Addressed thus: "To my dear Son the Marquis of Chilsdale."
Memoirs of the Life and Family of James Duke of Hamilton.
[52] The Lady Elizabeth Gerrard, the sister of Lady Mohun, and Duchess of Hamilton, is said to have been "a lady of great wit and beauty, and all the fine accomplishments that adorn her sex." Through her the great estates in Lancashire and Staffordshire came into the family of Hamilton.
[53] Wood's Peerage; also "Life of the Duke of Hamilton," a scarce tract, p. 102.
[54] Coxe MSS. 9128. Plut. cxxxviii. H. British Museum.
[55] Ibid. See a Letter in French, dated April 5, 1714, p. 1.
[56] Coxe MSS.
[57] Lord Mahon's Hist. England, vol. i. p. 139. See also a scarce little book to be met with in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh (Atterbury's Correspondence, with marginal notes by Lord Hailes): "By what accident these Letters have been preserved," says the noble Editor, "I know not: by what means they are now brought to light, I am not at liberty to explain."
[58] See the Letter before quoted.
[59] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 440.