| Walter Scott - 1902 - 384 pages
...that time, and is still, housekeeper at Leicester House. Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this...alarmed: they imagined that this wench had been placed hi his family by the English ministers; and, considering her sister's situation, they seemed to have... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pages
...acquired a mistress, Clementina Walkinshaw, whose sister was housekeeper at Leicester House. This mistress 'soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she...acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with the most secret correspondence'. Charles's adherents in England, fearing that Walkinshaw had been planted... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...years after his return from that country, and soon allowed her such dominion over him that she became acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with...correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, his principal adherents took alarm, believing that she was in the pay of the English ministers, and... | |
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