came the wife of Sir Gabriel Silvius, and died 13th October, 1730.

P. 212. A relation of Killegrew's.] See note on p. 104.

P. 221. Mr. Silvius.] Afterwards Sir Gabriel Silvius. In Chamberlayne's Anglia Notitia, 1669. Gabriel de Sylviis is put down as one of the carvers to the queen, and Mrs. de Sylviis, one of the six chambriers or dressers to the queen. He was afterwards knighted, and 30th February, 1680, was sent ambassador to the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburgh. Lord Orford says, he was a native of Orange, and was attached to the princess royal, afterwards to the Duke of York. He also says, he was sent ambassador to Denmark.

P. 224. Progers.] Edward Progers, Esq. was in the year 1669, one of the grooms of the bed-chamber to the king. By a letter from Cowley to Henry Benuet, dated 18th November, 1650, Mr. Progers appears to have been then active in his master's service. Brown's Miscellanea Aulica, 1702. p. 153. In the lampoons of the times, particularly in

those of Andrew Marvell, Mr. Progers is described as one devoted to assist his master's pleasures. In 1660, he was named, says Lord Orford, one of the knights of the royal oak, an order the king then intended to institute. By the same authority we are informed, that he had permission from the king to build a house in Bushy Park, near Hampton-Court, on condition, that after his death it should revert to the crown. This was the house inhabited by the late Earl of Halifax. Mr. Progers died, says Le Neve,

December 31st, or January 1st, 1713, aged 96, of the anguish of cutting teeth, he having cut four new teeth, and had several ready to cut, which so inflamed his gums, that he died thereof.' Monumenta Angli

cana, 1717. p. 273.

P. 228. Dongan.] For an account of the services rendered to the royal cause in Ireland during the usurpation, by the father and brother of this Lord Dongan (or Dungan), and for which he was created a Viscount, See Carte's Life of Ormond, Vol. II. p. 285, 286. Another Lord Dongan, pro

bably a brother of the subject of this note, accompanied King James from France into Ireland, in 1689.

Ibid.-Durfort, afterwards Earl of Feversham.] Lewis de Duras, Earl of Feversham, a native of France, being son of the Duke de Duras, and brother to the last duke of that name, as also to the Duke de Lorge. His mother was sister to the great Turenne of the princely house of Bouillon. After the Restoration he came to England, was naturalized, and behaved with great gallantry in the sea fight with the Dutch, in 1665. When he first came to England, he bore the name of Durfort, and the title of Marquis of Blancfort. In the 24th Charles II. he was created Baron Duras of Holdenby, in the county of Northampton; and having married Mary, the eldest daughter and coheir of Sir George Sondes, of Lees Court in the county of Kent, who had been created Earl of Feversham, the same title was limited to him, and he succeeded to it on the death of his fatherin-law. Besides these honours, King Charles preferred him to the command of the third

troop of horse guards, afterwards promoted him to the second, and then to the first. In 1679, he was made master of the horse to Queen Katherine, and afterwards lord chamberlain to her majesty. Upon King James's accession he was admitted into the privy council, and was commander in chief of the forces sent against the Duke of Monmouth. After the Revolution, he continued lord chamberlain to the queen-dowager, and master of the royal college of St. Katherine's, near the Tower. He died April 8th, 1709, aged 68, and was buried in the Savoy in the Strand, London; but removed March 21, 1740, to Westminster abbey.

P.232. Miss Bagot.] Elizabeth, daughter of Hervey Bagot, second Son of Sir Hervey Bagot. She married first Charles Berkley, Earl of Falmouth, and after his death Charles Sackville, who became the first Duke of Dorset. From the pen of a satirist much dependance is not to be placed for the truth of facts. This lady's character is treated by Dryden and Howard with very little respect,

in the following lines extracted from The Essay on Satire:'

Thus Dorset, purring like a thoughtful cat, Married, but wiser puss ne'er thought of that: And first he worried her with railing rhyme, Like Pembroke's mastiffs at his kindest time; Then for one night, sold all his slavish life, A teeming widow, but a barren wife; Swell'd by contact of such a fulsome toad, He lugg'd about the matrimonial load; Till fortune, blindly kind as well as he, Has ill restor❜d him to his liberty;

Which he would use in his old sneaking way, Drinking all night, and dosing all the day; Dull as Ned Howard, whom his brisker times Had fam'd for dulness in malicious rhymes."

P. 235. Miss Jennings.] This lady was one of the daughters and coheirs of Richard Jennings of Sundridge, in the county of Hertford, Esq. and elder sister to the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. Her name was Frances. She married George Hamilton, mentioned in these Memoirs; and after his death took to her second husband, Richard Talbot already mentioned, created Duke