Commonplace Book by Anna Eliza Brydges & Others

HEH ST 340. 

1812 to c. 1862. 193mm by 285mm by 14mm thick. Black embossed card cover with gold leaf decoration; red spine with gold leaf harp decoration. On the inside of the flyleaf “Anna Eliza Chandos Temple 1812.”

The first 8 pages of the book have been cut out. 

The first part of the book is a miscellany of poems and songs written out by Anna Eliza, including Byron’s The Tear and a poem Love and Hope—“beside yon summer sea”. Also poems by Wordsworth & Raleigh. A poem on ‘the first grey hair.’—“and now she sees her first grey hair.”—which may be by Anna Eliza.

2 pencil sketches by R.C. 1807. [Richard Chandos]; one of three ducks & one of a dog.

Later entries are by others and are after Anna Eliza's death. They include copies of newspaper reports and two laments on death of Richard Temple, one by W Fletcher, the other by WJ Cheddington.

Funeral of Richard Temple

[Copy of a newspaper article (probably from the Bucks Herald)]

Aylesbury Saturday Jan^y 26^th

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Funeral of the late duke of Buckingham & Chandos

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Yesterday the interment of the late duke of Buckingham took place in the family vault at Wotton. He had expressed his wish that this conduct should be conducted in as private a manner as possible, attended by only a few of his nearest relatives & friends & “such of his tenants as might to desire to attend on an old Friend & Landlord to the Grave.” In consequence of this desire, only his family & those friends who were visiting Stowe at the time of his Grace’s decease, & the Buckinghamshire tenantry (about 450 in number) followed his remains to this last home.

The procession moved from Stowe, soon after 8 o’clock in the following order:

Tenants on Horseback from Stowe, Hillesden, Buckingham, Foxcote, Astwell, &c &c

Two grooms on horseback

The Hearse drawn by four horses

1st Mourning Coach containing the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Marquess of Chandos, the Lord Nugent, Sir George Nugent.

2nd Mourning Coach containing the Marquis of Westmeath, M^r Rice Clayton, Sit Thomas Fremantle, Mr W.J. Smith.

3rd Mourning Coach containing Sir Edward East, M^r Grenville Pigott, Captain Neville R.N., M^r Ledbrooke

4th Mourning Coach containing M^r Parrott, M^r Stowe, The Rev W^m Andrews, the Rev^d J. Cohen

followed by the Duke’s private carriage drawn by four Horses

The present Dukes private carriage

Two Grooms on Horseback

Upon the arrival of the Procession at Ham Green, it was joined by a very large party of Tenants from the Wotton, Aylesbury, & Aston Clinton Estates.

The Body was received at the Church door by the Rev^d Benjamin Hill, the Rector of Wotton, assisted by four of the late Duke’s chaplains. The Rev^nd W^m Andrews, The Rev^nd C.S. Bennett, the Rev^nd W^m Pigott, & the Rev^nd Robert Wilson.

The Pall was born by the Marquis of Westmeath, M^r Rice Clayton, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir Edward East, M^r Grenville Pigott & Captain Neville R.N.

The Service was performed in the most impressive manner by the Rev^d  M^r Hill, & the coffin, which was of fine Spanish Mahogany, covered with crimson velvet & gilt ornaments was then deposited in one of the catacombs, executed by the late Marquess of Buckingham in the family mausoleum.