The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (38 page)
Authors: Claudia Gold
38
. ibid.
14. Venality
1
. Coxe,
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
(4 vols, 1816)
2
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 154, quotes Rudé,
Hanoverian London
, p. 40, listing holdings of 1721, and Dickson,
Financial Revolution
, p. 279, for holdings of 1723–4.
3
. Carteret, Secretary of State for the South on Craggs’s death, became the leader of those who had previously rallied around Stanhope and Sunderland. He and Walpole, although not enemies, had a fractious relationship.
4
. Coxe, quotes the Townshend Papers, Robert Walpole to Lord Townshend, Whitehall 1/12 Oct 1723, vol. II, p. 276.
5
. Coxe quotes Robert Walpole to Lord Townshend, Whitehall, 18–19 Oct 1723, Townshend Papers, vol. II, p. 283.
6
. Coxe, quotes Lord Bolingbroke to Lord Townshend, 28 June 1723, Hardwicke Papers, vol. II, p. 311.
7
. ibid., Townshend to Bolingbroke, 9/20 July 1723, Pyrmont, Hard-wicke Papers.
8
. Schaumburg-Lippe,
Letters
, pp. 77–8.
9
.
Daily Journal
, Feburary 1723.
10
. Macknight cites the Clough Papers; quoted by Coxe in the Walpole Correspondence, vol. II p. 345.
11
. Coxe, vol. II, p. 338.
12
. Coxe quotes Etough’s minutes of a conversation with Sir Robert Walpole on the attempt of Lord Bolingbroke and the Duchess of Kendal to obtain his dismissal in 1727, Etough Papers, 13 Sept 1737,
Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole
.
13
. Coxe, quotes Lord Bolingbroke to Sir William Wyndham, 20 Feb 1736, Egremont Papers. Vol. II, p. 338.
15. Diplomacy
1
. Beattie, p. 242.
2
. Coxe quotes Count Broglio to the King of France, 6 July 1724,
Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole
, vol. II, p. 300.
3
. ibid.
4
. ibid., 10 July 1724.
5
. Add. MSS. 37385 ff. 88.
6
. Add. MSS. 37384 ff. 80.
7
.
Daily Journal
, 11 Feb 1723.
8
. Lewis (ed.),
Selected Letters of Horace Walpole
, vol. 2, p. 455.
9
. Coxe, quotes Robert Walpole to Lord Townshend, Townshend Papers, Whitehall, 30 Aug 1723, vol. 2, p. 265.
10
. Coxe quotes Lord Townshend to Robert Walpole, Hanover, 8 Sept 1723, vol. 2, p. 287.
11
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 275.
12
. Coxe quotes Lord Townshend to Robert Walpole, Göhrde, 15 Nov 1723, Hardwicke Papers, vol. 2, p. 287.
13
. Coxe, vol. 2, p. 271.
14
. ibid.
15
. Coxe quotes Townshend to Walpole, Hanover, 2 Oct 1723. Hard-wicke Papers, pp. 271–4.
16
. Coxe quotes Townshend to the Duke of Newcastle, Hanover, 27 Nov 1723, vol. 2, p. 288.
17
. Wilhelmine,
The Misfortunate Margravine
, ed. Rosenthal, p. 88.
16. A Marriage?
1
. Edmund Calamy, 1671–1732:
An Historical Account of My Own Life, With Some Reflections on the Times I Have Lived In (1671–1731)
(second edition, 2 volumes; London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830), ed. by John Towill Rutt.
2
. Hatton,
George I
; for English contemporary rumours of a morganatic marriage see Montagu,
Works
1, p. 75; and Coxe,
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
(3 vols, 1816), vol. I, p. 150, and vol. II, p. 258.
3
.
Manuscripts in the collection of Duke of Portland
. Edward Harley, junior, to Abigail Harley, 26 Jan 1717.
4
.
Letters of Madame
, ed. Gertrud Scott Stevenson, vol. 2, p. 167.
5
. Fabrice,
Memoiren
, pp. 153–9. Letter from Schulenburg to Fabrice from Venice. The letter is dated 1728.
6
. Add. MSS. 4326. B. f. 3.
7
. Andrew Starkie, ‘Blackburne, Lancelot (1658–1743)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 quotes Horace Walpole (
Memories
I, pp. 74–5).
8. ibid.
17. Endings
1
. Lewis (ed.)
Selected Letters of Walpole
, v. 25, p. 248.
2
.
Daily Journal
, Friday 22 March 1723.
3
. Schaumburg-Lippe,
Letters
, 14/25 July 1727.
4
. Ernst August,
Letters
, ed. Kielmansegg.
5
. See Binney,
Great Houses of Europ
e; Schmidt,
Schulenburg
, no. 742.
6
. Howard,
Letters
, ed. Croker, Mrs Howard to Mr Gay, 15 June 1728.
7
.
Weekly Journal
, Saturday 30 Dec 1727.
8
. Rudé,
Hanoverian London
, p. 146.
9
. George left Melusine £12,986.2s.2d. in South Sea shares. Its value when Walpole released it was only £6,993.1s.1d.
10
. Hatton, The Duchess of Kendal to Sir Robert Walpole, London 18 Feb 1730, Orford Papers, Coxe, vol. II, p. 668.
11
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 137.
12
. G. S. Holland Fox-Strangeways,
Henry Fox, first Lord Holland
(2 vols, 1920), quoted in John Cannon, ‘Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009.
13
. Bentley,
Letters of Horace Walpole
, vol. 1, p. 65
14
. Melusine was seventy-five when she died. She was seven years younger than George, not one year older as Horace Walpole erroneously believed.
15
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 136.
Index
Achaz, Friedrich
12
Ackroyd, Peter
London, the Biography
96
,
144
Aislabie, John
214
,
216
,
217
,
219
,
220
,
227
Allanson, Mrs
198
Anne, Princess (daughter of George II)
40
,
203
,
217
,
255
Anne, Queen
74
,
98
,
99
–100,
102
,
138
childbearing history
38
court of
111
death
90
,
164
diamonds
3
life in later years
111
–12
relationship with George I’s father
40
–1
and slave trade
214
Anthony, Monsieur de
117
Archer, Thomas
138
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of
191
–2
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
156
Austria
99
baroque gardens
30
Bartholomew Fair
140
Bedoghi, Lorenzo
29
Ben Israel, Menasseh
96
Berens-Cohen, Elieser Lefmann
19
Berkeley, Bishop
143
Bernard, Francesco (Senesino)
142
Bernstorff, Baron Andreas von
164
–6,
168
,
169
,
178
,
181
,
206
,
225
,
252
Bertram, Mijndert
201
–2
Berwick, Duke of
105
Bílá Hora, Battle of (1620)
20
Blackburne, Lancelot (Archbishop of York)
262
–4
Blenheim Palace
95
Blunt, John
224
Bolingbroke, Viscount
99
,
100
,
101
,
201
,
235
–41
Bonet, Frederick
114
,
125
,
141
–2,
164
,
168
,
177
,
189
–90
Bothmer, Hans Kaspar von
44
–5,
164
,
167
,
169
,
206
,
225
Brett, Anne
126
bribery
and English court
166
–71
Bristol, Lady
113
Broderick, Thomas
222
Broglio, Count
245
–6
Brontë, Charlotte
51
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Anton Ulrich, Duke
36
,
37
,
41
,
59
,
61
,
62
,
64
,
246
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Elisabeth
Christine
246
Brunt, Captain Samuel
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia
176
Brydges, Jones
see
Chandos, Duke of
Burroughs, Charles
128
Bussche, Albrecht Philipp von dem
37
Bussche, Johann von dem
43
Bussche-Ippenburg, Ernst August Philipp von dem
79
–80
Byrd, William
167
Cadogan, William
177
–8
Calamy, Edward
257
Campbell, Colen
158
Carnarvon, Lord
165
Caroline of Ansbach (wife of Georg August)
3
,
189
,
193
,
194
–5,
268
death of son
204
entertaining at court
118
marriage
78
relationship with Melusine
88
,
271
relationship with Sophia Charlotte
88
separation from children
196
–7,
205
,
208
Caroline of Hesse-Cassel
21
–2
Carswell, John
218
–19
Caselius, John
11
Catherine of Braganza
98
Celle
41
unification with Hanover
62
,
81
Chandos, Duke of (James Brydges)
167
–8
Charbonnier, Martin
30
–1
Charlemagne
34
Charles II, King
22
–3,
40
–1,
98
,
145
Chesterfield, Earl of
125
,
128
,
161
,
206
,
272
Chevreau, Urban de
33
Child, Sir Caesar
229
Christian Heinrich (brother of George I)
27
,
37
–8,
39
,
72
Christian Ludwig (brother of Ernst August)
24
,
25
Christina of Sweden, Queen
33
Chronicles of Newgate, The
141
Clavering, John
131
coffee houses (London)
145
–6
Colt, Sir William Dutton
18
Colvin, H.M.
156
Conzbrücke, battle of (1675)
40
courtesans, court
49
–50
Cowper, Lord
165
–6
Cowper, Mary, Countess
116
,
117
,
126
,
129
,
165
–6,
170
,
178
,
179
,
192
,
197
,
203
,
207
,
208
,
212
,
216
Coxe, William
116
,
231
,
237
–8,
259
,
262
Craggs, James (the elder)
216
,
228
Craggs, James (the younger)
129
,
169
,
205
,
215
,
228
Creation of the World, The
140
Daily Courant
147
Daily Journal
247
–8