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The Memoirs of Count Grammont By: Anthony Hamilton (1646-1720) |
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By Anthony Hamilton Edited, With Notes, By Sir Walter Scott CONTENTS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON CHAPTER FIRST.
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER SECOND.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT AT THE SIEGE OF TRINO,
AND THE LIFE HE LED THERE CHAPTER THIRD.
EDUCATION AND ADVENTURES OF THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT BEFORE
HIS COMING TO THE SIEGE OF TRINO CHAPTER FOURTH.
HIS ARRIVAL AT THE COURT OF TURIN, AND HOW HE SPENT HIS TIME THERE CHAPTER FIFTH.
HE RETURNS TO THE COURT OF FRANCE HIS ADVENTURES AT THE SIEGE OF
ARRAS HIS REPLY TO CARDINAL MAZARIN HE IS BANISHED THE COURT CHAPTER SIXTH.
HIS ARRIVAL AT THE ENGLISH COURT THE VARIOUS PERSONAGES OF
THIS COURT CHAPTER SEVENTH.
HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH MISS HAMILTON VARIOUS ADVENTURES AT THE BALL
IN THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM CURIOUS VOYAGE OF HIS VALET DE CHAMBRE
TO AND FROM PARIS CHAPTER EIGHTH.
FUNNY ADVENTURE OF THE CHAPLAIN POUSSATIN THE STORY OF THE SIEGE OF
LERIDA MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF YORK, AND OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE
ENGLISH COURT CHAPTER NINTH.
VARIOUS LOVE INTRIGUES AT THE ENGLISH COURT CHAPTER TENTH.
OTHER LOVE INTRIGUES AT THE ENGLISH COURT CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
RETURN OF THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT TO FRANCE HE IS SENT BACK TO
ENGLAND VARIOUS LOVE INTRIGUES AT THIS COURT, AND MARRIAGE OF MOST
OF THE HEROES OF THESE MEMOIRS
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON.
Anthony Hamilton, the celebrated author of the Grammont Memoirs, much
cannot now be with certainty known. [For uniformity's sake the writer of this sketch has followed the
Memoirs in the spelling of this name; but he thinks it necessary to
observe that it should be Gramont, not Grammont.] The accounts prefixed to the different editions of his works, down to
the year 1805, are very imperfect; in that year a new, and, in general,
far better edition than any of the preceding ones, was published in
Paris, to which a sketch of his life was also added; but it contains
rather just criticisms on his works, than any very novel or satisfactory
anecdote concerning himself. It is not pretended here to gratify
literary curiosity as fully as it ought to be, with regard to this
singular and very ingenious man; some effort, however, may be made to
communicate a few more particulars relative to him, than the public has
hitherto, perhaps, been acquainted with. Anthony Hamilton was of the noble family of that name: Sir George
Hamilton, his father, was a younger son of James, Earl of Abercorn, a
native of Scotland. His mother was daughter of Lord Thurles, and
sister to James, the first Duke of Ormond; his family and connections
therefore, on the maternal side, were entirely Irish. He was, as well as
his brothers and sisters, born in Ireland, it is generally said, about
the year 1646; but there is some reason to imagine that it was three or
four years earlier. The place of his birth, according to the best family
accounts, was Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, the usual residence
of his father when not engaged by military or public business. [In September, 1646, Owen O'Neale took Roscrea, and, as Carte says,
"put man, woman, and child to the sword, except Sir George
Hamilton's lady, sister to the Marquis of Ormond, and some few
gentlewomen whom he kept prisoners." No family suffered more in
those disastrous times than the house of Ormond. Lady Hamilton died
in August, 1680, as appears from an interesting and affecting letter
of her brother, the Duke of Ormond, dated Carrick, August 25th. He
had lost his noble son, Lord Ossory, not three weeks before.] It has been always said, that the family migrated to France when Anthony
was an infant; but this is not the fact: "Sir George Hamilton," says
Carte, "would have accompanied his brother in law, the Marquis of
Ormond, to France, in December, 1650: but, as he was receiver general
in Ireland, he stayed to pass his accounts, which he did to the
satisfaction of all parties, notwithstanding much clamour had been
raised against him... Continue reading book >>
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