These professional swindlers belonged to all classes of society, and some who died in this reign have left names behind them: St. Evremont, Beau Fielding, Macartney, who was Lord Mohun's second in his celebrated duel with the Duke of Hamilton, and the Marquis de Guiscard, who stabbed Harley, the Earl of Oxford. Their Lives, and many others, are given by Lucas,[148] from whom I shall only borrow one example, to show the equality that play made between the different social grades. Bourchier died in 1702, so that he just comes within this reign. 'Being at the _Groom Porter's_, he flung one Main with the Earl of _Mulgrave_ for 500 Pounds, which he won; and his Honour looking wistly at him, quoth he, _I believe I shou'd know you_. _Yes_ (reply'd the Winner) _your Lordship must have some Knowledge of me, for my Name is_ Dick Bourchier, _who was once your Footman_. Whereupon his Lordship supposing he was not in a Capacity of paying 500 Pounds in case he had lost, cry'd out, _A Bite, A Bite_. But the _Groom Porter_ assuring his Lordship that Mr. _Bourchier_ was able to have paid 1,000 Pounds provided his Lordship had won such a Summ, he paid him what he plaid for, without any farther Scruple.' [Footnote 148: _Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles 2, James 2, William 3, and Queen Anne, etc._ By Theophilus Lucas. London, 1714.] 'Once Mr. _Bourchier_ going over to _Flanders_, with a great Train of Servants, set off in such a fine Equipage, that they drew the Eyes of all upon them wherever they went, to admire the Splendor and Gaiety of their Master, whom they took for no less than a Nobleman of the first Rank. In this Pomp, making his Tour at K. _William's_ Tent, he happen'd into Play with that great Monarch, and won of him above £2,500. The Duke of _Bavaria_ being also there, he took up the cudgels, and losing £15,000 the Loss put him into a great Chafe, and doubting some foul Play was put upon him, because Luck went so much against him, quoth Mr. _Bourchier_: _Sir, if you have any suspicion of the least Sinister Trick put upon your Highness, if you please I'll give you a Chance for all your Money at once, tossing up at Cross and Pile, and you shall have the Advantage too of throwing up the Guinea yourself_. The Elector admir'd at his bold Challenge, which never the less accepting, he tost up for £15,000, and lost the Money upon Reputation, with which Bourchier was very well satisfied, as not doubting in the least; and so taking his leave of the King, and those Noblemen that were with him, he departed. Then the Elector of _Bavaria_ enquiring of his Majesty, who that Person was, that could run the Hazard of playing for so much Money at a time, he told him it was a subject of his in _England_, that though he had no real Estate of his own, yet was he able to play with any Sovereign Prince in _Germany_.