from Spain of the Contesse D’Anois, vol. ii.  He was brother of the beautiful Comtesse de Konigsmark, mistress of Augustus the Second, King of Poland. (72) It was not this Count Konigsmark, but an elder brother, who was accused of having suborned Colonel Vratz, Lieutenant Stern, and one George Boroskey, to murder Mr. Thynne in Pall-Mall, on the 12th of February, 1682, and for which they were executed in that street on the 10th of March.  For the particulars, see Howell’s State Trials, vol. ix. p. 1, and Sir John Reresby’s Memoirs, p. 135.  “This day,” says Evelyn, in his Diary of the 10th of March, “was executed Colonel Vrats, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynne, set on by the principal, Konigsmark:  he went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Konigsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt jury, and so got away:  Vrats told a friend of mine, who accompanied him to the gallows, and gave him some advice, that he did not value dying of a rush, and hoped and believed God would deal with him like a gentleman.”  Mr. Thynne was buried in Westminster Abbey; the manner of his death being represented on his monument.  He was the Issachar of Absalom and Achitophel; in which poem Dryden, describing the respect and favour with which Monmouth was received upon his progress in the year 1691, Says:  “Hospitable hearts did most commend Wise Issachar, his wealthy, western friend.”

Reresby states, that Lady Ogle, immediately after the marriage, “repenting herself of the match, fled from him into Holland, before they were bedded.”  This circumstance added to the fact, that Mr. Thynne had formerly seduced Miss Trevor, one of the maids of honour to Catherine of Portugal, wife of Charles ii., gave birth to the following lines: 

“Here lies Tom Thynne, of Longleat Hall,
Who never would have miscarried,
Had he married the woman he lay withal,
Or lain with the woman he married.”

On the 30th of May, in the same year, Lady Ogle was married to
Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset.-E.

(73) Lady Suffolk thought he rather would have her regent of Hanover; and she also told me, that George I. had offered to live again with his wife, but she refused, unless her pardon were asked publicly.  She said, what most affected her was the disgrace that would be brought on her children; and if she were only pardoned, that would not remove it.  Lady Suffolk thought she was then divorced, though the divorce was never published; and that the old Elector consented to his son’s marrying the Duchess of Kendal with the left hand-but it seems strange, that George I. should offer to live again with his wife, and yet be divorced front her.  Perhaps George ii. to vindicate his mother, supposed that offer and her spirited refusal.