(466) Thomas Lumley, third Earl of Scarborough.-D.

(467) “February 17.  Prince of Wales went to St. James’s.  The agreement made at eleven the night before, and principally by Mr. Pultney; as Lord Wilmington told me.  The King received him in the drawing-room:  the Prince kissed his hand:  he asked him how the Princess did:  showed no other mark of regard.  All the courtiers went the same day to Carlton House.  The Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. Benson) and I went thither.  The Prince and princess civil to us both.”  Secker ms.-E.

(468) Charles Spencer, second duke of Marlborough succeeded to that title on the death of his aunt Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, in 1733.-D.

(469) Sir George Lyttelton, afterwards created Lord Lyttelton.  Miss Fortescue was his first wife, and mother of Thomas, called the wicked Lord Lyttelton.  She died in childbed and Lord Lyttelton honoured her Memory with the well-known Monody which was so unfeelingly parodied by Smollett.-D. [ Under the title of an “Ode on the Death of My Grandmother.”)

(470 Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire.  He succeeded, in 1745, as eleventh Earl of Suffolk, on the death, without issue, of henry, tenth earl.  He died in 1757.-D.

(471) Lady Isabella Fitzroy, Youngest daughter of the Duke of grafton, and wife of Francis Seymour, Lord Conway of Hertford.

(472) Charles Lennox, master of the horse, and Sarah Cadogan, his duchess.  He died in the year following.

(473) The Countess of Pomfret.

(474) Two celebrated comic dancers.

(475) Princess Craon, so often mentioned in these letters.-D.

227 Letter 55
To Sir Horace Mann. 
London, Feb. 25, 1742.

I am impatient to hear that you have received my first account of the change; as to be sure you are now for every post.  This last week has not produced many new events.  The Prince of Wales has got the measles,(476) so there has been but little incense offered up to him:  his brother of Saxe-Gotha has got them too.  When the Princess went to St. James’s, she fell at the King’s feet and struggled to kiss his hand, and burst into tears.  At the Norfolk masquerade she was vastly bejewelled; Frankz had lent her forty thousand pounds worth, and refused to be paid for the hire, only desiring that she would tell whose they were.  All this is nothing, but to introduce one of Madame de Pomfret’s ingenuities, who. being dressed like a pilgrim, told the Princess, that she had taken her for the Lady of Loreto.

But you will wish for politics now, more than for histories of masquerades, though this last has taken up people’s thoughts full as much.  The House met last Thursday and voted the army without a division:  Shippen (477 alone, unchanged, Opposed it.  They have since been busied on elections, turning out our friends and voting in their own.. almost without opposition.  The chief affair