“We are all disappointed here at hearing_Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2

first report was that by a lively bloom she would cast a shade

over the white complexions of our royal family. The sight of our

brilliant Court, the salutations of our navy on her arrival, the

opulent appearance of our towns, and the greatness of our capital

city will astonish her. I hope her mind is more proportioned

to her lot in marriage than such a situation is to her present

circumstances. A noble mind will fill a great situation, and enjoy

it with pleasure and gratitude, without the swellings of insolence,

but such a change is dangerous where there is a mediocrity of sense

and virtue. I heartily wish she may be worthy of our young King,

be pleasing in the domestick scene, and great in the publick; his

good nature will impart to her a share of power and a degree of

confidence, and I wish for the publick she may never abuse the

one, nor misapply the other. There seems not to be a very good

choice of ladies about her, there is not one who is quite fit to

teach her even the forms of her publick conduct, none at all equal

to advise her private, ignorant as she must be of the behaviour

that will be expected of her, she should have had some woman of

quality of remarkable discretion, character, and politeness, whom

high birth and great situation had approached as nearly as a

subject can to the station of a Queen. Lady Bute would have been

the properest person, but I suppose she might out of delicacy

avoid putting herself about the Queen’s person, as thinking it

might look like watching her, and indeed so happy as Lady Bute

is in her circumstances, the slavery of personal attendance is

more than anything but great ambition could pay her for. I think,

however, they have chosen the ladies[333] of the bedchamber; her

Majesty must consult Lady Bute upon everything.... Lord Bath always

inquires after you and sends his compliments. Lord Lyttelton is

gone on a party of pleasure with Mr. Selwyn.[334] This place is

pretty full of I know not who. Sir Edward Dering and his family

and the Lambarts breakfasted at Tunbridge, and go back again.

“I am, my Dearest,

“With the greatest gratitude

and affection, your most faithful wife,

“E. M.”

[333] The Duchess of Ancaster and Duchess of Hamilton were sent to

escort Queen Charlotte to England.

[334] George Selwyn, celebrated wit; born 1719, died 1791.

[Page heading: A LETTER OF ADVICE]

[Page heading: LES BELLES LETTRES]

[Page heading: THE FEAR OF GOD]

Mrs. Montagu’s letter of advice to Mr. Thomas Lyttelton, who had now

left Eton and gone to Christ Church, Oxford, though undated, may be

placed here.

“Tunbridge, 28 (July?).

“DEAR SIR,

“I have often check’d my inclination to write to you while you were

at Eton for fear of calling you off from your school exercises;

but as you are now in a situation, where there is a vacancy of

business and pleasure, I do not feel the same scruples, may write

you long letters, and expect full answers to them. However, I will

be so far reasonable, that if you send me a card, to signify that

you are engaged for the week, or month, to Cicero or Livy, it will

be a more valid excuse to me than if, on inviting you to dinner,

you told me you were engaged to a beauty or a Duchess. My love

for you, my hope of you, my wishes for you, and my expectations

from you, unite in giving me a respect for your time, and a deep

concern for your employment of it. The morning of life, like the

morning of the day, should be dedicated to business. On the proper

use of that ‘sweet hour of prime’ will depend the glory of your

noon of life, and serenity of the evening. Give it, therefore, dear

Mr. Lyttelton, to the strenuous exertion and labour of the mind,

before the indolence of the meridian hour, or the unabated fervour

of the exhausted day renders you unfit for severe application.

I hope you will not (like many young men who have been reckoned

good scholars at Eton and Westminster) take leave of it there,

and fall into the study of _les belles lettres_, as we call our

modern books. I suppose from the same courtesy the weakest part

of the rational species is styled the fair sex, though it can

boast of few perfect beauties, and perhaps the utmost grace and

dignity of the human form is never found in it. As you have got a

key to the sacred shades of Parnassus, do not lose your time in

sauntering in the homely orchards or diminutive pleasure gardens

of the latter times. If the ancient inhabitants of Parnassus were

to look down from their immortal bowers on our labyrinths, whose

greatest boast is a fanciful intricacy, our narrow paths where

genius cannot take his bounding steps, and all the pert ornaments

in our parterres of wit, they would call them the modern’s folly;

a name the wise farmer often gives to some spot from whence the

Squire has banished the golden harvest, to trim it up for pleasure

with paltry ornaments and quaint conceits. I should be sorry to see

you quit Thucydides for Voltaire, Livy for Vertot, Xenophon for the

bragging Memoirs of French Marshals, and the universal Tully and

deep Tacitus for speculative politicians, modern orators, and the

dreamers in Universities or convents. I will own that in Natural

Philosophy and some of the lesser branches of learning the Moderns

excel; but it would not be right for a person of your situation

to strike into any private paths of Science. The study of History

will best fit you for active life. From history you will acquire a

knowledge of mankind, and a true judgment in politics; in moral, as

well as physical enquiries, we should have recourse to experiments.

As to the particular study of eloquence, I need hardly exhort you

to do it; for eloquence is not only the most beautiful of all the

daughters of wisdom, but has also the best dowry; and we may say

of her, as Solomon did of her Mother, riches and honours are in

her right hand. Elevation of sentiment and dignity of language

are necessary to make an orator; modern life and modern language

will hardly inspire you with either. I look upon Virtue as the

muse of Eloquence, she inspired the phillippics of the Grecian

and Roman Orator, her voice awakened Rome, slumbering in the

snares of Catiline. Public spirit will teach the art of public

speaking better than the rules of rhetoric, but above all things,

the character of the orator gives persuasion, grace, and dignity

to the Oration. Integrity of Manners gives the best testimony of

sincerity of speech. If you form your conduct upon the sacred

book which gives rules far more perfect than human wisdom could

contrive, you will be an honour to religion, a support to your

country, and a blessing to your family. It may seem strange that

I have last mentioned what should be first regarded. The Bible

alone will make a good man; human learning without the fear of God,

which is the beginning of Wisdom and the knowledge of Him, which is

understanding, will produce but a poor inconsistent character; but

duties are enlarged and multiplied by the power and circumstances

with which God has intrusted us, and in which He has placed us.

Your talents and situation will fit you for public trusts; it is a

duty in you to qualify yourself for them, to give your virtue every

strength, and then to employ it in the service of your country in

its most important interests, true religion, and good government.

I hope you will excuse my having said so much, that has the air

of advice to one who wants it so little, but young people are apt

to be prodigal of time because they think they have so many years

before them; but if life be long, the season for improvement is

short.

“I hope Mrs. Fortescue[335] liked the Indian paper; it is new

and uncommon, and I thought much prettier than any I could get

at a moderate price. I beg my respects to her and my dear Miss

Lyttelton.[336] I hear there will be a turnpike road between Oxford

and Newbury, and I hope you will frequently make use of it. I shall

leave Tunbridge on Monday. I have enjoyed perfect health here, and

the society of some of my best friends, so you may believe I have

passed the season very happily, but a happy life seems always a

short one. Mrs. Carter was so good as to give me her company in

my house. My Lord Lyttelton and my Lord Bath were often with us;

having had their characters continually before me, you will not

wonder I should think great acquirements as well as great talents

necessary to make all possible perfection. I am sure you will be

pleased to hear that my Lord Bath greatly approves and admires that

part of my Lord Lyttelton’s history which is already printed. I

believe there is not any one living whose approbation would give

Lord Lyttelton so much pleasure; talents and virtues and extensive

knowledge all in the highest degree join to make him a perfect

judge, and his great reputation gives him a decisive authority;

your Father is proud of his praise as a critick, and pleased with

it on motives of friendship, which touch his heart more nearly than

any where vanity has a part, tho’ he is an author and a poet. His

Lordship’s Muse met him in the shades of Penshurst, and with love

or flattery prompted two charming pieces, one to Mrs. Carter, and

one to my Lord Bath. Mrs. Carter, Dr. Monsey and Mr. Montagu desire

their compliments to you.

“I am, dear Sir,

“Your most sincere and affectionate friend

and obedient humble Servant,

“E. MONTAGU.”

[335] Mr. Lyttelton’s grandmother.

[336] His sister.

[Page heading: A BLOOM-COLOURED COAT]

Dr. Monsey, who had recovered from a severe illness, had joined the

party at Tunbridge, and had appeared in a new bloom-coloured coat, to

the amusement of the Montagu circle, who chaffed him upon it.

On August 22 Mr. Charles Morton wrote to Mrs. Montagu the following:--

“MADAM,

“As I conceive the following article which I have just received in

a letter from Paris, to relate to the Countess of Pomfret,[337]

I thought it might be agreeable to you to acquaint Her Ladyship

therewith.

“‘Monsʳ Bejot, who, since the death of the Abbé Sallier, has care

of the manuscripts in the King’s Library, is a most worthy and

obliging gentleman; he has promised me to have copies drawn of the

curious Cuts in the beautiful Manuscript of Froissard’s Chronicle,

for an English lady, a great friend to Oxford.’ This letter is

dated Paris, August 1st; the writer is the Butler who travels with

Mr. Howard, nephew to the Duke of Norfolk. I am much obliged to you

for the Highland Poems; and have the honour to remain, Madam,

“Your most obliged and most humble servant,

“CHARLES MORTON.

“Museum, August 22, 1761.”

[337] Lady Pomfret, widow of the 1st Earl Pomfret, had in 1755

presented the University of Oxford with a portion of the Arundel

marbles which had been purchased by her husband’s father. She was

the daughter of the second and last Baron Jeffreys, of Wem. She had

been Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline.

[Illustration: DR. EDWARD YOUNG.]

[Page heading: DR. YOUNG]

Mrs. Montagu quitted Tunbridge Wells on August 30. On September 2 she

wrote to Mrs. Carter--

“I found on my table a poem on ‘Resignation’[338] by Dr. Young;

he sent me a copy for you which I will send by the Deal coach....

You will be pleased I think with what he says of Voltaire, you

know we exhorted him to attack a character whose authority is so

pernicious. In vain do Moralists attack the shadowy forms of Vice

while the living Temples of it are revered and admired.”

[338] “Resignation” was written with a view of consolation for Mrs.

Boscawen on her husband’s death.

Dr. Young writes on September 2--

“Dear MADAM,

“I was in too much haste and ordered a thing to be sent to you

(which I suppose you have received) before I had read it myself. On

reading it, I find my distance from the Press has occasioned many

errors; so that in some parts I have had the impudence to present

you with perfect nonsense.

“Page 18, Stanza 2nd, should be thus (viz.)--

“‘Earth, a cast Mistress _then_ disgusts, etc.’

“Page 34: It should be thus (viz.)--

“‘Receive the triple prize, etc.’

“Pray pardon this trouble from, dear Madam,

“Your much obliged and most obedient

“H. Servant,

“E. YOUNG.

“P.S.--I know not how to direct the enclosed, excuse my insolence

in desiring you to do it for me.”

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S PORTRAIT]

[Illustration:

_Sir J. Reynolds P.R.A. Pinx._ _Emery Walker Ph.Sc._

_William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath_]

Lord Bath was having his picture (now in the National Portrait Gallery)

painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for Mrs. Montagu. He left London for

Ives Place, and writes--

“I shall be in town again in a few days, but not till after the

Queen’s arrival, for I have had the opportunity of making my

excuses, in the proper place, for not attending the marriage

ceremony. You will judge of the likeness of the Picture best, when

I am not present, if it could speak, it would tell you, what I can

scarce venture to do. How much I love and am, etc.”

[Page heading: THE CORONATION]

Mrs. Montagu went to London for the coronation, which took place

September 22, leaving Mr. Montagu at Sandleford. She writes to him--

“I have not got any cold or mischief from the coronation, at half

an hour after four I got into the coach, went by Fulham to Lambeth,

from whence I crossed the water in a boat which landed me at the

cofferer’s office, where I was to see the Show. I had a perfect

view of the procession to and from Westminster to the Abbey, and

I must say it rather exceeded my expectation. The ladies made a

glorious appearance; whenever there was any beauty of countenance

or shape or air they were all heightened by the dress. Lady Talbot

was a fine figure. The Queen, being very little, did not appear to

advantage. The King had all the impressions of decent satisfaction

and good-natured joy in his face; looked about him with great

complacency, and tried to make himself as visible as he could to

the mob, but the canopy carried over his Majesty’s head and the

persons who carried his train made him not so conspicuous. His

behaviour at the Abbey pleased much. It was perfectly dark before

the Procession returned from the Abbey, so we lost the second view.

I got into a barge which I hired for 7_s._ 6_d._, and got to the

coach which waited at Yorke buildings. Mr. Botham and his daughters

are just gone. Lord Lyttelton was near fainting away just as the

procession set out from the Hall, and was obliged to sit down

and take drops till a chair could be got to carry him home. Lady

Albemarle fainted presently after. Lord Grantham was ill, but able

to go thro’ the ceremony.

“The early hour the Peers and Peeresses are forced to rise at and

the weight of their robes and all the whole affair is fatiguing,

but they make a good figure, for there is something very majestick

in the dress.

“I believe my Lord Bath will come down to us about Wednesday or

perhaps Tuesday. I shall be at Sandleford on Monday.”

[Page heading: HIS MAJESTY’S BEHAVIOUR]

In another letter describing the coronation to Mrs. Carter, Mrs.

Montagu says--

“It is impossible to say enough of the behaviour of the King.

During the procession his countenance expressed a benevolent joy

in the vast concourse of people and their loud acclamations, but

with not the least air of pride or insolent exultation. In the

religious offices his Majesty behaved with the greatest reverence

and deepest attention; he pronounced with earnest solemnity his

engagements to his people, and when he was to receive the Sacrament

he pulled off his crown. How happy that in the day of the greatest

worldly pomp and adorned with the ensigns of regal power he should

remember his duty to the King of Kings. The Archbishop pleased

much in the Coronation Service. I am indeed grieved at the heart

for Mrs. Chapone:[339] all calamities are light in comparison of

the loss of what one loves, uniquement; after that dear object

is lost the glories of the golden day are for ever overcast, and

there is no tranquillity under the silent moon, the soft and quiet

pleasures are over, business may employ and diversions amuse the

mind, but the _soul’s calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy_ can

never be regained. Mrs. Chapone has great virtues, and if she has

the Martyr’s sufferings will have the martyr’s reward.”

[339] _Née_ Hester Mulso, a friend of Mr. S. Richardson’s, and

authoress of “Letters on the Improvement of the Mind”; born 1727,

died 1801.

[Page heading: LADY POMFRET]

The following letter is from Lady Pomfret:--

“Richmond Hill, October 4, 1761.

“DEAR MADAM,

“The reason you give for my being deprived of the pleasure of a

visit from you before you left London doubles the mortification.

I was in hope Tunbridge had established your Health. The return

of my fever (which has left me but a few daies) was the cause

that I made no attempt to wait on you, the week you stayed after

the Coronation, and when I did found you had been gone the day

before; but soon after, Froissart and your letter informed me that

your goodness to me subsisted, in all the bustle of magnificence

and oppression of sickness, since you found time to read my old

Chronicle with my Lord Lyttelton, to whom, and to you, I know not

how to express my gratitude enough, but I really feel a great deal.

“Your criticism delights me, as it was always my opinion that such

words as you mention ought to be changed for more intelligible

ones, and that it might be done, with propriety, without altering

the idiom, but I was so charged not to deviate from the old

language that, till I had such authorities as you and my Lord

Lyttelton, I did not dare to follow my own judgment, but shall now

with alacrity go about it, being very happy in your approbation

of the rest of the book, which I hope will be finish’d before the

meeting of the Parliament, and that I shall have the assistance of

such friends for the perfecting of it. Your partiality to me, dear

Madam, is very flattering; but let Mrs. Montagu know that if I ever

was or am proud of my discerning faculty ’tis because I see her in

her true light; of brightness with modesty, Reason without Vanity,

and a thorough knowledge of this and the next world as far as is

permitted to mortals; this I might have heard, but I glory that I

see it. I need not add what must be the consequence; that

“I am, Madam,

“Your sincere admirer: and

“Most faithful Humᵉ servᵗ,

“J. POMFRET.

“Lady Sophia Carteret and Mrs. Shelley beg

your acceptance of their best respects.”

Lady Pomfret died on December 16, 1761, at Marlborough, Wilts.

[Page heading: LORD LYTTELTON’S LETTER]

On October 5 Lord Lyttelton writes to Mrs. Montagu from Hagley a long

letter, an extract of which I give--

“Tom proposes to give a ball to some young people of the

neighbourhood on this day sennight, which will add to our number

and our jollity. He desires me to tell you that if you were within

twenty miles of our Ball-room he would invite you to it among the

handsome _young_ women; which you may notify to the cynic Monsey,

when he talks to you next of the _horrid gulph of forty_, and bid

him hold his fool’s tongue. I believe you fib about your age and

make yourself at least ten years older than you are, to be nearer

to Lord Bath. I hope you have been, and are still as happy with

him at Sandleford as your heart can desire. You will not think it

a compliment to either of you when I say, that I would be glad

to exchange all the mirth of our ball for the dullest of your

evenings; but I will add in great truth, that I would give up the

finest day in Hagley Park for a rainy one in your company. I had

a letter last post from the Dean,[340] in which he says, ‘Your

Lordship must not be surprised if you hear in a post or two of Mr.

Secretary Pitt’s and Lord Temple’s being out of their employments.

Unless something extraordinary happens, this event will certainly

take place in a few days. I have this intelligence not from common

report, but from the best authority. The reason given for their

resignation is the opposition made in the Cabinet to Mr. Pitt’s

proposal of sending a fleet immediately to intercept the Spanish

Flota daily expected home, and likewise to attack their men-of-war

wherever they are to be found, but your Lordship knows there are

other causes of discontent.’ If this should be true, I imagine Lord

Egremont[341] will be Secretary of State and Lord Hardwick[342]

Privy Seal. Mr. James Grenville will probably lay down with his

brother, which will make a vacancy at the Cofferer’s Office, one

of the few I might take if there was an inclination to bring me

into employment. I wish much to know Lord Bath’s opinion of Pitt’s

advice. To me it seems to be that of a man who (in a political

sense) _fears neither God nor man_. It certainly must be founded

upon a supposition that a war with Spain is inevitable, which I

should hope is not true; and even in that case I think England

ought to be very cautious not to appear the aggressor, which this

conduct would make her. But I had rather hear his Lordship’s

judgment upon this question than give my own.”

[340] Charles Lyttelton, Dean of Carlisle.

[341] Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, born 1710, died 1763.

[342] Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwick, born 1690, died 1764.

[Page heading: LORD BATH’S JOURNEY]

[Page heading: THE POSITION OF MINISTERS]

Lord Bath had left Sandleford before this letter arrived there.

On October 8 he writes--

“I can never sufficiently, Madam, acknowledge my great obligations

to you and to Mr. Montagu for the honours I received at Sandleford.

Six more agreeable days I never passed in my whole Life, but when

one has been excessively happy we always pay most severely for the

change, when forced to quit it. This made the Doctor’s[343] journey

and mine most excessively stupid and melancholy. He was seized with

such a soporifick Torpor (as if a deluge of rain was hanging in

the clouds), and yet we had not a drop the whole way, and I was so

wretchedly miserable, that all I could say to him was, ‘Doctor, I

passed over this same ground yesterday from coming from Padworth

much more cheerfully and happily than I do now, but one comfort

is that we are allowed the liberty of hoping for a renewal of the

same happiness some other time.’ When we got to Reading, where we

stopped for 10 or 12 minutes (without getting out of our chaize),

our landlady seeing we looked melancholy, endeavoured to comfort

us by telling us a piece of good news, that an express was just

arrived with an account of a complete victory obtained by the King

of Prussia over the Russians. On this we speculated and ruminated

for some time, when we met Mr. Cambridge, who assured us it was all

a lye, but that another event had occurred which would surprize us

extremely, and then told us Mr. Pitt[344] had quitted the seals;

this astonished the Doctor more than it did me, who had received

some hint of it before, but we both agreed it was a very unlucky

time for adventuring on such rough measures, so near the Meeting

of Parliament, and before anything was fixed for the obtaining of

peace, or preparing for a further prosecution of the War; in short,

we ended in wishing all Ministers at the Devil, rather than that

their disagreements and dissentions amongst one another should

bring any difficulties or dishonour on the best man in the world,

the master of all of them.... I will make this reflection upon all

human happiness, that the state and duration of it is extremely

uncertain. A minister may be a very great and think himself a very

happy man one day, and nothing at all the very next. Just so was

I, Madam, happy beyond measure a few days ago, and now forced at a

terrible distance to be assuring you that I am, with all possible

respect,

“Your Ladyship’s most humble

and most obedient Servant,

“BATH.”

[343] Dr. Monsey.

[344] Mr. Pitt resigned the Seals on October 5, 1761.

Lord Lyttelton writes on October 14 to Mrs. Montagu--

“Since my last, Mr. Pitt has brought his bark into a happy port. A

Barony for his wife and a pension of £3000 a year for three lives

are agreeable circumstances in a retreat, which delivers him from

the difficulty of carrying on the War, or making the Peace, and

keeps all his laurels green and unfading on his brow. No Minister

in this country has ever known so well the times and seasons of

going in and coming out with advantage to himself. I hope there

will be new gold boxes sent to him by the cities and Boroughs to

express their sense of his noble and _disinterested_ conduct, and

to assure him that their lives and fortunes are all at his service.

In effect, I hear that all over this country since first we had the

news of his resigning the Seals, the cry of the people in Taverns

and Alehouses is, ‘No Pitt, no King.’ However, I imagine that as

he has condescended to accept of this mark of royal favour, he will

be so good as to allow the King to remain on the throne.”

[Page heading: AN ACT OF HUMILITY]

On the same day as this last letter Dr. Monsey writes from St. James’s

to Mrs. Montagu. This paragraph is interesting--

“But here’s a Rout about giving a patriot 3_s._ 6_d._ for his past

services either for speaking to the purpose, or holding his tongue

for a very good one. Why, he might have been Governor-General of

all North America with a pension of £5000. This was confidently

said at the ‘Mount’ Coffee House as offered by the King, and was

told by Manby as coming from P----, _no joke indeed_, no more than

he has advertised seven good horses, ‘_late Mr. Pitt’s_,’ to be

sold. There’s an act of humility for you.”

Miss Mary Pitt, Mr. Pitt’s sister, writes to Mrs. Montagu--

“DEAR MADAM,

“Tho’ I suppose you know all that has happened since last Monday,

I cannot forbear talking to you upon what the King has been so

very gracious as to do for my family, in granting a pension of

three thousand pounds a year to Mr. Pitt for three lives, and as he

knows that he feels a repugnancy to having his name upon the Irish

pensions, his is upon the American Duties, and the Peerage which

his Majesty has also done him the honour to bestow upon his family

is given to Lady Hester,[345] who is made Baroness of Chatham,

by which means he is left still at liberty to be an Alderman; as

to all the rest, which you may know, I will do _comme si vous ne

saviez pas_. My Lord Egremont received the Seals of Secretary of

State yesterday, my Lord Temple gave up his seals yesterday, and I

was informed last night that my Lord Hardwick was to be Privy Seal,

which I do not doubt, tho’ it is not declared. Mr. George Grenville

is not to be Speaker, that he may have the management of the House

of Commons. My Lord Temple is very angry with him, and I believe

very much disappointed; at the same time I am assured that my Lord

Bristol writes in the strongest manner everything that can give

satisfaction to the present Ministry with regard to the intentions

of the Spanish Court, and those despatches are said to have come

Wednesday last.... I heard a few days ago from Paris that the Duc

de Nivernois[346] had got a passport for my nephew.” This was for

Mr. Tom Pitt.

[345] Lady Hester’s patent made out on December 4, 1761.

[346] French ambassador and writer.

At this period Dr. Gregory lost his wife, and was in great despair; she

was a daughter of William, Lord Forbes.

[Page heading: WIDOWS’ WEEDS]

At the end of October Mrs. Montagu set out on a short visit to her

sister, Mrs. Scott, and Lady Bab Montagu at Bath Easton. Dr. Monsey was

then at Bath, whither later Mrs. Montagu also repaired. Bath society

was enthusiastic upon the subject of Mr. Pitt and a political letter

he wrote at this period. From a letter written from Bath to Mrs.

Carter about a Mrs. Talbot, a reduced lady, who was an applicant for

a lady’s-maid situation, we learn that £10 per annum were regarded as

adequate wages for such an attendant. I subjoin a curious paragraph as

to a widow’s dress--

“The fashionable dress for a widow is a gown with two broad plaits

in the back, a short cuff which comes a little below the elbow,

round double ruffles very shallow. The dress weed is made of silk

made on purpose, undress crape, a black silk long apron, black

handkerchief, black hood, and a plain sort of night-cap. Either

a night-gown or sack may be worn with a short train, no flounce

or ornament of any sort, and if a sack scanty, and only two broad

plaits. Many women of condition who are not young, wear merely a

common crape sack, the younger sort wear the dress that denotes

their widowhood, and in a country town I should suppose the full

form must be observed. I imagine your enquiry is for poor Mrs.

Primrose.”

[Page heading: A CALL FOR POETRY]

On November 17 Mrs. Montagu writes from Hill Street to Mrs. Carter--

“MY DEAR FRIEND,

“I had this day the pleasure of receiving my dear Friend’s most

charming ode. I, alas! am like Monsr. Jourdain, I speak nothing

but prose, but I believe my heart feels with all the enthusiasm

of poetry.... My Lord Bath is vastly happy that you are to be in

town the 1st of January. My Lord Lyttelton is better, but his fever

is not quite gone.... I think you should print the verses my Lord

Lyttelton addressed to you from Penshurst. Pray write some more

odes, and let your seamstresses do your plain work, and the Clerk

transcribe your verses.”

This year an edition of Mrs. Carter’s various works was printed. When

Mrs. Carter was in London she lodged with Mrs. Norman in Clarges

Street. Mrs. Montagu having ascertained that she could have her

lodgings there from the 1st of January, adds--

“You do not deign to mention Fingal, etc., but that I could pardon,

for Poet Ossian has been dead full many a day, but there is a head

on which laurels now grow, and it bears more than Parnassian bays,

even wreaths of sacred Virtue, and this head is apt to ake, and

then my heart akes for sympathy. Poor Lady Pomfret by weary stages

reached Marlborough, from thence she yesterday morning quitted

the weary journey of human life and passed with resignation to a

better. I am angry with Dr. James for sending her in so hopeless

a state from her quiet home to the noise and inconvenience of

Inns.... I think Mr. Rivington must be bewitched. I will send the

books as you direct. I had a quadrille table last night; and last

week the Bard Macpherson and many others of the tuneful train and

we had the feast of shells and drank out of a nautilus to the

immortal memory of Ossian. The Nautilus, you know, is a perfect

sailor as the other is a poet by nature. I am a little mortified

that you had not a word to fling at Ossian. Take a modern Poet

Laureate and put out his eyes and see whether he will sing as

sweetly, tho’ he sings darkling.”

[Page heading: THE _BAS-BLEUS_ AND SHELLS]

The _bas-bleus_ from this time constantly celebrated, amongst their

_intimates_, the feast of shells mentioned in Ossian by drinking out of

them on any particular occasion.

Lord Bath’s portrait, not satisfying Mrs. Montagu, had been returned to

Mr. Reynolds for amendment, and Lord Bath writes--

“MADAM,

“I will sitt to Mr. Reynolds either Wenesday or Saturday next,

whichever is most convenient to him, and shall be glad to meet

Mr. Tristram Shandy (as you call him) or Mr. Sterne (as I must

call him) there, but where it is to be you do not mention. If the

alteration can be made in a quarter of an hour, it is scarce worth

taking the Picture out of your house, but if it is to be altered at

Mr. Reynolds’ I will be there on either of the days mentioned. Last

night I slept extreamely well and the better since I went from Mrs.

Vesey’s, happy in seeing you look so charmingly and well....

“3 a clock, Dec. 26th, 1761.”

[Page heading: LAURENCE STERNE]

Lord Bath had remarkably penetrating and brilliant eyes, and one of the

faults found with the picture was in the representation of this feature.

The next letter from Lord Bath runs--

“How cruel was it, before I got out of bed, to receive a letter

forbidding me coming to you this night! but I hope nothing will

prevent me from having that happiness to-morrow. On Wenesday about

one of the Clock, I will most certainly be at Mr. Reynolds’ to mend

my sickly looks, and to sitt down in my chair, as I should do;

instead of being half standing, which criticism of Mr. Sterne’s I

think perfectly right; as for my looks, I fear they will not be

much mended by any Physick of Mr. Reynolds. He has made an old man

look as if he was in pain, which an old man generally is, and so

far he is right.”

Mrs. Montagu took Mr. Sterne to the sittings so that he might amuse

Lord Bath with his _bons mots_! Surely this would form a pretty and

historical picture if any artist would paint it.

On the publication of her poems, to which Mrs. Carter looked forward in

a nervous frame of mind, Mrs. Montagu says--

“I am sorry for your tremors and trepidations, but they are mere

nervous disorders, and the manuscript must be printed, so my dear

Urania, away with your lamentations, sit down, revise, correct,

augment, print, and publish. I am sure you will have a pleasure in

communicating the pious, virtuous sentiments that breathe in all

your verses. My inferior Soul will feel a joy in your producing

such proofs of genius to the world.... The very best of your

poetical productions have never been published, they may indeed

have been seen by a few in manuscripts, but the finest things on

sheets are soon lost--

‘Foliis tantum ne carmina manda;

Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria Ventis.’

Print them and bind them fast I beg you.”

Writing to her brother, William Robinson, then at Rome, at this period,

Mrs. Montagu congratulates him on the prospect of a son or daughter--

“I desire to have all the share I can in the little one, shall

be happy to be accepted as a godmother, and thank you for being

so obliging as to intend it my name if it is a girl; it will not

disgrace her if she should be a toast, for I once knew a Miss Betty

Robinson that set up for one; if it is not disagreeable to you I

should be glad if it was christened Elizabeth Montagu, which will

be also a compliment to my husband. I envy you, my dear brother,

the pleasure of seeing at your leisure the Queen of Cities,

Imperial Rome.”

[Page heading: STERNE GOES ABROAD]

[Page heading: STERNE’S “MEMORANDUMS”]

The Rev. Laurence Sterne had been in bad health for some time; he had

just completed his fifth and sixth volumes of “Tristram Shandy,” and

with permission from the Archbishop of York for absence for a year or

more, he left Coxwould for the South of France, leaving the following

paper with Mrs. Montagu, who, it will be remembered, was his cousin by

marriage.

“December 28, 1761.

“Memorandums left with Mrs. Montagu in case I should

die abroad.

“L. STERNE.

“My sermons in a trunk at my friend Mr. Hall’s, St. John’s Street,

2 Vols. to be picked out of them.--N.B. There are enough for 3

Vols.--

“My Letters in my bureau at Coxwould and a bundle in a trunk with

my sermons.--

“Note. The large piles of letters in the garrets at York, to be

sifted over, in search for some either of Wit, or Humour--or what

is better than both--of Humanity and good Nature--these will

make a couple of Volumes _more_, and as not one of ’em was ever

wrote, like Pope’s or Voiture’s, to be printed, they are more

likely to be read--if there wants ought to serve the completion

of a 3rd volume--the Political Romance I wrote, which was never

publish’d--may be added to the fag end of the volumes.... Tho’ I

have 2 reasons why I wish it may not be wanted--first an undeserved

compliment to one, whom I have since found to be a very corrupt

man--I knew him weak and ignorant--but thought him honest. The

other reason is I have hung up Dr. Topham in the romance in a

ridiculous light--which upon my soul I now doubt whether he

deserves it--so let the Romance go to sleep not by itself--for

’twil have company.

“My _Conscio ad Clinum_ in Latin which I made for Fountayne, to

preach before the University to enable him to take his Doctor’s

Degree--you will find 2 copies of it, with my sermons--

“--He got Honour by it--What got I?--Nothing in my lifetime, then

let me not (I charge you Mrs. Sterne) be robbed of it after my

death. That long pathetic letter to him of the hard measure I have

received--I charge you, to let it be printed--’Tis equitable you

should derive that good from my sufferings at least.

“I have made my will--but I leave all I have to you and my

Lydia--you will not Quarrel about it--but I advise you to sell

my estate, which will bring 1800 pds. (or more after the year),

and what you can raise from my Works--and the sale of the last

of this last work, all of which I have left (except 50 pds. in

my bookseller Becket’s hands, and which Mr. Garrick will receive

and lay out in stocks for me)--all these I would advise you to

collect--together with the sale of my library, &c., &c.--and

lay it out in Government Securities--If my Lydia should marry--I

charge you,--I charge you over again (that you may remember it the

more)--That upon no Delusive prospect, or promise from any one, you

leave yourself DEPENDENT; reserve enough for your comfort--or let

her wait your Death. I leave this in the hands of our Cosin Mrs.

Montagu--not because she is our cosin--but because I am sure she

has a good heart.

“We shall meet again.

“--Memᵈᵘᵐ. Whenever I die--’tis most probable, I shall have about

£200 due to me from my living--If Lydia should dye before you;

Leave my Sister something worthy of your self--in case you do not

think it meet to purchase an annuity for your greater comfort; if

you chuse that--do it in God’s name--

“--The pictures of the Mountebank and his Macaroni--is in a Lady’s

hands, who upon seeing ’em most cavaliery declared she would never

part with them--and from an excess of civility--or rather weakness

I could not summon up severity to demand them.

“--If I dye, her Name, &c., is inclosed in a billet seal’d up and

given with this--and then you must demand them--If refused--you

have nothing to do but send a 2d. message importing--’tis not for

her Interest to keep them.

“LAURENCE STERNE.

“Memorandums left by Mr. Sterne in

Mrs. Montagu’s hands before he

left England.”

[Page heading: TWO TEARDROPS]

Two teardrops are on this paper, which indicate Sterne’s emotional

temperament.

[Illustration:

_Sir J. Reynolds, pinx._ _E. Fisher. sc._

_Laurence Sterne._

Walker & Cockerell, ph. sc.]

[Page heading: FINIS]

And now, patient reader, I, the Editress of this literary mosaic of

my great-great-aunt’s letters and those of her friends, take leave

of you. If life and eyesight are vouchsafed to me, I hope to write

the remainder of her life some day, for she lived till 1800. Each

year added to her enormous circle of clever acquaintance, British and

foreign. The letters of Garrick and his wife, later ones of Sterne and

Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Vesey, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and a host of other

notabilities, belong to a different period. As it is, the compilation

of this work has occupied me five years. One whole winter was devoted

to arranging the correspondence in chronological order, as very few of

the letters are dated.

APPENDICES.

“LONG” SIR THOMAS ROBINSON.

Sir Thomas was the eldest of the seven sons of William Robinson, of

Rokeby, Yorkshire, by his wife, _née_ Anne Walters. He was born and

baptized at Rokeby in 1700. After his school-days he made the grand

tour, as was the fashion of the day, and then entered the Army. At the

death of his father in 1719, he succeeded to the family estates in

Yorkshire. At the General Election of 1727 he became M.P. for Morpeth.

On October 25, 1728, he was married at Belfreys, in Yorkshire, to

Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas, Lord Lechmere, and daughter of Charles

Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Between the years 1725 and 1730 he

rebuilt the house at Rokeby, removed the church which stood behind

the house and rebuilt it in another spot, he added a stone wall all

round the park, made a bridge over the Greta river, and erected an

obelisk to his mother’s memory in 1730. All these acts were recorded

on two stone piers at the Greta entrance of the park. He planted

many trees at Rokeby. He designed the west wing of Castle Howard for

his brother-in-law, Lord Carlisle. In 1731 he was made a Baronet

of England, with remainder to his brothers. His nickname of “Long”

Sir Thomas Robinson was given to him from his great height, and to

distinguish him from another Sir Thomas Robinson, a diplomat of note,

afterwards created Lord Grantham. These two men were the reverse

of each other in appearance, “Long” Sir Thomas being exceptionally

tall, and the other very short and fat. One of Lady Townshend’s _bon

mots_ about the two was, “Why one should be preferred to the other I

can’t imagine, there is but little difference, the one is as broad

as the other is long;” and Lord Chesterfield, on being told “Long”

Sir Thomas was reported to be “dying by inches,” said, then it

would be some time before he was dead. On April 10, 1739, his wife,

to whom he was tenderly attached, died at Bath, and was taken to

Rokeby and buried under the new church he had erected. A monument was

erected to her there. In accordance with Sir Thomas’s will, though he

himself was buried at Merton Abbey, Surrey, a cenotaph was placed in

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, to his and his wife’s memory, with

medallion portraits of her and himself, and bearing the following

inscription:--“To perpetuate his grateful sense of the pleasure he had

in the conversation of an accomplished woman, a sincere friend, and an

agreeable companion.” They had no children, so the English baronetcy

went to his next brother, William.

Sir Thomas was greatly given to hospitality; too much so for his

income. On October 22, 1741, he gave a great ball, as Horace Walpole

relates, “to a little girl of the Duke of Richmond’s; there are already

200 invited, from miss in a bib and apron to my Lord Chancellor in bib

and mace.” The ball began at 8 p.m., and ended at 4 a.m. A few days

after Horace Walpole writes, “There were a 197 persons at Sir Thomas’s,

and yet it was so well conducted that nobody felt a crowd. He had taken

off all his doors, and so separated the old and the young that neither

were inconvenienced by the other. The ball began at 8; each man danced

one minuet with his partner, and then began country dances. There

were four-and-twenty couple, divided into twelve and twelve; each set

danced two dances, and then retired into another room, while the other

set took their two, and so alternately.... We danced till 4, then had

tea and coffee and came home.” A month later he writes about a second

ball. What with his numerous entertainments and his building at Rokeby

and elsewhere, he became impoverished, and accepted the Governorship

of Barbadoes in January, 1742, from which he was recalled in 1747.

In Barbadoes he married his second wife, a widow named Salmon, _née_

Booth. She had a considerable fortune, but on her husband’s return

to England, she refused to accompany him, preferring Barbadoes. Sir

Thomas was intimate with Lord Chesterfield, who made an epigram on him,

beginning--

“Unlike my subject will I make my song,

It shall be witty, and it shan’t be long.”

He must have been a bore, for Sir John Hawkins says of him, “Sir Thomas

Robinson was a man of the world, or rather of the town, and a great

pest to persons of high rank or in office. He was very troublesome

to the Earl of Burlington, and when in his visits to him he was told

his lordship had gone out, would desire to be admitted to look at a

clock, or play with a monkey that was kept in the hall, in hopes of

being sent for to the Earl. This he had so frequently done that all

the household were tired of him. At length it was concerted amongst

the servants that he should receive a summary answer to his usual

questions; and accordingly, at his next coming the porter, as soon as

he had opened the gate, and without waiting for what he had to say,

dismissed him with these words, ‘Sir, his lordship is gone out, the

clock stands, and the monkey is dead!’” The Duchess of Portland used to

name him to Mrs. Montagu as “your inimitable cousin!”

Appearing in Paris one day at a dinner in his hunting suit of green

and gold, and booted and spurred, a French abbé asked who he was, and,

on being told his name, and looking at his attire, inquired if he was

Robinson Crusoe. His house at Whitehall he sold to Lord Lincoln, and

he afterwards lived at Prospect Place, Chelsea. He bought the gardens

once belonging to Lord Ranelagh, and, with other shareholders, erected

the Rotunda in 1741–42. This place of amusement lasted for quite forty

years; the site of it is in the gardens of Chelsea Hospital.

At the Coronation of George III. Sir Thomas, probably from his great

height and majestic presence, was chosen to represent the mock Duke of

Normandy and Acquitaine, the kings of England still pretending to own

those provinces.

In 1769 he sold the estate of Rokeby, Yorks, to John Saurey Morritt,

the father of Sir Walter Scott’s friend. The Rokeby estate had been in

the possession of the Robinsons 160 years. On March 3, 1777, Sir Thomas

Robinson died at his house in Prospect Place, Chelsea, at the age of

seventy-six.

SANDLEFORD PRIORY, BERKS.

Sandleford Priory was founded for Austin Canons by Geoffrey, 4th Count

of Perche, and his wife, Matilda of Saxony, grand-daughter of Henry

II. of England, and niece of King Richard Cœur de Lion, and King John,

before the year 1205. The town and manor of Newbury, in Berkshire, were

bestowed on the first Count of Perche, who accompanied the Conqueror

to England. The Priory was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. John

the Baptist. A dispute arising between the Prior and Richard Beauchamp,

Bishop of Salisbury and Dean of Windsor about 1480, the religious

forsook the house, and King Edward IV. allowed the Priory to be annexed

to the Chapel of St. George’s, Windsor. In the Ayscough Register, folio

50, will be found an account of irregular and scandalous behaviour

of the Prior of that period, which probably was the cause of the

disruption. The Priory now formed a parcel of the properties of the

Dean and Canons of Windsor, and it is stated by the commissioners of

Henry VIII. (_vide_ c. 3, Henry VIII.) to be worth £10 annually.

In the reign of James I. Sandleford was declared to be a separate

parish from Newbury, and not subject to tithes which had hitherto

been paid to the Rector of Newbury. After this a commutation was made

that the lessee of the house paid £8 a year to the Rector of Newbury,

and for that sum had a pew in perpetuity. It is stated that after

this award the chapel of the Priory was allowed to fall into decay.

This chapel was separate from the house, and continued to be so till

1781–2, when Mrs. Montagu employed Wyatt to build her an octagonal

drawing-room with ante-chambers, which united the house and the chapel.

Long previous to this it was used as a bedroom or bedrooms, and in the

Montagu manuscripts Hannah More and others are described as sleeping

in the chapel bedroom when the rest of the house was occupied. At the

beginning of the eighteenth century the lessees of Sandleford were the

Pitt Rivers of Strathfieldsaye, and they were succeeded by the Montagu

family as early as 1730, or perhaps earlier. At any rate, at that

date Mr. Edward Montagu was resident there, and as his mother, _née_

Sarah Rogers, lived with him (as is shown by a letter of 1733 which I

possess), it is possible Mr. Charles Montagu had been lessee before

his son. He died in 1721. At what period the chapel was dismantled

I have no record, but it may have been done by order of the Dean

and Canons of Windsor before their letting it as a residence. Elias

Ashmole, the great antiquarian, who died in 1692, describes the chapel

as he saw it, and says, “Upon the first ascent of steps towards the

high altar lyes a freestone tomb of a knight in mail, cross-legged,

with a deep shield on his left arm, and seeming to draw his sword,

his feet resting on a dragon. Written on the west wall is a Latin

inscription.” In a paper belonging to my uncle, the last Baron Rokeby,

it is stated the inscription was “written on the north wall of the

chapel, but more anciently on the west wall.”

This was the inscription:--

“Lancea, crux, clavi

Spine, mors quam tolleravi,

Demonstrant qua vi

Miserorum Crimmia lavi

In Cruce sum prote qui peccas

Desine pro me desine, do Veniam

Die culpam, Corrige Vitam.”

As to the monument, it has been stated to have been that of the

founder, Geoffrey, Count of Perche; but as he died in France at the

siege of Acre, it is more likely to have been his son Thomas, Earl of

Perche, who died at the battle of Lincoln in 1217; or else it is quite

possible that it might be one of the Earls Marshal of Pembroke, as

at the death of Thomas, Earl de Perche, his uncle William, Bishop of

Chalons, seems to have claimed the property and sold it to William,

2nd Earl Marshal. Anyhow, not a trace of this monument is now to be

found. And it would be very interesting to ascertain if it was removed

to the Temple church, where the other Earls Marshal of Pembroke are

buried and a very similar monument exists; but this is only my surmise.

Behind the chapel, when Mrs. Montagu made her alterations in house

and garden in 1780 to 1782 with the designs of Wyatt and “Capability

Browne,” a number of skulls and bones were found, and, with the

characteristic irreverence of the eighteenth century, were buried in

what is now called “Monkey Lane,” near Newbury. The present library was

originally the refectory. In 1836 Edward, 5th Baron Rokeby, parted with

the lease of Sandleford to Mr. William Chatteris, who eventually, in

1875, enfranchised the property from the Dean and Canons of Windsor,

and, dying a widower and without issue, he left Sandleford to his

second wife’s nephew Mr. Alpin Macgregor. Mrs. Chatteris was the

second daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, the friend of Nelson.

Mrs. Myers, who has a lease of Sandleford now, will not use the chapel

as a dining-room. Hannah More, writing in 1784, whilst staying at

Sandleford, says, “There is an irregular beauty and greatness in the

new buildings, and in the cathedral aisles which open to the great

Gothic window (alluding to the east end of the chapel, still all

glass), which is exceedingly agreeable to the imagination. It is solemn

without being sad, and Gothic without being gloomy.”

DENTON HALL, NEAR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

The history of Denton Hall dates from the ancient Britons, and a

burial-place of theirs, with an urn and bones, was found near the

Roman wall within a quarter of a mile from the hall. It subsequently

became the site of a Roman camp, which was occupied by a garrison of

Hadrian’s soldiers, and a wall was built to keep out the Picts and

Scots. Of the Roman relics there still exist an altar dedicated to

Jupiter, and several carved stones, and in Mrs. Montagu’s time many

Roman coins and objects were discovered. In No. 7, Vol. 2, of the

_Proceedings of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne_, 1885, Mr. W. Aubone

Hoyle, then living with his brother at the hall, writes, “A little to

the south-west stood a chapel, of which a baptismal font remains and

a few sculptured stones; adjoining these was a burial-ground, which

is now included in the garden. An incised slab, with a memorial cross

and sword, was found here some years ago, as well as some large stone

coffins; and a cist of ancient British times, containing a funeral urn.

The chapel was removed shortly after the Reformation. The earliest

record we have of the occupants is of a family of the name of Denton,

in the tenth century, who continued to hold lands here and in the

neighbourhood, and also at Newcastle.”

The Widdringtons seem to have succeeded the Dentons, and Mr. Hoyle

continues, “The manor of Denton, saving these rents paid to the

Widdringtons, had been, in 1380, granted to the Prior and Convent of

Tynemouth, and was used by them as a country residence or grange.

Tradition relates that they had an underground passage leading from

Denton to their residence at Benwell Tower. The present building

was probably erected by them at the beginning of the sixteenth

century--1503 being the date of erection. The Roman wall skirting its

grounds appears to have supplied the materials, as most of the stones

are of the Roman type. The roof was formed of flags fastened with pins

made of sheep bones. These have gradually been done away with until

only a few courses remain, and the flags have been replaced by tiles.

At the Dissolution in 1539, the Widdringtons lost their interest in

Denton, and the Erringtons appear.”

The Erringtons being Jacobites, Mr. Hoyle continues, “Their loyalty to

the Stuarts cost them their estates, which now passed to a family of

Rogers, related to the Earl of Sandwich.” As has been shown in this

book, Mr. Edward Montagu, at the death of his cousin, Mr. Rogers,

became owner, to quote his wife’s words, “of Denton; Mr. Montagu has

half the estate by descent, a share by testamentary disposition,

and a part by purchase.” At the death of Mrs. Montagu in 1800, the

estate passed into the possession of her nephew and adopted son,

Matthew Montagu, afterwards 4th Baron Rokeby, who let the hall to

Mr. Richard Hoyle, and his descendants occupied the house till 1889.

Henry, 6th Baron Rokeby, dying in 1883, left the estate of Denton

to his grandson, Lord Henry Paulet, now 16th Marquis of Winchester,

who in 1886 sold the whole estate. The hall was bought by Mr. John

Henderson, of Allendale, who resold it to Mr. William Andrew I’Anson,

the present owner. The Denton ghost, called “Old Silky” by the miners,

one of the most authentic on record, is a beneficent spirit, for

she is said on various occasions to have warned the miners against

coal-damp. A song about her is still sung, I am told, in Newcastle, but

hitherto I have failed to obtain it, or to discover who “Silky” was. A

further account of her can be read in Ingram’s “Haunted Homes,” under

“Denton Hall.”

INDEX.

_The figures in italics refer to the notes only._

Abbas, Shah, ii. 99

Abel, ii. 245

Achard, Mr., tutor, afterwards secretary to Duke of Portland, i. 44,

48, 61, 90, 158, 185

Adam, ii. 245

_Adventurer, the_, ii. 25

_Advertiser, the_, ii. 123

Æsop’s _Fables_, i. 73

Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, i. 259

Albemarle, George Keppel, 15th Earl of, ii. 220

Albemarle, Lady, ii. 259

Aldworth, Richard Neville, ii. 250

Alexander, William, ii. 98, 108

Alexander, Mrs. W. (_née_ Monsey), ii. 98

Allen, Lady, i. 267, 268; ii. 121

Allison, A., _i. 179_

Alnwick Castle, ii. 166

Alstone, Mr. and Mrs., i. 286

Ameen, Joseph. _See_ Emin, Joseph

Amelia, Princess (daughter of George II.), ii. 152, 213, 214

Amesbury, i. 249

Amherst, General, ii. _134_, 140, 154

Amyand, Mr., i. 167; ii. 163

Ancaster, Duchess of, ii. 252

Ancaster, Peregrine, 3rd Duke of, i. 279

Ancram, Lady, i. 269

Andover, Mary, Lady (Mrs. Botham’s intimate friend and patroness),

i. 55, 95, 102, 115, 144, 194; ii. 19;

her letters to Mrs. Montagu, i. 230, 231

Andover, William, Lord, i. _55_, _144_, 224, 230

Anne, Queen, _i. 245_

Anson, Admiral Lord, i. 107, 268; ii. 89, 154;

captures a Spanish treasure-ship, i. 186;

_A Voyage round the World_, i. 259

Anson, Lady, i. 268, 269; ii. 142

Anstey, Christopher, _New Bath Guide_, i. 19, _256_; ii. 87

Anstey, Miss, i. 256, 259, 270, 275; ii. 54, 56, 70, 82;

works a panel of Mrs. Montagu’s feather screen, i. 268;

her death, ii. 87;

letters from Mrs. Montagu to, i. 19, 281; ii. 18, 77;

her letters to Mrs. Montagu, ii. 23

Apreece, Mr. and Mrs., i. 286

Archdeacon, Dominick, ii. 129

Archdeacon, Mrs. D. (Mary Creagh), ii. 129

Archdeacon, William, ii. 160

Arezzo, Collection of, ii. 15

Argyll, John, 2nd Duke of, and Duke of Greenwich, i. 117; ii. 38, 233

Argyll, Duchess of (Elizabeth Gunning), i. 270, 287, 288

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of, ii. 165, 167, 195

Argyll, John, 5th Duke of, _i. 270_

Arran, Earl of, ii. 155

Arran, Elizabeth, Countess of, ii. 155

Ascham, Miss, i. 286

Ashe, Miss, called by Walpole, the “Pollard Ashe,” i. 287, 288

Askew, Dr., ii. 128, 144

Athole, Duncan de Atholia, Earl of, i. 1

Athole, John Murray, 3rd Duke of, ii. 168

Atkinson, Mr., farm bailiff at Sandleford, i. 145; ii. 147

Atterbury, Bishop, _i. 194_

Audley, Dr., i. 129

Audley, Mr. (Hinchinbroke House), i. 270

Augusta, Princess (daughter of George II.), i. 53

Austin, Sir Robert, i. 27

Austria, Emperor of, ii. 146

Aveiro, Duke of, ii. 180

Aylesbury, Lord, i. 233

Aylesford, Countess of, _i. 269_

Aylesford, Heneage, 1st Earl of, _i. 39_

Aylesford, Heneage, 2nd Earl of, i. 41, _55_, 144; ii. 19, 55

Aylmer, Lord, ii. 15

Ayscough, D.D., Rev. Francis, ii. 40, 63

Ayscough, Mrs. (_née_ Lyttelton), ii. 63

Baden, Prince of, i. 286

Bagshot Heath, ii. 74

Balchen, Admiral Sir John, ii. 92

Balmerino, Lord, _i. 231_

Baltimore, Lord, ii. 70

Banbury, Charles Knollys, 3rd Earl of, i. 22

Banks, Miss, ii. 45

Barbarini, i. 92

Bareil, M. de, _ii. 158_

Barrington, Dowager Lady, i. 269

Barrington, 2nd Viscount, ii. 185

Barrow, Rev. Dr. Isaac, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, ii. 91

Barrows, Mrs., i. 241

Barry, Spranger, Irish actor, i. 279

_Bas bleus_, the, ii. 98;

and shells, ii. 268

Basildon, Lady Fane’s grottoes at, i. 245

Bateman, Lord, ii. 95

Bateman, Richard, ii. 192

Bath, i. 36–41, 254;

“Coffee House” at, i. 255

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

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

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,

_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

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

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

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

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,

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

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