. Family notes. list of Herveys publications may befound in the article in the Biographical Didionary alreadv referredto. The three volumes of Memoirs form a close and minute por-traiture of court life and intrigue, and are indispensable to thestudent of the first ten years of George II. Walpole, who, from his Memoirs, does not seem personallyto have liked Hervey, says in his Royal and Noble Authorsthat his pamphlets are equal to any that ever were written(vol. iv. p. 181). His pamphlet entitled Ancient and ModernLiberty Stated and Compared may be regarded as one of hismost able produflions. I
. Family notes. list of Herveys publications may befound in the article in the Biographical Didionary alreadv referredto. The three volumes of Memoirs form a close and minute por-traiture of court life and intrigue, and are indispensable to thestudent of the first ten years of George II. Walpole, who, from his Memoirs, does not seem personallyto have liked Hervey, says in his Royal and Noble Authorsthat his pamphlets are equal to any that ever were written(vol. iv. p. 181). His pamphlet entitled Ancient and ModernLiberty Stated and Compared may be regarded as one of hismost able produflions. I have ventured to add the following lines which I foundin Gages History of Suffolk, page 317. They were writtenby Lord Hervey in memory of a sister: *Beneath the cohering of this little stoneLie the poor shrunk yet dear remains of oneWith merit humble, and avith virtue fair,ffith inywledge modest, and njoith tuit sincere,Upright in all the social paths of friend, the daughter, sister and the uoifel [98]. /// ENGLISH DESCENT So juit in disposition of her soul feature left reason nothing to control: Ftrm^ pious, patient, affable of mind, Happy in life, arui yet in death resigned. Just in the xenith of those golden days lihen the mind ripens ere the form decays. The hand of Fate untimely cut her thread, And left the ivorld to -iveep that virtue fled. Its pride njuhen lii-ing, and its grief imhen dead Molly Lepell Herveys wife, Molly Lepell, was one ofthe most beautiful anddistinguished women of her time. She was one of the Maids ofHonor to Caroline, Princess of Wales. Her biography is alsoin the Didlionary of National Biography, and from that articleI have drawn freely. She was the daughter of Brigadier-GeneralNicholas Lepell by his wife Mary, daughter and co-heiress ofJohn Brooke,of Rushbrooke, Suffolk. She wasprobably born on26 September 1700, although the inscription in Ickworth churchgives 1706. Her father, whose full name was said to be Claus(Nicholas) Wedig Lepell,
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