Savage, James The Librarian (1808)
Wilkes, John (ed.) A Collection of All the Hand-bills, Squibs, Songs, Essays, etc. Published during the late Contested Election for the County of Hants. between the Right Honourable Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. and Jervoise Clarke Jervoise (Winchester, 1780)
Worsley, Sir Richard, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Principal Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings etc. at Appuldurcombe House (1804)
Worsley, Sir Richard, Museum Worsleyanum; or, A Collection of Antique Basso Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems; with Views of Places in the Levant taken on the Spot in the Years 1785–6–7, Vol. 1 (1798)
Worsley, Sir Richard, Museum Worsleyanum; or, A Collection of Antique Basso Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems; with Views of Places in the Levant taken on the Spot in the Years 1785–6–7, Vol. 2 (1824)
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘The Cuckold’s Reel or; a Dialogue between the Matrimonial Advocate, the Atlas Cornuto, and Admiral Easy’, Rambler’s Magazine, March 1783, p. 105
Anon., The Britannic Magazine; or Entertaining Repository of Heroic Adventures, 1794–1807, vol. 12, p. 96
Anon., Monthly Register, July 1803, p. 150
Anon., ‘Obituary of Sir Richard Worsley’, Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. ixxv, pt. ii (1805), pp. 781–2, 874–5
Juvenis, ‘On the Marriage of Sir Richard Worsley, Bart of Appuldurcombe in the Isle of Wight to Miss D.S. Fleming, of Harewood in the County of York’, Hampshire Chronicle, 9 October 1775, p. 4
GENERAL MENTIONS AND GOSSIP 1775–1805
The Annual Register
Bon Ton Magazine
European Magazine
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Hampshire Chronicle
Leeds Intelligencer
Leeds Mercury
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Monthly Review
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Morning Post
Public Advertiser
Rambler’s Magazine
St James’ Chronicle
Sussex Weekly Advertiser
Whitehall Evening Post
World
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Boucher, James E., ‘The Worsleys of the Isle of Wight’, Letters Archaeological and Historical (1896)
Bowring, John (ed.) The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 10 (New York, 1962)
Boynton, Lindsay, Appuldurcombe House (1990)
Boynton, Lindsay, ‘Sir Richard Worsley and the Greek Revival’, in Ancient History in a Modern University, ed. T.W. Hillard et al., vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1998)
Boynton, Lindsay, ‘Sir Richard Worsley and the Firm of Chippendale’, Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, no. 783 (June 1968)
Christie, Ian R., The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, 1781–88, 5 vols (1971)
Cross, Anthony, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia (Cambridge, 1997)
Ingamells, John, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1710–1800 (1997)
Lewis, W.S., Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven, Conn., 1937–80)
Mannings, David, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 vols (2000)
Morritt, J. B.S., A Grand Tour: Letters and Journeys, 1794–6, ed. G.E. Marandin (1985)
Prothero, Rowland E. (ed.) The Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, 2 vols (1897)
Radice, Betty (ed.) Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon (1984)
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Report on Family and Estate Papers of The Worsleys (1895)
Smith, A.H., A Catalogue of Antiquities in the Collection of the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park (1897)
Worsley, Henry Arthur Mant, Family, Baronets of Appuldurcombe, 13th–19th centuries, no. 84/9 (1984)
Worsley, Henry Arthur Mant, The Pedigree of the Family of Worsley Completed to date and in Continuation of that Appearing in ‘Berry’s Hampshire Genealogies’ (1895)
Worsley, Sir Richard, The History of the Isle of Wight, ed. R.M. Robbins (1975)
LADY SEYMOUR DOROTHY WORSLEY (NÉE FLEMING)
ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
Isle of Wight Record Office: Worsley Family Papers: JER/WA/35/23–24, 35/25a&b, 35/28
Hammond Papers: HG/2/110 a&b, 2/107, 2/8–9, 2/69–71, 2/86, 2/76
Kensington Central Library, Local Studies Archive: Brompton Estate Papers: MSS 2694, 2695, 2696, 2698, 2701, 2702, 2733, 2738, 2739, 2753, 2767, 2774, 2779, 2782 (10), 2790 (5), 2818, 2819, 2830, 2834, 2840
Nottinghamshire Archives: Foljambe Family Papers: 157/DD/FJ/11/1/3/427–8, 157/DD/FJ/11/1/4/33–4, 157/DD/FJ/11/1/4/43–4
Public Record Office, Kew
PCC Wills: Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming, Sir John Fleming, John Lewis Fleming
Sheffield Archives: Spencer Stanhope Muniments Sp/St 60635/4
Grenville Clark, Richard, ‘Contrasting Notions of Female Propriety in Late Eighteenth Century England, c. 1780–1800’, unpublished MA dissertation, University of Greenwich, 1987
Harewood House, Maids and Mistresses (exhibition guidebook, 2004)
Lynch, Karen, Some Lascelles Ladies (essay accompanying the exhibition ‘Maids and Mistresses’ at Harewood House, 2004)
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Anon., A Fifteen Days’ Tour to Paris (1789)
Anon., A Poetical Address from Mrs Newton to Lady W——y (1782)
Anon., An Epistle from Lady W——y to Sir R——d W——y (1782)
Anon., The Abbey of Kilkhampton or Monumental Records for the Year 1780 (1780)
Anon., The Abbey of Kilkhampton, an Improved Edition (1788)
Anon. [Sir Richard Worsley], The Answer of S——r R——d W——y. Bt. to the Epistle of L——y W——y (1782)
Anon., The Devil Divorced or the Diabo Whore (1782)
Anon., The Genuine Anecdotes and Amorous Adventures of Sir Richard Easy and Lady Wagtail (1782)
Anon., The Life of Dick En——l——d, alias Captain En——l——d of Turf Memory (1792)
Anon., The Memoirs of Sir Finical Whimsy and His Lady (1782)
Anon., Variety, or Which is the Man? (1782)
Anon., The Whim!!!, or the Maidstone Bath, a Kentish Poetic (1782)
Anon., The Whore. A Poem Written by a Lady of Quality (1782)
Hartley, J., History of the Westminster Election, Containing Every Material Occurrence from its Commencement on the 1 st of April to the Final Close (1784) Pindar, Peter, The Lousiad (1785)
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘Anecdote of Mrs N——t——n and Lady W——s——y’, Rambler’s Magazine, May 1783, pp. 60–2, 101–2
Anon., ‘Obituary of Sir Richard Worsley’, Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. ixxv, pt. ii (1805), pp. 781–2, 874–5
Anon., ‘The Court of Scandal or The New Female Coterie’, Rambler’s Magazine, June 1783, pp. 270–1
Anon., ‘The Most Fashionable Votaries of Venus’, Rambler’s Magazine, April 1783
Anon. ‘Spa Intelligence’, Rambler’s Magazine, August 1785, p. 359
Robertson, Thomas, ‘Cytherian Discussions’, Rambler’s Magazine, July 1783, pp. 248–50
(from January 1782 to December 1784 regular updates of Lady Worsley’s activities can be found in:)
Morning Herald
Morning Post
Rambler’s Magazine (from 1783)
Newspapers and Journals: General Mentions
Annual Register
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
Hampshire Chronicle
European Magazine
Leeds Intelligencer
Leeds Mercury
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Monthly Review
Morning Chronicle
Public Advertiser
St James’ Chronicle
Sussex Weekly Advertiser
Town and Country Magazine
Whitehall Evening Post<
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World
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Bleackley, Horace ‘Lady Worsley’, Notes and Queries, 11 S. I (1 January 1910), pp. 14–15
Cave, Kathryn (ed.) The Diary of Joseph Farringdon, vol. 8 (New Haven, 1982),
Chitty, Joseph et al., A Practical Treatise on the Law of Contracts Not Under Seal (1855)
Clark, Lorna J. (ed.) The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney (Athens, Georgia, 1997)
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, Journal of My Life During the French Revolution, ed. Richard Bentley
Greening, Henry, Chitty’s Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Action (1876), Appendix to vol. 1, p. 473, Turtle v. Worsley
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Carlisle Manuscripts (1897), Appendix pt. v. p. 536
King, A. Hyatt (ed.), The Reminiscences of Michael Kelly (New York, 1968)
Lewis, W.S., Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven, Conn., 1937–80), vol. 25, pp. 228, 245–6
Mannings, David, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 vols (2000)
Penny, N. (ed.) Reynolds (1986)
Rizzo, Betty (ed.) The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, 1780–1781, vol. 4 (Montreal, 2003)
Ruvigny, Melville H., The Nobilities of Europe (2000)
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION TRIAL AND ‘DIVORCE’ PROCEEDINGS
ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
Cumbria Record Office, Barrow-in-Furness: Hart Jackson & Sons, Solicitors BD HJ Precedent Book 6/Page 321–48 (Worsley Deeds of Separation)
Isle of Wight Record Office: Worsley Family Papers: JER/WA/38/1–2, 38/4–5 Lambeth Palace Archives: Court of Arches 10302 Worsley v. Worsley (Suit for Divorce)
Supporting Materials and Counter Suits Aa 77/15, 18, 37, Aa 78/2–3, D 2324, E 45/17, G 129/68 G 152/14–15, J22/8
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Anon., A New Collection of Trials for Adultery or, General History of Modern Gallantry and Divorces (1802)
Anon., The Cuckold’s Chronicle (1793)
Anon., Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces Being Select Trials at Doctor’s Commons, for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, etc., 1779–1781, 7 vols (1781)
Pye Donkin, Robert, The Trial with the Whole of the Evidence between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. Defendant for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff’s Wife (1782), editions: 1–2, 4–5, 8
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘The Trial between Sir Richard Worsley and Captain Bisset’, European Magazine, i 154 (February 1782), pp. 17–18
‘Crim. Con. Intelligence’, Hampshire Chronicle, 25 February 1782, p. 3
Monthly Review (March–August 1782)
Morning Herald (15, 22, 27, 28 February, 2 March 1782)
Morning Post (22 February 1782)
World (22 February 1782)
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Fitzpatrick, John C. (ed.) The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799 (Washington, DC, 1931)
Lloyd, Sarah, ‘Amour in the Shrubbery: Reading the Details of English Adultery Trial Publications of the 1780s’, Eighteenth Century Studies, no. 39 (2006)
McCreery, Cindy, ‘Breaking All the Rules: The Worsley Affair in Late Eighteenth Century Britain’, in Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth Century Society, ed. R. Hewitt and P. Rogers (2002)
Staves, Susan, ‘Money for Honor: Damages for Criminal Conversation’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, ed. Harry C. Payne, vol. 11 (London, 1982)
Wagner, P. ‘The Pornographer in the Courtroom: Trial Reports about Cases of Sexual Crimes and Delinquencies as a Genre of Eighteenth Century Erotica’, in Sexuality in Eighteenth Century Britain, ed. P. Bouce (1982)
Wood, J.L., ‘A Picture of the Times: the Crim Con Suit over Lady Worsley’, Factotum no. 25 (February 1988), pp. 7–8
GENERAL
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
British Library
General Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, compiled by Sir William Musgrave: Add. MSS 25393–5 Musgrave Descriptions: Add. MS 5727
Correspondence to or from Lady Jane Fleming: Add. MSS 38309 (f. 1, f. 7), 38217 (f. 122) The Print Collection of Judith Baker of Elemore Hall in Co. Durham
Chatsworth Archives
Papers of the 5th Duke of Devonshire: Chatsworth 214 (14 July 1778)
Derbyshire Record Office
Stanhope family of Elvaston, Earls of Harrington: D518M/T442–5, D518M/F32, F35
House of Lords Archive
HL/PO/PB/1/1807/47G3s/n44 (Naturalisation of John Lewis Fleming)
Isle of Wight Record Office
Worsley Family Papers: JER/WA/33/25, 33/36, 33/44–9, 33/52, 35/26–9, 37/22–31, 38/1, 38/3, 38/6–8, 39/4–6, JER/WA/AppV/12
Bisset Family Papers: AC/90/50/44, 50/9, 50/12, 50/53, 50/39, 50/44
Oglander Family Papers: OG/DD/7–16, OG/RR/3, SW/1550.
Uncatalogued Papers in Jerome Clarke Collection (1782–92): Unknown to Unknown, 30 January 1782, James Worsley to William Clarke, 6 July 1784
Lancashire Record Office
Journal of Sir William Farrington on Continental Tour: Farrington MSS, DDF/14
Leeds Record Office
Harewood Estate Papers: HAR/ACC/492, HAR/CORR/5, Stewards Letter Book, WYAS HAR/ Estate Correspondence/ Misc. 18 & 19c, WYL250/3/188, 3/247–8, 3/250, 3/263, 3/213, 3/203, 3/264, 3/491, 3/510, 3/14, 3/397, 3/270–285
Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Manuscript Travel Diary: Journey through Italy, Greece, Egypt, etc. by Willey Reveley
Lincolnshire Archives
Worsley Papers: 1 Worsley 13, 1 Worsley 49, 1 Worsley 55/5–6, 1 Worsley 60
University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections
Papers of the 3rd Duke of Portland: (Regarding the Worsleys of Pylewell): PWF 2293, 2295, 2296, 10642
Public Record Office, Kew
PCC Wills: Maurice George Bisset, Sir John Fleming, Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming, William Hargrave, John Frederick Adam Hesse, Edwin Lascelles, Sir Richard Worsley, Sir Thomas Worsley
Home Office: HO 44/ 46/ff. 29–35 (Naturalisation of Jean Louis Cuchet, alias Hummell)
Westminster City Archives
Anglican Parish Registers:
Burials Records for the churches of St James, St Margaret & St John, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Anne, St Marylebone, St George Hanover Square
Baptism Records for the churches of
St Marylebone, St George Hanover Square
Worcestershire Record Office
Family Papers of the Coventrys of Croome Court: Uncatalogued Correspondence from George William Coventry, Lord Deerhurst in folder F.81: Deerhurst to Lady Coventry (no date) 1778/9, 25 July 1779, 5 Sept. 1779, 9 Jan. 1780, 28 Feb. 1780
Letter Regarding the Divorce of Lady Maria Baynton, 29 Dec. 1781
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Aikin, Arthur, Brayley’s and Britton’s Beauties of England and Wales (1805)
Alfieri, Vittorio, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Vittorio Alfieri, 2 vols (1810)
Andrews, J., Remarks on the French and English Ladies in a Series of Letters Interspersed with Various Anecdotes, etc. (1783)
Anon., A Congratulatory Epistle from a Reformed Rake to John Fielding Esq., Upon the New Scheme of Reclaiming Prostitutes (1758)
Anon., A List of the Officers of the Militia of England and Wales for the Year 1778 (1778)
Anon., Coxheath Camp, A Novel in a Series of Letters by A Lady (1779)
Anon., Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley (1787)
Anon., Nocturnal Revels: Sketches and Portraits of the Most Celebrated Demi-reps and Courtesans of the Period, 2 vols (1779)
Anon., ‘Tete a Tete; The Stable-yard Messalina and the Hostile Sailor; Memoirs of Lord Barrington and Lady Harrington’, Town and Country Magazine, 1771
Anon., The Complete English Peerage: or a Genealogical and Historical Account of the Peers and Peeresses of the Realm to the Year 1775 (1775)
Anon., The Life and Amours of Lady Ann F——I——y [Foley] (1782)
Anon., The Military Register or Complete List of the British Army (1779)
Anon., The New Complete Guide to All Persons Who Have Any Trade or Concern in the City of London and Parts Adjacent (1783)
Anon., ‘The Particulars of the Late Dick England by an Old Crony’, Sporting Magazine, 1813
Anon., The Torpedo, A Poem to the Electric Eel (1777)
Anon., The Trial of His R——H——the D——of C——[Cumberland] July 5th 1770 for Criminal Conversation with Lady Harriet G——r [Grosvenor] (1770)
Anon., The Trial of Lady A. Foley; for Adultery with Charles Henry Earl of Peterborough (1785)
Anon., The Westminster Election (1784)
Anon., Ways & Means (1782)
Calvert, Frederick, Baron Baltimore, A Tour to the East in the Years 1763 and 1764 With Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks (1767)
Capper, Col. James, Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt and across the Great Desert (1783)
Chapone, H., A Letter to a Newly Married Lady (1777)
Cooke, William Bernard, A New Picture of the Isle of Wight (1808)
Coxe, William, Travels to Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark, (1784)
Devonshire, Duchess of, The Sylph (1779)
Dick, William, Bell’s Complete and Correct List of the Army, including the Militia (1782)
Espinasse, Isaac, A Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius, 2 vols (1789)
Fordyce, J., Sermons to Young Women, 2 vols (1767)
Fordyce, J., The Character and Conduct of the Female Sex (Dublin, 1776)
Gale, Thomas, The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a History of the House of Commons (1816)
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