Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
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Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography; Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744
Five large diamonds in a cross; one very large one for the middle
collet, one large one to buckle it behind, with two little ones: in all
nine.
A brilliant buckle for a girdle, with sixteen diamonds.
A brilliant buckle for the Duke of Marlborough’s picture, with eight
diamonds and a drop.
Such another buckle for four pictures of my daughters.
The Duke of Marlborough’s picture in a ring.
A large buckle for a girdle of fossetts.
A buckle for a girdle of lesser fossetts.
Four diamond buckles and loops, to put on the neck of a manteau.
Six diamond buckles and loops for manteau sleeves: there is in the loops
for the sleeves one hundred and twenty-four diamonds, some brilliants,
and some fossetts.
Fifteen loops set for stays, and eight buttons.
One very fine ring fossett set transparent.
Six pendant drops set in a sprig, fossett stones all.
Six very fine brilliant drops in a pair of pendants, and two very fine
fossetts for the earrings of those pendants.
A very large brilliant ring set transparent.
Two pins with four fossett diamonds.
Sixteen collets set with cristalls and hair; sixty little brilliants set
in collets to go between the cristalls.
A buckle for one of the bracelets with eight little brilliants and a
drop.
Ten brilliant buckles for stays, and two taggs (one lost.)
Eight little square buckles for a waistcoat, fossett, and ten taggs.
Seven little white brilliants, unsett.
A little yellow diamond for the hook of a necklace.
Madame d’Escalache’s picture in a locket.
Thirty-six brilliant collets, pretty large, for a necklace.
Seventeen of those diamonds generally used for the boddice.
A little bracelet with gold crosses.
A little locket of cristall with my Lord Godolphin’s hair.
A pair of earrings with four pretty large brilliant diamonds.
Two little diamond hooks to set drops upon.
Fourty-four small diamonds set in fassetts.
Thirteen more of the same sort.
Two small fassett drops with two little diamonds, for earrings.
Two diamond knotts with false blue stones, for earrings.
A large amethyst ring.
A small Turkey ring.
Two French pearls with diamond tops.
A pair of diamond knotts with false green earrings.
A pair of diamond knotts with eight false green stones.
A ring with my mother’s hair, and four brilliant diamonds.
A gold snuff-box, with two of the Duke of Marlborough’s pictures in it.
A gold snuff-box, with the Duchess of Portsmouth’s picture in it.
A pair of shoe-buckles.
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Lady Anne Egerton’s and Lady Dye’s diamonds, that are in use, are not in
this account.
Mr. Gibson valued the best pearl necklace by weight that was bought of
the Duchess of Beaufort at six hundred and eight pounds, and said he
would give so much for it to sell it again, in October, 1715; and
besides that, there were five pearls added to it, bought of the Duchess
of Montague.
A little diamond hook to a garnet necklace.[508]
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