Memoirs of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton Chapter 7. She married Philip, Count de Grammont, by whom she had two daughters the eldest married Henry Howard, created Earl of Stafford, and the youngest took the veil.-E. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton, fourth son of the first Earl of Abercorn, and niece of to the first Duke of Ormond, celebrated in the " Memoires de Grammont" (written by her brother, Count Anthony Hamilton,) for her beauty and accomplishments. Lady Margaret Macarthy, daughter and heiress of the Marquis of Clanricarde, wife of Charles, Lord Muskerry.-E. 'Tis situated on an eminent hill, with a park, but has nothing else extraordinary." Evelyn, vol. We went to see the house of my Lord Clanrickard, at Summer Hill, near Tunbridge now given to that villain Bradshaw, who condemned the King. It stands high, commands a vast landscape beautifully wooded, and has quantities of large old trees to shelter itself, some of which might be well spared to open views.įrom Summer Hill we went to Lamberhurst to dine near which, that is, at the distance of three miles, up and down impracticable hills, in a most retired vale, such as Pope describes in the last Dunciad, "Where slumber abbots, purple as their vines," I have drawn the front of it to show you, which you are to draw over again to show me. The house is little better than a farm, but has been an excellent one, and is entire, though out of repair. 336 There is now scarce a road to it: the Paladins of those times were too valorous to fear breaking their necks and I much apprehend that la Monsery and the fair Mademoiselle Hamilton, 337 must have mounted their palfreys and rode behind their gentlemen-ushers upon pillions to the Wells. A mile from the town we climbed up a hill to see Summer Hill, 335 the residence of Grammont's Princess of Babylon. We were forced to send to the wells for others, which did not arrive till half the day was spent-we all the while up to the head and ears in a market of sheep and oxen. The inn was full of farmers and tobacco and the next morning, when we were bound for Penshurst, the only man in the town who had two horses would not let us have them, because the roads, as he said, were so bad. Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford Volume 2 Letter 64 To Richard Bentley, Esq.
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