Footnotes
[A] The annexed autograph of this great ancestor of the Marquis of Worcester, is obtained from a document in the British Museum. Cotton. MSS. Vesp. F. xiii. fol. 78.
[B] According to the old money system prevalent in France before the Revolution, accounts were kept in Livres Tournois of 20 Sous or Sols.—Dr. Patrick Kelly’s Universal Cambist, 4to. 1811, page 146.
[D] From MSS. Badminton.
[F] Between the 14th of July, and the 21st of August, 1684, being then Duke of Beaufort, he made his progress through North and South Wales, as Lord President of Wales, and Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Monmouth, accompanied by “T.D. gen.” that is “T. Dineley,” who left the particulars thereof in a manuscript of some length, containing many interesting anecdotes, inscriptions of arms, and pen sketches of scenery and antiquities, now very curious.
At Worcester, on Wednesday—“After divine service his Grace was attended in great order with drums, trumpets, the city-waites, haut-bois, flutes, and other wind music, together with harps, Welsh and Irish, viols, violins, and other stringed instruments, to the Town Hall.” His Grace was numerously and handsomely attended, being himself “in glorious equipage.” While at Troy, near Monmouth, on the 20th of August, his Grace viewed the County Militia Regiment; “several of the principal gentry” on the occasion “placing themselves in the front of the stand of pikes. Doublings, countermarches, wheelings, variety of exercise, and good and close firings were made.”
He returned to Badminton after nine weeks’ absence, “extremely satisfied with the good order in which his Grace found the militia,” also “with the reception and entertainments in all places of the progress.”