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period when Lord Brandon was under sen- 

 tence : — 



" I did go from my Lord to Sir Tlieophilus Oglethorpe, 

 and his lady, to give them thanks for their favor towards 

 mj' Lord ; and my Lady Oglethorpe did then tell them 

 that the Queen was very averse towards those that did 

 not live with their wives ; and I came to my Lord . . . 

 and acquainted him with what my Lady Oglethorpe had 

 said to me ; and my Lord seemed unwilling to have my 

 Lady come to him. I desired that he would admit her . . . 

 I fell upon my knees to my Lord myself, to beg of him 

 to do it. . . . Q. Did my Lord afterwards consent to admit 

 her? A. Yes, he did,' and I told her so. Q. Did she 

 afterwards come to my Lord ? A. Yes; that day or the 

 next." 



They appear, however, to have separated agahi 

 upon his liberation. The lady was, unfortunately, 

 wanting in those personal attractions which might 

 have helped to win back a neglectful husband. 

 She is described as " a middle-sized woman, pretty 

 full in the cheeks, disfigured with the small-pox 

 Snd pretty large pit holes, with thick lips, and of 

 a brownish hair ;" to which other witnesses add a 

 " dark complexion," and " little eyes." 



That the father of the two children of whom 

 the Countess of Macclesfield was afterwards de- 

 livered, was the Lord Rivers appears from the 

 depositions in the Arches Court, although his name 

 is not to be met with in the papers of the pro- 

 ceedings in the House of Lords. The birth of 

 the first, a female child, was kept a great secret, 

 the Countess's title and fortune being of course 

 in danger : but the evidence of the witnesses 

 called on the part of the husband prove that she 

 was, at this time at least, not the unnatural mother 

 and monster of cruelty which Savage and his 

 biographers have depicted her. The child was 

 christened after the mother and father, " Ann 

 Savage," and the following deposition of Dinah 

 Alsop, the Countess's maid and one of the hus- 

 band's witnesses, has reference to the birth of this 

 child in 1695 : — 



" About six daj's after she [the Countess of Maccles- 

 fiehl] removed from that private House in Queen Street 

 to Beaufort House [the residence of her sister, Lady 

 Brownlowe] again, and by her hasty remove she took 

 cold, which fell in her leg and thigh by an extraordinary 

 swelling ; and Mr. Levesk, the Frencli surgeon, for some 

 time had her in cure, and afterwards she went to the 

 Lath to perfect the same cure. 



" Before my lady removed from that private house the 

 child was carried away to nurse to a private place near 

 Epping Forest, as Mrs. Pheasant told me. During the 

 time my lady was at Beaufort House, I went several 

 times to Mrs. Pheasant to enquire of the child, and she 

 not finding the child well nursed, desired me to acquaint 

 my lady ; and my Lady desired it might be removed ; and 

 Mrs. Plieusant went and found another place at Chelsea; 

 and from thence took it from that place where it was, and 

 carried it to one Mrs. Monckton's. Before my Lady went 

 to the Hath, my ladj' gent me several times in that lime 

 to Mrn. Pheasant's, and the last was a little before she 

 went to the Bath, and carried her a guinea from my lady, 

 which wns in August, and desired her to take care of the 

 child, ami left my name." 



Mrs. Pheasant confirms this. She says : — • 



" Nurse took the child to Walthamstow to her own 

 house, and 'twas removed thence afterwards because 'twas 

 not well used there, which the Deponent acquainted the 

 lady with by her maid Dinah Alsop, and she [Lady Mac- 

 clesfield] sent Dinah Alsop to Deponent at her lodgings 

 in the Old Bailey to go to Chelsea, and enquire for a 

 nurse there ; for she had rather it should be there than 

 anywhere else." 



She also says that : — 



" When the said Lady was come from the Bath she, 

 the said lady and the said Dinah Alsop did come to this 

 Deponent's lodgings in the Old Bailey, and not finding 

 this Deponent there, did come to this Deponent at Duck's 

 Court in Chancery Lane, and there the said Lady did 

 thank this Deponent for the care she had taken in her 

 absence of her child." 



Dinah Alsop thus continues: — 



" After my lady came from the Bath I was twice with 

 my lady at Mrs. Moncton's [at other times called Moun- 

 taine] at Chelsea to see this child, and the lady gave the 

 nurse each time five shillings, and the last time the child 

 was ill, and about three days after the child died. After 

 the child 7vas dead my lady sent me for a lock of the child's 

 hair." 



In her depositions at Doctors' Commons she 



says : — 



" This Deponent and the Countess did there [at Chel- 

 sea] see the said child, and the said Countess did each 

 time give the said nurse Mountaine five shillings, and 

 charged her to be careful of the said child." 



Mrs. Mountaine, who was also one of the Earl's 

 witnesses, confirms this testimony : — 



" A lady and her Woman, Dinah Alsop, came . . . and 

 the lady buss'd the child, and she [witness] thought it 

 was the mother because she was so kind to it, and she 

 gave her five shillings to take care of the child." 



Before the Arches Court this witness thus de- 

 scribes the Countess's coming to see the child, on 

 hearing of its illness : — 



" The said lady seemed concerned to see the said child 

 sick, and kissed it, and seemed very fond of it, and then 

 gave a strict charge to this Deponent to speak to Mrs. 

 Pheasant that the said child should have an apothecary 

 to attend to it, and an Issue cut in her neck ; and the said 

 lady then gave the Deponent five shillings, and bid her 

 take care of the said child." 



In another deposition Mrs. Pheasant thus con- 

 tinues her story : — 



" The child continued at Chelsea about four months . . . 

 the nurse did send word that a lady had been there, and 

 her maid Dinah Alsop . . . The child was afterwards taken 

 ill with convulsion fits, and the Deponent went to see it ; 

 and the nurse told her that the same lady had been to 

 see it. That the Deponent often visited, and took par- 

 ticular care of it, and gave an account to Mr. Woolsley, 

 and he paid this Deponent for all charges. The child 

 died afterwards about the middle of March, and was 

 buried in Chelsea church, and Mr. Woolsley ordered how 

 the funeral should be, and there were gloves and burnt 

 claret given ; and his sister and other friends were present 

 at the funeral." 



Mr. " Woolsley " and his sister were Newdi- 

 gate and Dorothy Ousley, as appears from the 



