[318]. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1673–5, p. 37.
[319]. Ibid., p. 174.
[320]. Dictionary of National Biography.
[321]. Arabella, died s.p. 21st March, 1717. (G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.)
[322]. He married, in 1679, Penelope, daughter of John Downes; and in 1688 Mrs. Margaret Tryon. (Ibid.)
[323]. Somerset House Wills, Barnes, 209.
[324]. Daughter of Sir Peter Colleton, and one of the Earl’s numerous mistresses.
[325]. Sewer ratebook for 1720: “Lord North and Grey.”
[326]. On 29th September, 1722, the Duchess of Rutland wrote to Lady Gower: “The two lords went there [to the Tower] last night, Orrery and North and Gray, through their own want of consideration and indiscretion, ’twas said.” (Hist. MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Sutherland, Report V., p. 191.)
[327]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.