[Footnote 75: She is supposed to have been poisoned by her husband, at the instigation of the Chevalier de Lorraine.] [Footnote 76: Elizabeth Brooke, poisoned at the age of twenty.] [Footnote 77: See the scene between Beck Marshall and Nell Gwyn, in "Pepys."] [Footnote 78: Walpole.] [Footnote 79: The gay, gallant St. Evremond, besides being naturally ugly, had a wen between his eye-brows. There is a fine picture of him and Hortense as Vertumnus and Pomona, in the Stafford gallery.] [Footnote 80: The pictures of Miss Jennings are very rare. This one at Althorpe was copied for H. Walpole, and I have heard of another in Ireland. Miss Jennings was afterwards Duchess of Tyrconnel.] [Footnote 81: Pope. One hates him for taking a thousand pounds to suppress this character of Atossa, and publishing it after all; yet who for a thousand pounds would have lost it?] [Footnote 82: See his declaration of love--"Je suis frère du Comte de Bedford; je commande le regiment des gardes," &c.] [Footnote 83: The Princess Colonna and the Duchesse de Mazarin.] [Footnote 84: Clement Marot had composed a version of the Psalms, then very popular. See _Bayle_, and the Curiosities of Literature.] * * * * * [Transcriber's Note: Errata as given in the original have been applied to the text. Other than the most exceedingly obvious typographical errors, all inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, diacriticals, archaic usage, etc. have been preserved as printed in the original. The equals signs used to bracket the name "Kunstverein" in the entry for the 16th in the first section indicate characters in a Fraktur typeface.]