Nov. 12. 1853.] 



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In Westminster Abbey was buried, May 23, 

 1640, " Mr. Kirk's daughter." Captain George 

 Kirke married there, February 10, 1699-1700, 

 Mary Cooke. George Kirke, Esq., died Jan. 10, 

 1703-4, and was buried in the abbey cloisters 

 (Mon. Inscr.) ; and Mrs. Mary Kirke died Decem- 

 ber 17, 1751, and was also buried there (M. I.). 

 We may presume that all these Kirkes were of 

 the same family. 



Having now clearly released the annotator from 

 all farther interference with Mary Kirke's private 

 history, and having excluded her handsome face 

 from any future illustrated edition of Grammont, 

 I must leave him to deal with Miss Warmistre. 

 It seems most probable that Dr. Thomas War- 

 mistre, dean of Worcester, who died October 30, 

 1665, was her father, as he is known to have 

 been a Royalist. His will, as it is not to be 

 found at Doctors' Commons, must be sought 

 for at Worcester. His brother Gervais was a 

 married man, but his effects, unfortunately for 

 our inquiries, were administered to at Doctors' 

 Commons, August 31, 1641. That Warmistre 

 was her right name is proved by Lord Cornbury's 

 letter to the Duchess of Bedford, June 10, 1662 

 (Warburton's Rupert, vol. iii. pp. 461 — 464.). Her 

 portrait is at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, and has been 

 engraved by Scriven for Carpenter's Grammont, 

 1811. 



Lord Cornbury's letter contradicts Grammont's 

 statement, that Miss Boynton and Miss Wells 

 came in on a removal, for they were of the ori- 

 ginal six maids of honour. Among these is named 

 a Miss Price (Henrietta Maria), who we may sup- 

 pose a sister to the Duchess of York's Miss Price, 

 one of Grammont's most conspicuous heroines ; 

 and if so, when I come to speak of the Duchess's 

 maids of honour, her parentage will be proved. 

 Of Miss Carey, rejoicing in the prefix of Simona, 

 the sixth of the queen's original maids of honour, 

 we have no farther occasion to speak. 



In 1669 the queen appears to have had four 

 maids of honour only, the places vacated by Miss 

 Stewart's and Miss Warmistre's marriages being 

 unoccupied. This state of affairs leads me to 

 doubt whether Miss Bellenden ever held the ap- 

 pointment. Mademoiselle Bardon, Grammont ad- 

 mits, was not actually a maid of honour, and 

 Mademoiselle de la Garde certainly never was. 

 Lord Braybrooke has suggested to me, with 

 some show of reason, that the first may be the 

 " Mrs. Baladine " who held a place of less emolu- 

 ment (th^it of dresser, probably) in the Duchess 

 of York's household, and who left in the middle of 

 the quarter, between Michaelmas and Christmas, 

 1662 (vide Household Book of James Duke of 

 York at Audley End), as if she had the prudence 

 "de quitter la cour avant que d'en etre chassee." 



"La desagreable Bardon" may have been a 

 daughter, or some other near relation, to Claudius 



Bardon, mentioned in the secret service expenses 

 of Charles 11. 



Mademoiselle de la Garde was appointed a 

 dresser to the queen on her marriage (vide Lord 

 Cornbury's letter), and continued in this office till 

 1673, when she died. Her father, Charles Peliott 

 Baron de la Garde, or her brother, if she had one, 

 was a groom of the privy chamber to Queen Ca- 

 therine in 1687, and her mother a dresser to the 

 Duchess of York in 1662 {Duke of York's House- 

 hold Book). Mary her sister, who became the 

 wife of Sir Thomas Bond of Peckham, co. Surrey, 

 Baronet, comptroller of the household to Queen 

 Henrietta Maria, was a lady of the privy chamber 

 to the same queen. 



Of mademoiselle I may add, that she married 

 Mr. Gabriel Silvius, carver to the queen, in 166ft 

 (compare first and second editions of Anglice No- 

 titia, 1669) ; and of her husband, in addition ta 

 the particulars already stated by the annotators,. 

 that he received the honour of knighthood Janu- 

 ary 28, 1669-70, married a second wife (a fact 

 overlooked by the annotators, including Mr. Cun- 

 ningham), viz. Anne, daughter of the Hon. William 

 Howard, a younger son of Thomas first Earl of 

 Berkshire, at Westminster Abbey, November 12,. 

 1 677, went the same year to the Hague as master 

 of the household to the Prince of Orange (Eve- 

 lyn), became privy purse to James II. (The British 

 Compendium, or Rudiments of Honour), died at his 

 house in Leicester Fields, January, 1696-7, and 

 was buried in the church of St. Martin. It was 

 his second wife, and widow, who died October 13,. 

 1730. 



If, as it is possible. Miss Bellenden did hold the 

 appointment of maid of honour to the queen, she 

 must have replaced Miss Stewart or Miss War- 

 mistre ; and if Miss Livingston and Miss Fielding 

 held like appointments, one of the two must have- 

 replaced her, and they, again, must have removed 

 from the court before 1669. I am not at present 

 able to say who those three ladies were. 



Before bringing this paper to a conclusion, I 

 must be permitted to refer Mr. Cunningham to- 

 five letters, written by Count de Comminges, the 

 French ambassador in London, and printed hy 

 Lord Braybrooke in his Appendix to Pepys, 

 which Mr. C. has very unaccountably overlooked 

 when settling the chronology of Grammont. 



The first, to M. de Lionne, dated " Londres, 

 Janvier 5-15, 1662-3," announces the arrival of 

 the Chevalier the day before " fort content de son 

 voyage. II a ete ici rcQU le plus agreablement au 

 monde. II est de toutes les parties du Roi." The 

 second, to Louis XIV., dated "Decembre 10-20, 

 1663," informs the king of the chevalier's joy at 

 being allowed to return to France, and of his in- 

 tention to leave England in four days. He also 

 informs Louis that he believes the chevalier will 

 see the court of France in company of " une belle 



