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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. DEC. 19, 1903.


these the same person? Where are the Sussex relics now ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.


'THE ABBEY OF KILKHAMPTON.'

(9 th S. xii. 381, 411.) I AM not able to refer to the former entries in ' X. & Q.' re the above book at the present moment, but I find from my notes made in compiling a key to the ' Tete-a-Tetes ' in the Town and Country Magazine that the authorship of the pamphlet is attributed to Sir Herbert Croft. The missing names are as follows :

2. A daughter of Ld. Ly. P... Percy? 23. Lady Vane. 25. Sir Robt. Hamilton. 27. Dowg r Ctss. of Macclesfield ? 37. Earl of D...

52. Fk. Cornwallis, Abp. of Canterbury. 63. Sir George & Lady W... 68. Dss. of Kingston.

75. Shute Barrington, Bp. of Landaff (correction). 91. Ly. Camilla Wake. 93. Ly. Frances Aslong. 99. Dwg r Ctss. of Strathmore. 114. Visctss. Falmouth.

As MR. PIERPOINT infers, his pamphlet is only the first portion ; the second, which was issued in the same year, is continuously num- bered from the last page (82) of the first part, commencing on p. 83 with

1. Howard, E. of Effingham.

2. Rd. Brinsley Sheridan.

3. Visctss. Courtney.

4. Noel, E. of Gainsborough.

5. Lord Roxburgh ?

6. Georgiana, Ds. of Devonshire.

7. Temple Luttrell.

S. Kerr, Mq. of Lothian. 9. Horace Walpole.

10. Fitzgerald, 1). of Leinster.

11. Mrs. Macaulay.

12. Cavendish, D. of Newcastle.

13. Legge, E. of Dartmouth.

14. Elizabeth, Ly. Craven.

15. Sir Harry Trelawny.

16. Dowager Visctss. Townsend.

17. Lennox, D. of Richmond.

18. Hastings, E. of Huntingdon.

19. Mrs. Yates. Mr. Yates.

20. Sir Thos. Stapleton.

21. Law (Edmd.), Bp. of Carlisle.

22. Sir Fletcher Norton.

23. E. of Corke.

24. Boscawen, Ld. Falmouth.

25. Lady Essex.

26. Earl of Plymouth.

27. Thos. Onslow.

28. Princess Dashkow.

29. Baron Haslang.

30. Dean Tucker.

31. Philip Thicknesse.


32. Lady Grosvenor.

33. Sir Gregory Turner.

34. Hanger, Ld. Coleraine.

35. Ly. Louisa Lennox.

36. Hon. John Montagu.

37. Lady Coventry.

38. Anthony Storer.

39. Isabelle, Countess of Hertford.

40. Sir Rd. Sutton.

41. Sir W m H...rt...n.

42. Lady Worsley.

43. Lady Maynard.

44. Lord Monboddo.

45. D r Ds. of Manchester.

46. Spencer, Cts. of Pembroke.

47. D r T...t. Talbot?

48. Harborough, E. of.

49. Ld. Doneraile.

50. D r Samuel Johnson.

51. Ly.Pelham.

52. Yelverton, E. of Sussex.

53. D r W...n.

54. David Henry?

55. Ctss. Dowager Holdernesse.

56. Ly. Nugent.

57. Ds. of Manchester.

58. Ld. Robt. Spencer.

59. Mrs. Arm stead.

60. Earl Cornwallis.

61. Countess Powis.

62. Ly. Algernon Percy.

It will be seen from this list that there are even now some omissions. I shall be glad to receive any information on these points or on the ' Tete-a-Tetes.' C. VAN NOORDEN.

5, Essex Court, Temple, E.G.

I too have a copy of the fifth edition of the above work, " Printed for G. Kearsley, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street," in 1780. It is un- fortunately incomplete, as it does not extend beyond p. 76, but it has the following anno- tations in ink by a contemporary hand :

20. " L d James Beauclerk."

23. Lady Vise... t...ss" Vane."

" She died a great Penitent, and tried to reconcile herself to Popery that she might have rec d extreme Unction. She endeavoured to make her acquaint- ance believe that she possessed an excellent heart, but it was a false and rotten one ; if her heart had been good her other misconduct might have been in some measure overlooked. I was present when she- came home to her Lord big with child by another man. We went off together to see the late D. of Cumberland's garden. She had a desire to eat a Pine Apple; 1 offered the gardener a guinea for one, and told him the Lady longed for one. ' Then,' said Brute, ' she must not enter the Pinery. H.R.H. las given orders that no women with child are ad- nitted.' Lord Vane (who was only a fool respecting: ler) sent a Servant immediately to London and bought her five. He was a well-bred polite man, and she had the cruelty at that very time to show lim her Chapt r * in 'P. Pickle,' and when he had read it and shut up the book and his mouth too, she asked him what he thought of it ! 'I hope, madam,' said he, 'this will make no disagreement between


" Dr. Shebeare [siu] writ it.