Book Read Free

The First Iron Lady

Page 39

by Matthew Dennison


  65. Impey, op. cit., p.56

  66. Quoted in Greenwood, op. cit., p.347

  67. ‘epidemical distempers’, see Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.45

  68. Thomas Tickell, ‘Kensington Gardens’, 1722

  69. White, Christopher, op. cit., 68

  70. HMC Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont, 3 vols (London, 1920–23), Vol. 2, p.445, Vol. 2, p.138

  71. See Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), pp.37–40

  72. ‘On the Queen’s Mount at Kensington’, anonymous, St James’ Evening Post, 29 March 1733

  73. Worsley, op. cit., p.157

  74. Lord Hervey to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 7 November 1727, see Halsband, Robert, ed., op. cit., Vol. 2, p.87

  75. Schaich, op. cit., p.148

  76. Moore, op. cit., p.83

  77. Borman, op. cit., p.177; Sinclair-Stevenson, op. cit., p.65

  78. Worsley, op. cit., p.270

  79. Quoted in Borman, op. cit., p.164

  80. Quoted in Worsley, op. cit., p.152

  81. Ibid., p.153

  82. Borman, op. cit., p.163

  83. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Mar, October 1727, see Halsband, Robert, ed., op. cit., Vol. 2, p.86

  84. Walpole, Horace, op. cit., p.514

  85. See Einberg, Elizabeth, et al., op. cit., pp.88–91

  86. Jonathan Swift, A Poem to His Majesty King George II on the present state of affairs in England: with remarks on the alterations expected at court, after the rise of Parliament (Dublin, 1727)

  87. Black, op. cit. (George II), pp.118–19

  88. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 2, pp.39–40

  89. John Gay to Brigadier James Dormer, 22 November 1726, in Burgess, C.F., ed., op. cit., p.63

  90. John Gay, Fables, Vol. 1 (1727), Fable 1

  91. John Gay to Alexander Pope, October 1727, in Burgess, C.F., ed., op. cit., p.65

  92. John Gay and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift, 22 October 1727, ibid., pp.68–9

  93. Quoted in Robbins Landon, op. cit., p.109

  94. Richard Savage, The Bastard

  95. HMC Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont, op. cit., Vol. 1, p.16

  96. George II to William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 9 August 1757, Royal Archives GEO/MAIN 52970

  97. Oates, Jonathan, Sweet William or The Butcher? The Duke of Cumberland and the ’45 (Pen & Sword, 2008), p.33

  98. Jenkin Thomas Philipps to Prince William Augustus, December 1727, Royal Archives GEO/ADD/1/9, letter 7; quoted in Oates, op. cit., p.33

  99. Arkell, op. cit., p.165

  100. See Royal Archives GEO/MAIN/53040 (undated)

  101. Quoted in Sinclair-Stevenson, op. cit., p.62

  102. Ibid.

  103. Tillyard, op. cit., pp.12–13

  104. Vivian, op. cit., p.64

  105. See Royal Archives GEO/ADD/1/6

  106. George Tilson to Prince Frederick, 15 July 1726, Royal Archives GEO/ADD/1/5

  107. Townshend to Prince Frederick, 16 August 1726, Royal Archives GEO/ADD/1/8

  108. Quoted in Sinclair-Stevenson, op. cit., p.62

  109. The Daily Post, 8 December 1728

  110. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 3, p.814; Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), p.29

  111. Vivian, op. cit., p.94

  112. Quoted in Sinclair-Stevenson, op. cit., p.63

  113. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.92

  114. Greenwood, op. cit., p.304

  115. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.128

  116. See Royal Collection RCIN421802

  117. Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p.162

  118. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lord Hervey, 30 October 1734, see Halsband, Robert, ed., op. cit., Vol. 2, p.99

  119. Worsley, op. cit., p.163

  120. Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p.174

  121. Campbell Orr, ed., op. cit., p.169

  122. Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), p.23; van der Kiste, op. cit. (Georgian Princesses), p.65

  123. Bushell, T.L., Princess Amelia and the Politics of Georgian England, The Centennial Review, Vol. 17, no 4 (1973), p.360, note 10

  124. Quoted in Greenwood, op. cit., p.368

  125. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 2, p.288

  126. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.82

  127. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.277

  128. Ibid., Vol. 1, p.26

  129. Campbell Orr, ed., op. cit. (Queenship in Britain), p.166

  130. Vivian, op. cit., p.116

  131. Groom and Prosser, op. cit., p.33

  132. Woodward, John, Amigoni as Portrait Painter in England, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 99, no 646 (1957), p.22

  133. Van Muyden, op. cit., p.205

  134. Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p.81

  135. Campbell Orr, ed., op. cit. (Queenship in Europe), p.294

  136. Quoted in Worsley, op. cit., p.160

  137. Smith, Hannah, op. cit., p.101

  138. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.64

  139. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, pp.167–8

  140. Quoted in Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.120

  141. See Smith, Hannah, op. cit., p.201

  142. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 2, p.609

  143. Hughes, ed., op. cit., p.86

  144. Lady Lansdowne to Henrietta Howard, 20 August 1727, in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon George Berkeley; from 1712 to 1767 (John Murray, London, 1824), Vol. 1, p.269

  145. Quoted in Greenwood, op. cit., p.303

  146. Quoted in Worsley, op. cit., p.133

  147. Hughes, ed., op. cit., p.209

  148. Egmont diaries, quoted in Marschner, Joanna, op. cit. (Baths and Bathing), p.27

  149. Quoted in Smith, Hannah, op. cit. (Georgian Monarchy), p.220

  150. See Black, Jeremy, ‘George II and All That Stuff’: On the Value of the Neglected, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 36, no 4 (2004), p.605

  151. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 2, p.495

  152. Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p.86

  153. Smith, Hannah, op. cit. (Georgian Monarchy), p.208

  154. Vivian, op. cit., p.101

  155. Greenwood, op. cit., p.303

  156. Vivian, op. cit., p.115

  157. Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1736

  158. Lord Hervey to Stephen Fox, 30 May 1727, in Ilchester, Earl of, ed., op. cit., pp.16–17

  159. Jenkin Thomas Philipps to Princess Mary, Royal Archives GEO/ADD/1/9, letter 153; Craftsman, 16 August 1727; quoted in Robbins Landon, op. cit., p.134

  160. Jay, Emma, op. cit., p.37

  161. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 3, p.751

  162. Ibid., Vol. 1, p.102

  163. Worsley, op. cit., p.166

  164. Ibid., p.240

  165. Quoted in Curteis, op. cit., pp.65–6

  166. Worsley, op. cit., p.154

  167. Ibid., p.155

  168. Thomson, Mrs A.T., Memoirs of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough and of the Court of Queen Anne, 2 vols (Henry Colburn, London, 1839), Vol. 1, p.279

  169. ‘To the Queen’, in Verses on the Coronation, op. cit., p.xii

  170. Verses on the Coronation, op. cit., Verse XXIV, p.17

  171. Campbell Orr, ed., op. cit. (Queenship in Europe), p.292

  172. Schwoerer, Lois G., Images of Queen Mary II, 1689–95, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 42, no 4 (1989), pp.735–6

  173. Arkell, op. cit., p.168

  174. Black, Jeremy, op. cit. (‘George II and All That Stuff’), p.599

  175. Verses on the Coronation, op. cit., Verse XLIX, p.24

  176. St James’s Evening Post, 6 September 1729

  177. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.125

  178. Ibid., p.124

  179. Thompson, op. cit., p.90

  180. Ibid., p.92

  181
. Jones, Thomas, op. cit., p.45

  182. Van der Kiste, op. cit. (King George II and Queen Caroline), p.119

  183. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.115

  184. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.173

  185. Cowper, op. cit. (Diary of Mary, Countess Cowper), p.114

  186. Black, Jeremy, op. cit. (George II), p.103

  187. Townshend letter, 28 November 1737, BM.Add.Mss.28058, fo.152, see Hanson, L.W., Townshend on the Death of Queen Caroline, The English Historical Review, Vol. 46, no 184 (1931)

  188. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp.134–5

  189. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 2, p.241

  190. Jay, Emma, op. cit., p.37

  191. Marschner and Bindman, op. cit., p.333

  192. Colton, Judith, Merlin’s Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 10, no 1 (1976), p.3

  193. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.154

  194. Paget Toynbee, Mrs, ed., The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, 16 vols (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1903–05), Vol. 16, p.322

  195. Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, op. cit., Letter XI

  196. HMC Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont, op. cit., Vol. 1, p.311

  197. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.196, note 3

  198. Ibid., p.94

  199. Van Muyden, op. cit., p.205

  200. Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Classics reprint, London, 2003), p.110

  201. Marschner, op. cit. (Baths and Bathing), pp.25–6

  202. Ibid., pp.24–6

  203. The Poetical Works of Richard Savage, 2 vols (Apollo Press, Edinburgh, 1780), Vol. 2, p.180

  204. Arkell, op. cit., p.229

  205. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.107

  206. Quoted in Borman, op. cit., p.101

  207. Walpole, op. cit. (Reminiscences), (London, 1818), p.89

  208. Worsley, op. cit., p.236

  209. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.147

  210. Quoted in Rushton, Alan R., Royal Maladies: Inherited Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe (Trafford Publishing, 2008), p.51

  211. Hervey, MD, p.110

  212. Quoted in Arkell, op. cit., p.223

  213. Thompson, op. cit., p.100

  214. Arkell, op. cit., p.230

  215. Worsley, op. cit., p.211; Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.164

  216. See Taylor, Stephen and Smith, Hannah, Hephaestion and Alexander: Lord Hervey, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the Royal Favourite in England in the 1730s, The English Historical Review, Vol. 124, no 507 (2009); Thompson, op. cit., p.99

  217. Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the 1st Satire on the 2nd Book of Horace. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s verse may have been co-written by Hervey

  218. Worsley, op. cit., p.252

  219. Hughes, op. cit., p.288; Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.80; Moore, op. cit., p.175

  220. Alexander Pope, ‘Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’

  221. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 2, p.496; Worsley, op. cit., pp.168, 196

  222. Moore, op. cit., p.239

  223. See Batt, Jennifer, From the Field to the Coffeehouse: Changing Representations of Stephen Duck, Criticism, Vol. 47 no 4 (2005), pp.451–2

  224. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.187

  225. Stephen Duck, ‘Royal Benevolence’ (W. Harris, London, 1730)

  226. Batt, op. cit., p.460; Christmas, William J., The Lab’ring Muses: Work, Writing and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730–1830 (University of Delaware Press, Newark, 2001), p.187

  227. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.182

  228. Batt, op. cit., p.459

  229. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.59

  230. Ibid., p.136

  231. Duck, Stephen, Poems on Several Occasions (John Osborn, London, 1738), p.166

  232. Ibid., p.58

  233. Colton, op. cit., p.190

  234. Groom and Prosser, op. cit., p.35

  235. Stephen Duck, dedication to Poems on Several Occasions, p.vii

  236. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.76

  237. Groom and Prosser, op. cit., p.37

  238. William Mason, ‘An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers’, 1773

  239. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.84

  240. Marschner, Joanna, and Bindman, David, op. cit., p.334

  241. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.79

  242. Quoted in Colton, op. cit., p.11

  243. Stephen Duck, dedication to Poems on Several Occasions, p.vi

  244. Duck, Poems on Several Occasions, p.96

  245. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.221

  246. Ibid., p.222

  247. Black, Jeremy, op. cit. (George II), p.99

  248. Rosenthal, ed., op. cit., p.85

  249. Black, Jeremy, op. cit. (George II), p.98

  250. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.194

  251. Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p.174; Wakefield, Geoffrey, The Princesses Royal (Robert Hale, London, 1973), p.85

  252. Wakefield, op. cit., p.85

  253. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.59

  254. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 2, p.288

  255. Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), p.44

  256. Document detailing ceremonial for Princess Anne’s marriage, 14 March 1734, Royal Archives GEO/MAIN 52790

  257. Hughes, op. cit., p.110

  258. Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), pp.46–7; Arkell, op. cit., p.238

  259. Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), p.47

  260. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.77

  261. Quoted in Arkell, op. cit., p.212

  262. Baker-Smith, op. cit. (Anne), p.59

  263. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.84

  264. Ibid., p.60

  265. Ibid., p.78

  266. Black, op. cit. (Walpole in Power), p.38

  267. Quoted in Arkell, op. cit., p.203

  268. Thompson, op. cit., p.102

  269. Quoted in Greenwood, op. cit., p.329

  270. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit., pp.150–1

  271. See Hervey, ‘The Death of Lord Hervey; or, a morning at court, a drama’

  272. Borman, op. cit., p.180

  273. Ibid., p.182

  274. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.43

  275. Lady Hervey to Henrietta Howard, 30 August 1729, in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon George Berkeley; from 1712 to 1767, op. cit., Vol. 1, p.360

  276. Quoted in Borman, op. cit., p.166

  277. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.243

  278. Borman, op. cit., p.187

  279. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.243

  280. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.115

  281. Ibid., pp.110–11

  282. Ibid., p.113

  283. Lord Bathurst to Henrietta Howard, 26 November 1734, in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband, the Hon George Berkeley; from 1712 to 1767, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp.122–6

  284. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.135

  285. Worsley, op. cit., p.178

  286. Thomson, Mrs, ed., op. cit. (Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon), Vol. 1, p.248

  287. Arkell, op. cit., p.227

  288. Stephen Duck, ‘To His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland, on his Birth-Day’, Poems on Several Occasions, p.97

  289. Tillyard, op. cit., p.15

  290. Vivian, op. cit., p.145

  291. Sir Lambert Blackwell, ‘To the Princess of Wales’, in The English Poems Collected from the Oxford and Cambridge Verses on the Death of His Royal Highness Frederick P
rince of Wales (Hamilton Bruce, Edinburgh, 1751), p.18

  292. See Moore, op. cit., p.181

  293. Sedgwick, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.90

  294. Quoted in Vivian, op. cit., p.200

  295. Caroline to Augusta, Princess of Wales, undated [1737], Royal Archives GEO/MAIN 52823

  296. Tillyard, op. cit., p.16

  297. Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1736

  298. Arkell, op. cit., p.270

  299. Campbell Orr, ed., op. cit. (Queenship in Britain), p.153

  300. ‘By the Right Honourable David Lord Viscount Stormont, B. A. Student of Ch. Ch’, in The English Poems, op. cit., p.6

  301. See Moore, op. cit., p.236

  302. Van der Kiste, op. cit. (King George II and Queen Caroline), p.142

  303. Paulson, Ronald, Hogarth: High Art and Low, 1732–50 (James Clarke & Co., 1992), p.155

  304. Worsley, op. cit., p.261

  305. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 2, p.457

  306. Somerset, Anne, op. cit. (Ladies in Waiting), p.221

  307. Moore, op. cit., p.214

  308. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.528

  309. Van der Kiste, op. cit. (King George II and Queen Caroline), p.142

  310. Ibid.

  311. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 1, p.491

  312. See National Archives SP36/20/321, to Lord Tankerville, 12 October 1730

  313. Thompson, op. cit., p.116

  314. Arkell, op. cit., p.260

  315. Moore, op. cit., p.237

  316. HMC Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.445

  317. Jesse, John Heneage, Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, 3 vols (Henry G. Bohn, London, 1857), p.100

  318. Jay, Emma, op. cit., p.38

  319. Marschner, op. cit. (Queen Caroline), p.85

  320. Van der Kiste, op. cit. (King George II and Queen Caroline), p.151

  321. Wilkins, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.323

  322. Black, op. cit. (George II), p.159

  323. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.257

  324. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Hervey), Vol. 3, p.681

  325. Ibid., Vol. 3, p.757

  326. Frederick, Prince of Wales to King George II and Queen Caroline, 5 July 1737, Royal Archives GEO/MAIN 52809

  327. Sedgwick, Romney, ed., op. cit. (Kimber edition), p.275

  328. Ibid.

  329. Ibid., p.280

  330. Caroline to Augusta, Princess of Wales, undated [1737], Royal Archives GEO/MAIN 52823

  331. Jones, Mary, op. cit., p.362

  332. Dr Joseph Smith, ‘Monody’, in Jesse, John Heneage, op. cit., p.84

 

‹ Prev