The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (38 page)

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

Addison
96
,
195

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

Bank of England
213
,
214
,
228

baroque gardens
30

Bartholomew Fair
140

Beattie, J.M.
167
,
195
,
199
,
245

Bedoghi, Lorenzo
29

Ben Israel, Menasseh
96

Benson, William
155
,
158

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

Board of Works
155
,
158
,
159
,
202

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

Carlyle, Thomas
4
,
123

Carnarvon, Lord
165

Carnival (Hanover)
31
–2,
36

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

Carteret, Lord
234
,
249
–50

Caselius, John
11

Catherine of Braganza
98

Catholicism
98
,
99

Celle
41

unification with Hanover
62
,
81

Celle Castle
5
,
62
–3,
261

Chandos, Duke of (James Brydges)
167
–8

Charbonnier, Martin
30
–1

Charlemagne
34

Charles I, King
95
,
96

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

Cromwell, Oliver
95
,
96

Daily Courant
147

Daily Journal
247
–8