by Tracy Borman
11. Walpole, Reminiscences, 68.
12. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 379–80.
13. Walpole, Reminiscences, 73–4.
14. Hone, 378.
15. Wilkins, 427–8.
16. BM Add. MS 22626 f.43.
17. Sherburn, II, 141.
18. BM Add. MS 22626 f.51.
19. Ibid. f.53; NRS 21089 71 X3.
20. BM Add. MS 22626 f.53.
21. Ibid. ff.30, 55; 22625 f.30.
22. BM Add. MS 22625 f.22.
23. BM Add. MS 22626 ff.53, 55.
24. Thomson, I, 242–3. See also ibid., 232–3, 237, 240.
25. BM Add. MS 27732 ff.57, 216.
26. W. A. Shaw, Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers 1731–34 (London, 1898), 550; BM Add. MS 22626 f.20.
27. BM Add. MS 22626 f.55.
28. Sedgwick, Some Materials, I, 98–100; Llanover, I, 193.
29. Williams, Correspondence, III, 324, 326.
30. Ibid., 326.
31. BM Add. MS 22626 f.74.
32. Sedgwick, Some Materials, I, 172–3.
33. i.e. the statute of treason.
34. BM Add. MS 22626 ff.103–4.
35. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 371.
36. Ibid., II, 384.
37. BM Add. MS 22627 f.99.
38. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 85.
39. BM Add. MS 22626 f.80.
40. BM Add. MS 22628 f.69.
41. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.191–2.
42. BM Add. MS 22627 f.101.
CHAPTER 13 ‘PLEASING ONE NOT WORTH THE PLEASING’
1. BM Add. MS 22629 f.33.
2. Ibid. f.35.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid. ff.35, 38.
5. Ibid. f.37.
6. Ibid. f.228.
7. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 381.
8. Walpole, Memoirs, I, 514.
9. Sherburn, II, 514; BM Add. MS 22626 f.26.
10. BM Add. MS 22628 f.100.
11. Sherburn, II, 409.
12. BM Add. MS 22628 f.98.
13. BM Add. MS 22626 f.112.
14. HMC, Fortescue, 92–3.
15. Ibid., 92.
16. BM Add. MS 22626 f.111.
17. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 383.
18. NRS MC3/285 f.50; Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 472.
19. BM Add. MS 22627 f.6. Another draft of the letter can be found at f.7.
20. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 601.
21. Ibid., 471–2.
22. Thomson, 248; Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 383.
23. NRS BL/T/5/2; Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 382.
24. Lewis, V, 59–60.
25. BM Add. MS 22625 f.122; 22626 ff.19, 78; 22627 f.77.
26. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 382, 385.
CHAPTER 14 MRS BERKELEY
1. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 382, 385; HMC, Egmont, II, 134. In fact, Caroline eventually decided not to appoint another Mistress of the Robes, and the post remained vacant for the rest of her reign.
2. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 491.
3. BM Add. MS 22626 f.19.
4. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 314.
5. NRS 21140 X3. The houses along Savile Street were later renumbered, and the one occupied by Henrietta is now at No.17. It is not in the form that it would have been in her day, however, for the original house was demolished and rebuilt in the nineteenth century. In common with most other houses along the street, it is now occupied by a prestigious tailor’s.
6. Ibid.
7. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 362.
8. PRO C104/262 bundle no.11.
9. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 362.
10. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 471–2.
11. Melville, Maids of Honour, 114.
12. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 362.
13. BM Add. MS 22628 ff.37–8, 89–91.
14. Sherburn, III, 474.
15. Williams, Correspondence, IV, 422.
16. It is rather ironic that both portraits are now hung at Audley End House, the seat of Henrietta’s estranged late husband. How they came to be there is not known.
17. Sherburn, III, 478.
18. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.51, 60.
19. HMC, Fortescue, I, 93.
20. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.39–44.
21. HMC, Fortescue, I, 94.
22. BM Add. MS 22628. While the boy overcame this childhood illness, he did not survive into adulthood and died at the age of seventeen.
23. Sherburn, IV, 38–9.
24. WRO Wilton MS 2057/F4/25.
25. HMC, Fortescue, I, 94.
26. Ibid., I, 106–7.
27. Melville, Bath, 79.
28. BM Add. MS 22627 f.110.
29. HMC, Fortescue, I, 105–6.
30. BM Add. MS 22628 f.37.
CHAPTER 15 ‘THE MELANCHOLY SHADES OF PRIVACY’
1. Mahon, Letters, I, 467.
2. Russell, 326, 334; Croker, Letters, II, 127–30.
3. Walpole, Memoirs, I, 513.
4. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 486–90.
5. Ibid., II, 497.
6. Ibid., II, 490; HMC, Egmont, II, 370.
7. HMC, Egmont, II, 299.
8. Wilkins, 583.
9. HMC, Egmont, II, 311.
10. Sedgwick, Some Materials, II, 638–9.
11. HMC, Egmont, II, 44.
12. Sedgwick, Some Materials, III, 877–915.
13. Sherburn, IV, 4, 33.
14. Ibid., III, 434.
15. Ault, 266–75. Valerie Rumbold provides an excellent account of Henrietta’s relationship with the poet: Rumbold, 225–31.
16. Sherburn, IV 212.
17. BM Add. MS 22626 f.58; 22628 ff.34–5.
18. BM Add. MS 22628 f.94; WRO Wilton MS 2057/F4/25.
19. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.45–6, 52.
20. Ibid. ff.47–55.
21. Ibid. f.54.
22. Ibid. f.58. Swift himself died a year later, in 1745.
23. BM Add. MS 22627 f.77.
24. HMC, Denbigh, V, 152–3.
25. NRS 8549 21 B6. The will does not specify what property George Berkeley owned, and there is no evidence of this in the other contemporary papers that I have studied. He spent his early years at his family seat, Berkeley Castle, and lived in London from at least the mid-1720s, when he was appointed Master Keeper and Governor of St Katharine’s Hospital, although there is no indication of exactly where.
26. The Gentleman’s Magazine, November 1746; HMC, Buckinghamshire et al., 154.
CHAPTER 16 ‘WHERE SUFFOLK SOUGHT THE PEACEFUL SCENE’
1. The following sources provide excellent accounts of the Jacobite defeat and the fall of Walpole: Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century; O’Gorman; Black, The Hanoverians.
2. BM Add. MS 22627 f.105; 22629 ff.81–2.
3. Lewis, VII, 120–2.
4. Cobbett, 296.
5. Ibid., 308–10.
6. Ibid., 296; Fothergill, 106.
7. Walpole, Reminiscences, 64.
8. Fothergill, 121.
9. Ibid., 120–1.
10. Walpole, Reminiscences, 65.
11. Fothergill, 117.
12. Lewis, XXXI, ix.
13. Tytler, 49–50.
14. BM Add. MS 22627 f.81.
15. UHA DDHO/4/4/23.
16. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.126–7, 138, 166–8.
17. Ibid. ff.139–63, 172, 178, 180.
18. English Heritage has recently restored the room to its 1750s appearance and has hung an exquisite replica of Lady Suffolk’s Chinese wallpaper.
19. NRS 8899 21 F6.
20. Ibid.
21. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.58–9; NRS MC 3/285 467 X.
22. BM Add. MS 22629 f.71.
23. HMC, Lothian, 170.
24. The Prince had died in March 1751 from an injury sustained some time before when he had been hit on the head by a cricket ball.
25. BM Add. MS 22627 f.105; 22629 ff.62–4.
26. Walpole, Reminiscences, 65.
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27. Impey, 79.
28. BM Add. MS 22629 f.82.
29. Melville, Lady Suffolk, 244.
CHAPTER 17 ‘AN ESSENTIAL LOSS’
1. Walpole, Memoirs, 454; The London Chronicle, 25–29 October 1760; The Gentleman’s Magazine, 25 October 1760; Impey, 81.
2. Black, The Hanoverians, 110.
3. BM Add. MS 33069 f.295.
4. BM Add. MS 22629 f.127; Fothergill, 118.
5. Lewis, XXXI, 24.
6. BM Add. MS 22627 ff.10–11.
7. BM Add. MS 22629 f.83.
8. Fothergill, 119.
9. BM Add. MS 22626 f.121.
10. NRS MC 3/285 f.9.
11. Ibid. ff.1, 73, 467x.
12. NRS MC 3/284 f.62.
13. NRS MC 3/285 ff.15, 62.
14. NRS MC 3/284 f.66.
15. BM Add. MS 22629 f.93; Coke, I, 211.
16. BM Add. MS 22629 f.98; NRS MC 3/285 f.7.
17. NRS MC 3/285 f.16. For the entire collection of the Earl’s correspondence with Lady Suffolk during his stay in St Petersburg, see: NRS MC 3/284, 285; BM Add. MS 22629 ff.90–103.
18. Coke, I, 96.
19. NRS MC 3/284 f.75; BM Add. MS 22629 f.108.
20. BM Add. MS 22629 ff.110–11.
21. Ibid. f.114; NRS MC 3/285 f.19.
22. BM Add. MS 22629 f.94.
23. NRS MC 3/284 f.65.
24. UHA DDHO/4/20/114.
25. Lewis, XXXI, 40.
26. A. W. M. Stirling, The Hothams (2 volumes, London, 1918), II, 96–7.
27. Lewis, V, 59–60.
28. UHA DDHO/40/26/41.
29. BM Add. MS 22626 ff.114–16.
30. Coke, I, 138–9, 233, 238–9.
31. See for example Lloyd’s Evening Post, 27–29 July; The Gentleman’s Magazine, 26 July. These reports inaccurately cited her age as 86, rather than 78.
32. Croker, Letters, II, 341–3.
33. Ibid., II, 342–3.
34. NRS 8549 21 B6.
EPILOGUE
1. The London property market was clearly less buoyant than it is now, for the house was sold for £2,110 – some £390 less than the original purchase price had been more than thirty years earlier.
2. Fothergill, 121.
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