THE ANCESTOR 261 1770, July 2. — Letter to James Hunter, Fredericksburgh, Virginia, demanding in the strongest terms payment of the legacy (mentioned under 1768) of which he has defrauded Hannah Nicholson. [Other letters follow on the subject ; Hunter remitted money by instalments.] (Ibid. p. 95) Same date. — Letter to Lady Hesilrige, urging her to send her eldest son over to England ; he hopes the sight of him would warm lord Maynard (who is 80 years old) into compassion for the unmerited loss of his birthright. (Ibid. p. 95) 1771, Apr. 4. — Letter to Lady Hesilrige, congratulating her on the reception her son has met with from lord Maynard, who in letters to Mr. Ormston ' expresses more of a parental fondness for him than my most sanguine wishes could even hope for.' Enclosing a copy of a letter of thanks to lord Maynard, dated 30 March. [It is subsequently mentioned that the latter sent his young relation to school at Chiswick, and in April 1773 sent him to Calcutta. He died in the East Indies in 180$. Several original letters from Lady Hesilrige are preserved.] (Ibid. p. 95) A letter from A[nne] Widdrington to Mrs. Carr at Bath, without date of year, is from the wife of the eldest son of the lord Widdrington who was attainted for his share in the same rising. The letter shows that in spite of forfeiture the son used his father's title ; the writer (who dates from Bond Street, Saturday, 7 Jan., possibly 1749) sends an invitation to a concert which ' my lord ' has fixed for Monday,
- 23rd of thiss inst.' ; he * hass invited all the company, and engagd
the musical people ; it will begin at twelve a clock .... It is to be at Turnham Green,^ having no convinence for any sutch thing in Bond Street.' (Ibid. p. 96) 1763. — A letter from a lady at Bath named A. Hollier to Mrs. Carr, dated 31 Jan. 1763, gives an account of a scene in an assembly room there which, although little creditable to those concerned, would seem of a kind which at that time was not infrequent. ' They say Bath hath been very full this winter, but we have kept snug to our private parties, and gone very little to the rooms. Indeed, my sister went to the Queen's birthday ball at Wiltshire's rooms, which was in general esteemed a very good one ; but at the close of it they cooked up a tittle sort of a riot : for the candles went out before twelve o'clock, the music went off in the middle of a dance, and left the company in the dark, who could by no means get the music again or a replenish of candles, or even a little negus to drink, tho' they could prove the rooms cleared five and forty guineas by the subscription. Upon which one of the gentlemen said, he remembered upon such afiPronts as these it used to be custom to break the lustres and glasses ; upon which hint there ^ He died there, leaving no issue, in 1774.
