. Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen. monument at Blenheim, in theChapel, in the same vault with her husband, andthe funeral was, as she requested, conducted pri-vately. She forgot none of her servants, even herchairmen had a legacy of twenty pounds William Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham, for thenoble defence he made in support of the laws ofEngland, ten thousand pounds : and to Philip, Earlof Chesterfield, twenty thousand pounds, togetherwith her best and largest diamond ring: and,amongst other remarkable clauses, she prohibitsthe marriage of any one of her grandsons underthe age of twe
. Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen. monument at Blenheim, in theChapel, in the same vault with her husband, andthe funeral was, as she requested, conducted pri-vately. She forgot none of her servants, even herchairmen had a legacy of twenty pounds William Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham, for thenoble defence he made in support of the laws ofEngland, ten thousand pounds : and to Philip, Earlof Chesterfield, twenty thousand pounds, togetherwith her best and largest diamond ring: and,amongst other remarkable clauses, she prohibitsthe marriage of any one of her grandsons underthe age of twenty-one, on penalty of losingthe annuity bequeathed to them, and of havinghalf of the proposed sum transferred to theirwives. 230 EMINENT Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was originaland singular in all her acts, even to the last, and hasleft a name behind her, rather, perhaps, known fromthat singularity, than from those parts of hercharacter which best deserve popularity--her loveof truth and honesty of ;U. • LADY MARY WORTLKY MONTAGU- THE most entertaining, fascinating, witty and bril-liant of her sex ; learned, accomplished, graeefuland beautiful, the irresistible Lady Mary Pierre-pont gave from her earliest years promise of whatshe afterwards became. At eight years old she;was a toast, and the fame of her beauty and talentsspread from that time, every fresh year adding toher attractions, and luring new admirers, until tin-crowd of those? who followed in her train filledevery country through which she passed. She wasthe very impersonation of all the beauties andenslavers which poets and romancers feign : shemight have sat for the portrait of the most finishedfine lady, the most enchanting coquette; and sheprobably, in effect, supplied many a writer withsuch a heroine as was the fashion of her day. Yet, with admirers innumerable, and all appli-ances and means to boot that should have enabled EXOLTSIIWOMKN. her to make a happy marriage, t
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