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109
. Anon. (1721), quoted in Black (2004b), p. 64.

110
. Pöllnitz (1739), Vol. 2, p. 464.

111
. Henri Misson,
M. Misson’s memoirs and observations in his travels over England
, trans. Mr Ozell (London, 1719), p. 315.

112
. BL Add MS 61463, f. 88v, Mary Cowper to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Hampton Court (20 August 1716).

113
. Pöllnitz (1739), Vol. 2, p. 449.

114
. TNA LC 5/3, p. 81 (9 December 1728).

115
. BL Add MS 78514 E, ‘Journal of Sir John Evelyn Baronet’, f. 3r (19 July 1728).

116
. Hervey (1894), Vol. 3, p. 37, Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol (16 January 1729).

117
. Gaunt and Knight (1988–9), Vol. 2, Chap. 4, p. 507.

118
. Ross (2006), p. 281 (John Arbuthnot to Henrietta Howard, 30 May 1728).

119
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 552.

120
. HMC
Egmont
, Vol. 1, p. 426 (1920).

121
.
Stamford Mercury
, Vol. 32, No. 3 (25 July 1728).

122
.
London Gazette/The Post Boy
No. 3040 (2 November 1714).

123
. Saussure (1902), p. 265.

124
. Black (2004b), p. x.

125
. BL Add MS 22626, f. 91r, Lord Chesterfield to Henrietta Howard (13 July n.y.).

126
. BL Add MS 22628, f. 19, Molly Hervey to Henrietta Howard (31 August 1728).

127
. Pöllnitz (1739), Vol. 2, p. 449.

128
. Lord Berkeley of Stratton, quoted in Aston (2008), pp. 171–93, 182.

129
. Matthews (1939), p. 66 (1 August 1715).

130
. Pöllnitz (1739), Vol. 2, p. 450.

131
. BL Add MS 78514 E, ‘Journal of Sir John Evelyn Baronet’, f. 16r (2 March 1729).

132
. Donald Burrows, ‘Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)’,
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
(Oxford, 2004).

133
. BL Add MS 20102, William Burnet, Governor of New England, to Mrs Clayton (Boston, 7 July 1729).

134
. Thomson (1847), Vol. 1, pp. 264–5, Dr Alured Clarke to Mrs Clayton (Kensington Square, 3 August 1734).

135
. Saussure (1902), p. 44.

136
. Thomson (1847), Vol. 1, pp. 264–6.

137
. Matthews (1939), p. 356 (30 October 1716).

138
. Gladys Scott Thomson (Ed.),
Letters of a Grandmother, 1732–35
(London, 1943), p. 74, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough to Diana, Duchess of Bedford (23 September 1732).

139
. Quoted in Wilkins (1901), Vol. 2, p. 103.

140
. BL Add MS 22229, f. 61, Lord Wentworth to his father the Earl of Strafford (15 April 1735).

141
. Quoted in Wilkins (1901), Vol. 2, p. 104.

142
.
The Walpole Society
, Vol. 22 (1933–4) (Vertue III), p. 68.

143
. Halsband and Grundy (1977), pp. 93–4.

144
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 485, 610.

145
. Stanhope (1774), Vol. 2, p. 266; Coxe (1798b) Vol. 1, pp. 271–2; Lord Hervey to H. Walpole (31 October 1735), quoted in Coxe (1798b), Vol. 1, p. 272.

146
. BL Add MS 20104, ff. 6–7, Lord Hervey to Mrs Clayton (Hampton Court, 31 July 1733).

147
. BL Add MS 75358, Lady Burlington (1730).

148
. Brooke (1985), Vol. 1, p. 117.

149
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 1, p. 42; Vol. 2, p. 380.

150
. BL Add MS 4805, f. 160v, Henrietta Howard to Jonathan Swift (16 August 1727).

151
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 490.

152
. Lord Holland (Ed.),
Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the Reign of King George the
Second
, 3 vols (London, 1846), Vol. 1, p. 140.

153
. HMC
Egmont
(1923), Vol. 2, p. 53.

154
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 496.

155
. Coxe (1798b), Vol. 1, p. 275.

156
. BL Add MS 20101, ff. 60r, 64v, ‘The Inventory of the Curiositys & Medals in the Cabinets in His Maj
ties
Librairy of w
ch
M
rs
Purcell had the Original’.

157
. Matthews (1939), p. 62 (25 July 1715).

158
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 501.

159
. Anon.,
The Contest: being poetical essays on the Queen’s grotto: wrote in consequence
of an invitation in the Gentlemen’s Magazine for April, 1733
(London, 1734), p. 6,‘Essay V, On the Royal Grotto’.

160
. Thomson (1847), Vol. 1, p. 205.

161
. Kensington Public Library, ‘Extra illustrated’ edition of Thomas Faulkner,
History and Antiquities of Kensington
(London, 1820) (2-volume version) part 2, accounts for Richmond property ending Lady Day 1747, following p. 358.

162
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 504; BL Stowe MS 308, f. 4.

163
. BL Add 78468, f. 73v, Mrs Godolphin to Lady Evelyn (13 November 1716); Smith (2006), p. 228.

164
. Sherburn (1956), Vol. 1, Pope to Teresa and Martha Blount (13 September 1717).

165
. David Starkey, ‘Representation through Intimacy: A Study in the Symbolism of Monarchy and Court Office in Early-Modern England’, in
Symbols and
Sentiments: Cross-cultural Studies in Symbolism
, Ed. I. Lewis (London, New York and San Francisco, 1977), p. 219.

166
. John Wade,
The Extraordinary Black Book
(London, 1931), p. 497.

167
.
The Times
(24 November 1837), p. 3.

168
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 1, p. 140.

169
. TNA LC 5/158 p. 243 (1 April 1724).

170
. Quoted in E. J. Burford,
Royal St James’s, Being a Story of Kings, Clubmen and
Courtesans
(London, 1988), p. 29.

171
. Stanhope (1774), Vol. 2, p. 59.

172
. Jonathan Swift,
The Lady’s Dressing Room
(London, 1732), p. 6.

173
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 1, p. 194.

174
. Quoted in Burford (1988), p. 30; SRO 941/47/4, p. 75, John Hervey to Ste Fox (9 January 1728).

175
. Marschner (1997), pp. 34–5.

176
. Stanhope (1774), Vol. 2, p. 59.

177
. BL Add MS 22227, ff.98–100, Peter Wentworth to Lord Strafford (25 July 1729).

178
. Brooke (1985), Vol. 1, p. 117.

179
. Coxe (1798b), Vol. 1, pp. 278–9.

180
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 1, p. 43.

181
. Sherburn (1956), Vol. 2, p. 182, Alexander Pope to John Gay (13 July 1723).

182
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 474.

183
. Brooke (1985), Vol. 1, p. 117.

184
. Cowper (1864), p. 19 (19 November 1714).

185
. BL Add MS 22625, f. 27r, John Arbuthnot to Henrietta Howard (30 May 1728).

186
. RA GEO/ADD17/75/46 (1733).

187
. Marschner (1997), p. 31.

188
. BL Add MS 22625, f. 27r, John Arbuthnot to Henrietta Howard (30 May 1728).

189
. RA GEO/ADD17/75/4 (July–September 1730); Joanna Marschner, ‘Queen Caroline of Ansbach: attitudes to clothes and cleanliness, 1727–1737’,
Costume
, No. 31 (1997), p. 32.

190
. RA GEO/ADD 17/75/44 (1732); RA GEO/ADD 17/75/20 (1730); Thomson (1943), p. 147, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough to Diana, Duchess of Bedford (21 October 1734).

191
. Jonathan Swift,
The Lady’s Dressing Room
(London, 1732), p. 5.

192
. RA GEO/ADD 17/75/72 (1733); Marschner (1997), p. 33.

193
. Brooke (1985), Vol.1, p. 117.

194
. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ‘An Account of the Court of George I’, in Wharncliffe (1861), Vol. 1, p. 122.

195
. Marschner (1997), p. 33.

196
. BL Add MS 22625, f. 27r, John Arbuthnot to Henrietta Howard (30 May 1728).

197
. Hervey (1931) Vol. 2, p. 474.

198
.
Ibid.
, Vol. 1, p. 107.

199
. ‘Song, by the Earl of Peterborough’, quoted in Croker (1824), Vol. 1, p. xlvii.

200
. Sherburn (1956), Vol. 2, p. 401, Pope to Swift (
c.
20 September 1726); BL Add MS 22628, f. 20r, Henrietta Howard to Molly Hervey (September 1728).

201
. BL Add MS 22626, f. 58v, Henrietta Howard to John Gay (5 September 1731).

202
. Thomson (1847), Vol. 1, p. 243.

203
. BL Add MS 22626, f. 53r, Henrietta Howard to John Gay (29 June 1731).

204
. Thomson (1847), Vol. 1, pp. 242–3.

205
. BL Add MS 22626, ff. 53r–v, Henrietta Howard to John Gay (29 June 1731).

206
. BL Add MS 27777, f. 107v, Peter Wentworth to his brother (1 July 1731).

207
. BL Add MS 22628, f. 100r, George Berkeley to unknown (1735)
.

208
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 381.

209
.
Ibid.
, p. 383.

210
. BL Add MS 22627, ff. 8r, 9r (1734).

211
.
Ibid.
, ff. 9r–v (1734).

212
. Hervey (1931), Vol. 2, p. 601.

213
. Walpole,
Reminiscences
(1818 edn), p. 82.

214
. BL Add MS 22627, f. 6v.

215
. The Duke of Newcastle to Sir Robert Walpole (13 November, 1734), quoted in Wilkins (1901), Vol. 2, p. 259.

216
. Halsband (1965–7), Vol. 2, p. 57.

217
. Holland (1846), Vol. 1, p. 75; BL Add MS 22627, f.107v, Margaret Bradshaw to Henrietta Howard (n.d.).

218
. BL Add MS 22627, f. 113r, Margaret Bradshaw to Henrietta Howard (n.d.).

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