Part 23

HAMILTON.

I again upon my blessing charge you, that you let the world see you do your part in satisfying my just debts.

Addressed thus: "To my dear Son the Marquis of Chilsdale."

Memoirs of the Life and Family of James Duke of Hamilton.

The Lady Elizabeth Gerrard, the sister of Lady Mohun, and Duchess of Hamilton, is said to have been "a lady of great wit and beauty, and all the fine accomplishments that adorn her sex." Through her the great estates in Lancashire and Staffordshire came into the family of Hamilton.

Wood's Peerage; also "Life of the Duke of Hamilton," a scarce tract, p. 102.

Coxe MSS. 9128. Plut. cxxxviii. H. British Museum.

Ibid. See a Letter in French, dated April 5, 1714, p. 1.

Coxe MSS.

Lord Mahon's Hist. England, vol. i. p. 139. See also a scarce little book to be met with in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh (Atterbury's Correspondence, with marginal notes by Lord Hailes): "By what accident these Letters have been preserved," says the noble Editor, "I know not: by what means they are now brought to light, I am not at liberty to explain."

See the Letter before quoted.

Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 440.

Lockhart of Carnwath, vol. i. p. 446; also "Notices of Lady Grange," by Dr. Mackay.

See "Notices of Lady Grange," by K. Mackay, M.D., 3rd edition. Glasgow, 1819.

Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 441.

Lord Mahon, vol. i. p. 152.

"A Collection of Original Letters relating to the Rebellion of 1715." Edinburgh, 1730.

Introductory Anecdotes to Lord Wharncliffe's Edition of Lady M. Wortley's Letters, p. 26.

Reay, p. 135.

Reay, p. 152.

Reay, p. 171.

This commission was long doubted, and was even denied by the Chevalier. It is, nevertheless, signed by his Secretary, and is among the valuable papers which, belonging to Mr. Gibson Craig of Edinburgh, have been liberally placed at the service of the author.

Caledonian Mercury, 1722.

Lord Mahon, p. 147.

Lord Mahon; from the Master of Sinclair's MS.

Burke's Peerage.

Buchan's History of the Keith Family.

Buchan's History of the Keith Family; also Scottish Peerage.