306:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 70.

Footnote 307:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 71.

Footnote 308:

Coxe.

Footnote 309:

Private Correspondence, p. 206. Letter from Mr. Maynwaring to the
Duchess.

Footnote 310:

Ibid. See also Horace Walpole’s Letters.

Footnote 311:

Burke’s Peerage, art. Somerset.

Footnote 312:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 147.

Footnote 313:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 147.

Footnote 314:

Coxe, p. 656.

Footnote 315:

Coxe.

Footnote 316:

Ibid.

Footnote 317:

H. Walpole’s Reminiscences.

Footnote 318:

Warton on Pope.

Footnote 319:

Warton on Pope, p. 141.

Footnote 320:

Macauley.

Footnote 321:

Chesterfield’s Characters.

Footnote 322:

Chesterfield, Smollett, Tindal, &c.

Footnote 323:

See Macauley, p. 225.

Footnote 324:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 161.

Footnote 325:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 152.

Footnote 326:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 495.

Footnote 327:

Private Correspondence, p. 495.

Footnote 328:

Macaulay, p. 370.

Footnote 329:

Private Correspondence, p. 461.

Footnote 330:

Private Correspondence, p. 465.

Footnote 331:

Letter from Lord Godolphin to the Duchess. Private Correspondence, p.
479.

Footnote 332:

Private Correspondence, p. 467.

Footnote 333:

Coxe MSS. vol. xliii. p. 123.

Footnote 334:

Private Correspondence, p. 472, 473.

Footnote 335:

Burke’s Peerage.

Footnote 336:

Horace Walpole, Reminiscences.

Footnote 337:

Chesterfield. Annual Register. Collins’ Baronage.

Footnote 338:

Chesterfield’s Characters.

Footnote 339:

Note in Chesterfield’s Characters, p. 50.

Footnote 340:

Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 2.

Footnote 341:

Ibid.

Footnote 342:

Collins’s Baronage.

Footnote 343:

Chesterfield.

Footnote 344:

Lady M. W. Montague.

Footnote 345:

This letter is given literally as it is written, without any
alteration of grammar or punctuation.—Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 148.

Footnote 346:

Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. iii. p. 286.

Footnote 347:

Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 144.

Footnote 348:

Dallaway’s Memoirs of Lady M. W. Lord Wharncliffe. Edition of Lady M.
W.

Footnote 349:

Horace Walpole mentions this anecdote of Lady Bateman, but a later
account specifies Lady Anne Egerton as the heroine of the blackened
picture.

Footnote 350:

Those who have read the novels of Richardson, faithful delineations of
manners, cannot but recal to mind the descriptions given of parental
authority, and of filial fear, by that prolix, but, in some points,
incomparable novelist.

Footnote 351:

Coxe MSS., vol. iv.

Footnote 352:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 103.

Footnote 353:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 100–102.

Footnote 354:

Memoirs of the Life of Whiston, p. 102.

Footnote 355:

Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 6.

Footnote 356:

Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 76.

Footnote 357:

Life of Colley Cibber, p. 66.

Footnote 358:

Life of Colley Cibber, p. 461.

Footnote 359:

Such was her excellence in the “Provoked Husband,” that the managers
made her a present of fifty guineas above her agreement, which was
only a verbal one; “for they knew,” says Cibber, “that she was
incapable of deserting them for another stage.” One of the many good
traits in the character of this erring woman was her refusing to
receive her salary, when disabled by illness from performing, although
her agreement entitled her to receive it.—Life of Colley Cibber, p.
291.

Footnote 360:

It was not situated exactly on the spot, but near to the summer-house,
which has been mentioned in p. 10. vol. i. of this work. The
summer-house is also pulled down.

Footnote 361:

In Holywell-house, the Dowager Lady Spencer, mother of the beautiful
Duchess of Devonshire, long resided. Her ladyship received among her
guests the late antiquary, —— Browne, Esq. of St. Albans, whose death,
at a very advanced age, took place very recently. The authoress had
the honour of conversing with this venerable antiquary, but could not
learn from him that there were any particular traces in Holywell-house
of the Duchess or her children, though there are several, as Mr.
Browne informed her, of the Spencer and Cavendish family, more
especially of the present Duke of Devonshire, whose visits to Holywell
in childhood were frequent.

Footnote 362:

From the catalogue, Holywell-house must have been very commodious; but
the rooms, though numerous, were not large. The authoress saw it on
the eve of its destruction, and, not being at all aware of its
peculiar interest to her, was struck by its massive though not
picturesque appearance. It commanded a fine view of St. Alban’s Abbey.

Footnote 363:

On this occasion the churchwardens of Kingston paid “twenty pence” for
mending the ways when the Queen went from Wimbledon to Nonsuch.

Footnote 364:

The survey taken of it by order of parliament, in 1649, describes it
minutely, and is very curious. It is printed in the Archæologia of the
Society of Antiquaries, vol. x. p. 399, 8vo., from the original in the
Augmentation Office.

Footnote 365:

There is a view of this, the Duchess’s house, in the fifth volume of
the “Vitruvius Britannicus.”

Footnote 366:

The following account, supplied by William Upcott, Esq., from some one
of the daily papers of that day, is curious. “Woodstock, June 19.
Yesterday being Monday, about six o’clock in the evening, was laid the
first stone of the Duke of Marlborough’s house, by Mr. Vanbrugge, and
then seven gentlemen gave it a stroke with a hammer, and threw down
each of them a guinea; Sir Thomas Wheate was the first, Dr. Bouchel
the second, Mr. Vanbrugge the third; I know not the rest. There were
several sorts of musick; three morris dances; one of young fellows,
one of maidens, and one of old beldames. There were about a hundred
buckets, bowls, and pans, filled with wine, punch, cakes, and ale.
From my lord’s house all went to the Town-hall, where plenty of sack,
claret, cakes, &c., were prepared for the gentry and better sort; and
under the Cross eight barrels of ale, with abundance of cakes, were
placed for the common people. The stone laid by Mr. Vanbrugge was
eight square, finely polished, about eighteen inches over, and upon it
were these words inlayed in pewter—_In memory of the battel of
Blenheim, June 8, 1705, Anna Regina._”

Footnote 367:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi.

Footnote 368:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 8.

Footnote 369:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 8.

Footnote 370:

In the possession of William Upcott, Esq.

Footnote 371:

The word is expressed thus + in the original letter.

Footnote 372:

Coxe MSS., vol. xli p. 14.

Footnote 373:

For the correspondence on this subject, hitherto unpublished, see
Appendix.

Footnote 374:

Appendix.

Footnote 375:

Coxe MSS.

Footnote 376:

Coxe Papers.

Footnote 377:

Coxe, p. 642.

Footnote 378:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 74.

Footnote 379:

Coxe.

Footnote 380:

Newspapers. Anecdote supplied by W. Upcott, Esq.

Footnote 381:

Letter from Vanburgh to Tonson. D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature.
1823.

Footnote 382:

Letter to Mr. Hutchinson, Coxe MSS.

Footnote 383:

Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough. Published in 1745.

Footnote 384:

Walpole’s Reminiscences, p. 293.

Footnote 385:

Reminiscences.

Footnote 386:

Chesterfield’s Characters.

Footnote 387:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii.

Footnote 388:

Granger’s Biog. Hist. of Great Britain. Art. Jennings.

Footnote 389:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 179.

Footnote 390:

Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough.

Footnote 391:

Macauley.

Footnote 392:

Lord Chesterfield.

Footnote 393:

Biographical Dictionary.

Footnote 394:

Manuscript Notes in the copy of the Duchess’s Opinions in the British
Museum.

Footnote 395:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 123.

Footnote 396:

He conducted the paper called the “Champion.” His sister Sarah, a
literary character also, was the intimate friend of Dr. Hoadly.
Possibly, from her name, she may have been a god-daughter of the
Duchess.

Footnote 397:

Reminiscences, p. 308.

Footnote 398:

Letters of Walpole, vol. i. p. 42.

Footnote 399:

Private Correspondence. Life of the Duchess.

Footnote 400:

Manuscript Notes to her Opinions.

Footnote 401:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 168.

Footnote 402:

Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 209.

Footnote 403:

Coxe. Private Correspondence, &c.

Footnote 404:

Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough.

Footnote 405:

Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough.

Footnote 406:

The details of her grievances are to be found in the Appendix.

Footnote 407:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 123.

Footnote 408:

Coxe MSS.

Footnote 409:

As her early and only biographer expresses it, at her house at the
Friery, St. James’s. Friery Passage was formerly close to
Marlborough-house.

Footnote 410:

Coxe MSS.

Footnote 411:

See Appendix.

Footnote 412:

Coxe MSS., vol. xv. p. 151.

Footnote 413:

Coxe MSS., vol. xli. p. 14.

Footnote 414:

Blank in manuscript.

Footnote 415:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 28.

Footnote 416:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 56.

Footnote 417:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 127.

Footnote 418:

Coxe MSS., vol xli. p. 25.

Footnote 419:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 24.

Footnote 420:

Coxe MSS., vol. xli. p. 31.

Footnote 421:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 29.

Footnote 422:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 76.

Footnote 423:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 68.

Footnote 424:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 142.

Footnote 425:

Coxe MSS. vol., xlvi. p. 148.

Footnote 426:

Coxe MSS., vol. xv. p. 150.

Footnote 427:

Coxe MSS., vol. xlvii. p. 8.

Footnote 428:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 63.

Footnote 429:

Ibid. vol. xliii. p. 9.

Footnote 430:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 132.

Footnote 431:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 133.

Footnote 432:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 134.

Footnote 433:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii, p. 136.

Footnote 434:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 142.

Footnote 435:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 144.

Footnote 436:

Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 147.

Footnote 437:

This letter is probably in continuation of the Duchess of
Marlborough’s to the Duke of Newcastle, of August 1, 1735.—See vol.
ii. p. 476.

LONDON:
IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

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