[154]. Lady Hyde, afterwards Countess of Rochester, from whom the Duchess states herself to have received many affronts on the back-stairs.—Coxe MSS. vol. 44.
[155]. The Duchess of Somerset, wife of the proud Duke of Somerset, so called from his excessive pride of rank and ostentation, was a Percy; and, as such, considered to merit precedence, and great deference, both by her husband and by the Duchess of Marlborough, who always called her “the great lady.” There seems to have been a friendly understanding between the two Duchesses, for Mr. Maynwaring, in one of his letters to the Duchess of Marlborough, says, “I am glad the Duke and Duchess of Somerset were to dine with you, for notwithstanding the faults of the one, and the spirit of Percy blood in the other, I think they both naturally love and esteem you very much.”—Coxe MSS. vol. xli. p. 248.
[156]. MS. Letter. Coxe Papers, p. 44.
[157]. Conduct, p. 230.
[158]. Conduct, p. 230.
[159]. Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.
[160]. Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.
[161]. Cunningham, b. xii. p. 279.
[162]. Cunningham, book xii. p. 282.
[163]. Conduct, from p. 238 to 244.