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

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

[342]. Collins’s Baronage.

[343]. Chesterfield.

[344]. Lady M. W. Montague.

[345]. This letter is given literally as it is written, without any alteration of grammar or punctuation.—Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 148.

[346]. Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. iii. p. 286.

[347]. Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 144.

[348]. Dallaway’s Memoirs of Lady M. W. Lord Wharncliffe. Edition of Lady M. W.

[349]. Horace Walpole mentions this anecdote of Lady Bateman, but a later account specifies Lady Anne Egerton as the heroine of the blackened picture.

[350]. Those who have read the novels of Richardson, faithful delineations of manners, cannot but recal to mind the descriptions given of parental authority, and of filial fear, by that prolix, but, in some points, incomparable novelist.

[351]. Coxe MSS., vol. iv.