Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Charles Caesar, though later a devoted husband, was said at...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Countess Cowper
MCC
was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics
) who joined the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715.
Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
56-57
When the head of the Clavering family, a man in...
Friends, Associates
Mary Caesar
MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the...
SLC
also writes of topical events in social, political, and religious circles. Though she resolves against repeating gossip, she often does so (generally with names concealed). When she records hearing gossip (for instance, that a...