NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

P. 2. Miss Hamilton.] Elizabeth, sister of the author of these Memoirs, and daughter of Sir George Hamilton, fourth son of James, the first Earl of Abercorn, by Mary, third daughter of Thomas, Viscount Thurles, eldest son of Walter, eleventh Earl of Ormond, and sister to James, the first Duke of Ormond. She married Philibert, Count de Grammont, the hero of these Memoirs, by whom she had two daughters: Claude Charlotte, married, 3d April, 1694, to Henry, Earl of Stafford; and another, who became superior, or abbess, of the Chanonesses in Lorain.

P.7. Lady Muskerry.] Lady Margaret, only child of Ulick, fifth Earl of Clanricarde, by Lady Anne Compton, daughter of William, Earl of Northampton. She was three times married: 1. To Charles, Lord Viscount Muskerry; who lost his life in the

great sea fight with the Dutch, 3d June, 1665. 2. In 1676, to Robert Villiers, called Viscount Purbeck, who died in 1685. 3. To Robert Fielding, Esq. She died in August, 1698. Lord Orford, by mistake, calls her Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Kildare. (See Note on p. 101, Vol. III.)

Ibid. Miss Blague.] It appears by Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia, 1669, that this lady, or perhaps her sister, continued one of the duchess's maids of honour at that period. The list, at that time, was as follows: 1. Mrs. Arabella Churchill. 2. Mrs. Dorothy Howard. 3. Mrs. Anne Ogle. 4. Mrs. Mary Blague. The mother of the maids then, was Mrs. Lucy Wise, Miss Blague performed the part of Diana, in Crown's Calisto, acted at court in 1675; and was then styled late maid of honour to the queen. Lord Orford, however, it should be observed, calls her Henrietta Maria, daughter of Col. Blague. It appears she became the wife of Sir Thomas Yarborough of Snaith, in Yorkshire. She was also, he says, sister of the wife of Sydney, Lord Godolphin. That no

bleman married, according to Collins, in his Peerage, Margaret, at that time maid of honour to Catherine, Queen of England, fourth daughter, and one of the co-heirs of Thomas Blague, Esq. groom of the bed-chamber to Charles I. and Charles II. colonel of a regiment of foot, and governor of Wallingford, during the civil wars; and governor of Yarmouth, and Landguard Fort, after the Restoration.

P. 15. Prince Rupert.] Grandson of James the First, whose actions during the civil wars are well known. He was born 19th Dec. 1619, and died. at his house in Spring Garden, Nov. 22, 1682. Lord Clarendon says of him, that He was rough and passionate, and loved not debate; liked what was proposed, as he liked the persons who proposed it; and was so great an enemy to Digby and Colepepper, who were only present in the debates of the war with the officers, that he crossed all they proposed. History of the Rebellion, Vol. II. 554. He is supposed to have invented the art of metzotinto. (See note on p. 101, Vol. III.)

P.16. Lord Thanet.] This nobleman, I believe, was John Tufton, second earl of Thanet, who died 6th May, 1664. Lord Orford, however, imagines him to have been Nicholas Tufton, the third Earl of Thanet, his eldest son, who died 24th Nov. 1679. Both these noblemen suffered much for their loyalty.

P. 17. Young wild boars' eyes.] Marcassin is French for a wild boar: the eyes of this creature being remarkably small and lively, from thence the French say, ' Des yeux marcassins,' to signify little, though roguish eyes; or, as we say, pigs' eyes.

P. 22. Miss Price, one of the maids of honour to the Duchess.] Our author's memory here fails him: Miss Price was maid of honour to the queen. Mr. Granger says,' there was a Lady Price, a fine woman, who was daughter of Sir Edmund Warcup; concerning whom, see Wood's Fasti Oxon. II. 184. Her father had the vanity to think that Charles II. would marry her, though he had then a queen. There were letters of his wherein he mentioned, that his daughter was one