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Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

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by Anne Somerset

93 Nicolson, 177; ibid. 156; Parlt Hist VI, 56.

  94 CB, 104; Add 61416 f 53.

  95 Tindal XV, 461; Sarah 99–100.

  Chapter 7: Nothing But Uneasiness

  1 Add 61416 f 42.

  2 CB, 116; MGC I, 151–152; Add 61416 ff 50–51, 53.

  3 Luttrell V, 273; HMC Portland IV, 59; Churchill I, 722.

  4 Add 61422 f 34.

  5 Add 61416 f 62; ibid. ff 64–64v.

  6 Ibid. f 64; MGC I, 287–288.

  7 Add 61416 f 70, printed CB, 125.

  8 Add 61416 f 80.

  9 Daiches, 78.

  10 Mathieson, 88; Vernon III, 238; CB, 145.

  11 HMC Portland IV, 59.

  12 MGC I, 202–203; ibid. 197; Coxe I, 275.

  13 Add 61416 f 97v; ibid. f 92v.

  14 Ibid. f 91; f 97.

  15 Ibid. f 106v.

  16 Ibid. f 106.

  17 MGC I, 186; Add 61416 f 93; ibid. f 100; ibid. f 123.

  18 Add 61416 f 130; MGC I, 247.

  19 Vernon III, 239; Luttrell V, 342; Add 61416 f 141; HMC Rutland II, 176.

  20 CB, 127; Add 61416 f 136.

  21 CB, 127–128.

  22 HMC Rutland II, 177; Daniel Defoe The Storm (Penguin edn, 2005), 58; Boyer Life and Reign, 100; Defoe, loc cit, 60–63; Stanhope, 105; Oldmixon Hist. of … Anne, 319; Trevelyan I, 308; Luttrell V, 382; Evelyn V, 556.

  23 Parlt Hist VI, 151; Tindal XV, 573; Parlt Hist VI, 153.

  24 CB, 129.

  25 Burnet V, 109; Cunningham I, 351.

  26 Swift Corresp. I, 193; Burnet V, 122.

  27 Ibid.; Burnet V, 83; HMC Rutland II, 178.

  28 PC I, 9.

  29 Trevelyan II, 223; HMC Portland IV, 195; Add 61416 f 86v, Add 61418 f 31; HMC Portland IV, 70, 195; HMC Seafield, 199.

  30 Burnet V, 125.

  31 Lockhart I, 149.

  32 Parlt Hist VI, 174–175; Cunningham I, 364; Add 61416 f 150v; Clerk, 44; Marchmont III, 266.

  33 Boyer Annals II, 244–245.

  34 MGC I, 28–81.

  35 Burnet V, 142n.

  36 Holmes and Speck, Divided Society, 173; CB, 144.

  37 McInnes in Historical Journal, 268; Vernon III, 260; HMC Portland IV, 119.

  38 Swift, Queen’s Last Ministry, 8; Cunningham II, 162; Biddle, 63.

  39 MGC I, 285; ibid. 259.

  40 Ibid. 287–288.

  41 Add 61423 f 166v; Add 61416 f 154.

  42 Add 61416 f 158; f 162; f 154.

  43 CB, 145–147.

  44 Clerk, 48; Cunningham I, 415.

  45 MGC I, 279.

  46 Churchill I, 780; BL Stowe 222, ff 241v–242; Churchill I, 780.

  47 Churchill I, 807.

  48 R. Holmes, 296–297; Spencer, 295–296 for a lower estimate of allied losses.

  49 MGC I, 350; Ellis Letters 2nd series IV, 242.

  50 Evelyn V, 577; Cunningham I, 394; Coxe II, 38–39; Oldmixon Hist. of … Anne, 339.

  51 Add 61416 f 168; Evelyn V, 578; Luttrell V, 462–463; Add 61416 f 172; Ellis Letters 2nd series IV, 243; Add 61416 f 172v.

  52 Add 61416 f 174; ibid. f 176.

  53 Burnet V, 125; Add 61416 ff 177–177v.

  54 Add 61416 f 192; f 180v–181; f 178v.

  55 MGC I, 366.

  56 Coke III, 189; Add 61416 f 192.

  57 CB, 153.

  58 Add 61416 ff 197–198.

  59 Add 61118 f 1.

  60 Churchill I, 914; Nicolson, 238.

  61 MGC I, 405.

  62 Add 61416 ff 201–202.

  63 CB, 225.

  64 Add 17677 ZZ f 519v.

  65 G. Holmes British Politics, 110; Nicolson, 234.

  66 Baillie of Jerviswood, 14; Nicolson Diary, 250.

  67 Burnet V, 182–183n; HMC Portland IV, 215.

  68 Add 61425 f 59v; Burnet VI, 33n; Fowler, 32.

  69 Add 61461 f 87; Add 61422 ff 173v–174.

  70 MGC I, 419; R. Holmes, xxiv; Hoppit, 370; MGC I, 461.

  71 MGC I, 495.

  72 Fowler, 51–54.

  73 Oldmixon Hist. of … Anne, 355; MGC I, 418n.

  74 MGC I, 418; BL Stowe 222 f 286v.

  75 Burnet V, 203; Drake, 20.

  76 Folger Shakespeare Library V.b. 267.

  77 MGC I, 433.

  78 Hibbert, 83; Kenyon Sunderland, 309.

  79 CB, 165.

  80 Ferguson in SHR, 106; Clerk, 55; Cunningham I, 428.

  81 Baillie of Jerviswood, 49; CB, 160.

  82 CB, 159–161.

  83 CB, 160–161; Riley Union, 152.

  84 Burnet V, 226–227; HMC Seafield, 206–207.

  85 HMC Seafield, 207; Seafield Letters, 62; HMC Portland IV, 233.

  86 HMC Portland IV, 239; Lockhart I, 133.

  87 MGC I, 474.

  88 CB, 157.

  89 MGC I, 478–479.

  90 MGC I, 453; Coxe II, 233; CB, 251.

  91 CB, 172.

  92 Burnet V, 224; MGC I, 478.

  93 Sarah Conduct, 104; Sarah Characters, 258.

  94 Add 61423 f 13; ibid. f 66v; D. Hamilton, 22; CB, 172.

  95 MGC I, 483.

  96 Coxe II, 236; Pierpoint Morgan Library, Queen–Marlborough 27 Sept. 1705.

  97 Cowper Diary, 2; Pierpoint Morgan Library, Queen– Marlborough 27 Sept. 1705.

  Chapter 8: Entire and Perfect Union

  1 Parlt Hist VI, 452; Cowper Diary, 8.

  2 Add 61426 f 65; Burnet V, 233n; ibid. 233; 61426 f 62.

  3 Sharp I, 309.

  4 Fricke, 47–48.

  5 Doebner Briefe der … Sophie, 199.

  6 Sharp I, 309; Cowper Diary, 13.

  7 Sachse, 237; Sarah Conduct, 113.

  8 Ward, 375; CB, 176.

  9 Parlt Hist VI, 457; Boyer Annals IV, 196.

  10 Horwitz Nottingham, 206.

  11 Parlt Hist VI, 471, 473.

  12 Lever, 157; Sarah Conduct, 112–113.

  13 MGC I, 510–511; Cowper Diary, 27–28.

  14 Parlt Hist VI, 520–521; Fricke, 136–137; Parlt Hist VI, 525, 527.

  15 Fricke, 125; Macpherson II, 31; Fricke, 126–127; ibid. 64; ibid. 120–122.

  16 MGC II, 688n; Macpherson II, 29–30; BL Stowe 222 f 375; Macpherson II, 37; ibid. 31.

  17 Sachse, 238.

  18 Fricke, 131–133; MGC II, 656; Doebner Briefe der … Sophie, 239.

  19 Nicolson, 320–322; Burnet V, 242n; Parlt Hist VI, 507.

  20 Cowper Diary, 32, 34; Bucholz, 232.

  21 Luttrell VI, 15, 29; ibid. 61; Add 61417 f 3.

  22 Clerk, 62–63; ibid. 71–72.

  23 Add 61416 f 205.

  24 F. Holmes, 180; Graham Hughes Understanding Hughes Syndrome (2009), passim; See Uffenbach, 116 for observation that Anne’s complexion was ‘somewhat copper coloured’; Add 61415 f 39; HMC Downshire I ii, 954; Swift JS I, 255; BC I, 210; Gregg Queen Anne, 258.

  25 Riley in EHR, 514.

  26 Clerk, 60; Lockhart I, 153; ibid. 155.

  27 Lockhart I, 157.

  28 Trevelyan II, 264; HMC Mar & Kellie, 271; Tindal XVI, 243; Clerk, 62–63.

  29 CB, 189; MGC II, 629.

  30 MGC I, 535; Trevelyan II, 102; Churchill I, 989; R. Holmes, 348; Baillie of Jerviswood, 154.

  31 HMC Portland IV, 309; Add 61101 f 91; Churchill II, 128–129.

  32 Trevelyan II, 158.

  33 CB, 201.

  34 Coke III, 288; Trevelyan II, 122; CB, 188; Bolingbroke Defence of Utrecht, 93.

  35 Coxe III, 182.

  36 Churchill II, 152–153; HMC Portland V, 647; Longleat Portland mss, X, 55 – copy in BL microfilm M921/4; Boyer Life and Reign, 322; Trevelyan II, 87.

  37 MGC II, 698–699.

  38 HMC Portland IV, 291.

  39 MGC I, 525.

  40 PC I, 14–15; Add 61417 f 41v; Sarah Conduct, 113.

  41 MGC II, 638; Add 61101 f 96.

  42 MGC II, 628; ibid. 638.

  43 Ibid. 600; 656.

  44 Add 56105 L ff 82–83.

  45 CB, 196–197.

  46 Coxe III, 92–93.
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  47 MGC II, 675.

  48 CB, 177; Add 61417 f 42; ibid. f 5; ibid. ff 5, 9; ibid. f 5.

  49 Add 61443 f 9; Add 56105 L f 87v; MGC II, 688.

  50 Add 61417 ff 19–20v.

  51 Ibid. ff 22–23.

  52 MGC II, 661.

  53 CB, 198.

  54 Add 61417 f 32v; ibid. ff 34–37v.

  55 Ibid. ff 24–37v; MGC II, 671.

  56 MGC II, 670; 683; 671; 675.

  57 Ibid. 678–679.

  58 Add 56105 L ff 84–87v.

  59 MGC II, 683–684; Add 61417 ff 44–45v.

  60 CB, 200–201.

  61 MGC II, 683–684; Coxe III, 94–95; MGC II, 683; ibid. 699–700; ibid. 683.

  62 Add 61118 ff 13–13v; CB, 202.

  63 MGC II, 694; ibid. 705.

  64 Add 75400, Oct. 18 [1706].

  65 Add 61417 ff 46–48, printed PC I, 51–54.

  66 CB, 203.

  67 Add 61417 ff 59–59v; ibid. f 50v.

  68 HMC Bath I, 111; G. Holmes British Politics, 374.

  69 HMC Bath I, 107; MGC II, 717; Add 70331, bundle 4.

  70 MGC II, 715; ibid. 725; Snyder ‘Godolphin and Harley’ in HLQ, 262.

  71 CB, 250.

  72 Boyer Annals V, 395; Add 61417 f 60; Add 61418 f 28v.

  73 CB, 191.

  74 Lockhart I, 159–160; HMC Portland IV, 345; Cunningham II, 59.

  75 HMC Portland IV, 350; Boyer Annals V, 378; Marchmont III, 311.

  76 HMC Portland IV, 341; HMC Mar & Kellie, 323; Cunningham II, 58; HMC Portland IV, 352–353; ibid. 349; Lockhart I, 198–199.

  77 HMC Portland IV, 339–340; Clerk, 65; HMC Mar & Kellie, 272.

  78 HMC Mar & Kellie, 311, 329; Ferguson Scotland’s Relations with England, 260; HMC Mar & Kellie, 323; Marchmont III, 428; BL Stowe 222 ff 497v–498; Marchmont III, 431–432; HMC Mar & Kellie, 342.

  79 HMC Mar & Kellie, 329; ibid. 319; ibid. 232; ibid. 302; Mackinnon, 319; HMC Mar & Kellie, 332; ibid. 315; HMC Portland IV, 359; HMC Mar & Kellie, 341.

  80 Lenman, 92; Ferguson in SHR, 107; Daiches, 165; Ferguson Scotland’s Relations, 248.

  81 HMC Mar & Kellie, 353–354; ibid. 361; HMC Portland IV, 396; Lockhart I, 164.

  82 Parlt Hist VI, 560; Boyer Annals V, 340.

  83 Heinsius VI, 112; Tindal XVI, 362; Parlt Hist VI, 568; ibid. 562.

  84 Clerk, 68–69; MGC II, 765; Clerk, 68–69.

  85 Tindal XVI, 323; Lockhart I, 224.

  86 Burnet V, 261; CB, 191; Cunningham II, 71; HMC Mar & Kellie, 385.

  Chapter 9: Guided by Other Hands

  1 MGC II, 733.

  2 Sykes, 349; Bennett in EHR, 730; ibid. 731; Add 61417 f 100v.

  3 Sykes in EHR, 440–441; Bennett in EHR, 735.

  4 Add 61426 f 59; Tindal Hart, 241–242; Davies in HLQ, 36.

  5 Add 61426 ff 60–61; Sarah Conduct, 123–124.

  6 Add 61426 f 59; CB, 230; MGC II, 622.

  7 Snyder in Historical Journal (1968), 157; MGC II, 833; HMC Portland IV, 74–75, misdated, for correct date see Sundstrom; Add 61118 f 18v.

  8 MGC II, 833; Sykes in EHR, 441–442; MGC II, 831; ibid. 849; Coxe III, 387; Bennett in EHR, 739.

  9 Hardwicke Papers, 483–484; CB, 230; MGC II, 831; ibid. 837; ibid. 873.

  10 MGC II, 843, 844, 845.

  11 Add 61422 f 197; Add 61416 ff 205–205v; Sarah Conduct, 127.

  12 History of Parliament, House of Commons 1690–1715 IV, 361–362; Add 61422 f 6v; Sarah Conduct, 128.

  13 Add 61459 f 103v; POAS VII, 320; E. Hamilton, 126; Add 61461 f 88; Swift JS II, 411–412; ibid. I, 335.

  14 Heinsius VII, 232; Add 61426 f 136; Add 61418 f 63.

  15 Swift Enquiry, 45; Burnet VI, 36–37n; Add 61422 f 7.

  16 Boyer Life and Reign, 322; Add 61417 f 94; Add 61416 f 131.

  17 Add 61416 ff 205–205v.

  18 Folger Shakespeare Library V.b. 267; History of Parliament, House of Commons 1690–1715 IV, 361.

  19 Sarah Conduct, 131–132.

  20 Add 61422 f 195.

  21 Biddle, 129; Cunningham II, 78; Heinsius VII, 96.

  22 Add 61422 f 47.

  23 Ibid. f 47; Add 61423 f 10v; HMC Frankland Russell Astley, 184; Add 61461 f 22v.

  24 ODNB Abigail Masham; History of Parliament, House of Commons 1690–1715 IV, 768–769; F. Harris Passion for Government, 133.

  25 Luttrell VI, 166; Add 61423 f 168v; HMC Bath I, 86, 97–98, misdated – for correct date see Gregg Anne, 236–237, 440n.

  26 ODNB Arbuthnot.

  27 HMC Portland IV, 406; Sarah Conduct, 129; Add 61417 f 64; MGC II, 790; ibid. 829.

  28 Add 61417 f 65.

  29 Add 61418 f 1v; Add 61417 f 71; Add 75400.

  30 Add 61418 f 1v; Add 61417 f 75.

  31 Ibid. f 76.

  32 CB, 70; Add 61417 f 79v.

  33 Add 61417 ff 83–83v.

  34 MGC II, 884.

  35 CB, 230–231.

  36 Add 61417 f 94; f 85; f 87.

  37 Coxe III, 375.

  38 Add 61118 ff 17v–20.

  39 Add 52540 L ff 48–49.

  40 HMC 9th report pt ii, Morrison mss, 469b–470a; MGC II, 907; ibid. 931.

  41 Add 61417 f 84; Add 61422 f 8v; Sarah Conduct, 129–130; Add 61417 f 94v; Sarah Conduct, 130–131; Add 61417 f 74v.

  42 HMC Portland IV, 454; Sarah Conduct, 132–134.

  43 Sarah Conduct, 145–147.

  44 PC I, 88–91.

  45 HMC Downshire I ii, 954; Sharp I, 302.

  46 Add 61118 f 19; HMC Portland IV, 440.

  47 HMC Portland IV, 441; Cunningham II, 110–111.

  48 Davies in HLQ, 38; HMC Rutland II, 187.

  49 Parlt Hist VI, 603; Coningsby, 7–8; Burnet V, 347, 343.

  50 HMC Bath I, 188; Sarah Conduct, 135; MGC II, 932; F. Harris Passion for Government, 136.

  51 CB, 231.

  52 Sharp I, 323; Sarah Conduct, 124; Burnet V, 340; Sykes in EHR, 445; Bennett in EHR, 745.

  53 Davies in HLQ, 39; Vernon III, 300–301; Parlt Hist VI, 610; Dickinson Godolphin, 157.

  54 Davies in HLQ, 39.

  55 Sarah Conduct, 135; Add 61423 f 169.

  56 ‘Faults on Both Sides’, 106; Burnet V, 348.

  57 HMC Bath I, 189–190.

  58 Coxe IV, 24–25; Hill Harley, 241–242; Swift Prose Works VIII, 112–113; Swift Corresp. I, 174–175; Holmes and Speck in Politics, Religion and Society, 72–73; Manchester II, 296; Coningsby, 6–8; Add 61418 f 88v.

  59 Coxe IV, 24–25.

  60 Nicolson, 448–149, 457; Manchester II, 275; Nicolson, 449; Gregg Queen Anne, 258.

  61 Sarah Conduct, 148; Add 61417 f 118v.

  62 Add 61426 f 170v; Add 61425 f 69.

  63 Burnet V, 353; Holmes and Speck in Politics, Religion and Society, 79–80.

  64 Swift Corresp. I, 175; Burnet V, 354.

  65 Holmes and Speck in Politics, Religion and Society, 80; Vernon III, 344; Nicolson, 449; Burnet V, 354; Swift Prose Works VIII, 113; HMC Portland V, 647; Wentworth, 105.

  66 Burnet V, 355; Add 61426 f 97; Heinsius VII, 96; Coningsby, 7–8; Davies in HLQ, 40; Holmes and Speck in Politics, Religion and Society, 82.

  67 Cunningham II, 143; Burnet V, 355; Add 61417 f 96v; Coxe IV, 29–30; Add 61417 f 125; Add 61417 ff 155v–156; Add 61418 f 1v; Add 61417 f 125; Cunningham II, 143; Manchester II, 281; Vernon III, 345; Boyer Annals VI, 323.

  Chapter 10: Passions Between Women

  1 HMC Portland IV, 480–481; Manchester II, 296–297.

  2 Gibson, 113; Oldmixon Hist. of … Anne, 403.

  3 Prideaux Letters, 198–99; Swift Corresp. I, 180.

  4 Bristol I, 231; Manchester II, 318; Bristol I, 231; Boyer Life and Reign, 331; Heinsius VII, 186.

  5 Burnet V, 369; Cunningham II, 154; Bristol I, 233.

  6 Gibson, 138.

  7 Oldmixon Hist. of … Anne, 403; E. Hamilton, 117.

  8 Heinsius VII, 199; Lockhart I, 244.

  9 Manchester II, 319; Luttrell VI, 279.

  10 Manchester II, 348; Luttrell
VI, 316; Heinsius VII, 347–348; HMC Marlborough, 34a; Heinsius VII, 347–348.

  11 Burnet V, 369; Parlt Hist VI, 731.

  12 Add 61423 f 170v; F. Harris Passion for Government, 141; Add 61417 ff 125–126v.

  13 Cunningham II, 154; Add 61426 f 105v; Add 61422 ff 23v–24.

  14 Churchill I, 997; Coxe IV, 45.

  15 Add 61417 f 133.

  16 PC I, 110; 105; 110; Add 61425 f 69v; PC I, 101; ibid. I, 110.

  17 PC I, 101, 105.

  18 MGC II, 965–966; HMC Portland IV, 486.

  19 HMC Mar & Kellie, 428; Parlt Hist VI, 729; Sarah Conduct, 152.

  20 Hoppit, 163; PC I, 142.

  21 MGC II, 958.

  22 CB, 246; Coxe IV, 74–75.

  23 CB, 248; Add 61101 f 115; MGC II, 974–975; MGC II, 995; MGC II, 957; MGC II, 965.

  24 HMC Marlborough 42b; MGC II, 999.

  25 Heinsius VII, 278; Add 61118 f 27.

  26 Add 61118 ff 25–26v.

  27 Ibid. ff 26–26v; MGC II, 1009.

  28 Swift Prose Works VII, 9; Cunningham I, 468; PC II, 66–67; Burnet VI, 9n.

  29 MGC II, 1035; CB, 250.

  30 CB, 249–250.

  31 Add 61417 ff 145–145v.

  32 Ibid. ff 148–148v; ibid. f 151.

  33 Ibid. f 157; PC I, 256; MGC II, 1052.

  34 Add 61416 ff 26–26v.

  35 Longleat mss, Portland Papers X, 51, microfilm copy BL 921/4.

  36 Add 34515 f 93; HMC Portland IV, 495–496.

  37 Add 34515 f 93; Add 70290/2.

  38 HMC Portland IV, 499; HMC Portland IV, 510–511; C. Roberts Growth of Responsible Government, 345; Plain English ed. Speck and Downie in Literature and History no. III, March 1976.

  39 HMC Portland IV, 495–496; HMC Portland IV, 499.

  40 HMC Portland IV, 500.

  41 CB, 252.

  42 MGC II, 1032; 1035; 1049.

  43 Sarah Conduct, 154–155; MGC II, 1024–1025.

  44 Add 61101 ff 129–129v.

  45 Coxe IV, 187–188.

  46 HMC Portland IV, 491; Add 61101 ff 129–123, pt printed CB, 253–254.

  47 POAS VII, 309.

  48 Add 61423 f 36v; POAS VII, 319–321; POAS VII, 306–307.

  49 Add 61417 f 153.

  50 Ibid. ff 156–157v.

  51 Ibid. ff 153–153v.

  52 Add 61426 f 116, also Add 61423 f 69v; PC I, 238–239; Add 61418 ff 4–4v.

  53 Rival Dutchess, 6–7; Add 61417 f 139v; note that Sarah wrongly assumed that a passage in Mary Delarivier Manley’s satirical novel, The New Atalantis, relating to ‘Passions between women’, referred to Anne’s relations Abigail, but this was untrue. See PC I, 232–237, Add 61417 f 139v; Manley The New Atalantis, 154, 161.

  54 Rival Dutchess, 6, 9.

  55 Add 61417 f 66v; Sharp I, 330–331.

 

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