(407) Thomas Fermor, first Earl of Pomfret, so created in 1721.  He had ben master of the horse to Queen Caroline, and ranger of St. James’s Park-D.

(408) Daughter of John, Earl of Granville, by his second wife, eldest daughter of Thomas Fermor, Earl of Pomfret. (Afterwards married to William Petty, Earl of Shelburne and Marquis of Lansdowne.-D.)

(409) Lady Louisa and Lady Anne; the latter was afterwards married to Mr. Dawson.

(410) Easton Neston, in Northamptonshire.

(411) It is the marriage of Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York.  The two other figures are probably St. Thomas and the Bishop of linola, the Pope’s nuncio, who pronounced the nuptial benediction.  This curious picture was purchased by Lady Pomfret for two hundred pounds.  The Earl of Oxford offered her five hundred pounds for it:  Mr. Walpole bought it at Lord Pomfret’s sale for eighty-four guineas, and it is now at Strawberry Hill.

(412) Lady Pomfret bought the statues, after her lord’s death, and presented them to the University of Oxford.

176 Letter 83 To John Chute, Esq.  Stowe, Aug. 4, 1753

My dear Sir, You would deserve to be scolded, if you had not lost almost as much pleasure as you have disappointed me of.(413) Whether George Montagu will be so content With your commuting punishments, I don’t know:  I should think not; he “cried and roared all night"(414) when I delivered your excuse.  He is extremely well-housed, after having roamed like a Tartar about the country with his whole personal estate at his heels. .  There is an extensive view, which is called pretty:  but Northamptonshire is no county to please me.  What entertained me was, that he who in London -,vas grown an absolute recluse, is over head and ears in neighbours, and as popular as if he intended to stand for the county, instead of having given up the town.  The very first morning after my arrival, as we were getting into the chaise to go to Wroxton, they notified a Sir Harry Danvers, a young squire, booted and spurred, and buckskin-breeche’d.  “Will you drink any chocolate?” “No; a little wine and water, if you please.”—­I suspected nothing but that he had rode till he was dry.  “Nicol`o, some wine and water.”  He desired the water might be warm—­I began to stare; Montagu understood the dialect, and ordered a negus.  I had great difficulty to keep my countenance, and still more when I saw the baronet finish a very large jug indeed.  To be sure, he wondered as much at me e who did not finish a jug; and I could not help reflecting, that living always in the world makes one as unfit for living out of it, as always living out of it does for living in it.  Knightley, the knight of the shire, has been entertaining all the parishes round with a turtle-feast, which, so far from succeeding, has almost made him suspected for a Jeu,, as the country parsons have not yet learned to wade into green fat.