[399] "Genuine and Impartial Memoirs of the Life and Character of
Charles Radcliffe, wrote by a Gentleman of the Family, (Mr. Eyre,) to
prevent the public being imposed on by any erroneous or partial
accounts, to the prejudice of this unfortunate gentleman." London,
printed for the Proprietor, and sold by E. Cole, 1746.
[400] Hodgson's Hist. of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 227, note.
[401] Ibid. p. 233.
[402] Fever.
[403] At Thorndon, the seat of Lord Petre, in Norfolk, are other
original letters of Lord Derwentwater, referring to his wife. In most
touching terms he thanks the mother of Lady Derwentwater for having
"given her to him." This, and other interesting documents, are highly
prized, and consequently carefully preserved by the ancient and noble
family to whom they have descended.
[404] See Life of Lord Derwentwater, vol. i.
[405] Ibid. 14.
[406] Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate, 3rd edition, London,
1716.
[407] Ibid. p. 8.
[408] Secret History.
[409] State Trials.
[410] For this anecdote, and also for a considerable portion of the
materials of this Memoir, I am indebted to the great kindness and
intelligence of the Hon. Mrs. Douglas, daughter of the present Lord
Petre.
[411] Wood's Peerage.
[412] MS. Letter.
[413] I must again refer to the information supplied by the Hon. Mrs.
Douglas.
[414] Life of Charles Radcliffe, p. 25.
[415] Letter to G. Montagu, p. 18.
[416] State Trials; quoted from the Impartial History of the late
Charles Radcliffe, written at the time.
[417] Letter to Sir H. Mann, vol. ii. p. 140.
[418] A review of the reign of Geo. II. London. 1762.
[419] Douglas's Peerage, Edit. by Wood.
[420] Brown's Hist. Highlands, (Stuart Papers, Appendix) page 491.
[421] In my first volume, I have stated that the Earl of Newburgh was
the direct representative of James Earl of Derwentwater. (See p. 280,
vol. i.) Into this error I was betrayed by an obscure passage in Burke's
Extinct Peerage.
I am indebted to the Hon. Mrs. Douglass, to whom I have before expressed
my obligations, for a correction of this mistake, and also for the copy
of the pedigree in the Appendix. This lady has also explained the reason
why so many accounts have stated that the body of James Earl of
Derwentwater was interred in St. Giles's Church-yard. His body was
privately removed to Dagenham Park, in Essex, a house his Countess had
hired in order to be near London. A report, meanwhile, was circulated by
his friends that he had been buried in St. Giles's; and, when no further
danger of tumult was to be apprehended, the remains of the Earl were
deposited with his ancestors in the vaults of the chapel at Dilstone.
The mother of the present Mr. Howard, of Corby Castle, and sister of Sir
Thomas Neave, Bart., has often related to her young relations, that when
she and her sisters were children, they were afraid to pass at night
along the gallery at Dagenham, it being popularly supposed that Lord
Derwentwater still walked there, carrying his head under his arm. This
must have been, at least, seventy years after his death.
[422] See Appendix, No. 2, also note.