part is below ftairs. In one of the apartments is a good portrait!
of the firft Duke of Ormond, in armour, by Sir Peter Lely\ the]
greateft and moft virtuous charafter. of his age.
His daughter, Countefs of Chejlerfield, a celebrated beauty, andf
the greateft coquet of the gay court of Charles II. beloved by the!
Duke of York, and not lefs by the Count Hamilton. Neglected!
at firft by her huiband, who, rouzed by the attentions of others toj
his fair fpoufe, became too late enamoured with her charms. An
length a mutual jealoufy feized the lady, and her lover Hamiltm 1
he, in the frenzy of revenge, perfuades the Earl to carry her from!
the fcene of gallantry, to pafs her Chriftmas at his feat in DM
Jhire *. She difcovers.the treachery of her lover, but contrives ra
inveigle him to vifit her in her retreat, through all the real incoiii
yeniences of bad roads, dreadful weather, and dark nights, witU
the additional terrors of imaginary precipices 'and bogs, which ihej
had painted in her billet, to add to the mifery of his journey. Aj
bad cottage is provided for his concealment; a falfe conjUrn
brings him at midnight into a cold pafiage, under promife of anj
interview : he remains there till day approaches ; the night begaa
with rain and ended with froft: he was cafed with ice, perhaps
complaining,.
Me tuo longos pereunte noftes»
Lydia, dormis.
He quits his ftation in defpair, retires to his cabbin, is terrifieJ
with the news of Lord Chejlerfield being at home, is alarmed witi
the found of the hounds, and the Earl enjoying the pleafures of tta
* Breadly-Halt, near Burton upon Trent.
chace»
llace- peeps out, and finds the country, beautiful, and neither bog
■ precipice: in a word, returns to London the next night, the
¿ridicule of the gay monarch and his merry court*.
■1 muft not forget another portrait, that more immediately relates 11 the houfe of Patrick Lord Glames ; who, I am informed, wrote f liis own memoirs, and relates that he married the daughter of the
E r l of Middleton, lord commiffioner in the time of Charles II.; and
inch was the fimplicity of manners at that time, he brought his
I lady home mounted behind him, without any other train than a
Ban on foot by the fide of his hotfe.
In the church-yard of Glames is a ftone fimilar to- thofe at Aber-
fa ', This is fuppofed to have been erefted in memory of the
fclTmation of King Malcolm, and is called his grave-ftone. On
fane front is acrofs ; on the upper part is fome wild beaft, and op-
pofite to it a centaur : beneath, in one compartment, is the head
.rfawolf; thefe animals denoting the barbarity of the confpira-
Itprs: in another compartment are two perfons ihaking hands; in
Rheir other, hand is a battle-ax: perhaps thefe are reprefented in the
It of confederacy. On the oppofite front of the ftone are repre-
Inted an eel and another fifh. This alludes to the fate of the
lurderers, who, as foon as they had committed the horrid aft, fled,
the roads were at that time covered with fnow ; they loft the path,
Bid went on to the lake of Forfar, which happened at the time to
be frozen over, but not fufficiently ftrong to bear their weight
tbe ice broke, and they all periihed miferably.' This faft is con-
Jtaed by the weapons lately found in draining the lake, particuf
M em o ire s d u Grammont.
C a r v e d s t o k e s .
Early