Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

[144]. Conduct, p. 219.

[145]. Aug. 19, 1708.

[146]. Conduct, p. 222.

[147]. Preserved in the Coxe MSS. B. M., and given in the Appendix to this volume.

[148]. Burnet, vol. iv. p. 247.

[149]. Conduct. Also Narrative, by the Duchess, of the events which took place after the Prince of Denmark’s death. Coxe, vol. iv. p. 234.

[150]. Macauley. History of England from the Revolution, p. 218.

[151]. Cunningham.

[152]. Cunningham, book ii. p. 300.

[153]. MS. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson. This curious and natural account of an amusing scene is contained in a manuscript Vindication of the Duchess, addressed to Mr. Hutchinson, preserved in the Coxe MSS. in the British Museum, and has never before been quoted or published.—See Coxe Papers, vol. xliv. p. 2. “The good-nature yet weakness of Anne’s character is strongly exemplified in the details in the text.”