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Jameson, Anna
Memoirs of the beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, with their portraits: after Sir Peter Lely and other eminent painters$dillustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon and other contemporary writers — London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861

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of her, 192; jealousy ensues, 192,193 ;
he forcibly carries her from court to his
country-house, 195; she signalizes her
ven geance on George Hamilton, the ad-
viser of her abduction, 196; her daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Stanhope, becomes
Countess of Strathmore, 197; her
death, ib.; the earl suspected of poison-
ing her, 198; her portrait by Lely,
ib. ; allusion to, 305.
Chesterfield, Philip, Earl of, his mar-
riage, 189 ; temper and character of,
190 ; his unhappy union, 190—195 ;
his second Countess, 197 ; frightful
tradition relative to, 198 ; his general
character, 200, 305.
Churchill, Arabella, [sister of Marlbo-
rough] 314 ; her eldest son James
E'itz-James,DukeofBerwick,315; her
union with Colonel Godfrey, ib. ; her
curious political position, ib.
Cibber, Colley, anecdote related by, 157.
Clancarty, Earl of, [Donogh Macarty]
244.
Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, 55 ; his ac-
count of the Earl of Sandwich, 58 ; he
is ordered to reconcile Catherine of
BraganzatoLady Castlemaine, 63; his
diplomacy to that effect, 64; character
of the Queen given by, 76; disgraced
and banished from Court, 83,183 ; his
children, 202, 203 ; passages of his
history, 107, 176, 216.
-, Countess of, [Theodosia
Capel] 43.
-, Earl of, [son of the great
Chancellor] 202, 203, 332.
“ Clarendon Papers,” the, 204, 332.
Cleveland, Duchess of, moral to be de-
rived from her history, 29; appointed
a lady to Queen Catherine, 62; scene at
Court inconsequence, 63; at length re-
ceived by the Queen, 67 ; is familiarly
treated by her, 76 ; her father and fa-
mily, 79 ; her husband created Earl of
Castlemaine, 80, 81; the declared mis-
tress of Charles II. immediately after
the Bestoration, 80; their early corres-
pondence, ib. ; quits her husband, 82;
causes the downfall of Clarendon, 83;
her rapacity and extravagance, 84; her
tyrannical dominion over Charles, and
his submissiveness, 85,138,&c.; resents
the disgrace of Buckingham, 87 ; her
anger renewed, the King makes his
peace with her by patents of nobility,

88, 89 ; her notice of Wycherly, 87 ;
confers favours on young Churchill,
[Marlborough] ib.; marriesBeauField-
ing, 89 ; dies of dropsy, 90 ; titles of
Charles H.’s descendants by this lady,
ib.; her great beauty, 91, 92 ; visits
Bartholomew Eair, 92 ; her portrait,
ib. ; resume of her history, ib.; her in-
fluence renewed, 94; dismissed by the
King intoErance,ib.; her extraordinary
letter to Charles, 96—101; her banish-
ment, 101; her contests with Miss
Stewart, 174, 181; her spies and per-
fidy, 181, 265; some allusions to, 190,
192.
-, Dukes of, [anextinct peerage]
90.
Cleveland-row, Berkshire-House in, 85.
Coffee-houses, establishment of, 37.
Colbert, the French ambassador, 277.
Commons, proceedings of the House of,
on the Popish plot, 73.
Cornbury, Lord, his marriage with Theo-
dosia Capel, 183, 202.
Costume in the reign of Charles II. 29 ;
locks flowing down the shoulders, 30 ;
dress of the ladies, ib.; patches, 31;
riding habits, 32 ; cocked hats, ib. ;
perukes, ib. ; painting and rougeing,
33 ; hoods and trains, ib.; neck and
shoulders displayed, ib. ; coiffure, ib.;
high boddices, rails, and farthingales
of the Portuguese ladies of Queen
Catherine, 61, 62.
Court, costume at, 29 ; scandal at, 37;
music and the Opera, 38 ; painters at,
41, &c.; beautiful women composing,
ib. &c.; reception of the Infanta Cathe-
rine at, 54, 61; contest regarding Lady
Castlemaine at,62; the Queen’smasked
ball at, 108; Nell Gwynn at, 153; Miss
Stewart, Maid of Honour, 174; pas-
times at, 176; Miss Stewart’s retire-
ment from and return to, 184 ; the
Duchess of Portsmouth’s power at,
277—290.
Cromwell, hypocrisy in his Court, 78 ;
his fear of the Duke and Duchess of
Ormond, 123, 124 ; facetious idea of
bringing him back, 165.
Dahl, the Swedish portrait painter, 48.
Danby, Lord Treasurer, 266.
Dangeau, Marquis de, 116.
Davenant, Sir William, operas of, 38;
curious apology made by, 150.
 
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