Chapter 44

[147]Ten guineas for a sheet, containing twenty-four pages of the close double-columned type of Murray's Handbooks.[148]John, 2nd Earl Brownlow.[149]Of Hunstanton, eldest son of Mrs. Wynne Finch.[150]Second son of the 5th Earl Stanhope.[151]Now Sackville of Drayton Manor.[152]Fourth son of Sir Adam Hay of King's Meadows.[153]Fourth son of Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, and of the Hon. Anne, 2nd daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.[154]Eldest son of Sir Charles Wood, M.P., afterwards Viscount Halifax, and of Lady Mary, 5th daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey.[155]Hon. Mrs. Cradock, wife of the Principal of Brazenose—formerly a Maid of Honour.[156]Maria Josepha, daughter of the 1st Earl of Sheffield, and widow of the first Lord Stanley of Alderley.[157]Grandfather of the first Lord Knutsford.[158]Mrs. Pelham Warren died in Nov. 1865.[159]Mrs. Thornton, a most kind and admirable person, died Jan. 1889.[160]Mrs. Dormer went to live at Flamborough in Yorkshire after the death of her husband, and died there, Oct. 1892.[161]Afterwards 14th Baron Saye and Sele.[162]His handwriting was so illegible, that printers charged half-a-crown a sheet extra for setting up each sheet of his "copy."[163]The universally beloved Henry Octavius Coxe, Bodley's librarian and Rector of Wytham, born 1811, died July 8, 1881.[164]The Countess Valsamachi, formerly Mrs. Reginald Heber, was one of the three daughters of Dean Shipley, and first cousin to my father.[165]Mr. Thomas Erskine died March 28, 1870, having survived both his sisters.[166]Miss Clementina Stirling Graham died at Duntrune, August 23, 1877, aged ninety-five.[167]Earl of Dalhousie.[168]My college friend Frederick Forsyth Grant.[169]This is described in Lord Auckland's Correspondence.[170]In May 1860.[171]Fénélon.[172]The voice which passed the lips of Madame de Trafford was often like the voices of the Irvingites.[173]Sometimes Madame de Trafford spoke of her spirits as "Les Maricots."[174]"L'asciar l'amico!Lo seguitai feliceQuand'era il cielo sereno:Alle tempeste in senoVoglio seguirlo ancor:Ah cosi vil non sono."—METASTASIO.[175]Principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford.[176]Our cousins through the Shipleys and Mordaunts.[177]Grandson of Helena Selman, my great-grandmother's only sister.[178]I wrote to Sir George Grey several times after this meeting, but never saw him again till 1869 in Miss Wright's rooms in Belgrave Mansions.[179]Sydney Smith's daughter.[180]Prescott, Washington Irving, Sir J. Stephen, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Hallam.[181]Ritter, Humboldt, Arndt.[182]De Tocqueville.[183]Afterwards Dean of Lincoln.[184]The Rev. W. J. Butler, then Dean of Lincoln, and his wife, died within a few weeks of each other in Jan. 1894.[185]Wife of the Rev. William Gaskell, Unitarian minister of the Chapel in Cross Street, Manchester. He died June 1884, aged eighty. She died very suddenly in Nov. 1865.[186]It is right to say that a very different account of Count de Salis is given by many of his descendants from that which I wrote down from the narrative of Dr. Hawtrey.[187]Mrs. Fane de Salis told me (in 1891) that her mother-in-law had described to her being with Miss Foster on the Pincio when the handsome guardsman, Count Mastai, came courting.[188]Hazeley Court.[189]Maison Helvetia.[190]From "South-Eastern France."[191]From "South-Eastern France."[192]From "Northern Italy."[193]From "South-Eastern France."[194]Rev. J. L. Petit.[195]From "Northern Italy."[196]Susan, 5th daughter of Thomas Lyon of Hetton, married the Rev. J. Fellowes of Shottesham.[197]The heroine of the wreck of theForfarshire, Sept. 5, 1838.[198]Only son of John, 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Mary Milner.[199]Mary Eleanor Bowes, 9th Countess of Strathmore.[200]Paulina, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn.[201]Mrs. Clutterbuck was Marianne, youngest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Lyon of Hetton, my great-grandmother's youngest brother.[202]Afterwards Lord Wilfred Seymour.[203]Arthur Stanley's account.[204]Montesquieu.[205]Notably the ballad of "Featherstonhaugh," which Sir Walter inserted as ancient in his "Border Minstrelsy," introducing one stanza in the poem of "Marmion" itself.[206]My great-great-uncle, Thomas Lyon of Hetton, younger brother of the 9th Earl of Strathmore, married Miss Wren (grand-daughter of Sir Christopher), heiress of Binchester.[207]Mr. John Clayton survived till July 1890, leaving personalty valued at £728,000, and real property supposed to be worth £20,000 a year. The last member of his generation, the universally beloved Mrs. Anne Clayton, died October 30, 1890.[208]Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce, author of "The Roman Wall," &c. He lived till 1893, and is commemorated by a tomb in St. Nicholas, Newcastle.[209]Mr. Andersen had two daughters, my great-great-grandmother Mrs. Simpson, and the Marchesa Grimaldi, great-grandmother of Stacey Grimaldi, who was at this time trying to establish his claims to the Principality of Monaco.[210]Bradley was inherited and sold by Lord Ravensworth, and its pictures removed to Eslington.[211]The living of Blanchland was afterwards given by the Governors of Bamborough to Mr. Gurley on his marriage with my cousin, Mary Clutterbuck.[212]The widow of Reginald Heber.[213]The curious old muniment room at Ripley is now modernised, indeed destroyed.[214]Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough, and afterwards of Salisbury—some time tutor to George III.[215]General Scott had married the Hon. Alethea Stanley, sister of Mrs. Marcus Hare[216]It was rebuilt on a large scale in 1893.[217]Well known from the ballad of "The Death of Parcy Reed."[218]See the ballad of "Chevy Chase."[219]Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Walter's cousin and heir, who read this, asked me to add a note, and to say that though it is quite true that Sir Walter was a miser, he was only a miser for philanthropic purposes. He gave £60,000 at once for a railway which he thought would benefit the district in which he lived, and his charities, though eccentric, were quite boundless.[220]Paulina, Lady Trevelyan, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn, died in 1866. Sir Walter married afterwards a Miss Loft, and survived till 1879, but I never saw him again.[221]1888.—Alas that I should have to add a note to say that the mummy-case has been since discovered not to have belonged to a queen at all, but to the court-jester![222]Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, married (1835) Charles John, afterwards Viscount and Earl Canning and Governor-General of India, and died at Calcutta, Nov. 18, 1861.[223]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."[224]His great-grandmother, Lady Susan Lyon and my great-grandmother, Lady Anne, were sisters.[225]From "South-Eastern France."[226]The celebrated Porson was given to such utter fits of absence that he forgot he was married and dined out on the very day of the ceremony.[227]From "South-Eastern France."[228]From "North-Eastern France."[229]Now (1895) pulled down.[230]From "North-Eastern France."[231]From "Days near Rome."[232]Rev. E. Kershaw, afterwards chaplain to Earl De la Warr.[233]Caroline, daughter of Richard, Lord Braybrooke, widow of the first Lord Wenlock.[234]From "Days near Rome."[235]From "Days near Rome."[236]All Mrs. Julius Hare's family of her generation have passed away:allto whom the story of my child life as connected with her could give any pain.[237]From "Southern Italy."[238]Placed on the doors of Catholic churches and chapels.[239]He died on the 17th of the following September."Oh, let him pass! he hates him muchThat would upon the rack of this rough worldStretch him out longer."—King Lear.[240]From "Northern Italy."[241]Adèle, Madame Davidoff. See pp. 65, 115.[242]From "South-Eastern France."[243]The Venerable Gaspare del Bufalo, to whose influence the foundation of the Order of the Precious Blood was due.[244]Don Giovanni Merlini of the Crociferi.[245]Mary Pierina Roleston, Superior of the Order of the Precious Blood in England.[246]Alas! after the Sardinian occupation of Rome, the Soras, then Prince and Princess Piombino, were induced to sell all the grounds of Villa Ludovisi, the noblest ornament of Rome; its magnificent groves of ilex and cypress were cut down, and hideous stucco houses built over its site.[247]Lady Wenlock died May 1868.[248]"The Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench," by her son Richard Chevenix Trench, Dean of Westminster, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.[249]The Rt. Hon. George Grenville, father of Catherine, Lady Braybrooke.[250]I give, of course, the words of Pierina.[251]Paray le Monial, now so constant a resort of pilgrimages, was, up to this time, almost unknown.[252]From "South-Western France."[253]These were the very early days of Arcachon.[254]Born Julia Hare of Hurstmonceaux, a first cousin of my father.[255]Edwin Dashwood was the son, and the first Mrs. Story had been the daughter, of Emily Hare of Hurstmonceaux, sister of Mrs. Taylor.[256]From "South-Western France."[257]Her brother and sister, who had died long before.[258]From "South-Western France."[259]This I afterwards carried out in six unpublished volumes of the Memoirs of the Hare Family.[260]Spenser, "Faerie Queene."[261]From "South-Western France."[262]Wife of Sir George Robinson of Crauford.[263]From "South-Western France."[264]From "South-Western France."[265]From "South-Western France."[265a]From "South-Western France."[266]Now terribly modernised and spoilt.[267]"What is a miracle? Can there be a thing more miraculous than any other thing?... I haveseenno man rise from the dead: I have seen some thousands rise fromnothing."—Carlyle.[268]I do not think that this characteristic anecdote is preserved elsewhere.[269]Emma, widow of King Kaméhaméha IV., who died Nov. 30, 1863. She was born Jan. 2, 1836, being daughter of George Naca, a native chief, and of Fanny Yong. Charles Rooke, a rich doctor, adopted her, and left her all his fortune. Having seen three kings succeed her husband, and been equally honoured and respected by all, Queen Emma died in March 1885.[270]From "Walks in London."[271]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."[272]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."[273]Colonel Alexander Higginson of the Grenadier Guards, celebrated for his silence, was keeping the door. He said not a word in answer to all her entreaties, but dropped his sword as a barrier in front of the Queen.—Note from Mrs. Owen Grant, niece of Colonel A. Higginson.[274]Caroline, daughter of Francis I., king of Naples, widow of the Duc de Berri, younger son of Charles X.[275]The Duc de Bordeaux (Comte de Chambord).[276]The Archduchess Marie Therese, daughter of Francis IV., Duke of Modena.[277]Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, father of the Duc d'Enghien, the last member of the House of Condé, who fought a duel with Charles X. in 1776. He married Marie Thérèse d'Orleans in 1770.[278]Marie Amelie, Duchesse d'Orleans, afterwards Queen of the French, was daughter of Ferdinard I., king of the Two Sicilies, and sister of Francis I., father of the Duchesse de Berri.[279]The Duc de Bourbon left Madame de Feuchères two million francs, the château and park of St. Leu, the château and estate of Boissy, and all their dependencies: also a pavilion at the Palais Bourbon, valued at fifteen million francs.[280]Elizabeth, wife of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, and daughter of James, 5th Earl of Balcarres.[281]Colin, 3rd Earl of Balcarres.[282]Anne, only daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton.[283]The tune which then existed. The Hon. Mrs. Byron, a friend of Lady Anne Barnard, afterwards gave the words to Lieutenant William Leeves, 1st Foot Guards, who composed the air to which they are now sung, in imitation of old Scotch music. Lieutenant Leeves afterwards took orders and became Rector of Wrington in Somersetshire, where he was the intimate friend of Mrs. Hannah More, who lived in his parish. He died in 1828.[284]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."[285]Augusta, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Glasgow.[286]Lucia, eldest daughter of Lord Dover.[287]Second daughter of the 1st Earl of Ellesmere.[288]Maria, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley of Sprotborough.[289]Hamilton, daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield, younger sister of Lady Ruthven.[290]My third cousin, George, 2nd Earl of Durham.[291]Beatrix, second daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn. She died Jan. 1871.[292]Mary, widow of the 5th Lord Ruthven, and daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield.[293]Catherine, daughter of Archdeacon Spooner. Her memoirs were published by her husband, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1879.[294]Daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland, afterwards Viscountess Ossington[295]Lady Anne Anson, second daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield.[296]Afterwards 7th Earl of Aberdeen.[297]Fourth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss.[298]The "custom more honoured in the breach than the observance."—Hamlet.

[147]Ten guineas for a sheet, containing twenty-four pages of the close double-columned type of Murray's Handbooks.

[148]John, 2nd Earl Brownlow.

[149]Of Hunstanton, eldest son of Mrs. Wynne Finch.

[150]Second son of the 5th Earl Stanhope.

[151]Now Sackville of Drayton Manor.

[152]Fourth son of Sir Adam Hay of King's Meadows.

[153]Fourth son of Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, and of the Hon. Anne, 2nd daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.

[154]Eldest son of Sir Charles Wood, M.P., afterwards Viscount Halifax, and of Lady Mary, 5th daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey.

[155]Hon. Mrs. Cradock, wife of the Principal of Brazenose—formerly a Maid of Honour.

[156]Maria Josepha, daughter of the 1st Earl of Sheffield, and widow of the first Lord Stanley of Alderley.

[157]Grandfather of the first Lord Knutsford.

[158]Mrs. Pelham Warren died in Nov. 1865.

[159]Mrs. Thornton, a most kind and admirable person, died Jan. 1889.

[160]Mrs. Dormer went to live at Flamborough in Yorkshire after the death of her husband, and died there, Oct. 1892.

[161]Afterwards 14th Baron Saye and Sele.

[162]His handwriting was so illegible, that printers charged half-a-crown a sheet extra for setting up each sheet of his "copy."

[163]The universally beloved Henry Octavius Coxe, Bodley's librarian and Rector of Wytham, born 1811, died July 8, 1881.

[164]The Countess Valsamachi, formerly Mrs. Reginald Heber, was one of the three daughters of Dean Shipley, and first cousin to my father.

[165]Mr. Thomas Erskine died March 28, 1870, having survived both his sisters.

[166]Miss Clementina Stirling Graham died at Duntrune, August 23, 1877, aged ninety-five.

[167]Earl of Dalhousie.

[168]My college friend Frederick Forsyth Grant.

[169]This is described in Lord Auckland's Correspondence.

[170]In May 1860.

[171]Fénélon.

[172]The voice which passed the lips of Madame de Trafford was often like the voices of the Irvingites.

[173]Sometimes Madame de Trafford spoke of her spirits as "Les Maricots."

[174]"L'asciar l'amico!Lo seguitai feliceQuand'era il cielo sereno:Alle tempeste in senoVoglio seguirlo ancor:Ah cosi vil non sono."—METASTASIO.

[174]

"L'asciar l'amico!Lo seguitai feliceQuand'era il cielo sereno:Alle tempeste in senoVoglio seguirlo ancor:Ah cosi vil non sono."—METASTASIO.

[175]Principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford.

[176]Our cousins through the Shipleys and Mordaunts.

[177]Grandson of Helena Selman, my great-grandmother's only sister.

[178]I wrote to Sir George Grey several times after this meeting, but never saw him again till 1869 in Miss Wright's rooms in Belgrave Mansions.

[179]Sydney Smith's daughter.

[180]Prescott, Washington Irving, Sir J. Stephen, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Hallam.

[181]Ritter, Humboldt, Arndt.

[182]De Tocqueville.

[183]Afterwards Dean of Lincoln.

[184]The Rev. W. J. Butler, then Dean of Lincoln, and his wife, died within a few weeks of each other in Jan. 1894.

[185]Wife of the Rev. William Gaskell, Unitarian minister of the Chapel in Cross Street, Manchester. He died June 1884, aged eighty. She died very suddenly in Nov. 1865.

[186]It is right to say that a very different account of Count de Salis is given by many of his descendants from that which I wrote down from the narrative of Dr. Hawtrey.

[187]Mrs. Fane de Salis told me (in 1891) that her mother-in-law had described to her being with Miss Foster on the Pincio when the handsome guardsman, Count Mastai, came courting.

[188]Hazeley Court.

[189]Maison Helvetia.

[190]From "South-Eastern France."

[191]From "South-Eastern France."

[192]From "Northern Italy."

[193]From "South-Eastern France."

[194]Rev. J. L. Petit.

[195]From "Northern Italy."

[196]Susan, 5th daughter of Thomas Lyon of Hetton, married the Rev. J. Fellowes of Shottesham.

[197]The heroine of the wreck of theForfarshire, Sept. 5, 1838.

[198]Only son of John, 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Mary Milner.

[199]Mary Eleanor Bowes, 9th Countess of Strathmore.

[200]Paulina, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn.

[201]Mrs. Clutterbuck was Marianne, youngest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Lyon of Hetton, my great-grandmother's youngest brother.

[202]Afterwards Lord Wilfred Seymour.

[203]Arthur Stanley's account.

[204]Montesquieu.

[205]Notably the ballad of "Featherstonhaugh," which Sir Walter inserted as ancient in his "Border Minstrelsy," introducing one stanza in the poem of "Marmion" itself.

[206]My great-great-uncle, Thomas Lyon of Hetton, younger brother of the 9th Earl of Strathmore, married Miss Wren (grand-daughter of Sir Christopher), heiress of Binchester.

[207]Mr. John Clayton survived till July 1890, leaving personalty valued at £728,000, and real property supposed to be worth £20,000 a year. The last member of his generation, the universally beloved Mrs. Anne Clayton, died October 30, 1890.

[208]Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce, author of "The Roman Wall," &c. He lived till 1893, and is commemorated by a tomb in St. Nicholas, Newcastle.

[209]Mr. Andersen had two daughters, my great-great-grandmother Mrs. Simpson, and the Marchesa Grimaldi, great-grandmother of Stacey Grimaldi, who was at this time trying to establish his claims to the Principality of Monaco.

[210]Bradley was inherited and sold by Lord Ravensworth, and its pictures removed to Eslington.

[211]The living of Blanchland was afterwards given by the Governors of Bamborough to Mr. Gurley on his marriage with my cousin, Mary Clutterbuck.

[212]The widow of Reginald Heber.

[213]The curious old muniment room at Ripley is now modernised, indeed destroyed.

[214]Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough, and afterwards of Salisbury—some time tutor to George III.

[215]General Scott had married the Hon. Alethea Stanley, sister of Mrs. Marcus Hare

[216]It was rebuilt on a large scale in 1893.

[217]Well known from the ballad of "The Death of Parcy Reed."

[218]See the ballad of "Chevy Chase."

[219]Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Walter's cousin and heir, who read this, asked me to add a note, and to say that though it is quite true that Sir Walter was a miser, he was only a miser for philanthropic purposes. He gave £60,000 at once for a railway which he thought would benefit the district in which he lived, and his charities, though eccentric, were quite boundless.

[220]Paulina, Lady Trevelyan, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn, died in 1866. Sir Walter married afterwards a Miss Loft, and survived till 1879, but I never saw him again.

[221]1888.—Alas that I should have to add a note to say that the mummy-case has been since discovered not to have belonged to a queen at all, but to the court-jester!

[222]Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, married (1835) Charles John, afterwards Viscount and Earl Canning and Governor-General of India, and died at Calcutta, Nov. 18, 1861.

[223]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."

[224]His great-grandmother, Lady Susan Lyon and my great-grandmother, Lady Anne, were sisters.

[225]From "South-Eastern France."

[226]The celebrated Porson was given to such utter fits of absence that he forgot he was married and dined out on the very day of the ceremony.

[227]From "South-Eastern France."

[228]From "North-Eastern France."

[229]Now (1895) pulled down.

[230]From "North-Eastern France."

[231]From "Days near Rome."

[232]Rev. E. Kershaw, afterwards chaplain to Earl De la Warr.

[233]Caroline, daughter of Richard, Lord Braybrooke, widow of the first Lord Wenlock.

[234]From "Days near Rome."

[235]From "Days near Rome."

[236]All Mrs. Julius Hare's family of her generation have passed away:allto whom the story of my child life as connected with her could give any pain.

[237]From "Southern Italy."

[238]Placed on the doors of Catholic churches and chapels.

[239]He died on the 17th of the following September."Oh, let him pass! he hates him muchThat would upon the rack of this rough worldStretch him out longer."—King Lear.

[239]He died on the 17th of the following September.

"Oh, let him pass! he hates him muchThat would upon the rack of this rough worldStretch him out longer."—King Lear.

[240]From "Northern Italy."

[241]Adèle, Madame Davidoff. See pp. 65, 115.

[242]From "South-Eastern France."

[243]The Venerable Gaspare del Bufalo, to whose influence the foundation of the Order of the Precious Blood was due.

[244]Don Giovanni Merlini of the Crociferi.

[245]Mary Pierina Roleston, Superior of the Order of the Precious Blood in England.

[246]Alas! after the Sardinian occupation of Rome, the Soras, then Prince and Princess Piombino, were induced to sell all the grounds of Villa Ludovisi, the noblest ornament of Rome; its magnificent groves of ilex and cypress were cut down, and hideous stucco houses built over its site.

[247]Lady Wenlock died May 1868.

[248]"The Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench," by her son Richard Chevenix Trench, Dean of Westminster, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.

[249]The Rt. Hon. George Grenville, father of Catherine, Lady Braybrooke.

[250]I give, of course, the words of Pierina.

[251]Paray le Monial, now so constant a resort of pilgrimages, was, up to this time, almost unknown.

[252]From "South-Western France."

[253]These were the very early days of Arcachon.

[254]Born Julia Hare of Hurstmonceaux, a first cousin of my father.

[255]Edwin Dashwood was the son, and the first Mrs. Story had been the daughter, of Emily Hare of Hurstmonceaux, sister of Mrs. Taylor.

[256]From "South-Western France."

[257]Her brother and sister, who had died long before.

[258]From "South-Western France."

[259]This I afterwards carried out in six unpublished volumes of the Memoirs of the Hare Family.

[260]Spenser, "Faerie Queene."

[261]From "South-Western France."

[262]Wife of Sir George Robinson of Crauford.

[263]From "South-Western France."

[264]From "South-Western France."

[265]From "South-Western France."

[265a]From "South-Western France."

[266]Now terribly modernised and spoilt.

[267]"What is a miracle? Can there be a thing more miraculous than any other thing?... I haveseenno man rise from the dead: I have seen some thousands rise fromnothing."—Carlyle.

[268]I do not think that this characteristic anecdote is preserved elsewhere.

[269]Emma, widow of King Kaméhaméha IV., who died Nov. 30, 1863. She was born Jan. 2, 1836, being daughter of George Naca, a native chief, and of Fanny Yong. Charles Rooke, a rich doctor, adopted her, and left her all his fortune. Having seen three kings succeed her husband, and been equally honoured and respected by all, Queen Emma died in March 1885.

[270]From "Walks in London."

[271]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."

[272]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."

[273]Colonel Alexander Higginson of the Grenadier Guards, celebrated for his silence, was keeping the door. He said not a word in answer to all her entreaties, but dropped his sword as a barrier in front of the Queen.—Note from Mrs. Owen Grant, niece of Colonel A. Higginson.

[274]Caroline, daughter of Francis I., king of Naples, widow of the Duc de Berri, younger son of Charles X.

[275]The Duc de Bordeaux (Comte de Chambord).

[276]The Archduchess Marie Therese, daughter of Francis IV., Duke of Modena.

[277]Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, father of the Duc d'Enghien, the last member of the House of Condé, who fought a duel with Charles X. in 1776. He married Marie Thérèse d'Orleans in 1770.

[278]Marie Amelie, Duchesse d'Orleans, afterwards Queen of the French, was daughter of Ferdinard I., king of the Two Sicilies, and sister of Francis I., father of the Duchesse de Berri.

[279]The Duc de Bourbon left Madame de Feuchères two million francs, the château and park of St. Leu, the château and estate of Boissy, and all their dependencies: also a pavilion at the Palais Bourbon, valued at fifteen million francs.

[280]Elizabeth, wife of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, and daughter of James, 5th Earl of Balcarres.

[281]Colin, 3rd Earl of Balcarres.

[282]Anne, only daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton.

[283]The tune which then existed. The Hon. Mrs. Byron, a friend of Lady Anne Barnard, afterwards gave the words to Lieutenant William Leeves, 1st Foot Guards, who composed the air to which they are now sung, in imitation of old Scotch music. Lieutenant Leeves afterwards took orders and became Rector of Wrington in Somersetshire, where he was the intimate friend of Mrs. Hannah More, who lived in his parish. He died in 1828.

[284]From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."

[285]Augusta, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Glasgow.

[286]Lucia, eldest daughter of Lord Dover.

[287]Second daughter of the 1st Earl of Ellesmere.

[288]Maria, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley of Sprotborough.

[289]Hamilton, daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield, younger sister of Lady Ruthven.

[290]My third cousin, George, 2nd Earl of Durham.

[291]Beatrix, second daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn. She died Jan. 1871.

[292]Mary, widow of the 5th Lord Ruthven, and daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield.

[293]Catherine, daughter of Archdeacon Spooner. Her memoirs were published by her husband, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1879.

[294]Daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland, afterwards Viscountess Ossington

[295]Lady Anne Anson, second daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield.

[296]Afterwards 7th Earl of Aberdeen.

[297]Fourth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss.

[298]The "custom more honoured in the breach than the observance."—Hamlet.

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