| Description | Declaration of the Earl and Countess of Powis, Lord Viscount and Lady Clive and others that Lady Lavington would qualify for an appartment in Bedlam should she persisit in leaving Walcot Hall 'in defiance of the alarming appearances of the weather and the remonstrances of her friends', 3 January 1811
Copy of humorous declaration of the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury and other occupiers of Park Place on the arrival of Lady Lavington from Walcot with no symptoms of mental derangement; they intend to have her watched by a female attendant not with a strait jacket in readiness but 'a pair of strait inexpressibles or drawers so constructed as to take in completely all such parts of her person as are to be found between the ank and hip bones ...'
Anecdotes recounted by L. [Lucien] Bonaparte to Lady Powis Lady H. Clive, Lady C. Clive and Lady Lavington: a hot air balloon found in the grounds of Madam Lucien Bonaparte near Rome after its release in Paris on the Emperor's coronation day in 1804; the smuggling of spirits into Paris inside a model of a black man; the circumstances relating to the arrival of Lucien Bonaparte, first requesting the Minister in Sardinia for passport for America [incomplete]
[Frances, daughter of the German nobleman Baron de Kolbel, widow of Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington, politician and Governor of the Leeward Islands (1739-1807), she died in 1830] |