(394) Vide an account of the erection of Lord Perceval and one Edwin, in that Lord’s History of the House of Ivery.

(395) Philip Yorke, Lord, and afterwards Earl of Hardwicke, for twenty years Lord Chancellor of England.-D.

(396) William mathias Howard, Earl of Stafford.

(397) The Primate of Lorrain, eldest son of Prince Craon, was famous for his wit and vices of all kinds.

(398) Lady Dorothy Boyle, eldest daughter of Lord Burlington; Isabella, wife of Francis Lord Conway, and Caroline, afterwards married to Lord Petersham, were the daughter-in-law and daughters of Charles Fitzroy, Duke of grafton, lord chamberlain.

(399) Lepel, eldest daughter of John Lord Hervey, afterwards married to Mr. Phipps. (Constantine Phipps, in 1767 created Lord Mulgrave.]

(400) The effeminacy of Lord Hervey formed a continual subject for the satire of his opponents.  Pope’s bitter lines on him- are well remembered.  The old Duchess of Marlborough, too, in her “Opinions,” describes him as having “certainly parts and wit; but he is the most wretched profligate man that ever was born, besides ridiculous; a painted face, and not a tooth in his head.” on which the editor of that curious little book, Lord Hailes, remarks, “Lord Hervey, having felt some attacks of the epilepsy, entered upon and persisted in a very strict regimen, and thus stopped the progress and prevented the effects of that dreadful disease.  His daily food was a small quantity of asses’ milk and a flour biscuit.  Once a week he indulged himself with eating an apple; he used emetics daily.  Mr. Pope and he were once friends; but they quarrelled, and persecuted each other with virulent satire.  Pope, knowing the abstemious regimen which Lord Hervey observed, was so ungenerous as to call him “mere cheese-curd of asses’ milk!” Lord Hervey used paint to soften his ghastly appearance.  Mr. Pope must have known this also; and therefore it was unpardonable in him to introduce it into his “celebrated portrait.”  It ought to be remembered, that Lord Hervey is very differently described by Dr. Middleton; who, in his dedication to him of “The History of the Life of Tully,” praises him for his strong good sense, patriotism, temperance, and information.-E.

(401) Jane, only daughter of Francis, the first Lord Conway, by his second wife, Mrs. Bodens. (She died unmarried, May 5, 1749.-D.)

(402) Author of some Love Elegies, and a favourite of Lord Chesterfield.  He died this year. [Hammond was equerry to the Prince of Wales, and member for Truro.  He died in June, 1742, at Stowe, the seat of Lord Cobham, in his thirty.second year.  Miss Dashwood long survived him, and died unmarried in 1779. " The character,” says Johnson, “which her lover gave her was, indeed, not likely to attract courtship.”]

(402) Wife of William Clayton, Lord Sundon, woman of the bedchamber and mistress of the robes to Queen Caroline. [She had been the friend and correspondent of Sarah Duchess of’ Marlborough; who, on the accession of George I , through Baron Bothmar’s influence, procured for her friend the place of lady of the bedchamber to the Princess with whom she grew as great a favourite as her colleague, Mrs. Howard, with the Prince; and eventually, on the Princess becoming Queen, exercised an influence over her, of which even sir Robert Walpole was jealous.]