“Must Lady Jenny frisk about And visit with her cousins? At ball must _she_ make all the rout And bring home hearts by dozens? V. “What has _she_ better pray than I, What hidden charms to boast, That all mankind for her should die While I am scarce a toast? VI. “Dearest mamma, for once let me Unchain’d my fortune try: I’ll have an Earl as well as she Or know the reason why. VII. “I’ll soon with Jenny’s pride quit score, Make all her lovers fall; They’ll grieve I was not loos’d before, _She_ I was loos’d at all.” VIII. Fondness prevailed, mamma gave way, Kitty, at heart’s desire, Obtained the chariot for a day And set the world on fire. This lady’s luck and happiness appear to vanish in later life, both her sons meeting tragic deaths; the eldest, Viscount Drumlanrig, shooting himself, the second, Lord Charles Douglas, dying of consumption at Amesbury, having just escaped the perils of the great earthquake at Lisbon. The Duchess died July 19th, 1777, aged 77, and the Duke the following year. The title of Duke of Queensberry descended to the Duke’s cousin, William, Earl of March and Raglin. In 1778 he succeeded his cousin Charles as 4th Duke of Queensberry, and in 1786 was created a British peer, taking the title of Baron Douglas of Ambresbury. This eccentric nobleman never married, and was commonly known by the nickname of “Old Q.” He died in 1810, the Amesbury estate passing to Archibald, Lord Douglas of Douglas, whose executors sold it in 1824 to Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., my husband’s great-great-uncle. No record is to be found of the destruction of the Abbey, Lord Hertford apparently building himself a house in Amesbury. In “Vitruvius Britannicus” there is a picture of a fine mansion in the Palladian style, built for Lord Carleton from designs by Inigo Jones, the architect being Mr. Webb, nephew of Inigo Jones. The Queensberrys added wings to this house, and caused a beautiful bridge to span the river Avon, which runs through the grounds. A pretty old house stands in the park, near an old entrance: tradition tells us the Duchess of Queensberry used this lodge as a dairy. It possesses two octagon rooms (one over the other), and an underground passage is supposed to connect it with the river. The park is small, but extremely pretty; one enters it through splendid old gates supported by Palladian pillars.