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The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer With a Memoir of His Life, to Which Are Added, Other Relicks of a Gentleman's Family, Ed. by Sir H.
The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer With a Memoir of His Life to Which Are Added Other Relicks of a Gentleman's Family Ed by Sir H Author:Thomas Hanmer Title: The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer ... With a Memoir of His Life, to Which Are Added, Other Relicks of a Gentleman's Family, Ed. by Sir H. Bunbury General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: Moxon Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and... more » there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EXTRACTS From the Private Account-Book of Isabella, Duchess of Grapton, from January 1708, to February 1723. It must be confessed, on the authority of the autograph within the cover of this book (" Isabella Grafton is my name"), and of occasional entries in her own handwriting, that caligraphy and orthography were not the prominent excellencies of this noble lady. Good spelling was far from universal in those days among the men of rank, and the sample which is here afforded us by the only child of a noble statesman, and daughter-in-law of King Charles the Second, is not calculated to give us a favourable impression as to the education of ladies of high birth. Isabella was the sole heiress of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, one of the principal ministers of the merry monarch. In 1682, three years before her father's death, she was married to Henry, thefirst Duke of Grafton, who was slain at the storming of Cork, in 1690. The widowed Duchess was at this time only twenty-two years of age; but though she was rich and accounted one of the greatest beauties of the court, she did not marry again till 1698, when she bestowed her hand on the young and handsome Thomas Hanmer, who had but just completed his twenty-first year. The estates of Euston,« less