Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs Eyre At Derby 1747 1758
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Walpole, says his friend Mr. Chute, " actually persuaded her to run away from her guardians, who used her inhumanely and are her next heirs. How clearly he is justified you will see, when I tell you that the man who had eleven hundred a year for her maintenance and education is gone to the Fleet. " Lord Orford was George, third Earl, who at this time had only succeeded two months to the title, on the death of his father. He sold the celebrated and magnificent gallery of paintings at Houghton, c...ollected by his grandfather, Sir Robert Walpole, to Catherine, Empress of Russia, for the sum of ^40, 555. Amongst the pictures were the portraits of Lord and Lady Wharton by Vandyke. Lord Orford died unmarried in 1791, and he was succeeded in the title by his uncle, LETTERS OF LADY JANE COKE. 81 Horace Walpole, the litterateur, from whose gossipy and contemporaneous letters we frequently quote passages. Margaret, Countess of Orford, was the mother of the above-mentioned Lord Orford, and the daughter and sole heiress of Samuel Rolle, Esq.
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