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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[24 §, No 17, Aprit 26, °56, 
“ Grahme, youngest son of the L? Berkshire, 
died suddenly coming from hunting, Janu. 1732. 
“By the death of Lady Diana Feilding, my 
Lord Berkshire came into possession of Ashted 
Park, in Surrey, and Castle Rising, in Norfolk, a 
noble estate : a house in Duke Street.” 
* Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough. — “ Charles, 
Earl of Peterborow, after a long illness went to 
Lisbon for the recovery of his health, but died 
there six days after his arrival. My Lord’s body 
was brought over and buried at Turvey, in Bed- 
fordshire. He married to his second [wife] Mrs. 
Anastatia Robinson, daughter to Mr. Robinson, a 
painter, who was blind some years before. L* 
Peterborow did not own her in publick till a few 
months before he died, both at Bath and Mont 
3evis, where she now lives, and has it in jointure. 
Her mother was a Lane, descended from the 
Lanes that took care of K, Ch. II. Charles Lord 
Peterborow, grandson to y° last, took his seat in 
Parliament, Janu. 15, 1738. This lord married 
sometime since to Miss Cox, the daughter of a 
Quaker, a great wholesale grocer in Aldgate.” 
+ Noel, Earl of Gainsborough.—“‘ Lord Gainsbo- 
rough, 1736, owned his marriage with his keeper’s 
daughter; her name was Elizabeth Chapman ; he 
has been married four or five years. Her brother 
is now keeper to my Lord. Has been married 
about 11 years, March, 1738. Married at Up- 
pingam.” 
- Paget, Earl of Uxbridge.— He was one of the 
Lords of the Treasury, Aug. 8, 1710, upon Lord 
Godolphin’s being turned out. Was named to go 
ambassador to the Court of Tlanover, but he re- 
fused to go, till he was made an Earl. ‘The Queen 
said he should be, when he returned; he was angry, 
did not go, and was made by King George an 
Earl,” 
Rich, Earl of Holland and Warwick, — “ Wady | 
Isabella Rich, daughter [of Henry] the [first] | 
Earl of Holland, married S*' James Thinne. ‘2 
sons by the Duke of Ormond dyed, I think, 
abroad. Waller celebrates her playing upon a | 
lute. 
“Lady Elizabeth Rich [daughter of Robert, 
second Earl of Holland] had run out her fortune, 
and retired to Wales, and there married Francis 
Edwards, who was a younger son of a gentelman ; 
he was a purser of a ship, got 601. pr. ann. My 
L* Warwick [Edward Henry Rich, seventh Earl ] 
died unmarried [in 1721] and without a will, so 
Edwards, his aunt, became heir-at-law to this 
estate, and her son drank himself to death, but | 
has entaled the estate, with power of granting 
leases ; he has entailed it upon all his relations he 
could think of. 
- “Edward Henry Rich was of Westminster 
School ; killed himself with his debauchery. The | 
present Earl of Warwick [Edward Rich, eighth 
| great fool. 
Earl] has none of the estate of the family; the 
person he married [Miss Stanton] was a miliner ; 
there is one daughter, Lady Charlotte Rich, who 
was promised to be a lady of the bedchamber to 
the Princesses, in the room of Lady Susan Hamil- 
ton, who married Mr. Keck. ; 
“Mr. Joseph Addison dyed at Holland House, 
near Kensington, Wenesday, June 17, 1719, was 
buried in West’ Abbey, June 26. He left one 
daughter by my Lady Warwick [widow of Ed- 
ward, sixth Earl], Charlotte Addison.” 
‘ Henry, Viscount St. John. —‘‘ Henry St. Jobns, 
now L? Viscount St. Johns, was indicted, and was 
tryed the 11 of December, 1684, for the barbarous 
murder of St William Heathcote, the 14th of Oc- 
tober, 1684, and was found guilty of murder at — 
common law, as likewise upon the statute of stab- — 
bing. His mother, the Lady St. Johns, procured i 
his pardon at a great price, said to be 10,0007. — 
Old St Walter, his father, would not meddle with i 
it. My Lady died [August] 1736, buried at Bat- 
tersea.” 
* Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. — “ Gilbert Talbot — 
[son.of Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury] is not — 
abroad, but a Jesuit, and cannot take the title; — 
he lives with my Lady Petre. George Talbot, his 
brother, did pretend to the title, and his widdow 
is so silly as to pretend to it, and suffers her three 
daughters to be called Ladies, and puts the Earl's 
coronet over glasses and upon plate, but durst not 
put it upon the atchievement nor coach, though 
in writings she signs ‘ Mary Talbot.’ Mr. George 
Talbot left six sons and three daughters: the 
eldest son, George, is at Paris for his education, 
1735.” 
+ Talbot, Earl Talbot.—‘ Mr. [William] Talbot, 
my Lord Chancellor’s son, married to Mary, the 
daughter of Adam Cardonnel, by the widdow of 
Mr. Richard Franklin, and she is and will be 
worth above seventy thousand pounds. The wid- 
dow Cardonel had a daughter by Mr. Richard 
Franklin, who died some time since, and left her 
mother the fortune. This widdow is since mar- 
ried to Mr, Fredrick Franklin, her first husband’s 
brother: was often prosecuted, and paid much 
money. She died June, 1738. Mrs. Franklin 
was the natural daughter of a French refugee, 
who left 20,000; his name was Baudrie, a Spit- 
tlefeild’s weaver.” 
¢ Vane. — “ William, Lord Vane, died at his 
house in Kent, suddenly, Aug. 17384. Had 3 
sons. William, the present Lord, married [the 
widow of Lord William Hamilton]; they have 
since parted; she a very great w , and he a 
Anne Vane [daughter of Gilbert, 
second Lord Bernard] died at Bath, March 27, 
1736. A son, Fitz-l’redrick, she had by the 
Prince of Wales; died in March, some time before 
the mother.” 
