the Editor of the font-Curwa Dairy News"
Si—You said the other day that Grafton, St, Albans, and Buccleuch were the only existing dukedoms which derive from natural children of Charles 2nd. If you said this you must, for the moment, have forgotten Richmond, who descends from a son by Charles of Madame de Querouailte.
Regarding the Monmouth/Bue-cleuch connection it is interesting to find Macaulay saying that in his time "inhabitants of certain districts in the West of England, when anything which affected their interests was before the House of Lords, thought themselves entitled to claim the help of the Duke of Buecletch, the descendant of the" unfortune leader for whom their forefathers "An odd thing is that all the four Dukes named above placidly accepted the "Hanoverian succession, while their cousins the Earls of Derwent-of Charles—took arms in the Jacobite rebellions and were beheaded, one in 1715 and one in 1748: they were, T think, the only non-Scottish peers to take the eld, Shanghai, Sept 0, guile right—in_ correcting "ruth's" "Samuel "Pepys Junior the Gordon-Lennoxes were' forgotten.
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