(74) George ii. was scrupulously exact in separating and keeping in each country whatever belonged to England or Hanover.  Lady Suffolk told me, that on his accession he could not find a knife, fork, and spoon of gold which had belonged to Queen Ann(@, and which he remembered to have seen here at his first -arrival.  He found them at Hanover on his first journey thither after he came to the crown, and brought them back to England.  He could not recollect much of greater value; for, on Queen Anne’s death, and in the interval before the arrival of the new family, such a clearance had been made of her Majesty’s jewels, or the new King so instantly distributed what he found amongst his German favourites, that, as Lady S. told me, Queen Caroline never obtained of the late Queen’s.jewels but one pearl necklace.

(75) George I., says Coxe, who never loved his wife, gave implicit credit to the account of her infidelity, as related by his father; consented to her imprisonment, and obtained from the ecclesiastical consistory a divorce, which was passed on the 28th of December 1694.”  Memoirs of Walpole.-E.

(76) “the unfortunate Sophia was confined in the castle of Alden, situated on the small river Aller, in the duchy of Zell.  She terminated her miserable existence, after a long captivity of thirty-two years, on the 13th of November 1726, only seven months before the death of George the First; and she was announced in the Gazette, under the title of the Electress Dowager of Hanover.  During her whole confinement she behaved with no less mildness than dignity; and, on receiving the sacrament once every week, never omitted making the most solemn asseverations, that she was not guilty of the crime laid to her charge.”  Coxe, vol. i. p. 268.-E.

(77) Admiral Lord Howe, and also of sir William, afterwards Viscount Howe.-E.

(78) Second daughter of George the Second; born in 1711, died October the 31st, 1786.

(79) Caroline, the eldest of Lady Howe’s children, had married a gentleman of her own name, John Howe, Esq, of Honslop, in the county of Bucks.

(80) According to Coxe, she was, when young, a woman of great beauty, but became extremely corpulent as she advanced in years.  “Her power over the King,” he adds, “was not equal to that of the Duchess of Kendal, but her character for rapacity was not inferior.”  On the death of her husband, in 1721, she was created Countess of Leinster in the kingdom of Ireland, Baroness of Brentford, and Countess of Darlington.-E.

(81) One of the German ladies, being abused by the mob, was said to have put her head out of the coach, and cried in bad English, “Good people, why you abuse us?  We come for all your goods.”  “Yes, damn ye,” answered a fellow in the crowd, “and for all our chattels too.”  I mention this because on the death of Princess Amelia the newspapers revived the story and told it of her, though I had heard it threescore years before of one of her grandfather’s mistresses.