Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

[235] The Marquisate of Dorchester, which was in the late Dukes of Kingston, was from Dorchester, Dorset.

[236] Sir Michael Stanhope, of Harington in Northamptonshire, was the common Ancestor of the Earls of Chesterfield and of Harrington; as also of Earl Stanhope.

[237] At Petersham was a Villa belonging to the Earl of Rochester, which was burnt down in 1721; after which the Earl of Harrington possessed and took it for his second Title in 1742.

[238] Camden, col. 57.

[239] Pennant's Journey from Chester, 1782, p. 19.

[240] Pennant's Tour in North Wales, 1778, p. 125.

[241] Collins's Peerage, 1779.

[242] See Cavendish's Life of Wolsey. Collins's Collections.

[243] Bibl. Top. Brit. vol. VI. No XV. from D'Ewes's MS Journal in the British Museum.

[244] Kelham's Key to Domesday Book, p. 35.