The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (37 page)

6
. Uglow,
Hogarth
, quotes Betterton in Pat Rogers,
Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
(Brighton, 1985) p. 44.

7
.
London Evening Post
, Thursday 16 May 1728.

8
. Uglow,
Hogarth
, Dabydeen,
Commercial Britain
(1987)

9
. Gay, John,
The Letters of John Gay
, ed. C. F. Burgess (Oxford, 1966)

10
.
Music Library Association
, September 1999, ‘Supporting Handel Through Subscription to Publication: The Lists of Rodelinda and Faramondo Compared’.

11
.
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle
no. 36, 2003, Lowell Lindgren and Colin Timms, ‘The Correspondence of Agostino Steffani and Giuseppe Riva, 1720–1728’, Riva to Steffani, Feb 1721.

12
. ibid.

13
. Ackroyd,
London
, p. 319.

14
. Quoted ibid., p. 320.

15
. ibid., p. 308.

16
. ibid., p. 320.

17
. Printed in
The Scottish Historical Review
, vol. 8, no. 31, April 1911. The original is in the Douce collection in the Bodleian Library.

18
. Bristol Selected Pamphlets, 1874, Charles Bradlaugh,
The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick
.

19
. Drury Lane was notorious for its brothels.

20
. Bristol Selected Pamphlets, 1874, Charles Bradlaugh,
The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick
.

10. Palaces

1
. Saussure,
A Foreign View
, trans. and ed. Van Muyden, p. 130.

2
. Colvin, ed.,
The History of the King’s Works
, vol. 5,
1660–1782
, p. 239. Much of the information in this chapter comes from this book.

3
. ibid.

4
. Saussure,
A Foreign View
, trans. and ed. Van Muyden.

5
. Wilkins,
Caroline the Illustrious
, p. 266.

6
. ibid., p. 335.

7
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 262.

8
. Colvin, ed.,
King’s Works
, vol. 5, p. 198.

9
. For a full discussion see Christopher Hussey, ‘Kensington Palace, the Apartments of the Countess Granville’, in
Country Life
, 1 Sept 1928. The article includes many photographs.

10
. Worsley,
Courtiers
, quotes John Murray Graham, ed.,
Annals and Correspondence of the Viscount and the First and Second Earls of Stair
(1875), vol. 2, p. 94.

11. Politics and Players

1
. Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield,
Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son Philip Stanhope, esq
(1774).

2
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 139.

3
. ibid.

4
. HM, Stowe MSS 251, fo. 30, quoted in Beattie,
English Court
, p. 142.

5
. ibid., fo. 48.

6
. Beattie,
English Court
, p. 223.

7
. ibid., p. 221.

8
. HM, Stowe MSS 57, vol. 14, pp. 177–8. Quoted in Beattie, p. 222.

9
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 6.

10
. Panshanger MSS, Lady Cowper MS. Diary.

11
. Wentworth,
Papers 1705–1739
, ed. Cartwright, p. 247.

12
. Byrd,
The London Diary 1717-1721
, p. 259–.

13
. Beattie, p. 135, quotes a copy made by Lady Cowper’s daughter of ‘An account of some matters of fact which relate to the Duchess of Marlborough’s conduct at Court wrote by her Grace when abroad to some friends in England’ (Panshanger MSS, Letterbooks II, 91–2).

14
. Sarah Duchess of Marlborough,
Memoirs
, ed. King, p. 217.

15
. See Beattie, p. 163.

16
. Bonet’s report to the Prussian king, see Michael, vol. 2, p. 377.

17
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 147.

18
. ibid., p. 149.

19
. ibid., p. 150.

20
. ibid.

21
. Hatton, p. 149, quotes Craggs to Stanhope, 30 June 1717: Stanhope, Philip Henry,
History of England 1713–1783
vol. 2.

22
. Cowper,
Diary
.

23
. Count Palm to the Emperor, 17 Dec 1726, in Coxe,
Walpole
, vol. II, p. 508.

24
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 155.

25
. ibid., p. 152.

26
. Hatton has reservations about Sophia Charlotte’s lottery win. She suspects the entry in her account books may actually be for the £9,545 paid to her by the Duke of Chandos for her intercession with George in 1719 for his title.

27
. Liselotte,
Letters
, trans. and ed. Kroll, p. 180.

28
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 131.

29
. See Mahaffey, ‘Pope’s “Artemisia” and “Phryne” as Personal Satire’.

30
. For a full analysis of both poems see Mahaffey, ibid.

31
.
The Morning Chronicle
, Friday 13 Feb 1818.

32
.
Bonet’s report to the Prussian court
, printed in Michael, vol. 2, p. 373.

33
. HMC,
Portland MSS
, V, 501. Quoted in Beattie,
English Court
, p. 224.

34
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 118.

35
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 108.

36
. William Coxe,
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
(4 vols. 1816), Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, 30 July/10 Aug 1716.

37
. Coxe,
Walpole
, II, p. 507.

38
. Montagu,
Letters
, ed. Halsband, vol. I, pp. 240–1.

39
. Blenheim MSS. D 133, Stanhope to Sunderland, 3 Aug 1719. Quoted in Beattie, p. 242.

40
. ibid., Wallenrodt to Sunderland, 18/19 Feb 1720. Quoted in Beattie, p. 242.

41
. Coxe,
Walpole
, II, p. 265.

42
. ibid., p. 59.

43
. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
Works
, p. 127.

12. A Battle

1
. I am indebted to Professor Aubrey Newman for his insights into this subject.

2
. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
Account of the Court of George I
, p. 93.

3
. This ‘devotion’ was probably twofold. Georg August loathed his father and would do anything to vex him.

4
. Walpole,
Reminiscences
, ed. Toynbee, pp. 23ff.

5
. The author was actually Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz.

6
. Walpole,
Reminiscences
, ed. Toynbee, pp. 22–3.

7
. Bonet’s report to the King and Queen of Prussia, July 1716, reproduced in Michael.

8
. ibid.

9
. The king’s letter to his ‘Dearest Son’, 5 July (OS) 1716, is translated from the French in Coxe,
Walpole
, vol. 1, pp. 282–4. Reproduced in Hatton,
George I
.

10
. J. H. Plumb,
The First Four Georges
, p. 46.

11
. Hatton, p. 199.

12
. ibid., p. 196.

13
. ibid., p. 202.

14
. Stair,
Annals of Stair
, ed. Graham, vol. II, p. 26, Quoted in Beattie, p. 270.

15
. Beattie. p. 267.

16
. HMC Onslow MSS, p. 509. Quoted in Beattie, p. 268.

17
. The child was actually born with a polyp in his heart; he died in February 1718.

18
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 207.

19
. Liselotte,
Letters
trans. and ed. Kroll, p. 191.

20
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 108.

21
. Beattie, p. 272.

22
. ibid., p. 274.

23
. ibid., p. 275.

24
. Hervey,
Some Materials
, ed. Sedgwick, p. 303.

25
. James Hamilton to the Pretender, 27 Nov 1721, n.s.: Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, Stuart Papers [RA, SP], 55/152. Reproduced Clyve Jones, ‘Evidence, Interpretation and Definitions in Jacobite Historiography’.

26
.
Letters of Madame
, ed. Gertrud Scott Stevenson, vol. 2, p. 167.

27
. Quoted in Worsley,
Courtiers
, p. 41.

28
. Cowper,
Diary
, 18 Dec 1714.

29
. Nicolson,
London Diaries
, ed. Jones and Holmes.

30
. Madame Gemmingen was dismissed by George on 4 April 1718. We do not know why, but it could have been over a difference of opinion as the row between father and son progressed.

31
. Liselotte,
Letters
, traans. and ed. Kroll, p. 210.

32
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 210.

33
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 242, quotes Frederick William Schulenburg’s correspondence to Görtz of April 1718.

34
. Quoted in Worsley, p. 43.

35
. Coxe,
Walpole
, vol. I, p. 123, quoted in the
DNB
entry of Sir Robert Walpole.

36
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 142.

37
. Cowper,
Diary
, p. 132.

13. A Bubble

1
. Mackay,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
, p. xv.

2
. Quoted in
The British Poets: One Hundred Volumes
(1822), vol. II, p. xli.

3
. Thomas,
Slave Trade
, p. 238, quotes Lord Erleigh,
The South Sea Bubble
(1935), p. 36.

4
. Quoted in Thomas, p. 236.

5
. Mackay, p. 16.

6
. Carswell,
South Sea Bubble
, p. 127.

7
. HMC,
Report on the Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland preserved at Welbeck Abbey
.

8
. ibid.

9
. Coxe, Walpole, Secretary Craggs to Earl Stanhope, 17 July 1720, vol. II, p. 189.

10
. Carswell, p. 154.

11
. Quoted ibid., p. 127: ‘Poem in Honour of the Birthday of His Majesty King Georg
e’
, 1720.

12
.
Original Weekly Journal
, Saturday 23 April 1720.

13
. Carswell, p. 157.

14
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 254.

15
. Windsor, R.A.: 52844, copy of the duchess of Kendal’s letter of 27 Sept. NS 1720, marked rec. 29 Sept. OS. Quoted in Hatton,
George I
, p. 252.

16
. Quoted in Hatton
George I
, p. 253.

17
. Hatton quotes drafts of letters to Johann Matthias in the Görtz archive.

18
. Mackay, p. 55.

19
. ibid., pp. 55–6.

20
. Ackroyd,
London
, p. 322.

21
. Quoted in Carswell, p. 195.

22
. Coxe, vol. II, p. 195.

23
. Coxe, Broderick to Middleton, 13 Sept 1720, vol. II, p. 190.

24
. J. Oldmixon,
The history of England, during the reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George I
(1735), quoted in Stuart Handley, ‘Knight, Robert (1675– 1744)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, May 2005; online edn, Jan 2008.

25
. Carswell, p. 210.

26
. Balen,
A Very English Deceit
, p. 195.

27
. Carswell, p. 231.

28
.
Manuscripts in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Portland
.

29
. Carswell quotes Destouches’s report of his conversation with the Duchess of Kendal. Archives des Affaires Estrangères, corr. Pol. Angl. cccxxxv 99–100.

30
. Quoted in Balen, p. 204.

31
. Quoted ibid., p. 208.

32
. Carlisle MSS, 77, quoted in Stuart Handley, ‘Knight, Robert (1675– 1744)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, May 2005; online edn, Jan 2008,

33
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 256.

34
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 219, Aislabie to Walpole, Orford Papers, 2 Feb 1722, vol. II, p. 219.

35
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 255.

36
. ibid.

37
.
Manuscripts in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Portland
.