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![extend. We have scarcely room, nor would it be worth while, to give the whole of these odd annotations. One or two will be enough to give an idea of the sort of matter they contain. The handwriting, by the way, has a great resemblance to that of the late Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe ; and in the following, which is written on the back of the title-page, you can almost fancy that you are listening to the shrieky treble of that confirmed old scandal-monger :— Henrietta St. John, daughter of Henry Viscount St. John, by his second wife (a Frenchwoman) and half-sister of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, was wife of Robert Knight (son of the cashier of the South Sea Company), by whom she had a son, who died, without issue, before his father, and a daughter, Henrietta, mentioned in these letters. Robert Knight was created Lord Luxborough, and after his wife's death, Earl of Catherlogh. They had been parted many years, on her having an intrigue with Parson Dalton, the reviver of Comus, and tutor of Lord Beauchamp, only son of the Duchess of Somerset, mentioned in these letters. At p. 27 Lady Luxborough writes as follows :— The late King George [the First] was fond of peaches stewed in brandy in a particular manner, which he had tasted at my father's; and ever after till his death my mamma furnished him with a sufficient quantity to last the year round (he eating two every night). This little present he took kindly ; but one season proved fatal to fruit trees, and she could present his Majesty with but half the usual quantity, desiring him to use economy, for they would barely serve him the year at one each night. Being thus forced by necessity to retrench, he said he would then eat two every other night, and valued himself on having mortified himself less than if he had yielded to their regulation of one each night; which, I suppose, may be called a compromise between economy and epicurism. To the words, my mamma in this paragraph, Horace Walpole appends the following information :— Angelica](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103218x_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
