Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherents Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... family vault in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, on the 22d of May, 1746. The Earl Of Mar, after the suppression of the insurrection of 1715, had the good fortune to save his head by embarking from Montrose in the same vessel with the Chevalier de St. George, by which means he made good his retreat to France. He conducted the affairs of the chevalier till the beginning of the year 1721, when he lost his master's confidence, and retired into private life. "The unfortunate earl," says Sir Walter Scott, ' was a man of fine taste; and in devising modes of improving Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, was more fortunate than he had been in schemes for the alteration of her government. He gave the first hints for several of the modern improvements of the city." By his attainder in 1715, Lord Mar lost his titles and estates. George the First, however, confirmed to his countess--Lady Frances Pierrepont, sister of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu--the jointure on her husband's forfeited estates, to which she was entitled by her marriage settlements. Lord Mar, who had been secretary of state under Queen Anne, died an exile at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1732. George Ke1th, Earl Mar1schal, after the dispersion of the Jacobite forces, contrived to effect his escape to France, and after undergoing the various vicissitudes of an exile's life, entered the civil service of the King of Prussia, by whom he was both honoured and beloved, and, on different occasions, was employed as ambassador extraordinary to the courts of France, and Spain. He was rewarded by the Prussian monarch for his diplomatic services with the insignia of the Black Eagle, and in his old age had the easy appointment conferred on him of governor of the little state of Neuf...