‘St Albans, with wrinkles and smiles in his face…’ ‘Signor Dildo’, in Veith, David M. (ed.), The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1968. Borgo was near Modena; Rochester may have been alluding to Jermyn’s approval of James’ marriage, unless the word in fact reads ‘pergo’, i.e. Purgatory.
‘At this age all the springs of ambition leave us…’ Saint-Evremond, Letter no. 66, nd (c.1670-5), To Monsieur—- who could not endure that the Earl of Saint Albans should be in love in his old age.
‘it is true that I have greatly loved this lady…’ d’Aulnoy.
‘I admire their Beauty, without any design…’ Saint-Évremond, Letter no. 66 (c. 1670-5), To Monsieur—. who could not endure that the Earl of Saint Albans should be in love in his old age.
‘including one she said she owed Jermyn…’ Orléans, beside himself with jealousy when he discovered Jermyn’s complicity in his wife’s secret correspondence with Charles, refused to allow Ralph Montagu to give the money to Jermyn.
‘joining together to surpass all others…’ 24 May 1669, S.P. Ven.; ‘On the assumption that the division of the Spanish Netherlands between these two kingdoms would be easy, it is stated that St Albans has authority to offer money to the king here to pay all his debts provided he detaches himself from the triple alliance. With this knot undone the Spaniards would no longer have a safeguard for their marts. With their own left free, Holland would be greatly weakened and so France and England would be able to think of conquests in the north and of joining together to surpass all others in the trade of America and the East Indies’.
‘The Earl of St Albans is grown young again… 13 May 1671, Henshaw to Sir Robert Paston, H.M.C. 6, Ingilsby Mss.
‘Knight of the Garter…’ Charles II’s intention to make Jermyn a Garter knight is first referred to in 1650 (God forbid!’ exclaimed Hyde: Madrid, 26 April 1650 Hyde to Nicholas Clar. S.P. no. 290). Most sources give the date of the investiture at St George’s Chapel, Windsor – as opposed to the appointment – as 3 June 1671. This is either a typesetting error, or the intended date, if the ceremony was clearly put off because of the naval engagement with the Dutch. The actual date, inscribed deliberately on Jermyn’s tomb at Rushbrook, was ‘Pridie Kalends Julias’ – 30 June.
‘a poor old man such as I…’ d’Aulnoy.
‘to give you a little account of my self’… ‘Cheevlye nr Newmarket’, 2 January 1674/5, Jermyn to Ormonde. National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Carte MSS, vol. 60 (16 Sept 1674-2 Jan 1674/5) no. 400, 2 sheets, yellow paper, noticed in H.M.C. VI, Ormonde MSS.
‘Where there are Mayernes…’ This is a Court in-joke: Theodore Mayerne had been Charles I and Henrietta Maria’s principal doctor.
‘JOINING TOGETHER TO SURPASS ALL OTHERS’ 1678 – 1685
‘we contemn/Gyges wealthy diadem…’ ‘contemn’ means to dispise. Gyges was a king of Lydia, who was rather too concerned with worldly wealth.
‘Fill the Bowl with rosy Wine…’ Cowley, ‘The Epicure’, Anacreontiques, 8.
‘By 1678, Wren had become Deputy Grand Master…’ see chapter sixteen.
‘large and magnificent structures…’ John Evelyn’s introduction to A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern… written in French by Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray; made English, London, (August) 1664.
‘for the conveniency of the Nobility and Gentry…’ June 1663, petition of Jermyn’s builders, S.P. Dom., 29/75 no. 27.
‘If it please God to continue those beginnings…’ Paris, 19 July 1662, Jermyn to Winchelsea, H.M.C., 71, Finch 1.
‘a diamond studded box, worth 1,500 livres…’ Jermyn’s role in these final negotiations is described in Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 2 p. 319, quoting from Barillon’s correspondence in AAE.
‘to whom’, Saint-Évremond had written in 1677, ‘you yielded the title of the first gouty Man in England…’ 1677, second letter, Saint-Évremond to Jermyn, Saint-Évremond.
‘an extraordinary appetite…’ 18 September 1683, Evelyn’s Diary.
‘Henry, Duke of Grafton, one of Barbara Villiers’ sons…’ The case for Harry Jermyn being the 1st Duke of Grafton’s son is set out in detail in the Appendix.
‘As for news, what is from foreign parts…’ Hervey, Rushbrook, p. 289.
‘decent Christian burial amongst my ancestors in the church of Rushbrook…’ Jermyn’s will.
‘THE FUNERAL OF GLORY’? 1685 – present
‘If it belongs to Henry Jermyn’s first governorship…’ Jersey Evening Post, 30 May 2007, and communication from Prof. Biddle to author.
‘the founder of the West End…’ Survey of London 29, introduction and Dasent p.5.
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