“Your Lordship’s

Most obliged and obedient Hᵇˡᵉ Serᵛᵗ,

“E.M.”

[318] Celebrated actress.

[319] This must be “Fingal.”

LORD BATH’S LETTER TO MRS. CARTER

At this period Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Carter went to stay with Lord Bath at Ives Place.[320] Dr. Monsey was to have accompanied them, but he was suffering with acute pain in his back, for which Dr. Gataker gave him a plaister, which he said would pull his head to his back.

[320] His country house near Maidenhead.

Lord Bath writes to Mrs. Montagu the following:—

“Madam,