The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . r or two after this her cousin, the 4th EarlWaldegrave ; the second, Charlotte Maria, married the 4thDuke of Grafton, whose grandmother, Lady AugustusFitzRoy, great grandmother, Mrs. Cosby, and uncle, LordSouthampton, had apartments in the Palace;^ and theyoungest, Anne Horatia, married Lord Hugh Seymour,and thus became the mother of Sir George Seymour andSir Horace Seymour, both of whom, as we shall see, like-wise had apartments here subsequently. ^ Horace Walpoles Letters^ vol. i.,p. 409. See Appendix G, post.^ Horace Walpoles Letters^ vol


The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . r or two after this her cousin, the 4th EarlWaldegrave ; the second, Charlotte Maria, married the 4thDuke of Grafton, whose grandmother, Lady AugustusFitzRoy, great grandmother, Mrs. Cosby, and uncle, LordSouthampton, had apartments in the Palace;^ and theyoungest, Anne Horatia, married Lord Hugh Seymour,and thus became the mother of Sir George Seymour andSir Horace Seymour, both of whom, as we shall see, like-wise had apartments here subsequently. ^ Horace Walpoles Letters^ vol. i.,p. 409. See Appendix G, post.^ Horace Walpoles Letters^ vol. iii., pp. 218 and 226. For further particu-lars of the Duchess of Gloucester, seeAppendix G, Suite XLVII. See Suites IX., XIV., and XV. 1782] WalpoleSy Waldegraves^ and Keppels, 315 The Stud, where, Walpole tells us, the Keppels werestaying, was evidently the Stud House in the Home orHouse Park, situated on the north side of the Long Canal,the official residence of the Master of the Horse, now inthe occupation of Colonel Sir George Maude, ,. View, looking east, of the Long Canal and Great Avenue in the House or Home Park. Crown Equerry.^ Mrs. Keppel was another of HoraceWalpoles nieces, being Louisa, Sir Edward Walpoleseldest illegitimate daughter, who married the Hon. andRev. Frederick Keppel, Dean of Windsor and Bishop ofExeter, and who, in 1777, was left a widow with one son andthree daughters.^ ^ See Appendix G, Suite LII. Horace Walpoles Letters, vol. iii., p. 155. 3i6 History of Hampton Court Palace. [1782 It was apparently to the Misses Keppel that Walpolealluded in a letter to Lady Ossory, dated November loth,1782 : You are very kind about my nieces, madam ; but Ido not believe there was the least intention of hurt to gentlemen were cleaning their pistols at the windowof the Toy, and discharged them as the girls were going Keppel took an alarm; and much less falling on such asoil as Hampton Court will bring forth lies an hundredfold. ^ One of th


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