[149] Madame the Abbess of Maubrisson, Sister to Madame the Electress of Hanover, who is supposed to be the Person that speaks here; Madame the Duchess of Hanover, Mother to the Empress Amelia, and Madame the Princess of Condé.
[150] At Rhenen, a small Town in the Province of Utrecht.
[151] The Upper Palatinate yielded to the Elector of Bavaria by the Treaty of Westphalia.
[152] At Schwetzingeu, a League from Heidelberg.
[153] Twas a Pistol which the Count de Hehenlo snatch'd from her, and shot into the Air from the Window. But here it was absolutely necessary to call it a Dagger, Fire-Arms being not known at the Time of which this History bears date.
[154] Phillip the Magnanimous, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, was in 1518 Sovereign of all the Country of Hesse. He died in 1567, and left four Sons who shar'd his Dominions and form'd the four Branches of Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Marpurg, Hesse-Rheinfels and Hesse-Darmstadt The landgraves Lewis de Marpurg and Philip de Rheinfels had no Issue, but their Nephew Maurice of Cassel having 18 Children, Earnest one of the Sons reviv'd a Branch of Rheinfels which was divided into those of Rotenburg and Vanfried, that are still subsisting. The Posterity of George I, Landgrave of Darmstadt was altogether as fruitful, and form'd the Branches of Darmstadt, Butzbach, Hombourg, and Lauterbach, some of which are extinct. The Landgrave-Regent is one of the sixteen Children of the Landgrave Lewis VI. Great-Grandson of George I. There are at present these six Branches of the Family of Hesse, viz. 1. Hesse-Cassel, 2. Hesse-Philipstall, 3. Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenbourg, 4. Hesse-Rheinfels-Vanfried, 5. Hesse-Darmstadt, 6. Hesse-Hambourg.
[155] This Count died in 1736.
[156] She died at Hanau after a very long Illness.
[157] This River rises in Tirol a little above Inspruc, becomes navigable at Halle, and loses itself in the Danube near Passau.
[158] The Provost and Dean of Passau enjoy the same Prerogative.