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    The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01
    The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01
    The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01
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    The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01

    By Anthony Hamilton and Walter Scott

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01 - Anthony Hamilton

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 1 by Anthony Hamilton

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 1

      Author: Anthony Hamilton

      Release Date: December 4, 2004 [EBook #5409]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNT GRAMMONT ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT

      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. When that business was settled, he, in the spring of 1651, took Lady Hamilton and all his family to France, and resided

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