. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ie is alluded to as Sir Humphrey Pallsworth,Sir Paull, Mr. Partridge, and Chapman; Turner, thedeprived Bishop of Ely, as Sir Jasper; David MacAdam, anotorious intriguer, as Jo Brown ; King Louis XIV., as 13 :King William as 17, and so on. Alas ! the Grand Master ofthe Jerkers, the coffee woman, the Thracian (possiblyKettleby), Lord what-dee-call-him, and several others, mustever remain creatures of mystery, for the cipher key does notdisclose their identity. When the key is present, cipher languageis all very well, but it must be remembe
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ie is alluded to as Sir Humphrey Pallsworth,Sir Paull, Mr. Partridge, and Chapman; Turner, thedeprived Bishop of Ely, as Sir Jasper; David MacAdam, anotorious intriguer, as Jo Brown ; King Louis XIV., as 13 :King William as 17, and so on. Alas ! the Grand Master ofthe Jerkers, the coffee woman, the Thracian (possiblyKettleby), Lord what-dee-call-him, and several others, mustever remain creatures of mystery, for the cipher key does notdisclose their identity. When the key is present, cipher languageis all very well, but it must be remembered that two hundredyears ago slang was even more indulged in than at the presentday. What, then, can be made of such letters as this from LordGower to Grahme ? The Cracovian peer pretends to great information, andassures us that Augustins measures will not hinder Stanislausfrom having all his friends about him. Lord Shatterino has leftmy Lady to treat all the tradesmen, and being a man of methodhas committed to writing every days bill of fare, and the. 139 ho QLevens 1ball company for it. The Butcher, the Baker and the Fruit woman dinedto-day, and the Chandler, Shoo-maker and another to-morrow. One also, from Lord Bolingbroke, might easily be misunder-stood in parts; but when he remarks The Queen is well,though the Whigs give out that she is a percher, we know thatno disrespect was intended, percher being at that time theslang for being in a dying condition. Metcalfe Grahme, nephew to Colonel Grahme, served at onetime as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough, and fought atBlenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet. Picture Colonel Grahmespride and satisfaction, and what exciting memories such descrip-tions as these must have revived of his own past writes from Blenheim : After a hot despute we have obtained an entire have taken twenty-seven battalions of foot, and twelvesquadrons of dragoons besides other prisoners. The French areweaker by this battle b
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