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NOTES

ABBREVIATIONS

H.C. Hampshire Chronicle

R.A. Royal Archives

R.M. Reading Mercury

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1 H.C., 1156, 23 March 1795.

2 A. Aspinall, The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812, (VIII vols,

1963-71), III, p.70: The Queen to the Prince of Wales, 30 June 1795;

R.M., 1745, 29 June 1795. Besides being a member of the banking family, Drummond

was also MP for Castle-Rising, Yorkshire.

3 H. Bolitho & D. Peel, The Drummonds of Charing Cross, (1967), p.132;

Aspinall, op.cit., III, p.70; J. Geddes, 'The Prince of Wales at The Grange, Northington:

An Inventory of 1795', Journal of the Furniture History Society, XXII, (1986), p. 178.

4 'Aesop', Sporting Reminiscences of Hampshire, From 1745 to 1862, (1864), p.31.

5 RA GEO/MAIN/35342: Memo., Cholmondeley to the House of Commons, 21 Oct. 1795.

6 RA GEO/MAIN/35347: Crooke to Cholmondeley, 26 Aug. 1797.

7 RA GEO/MAIN/35350: Terry to Hulse, 9 Dec. 1798.

8 Aspinall, op.cit., II, p.303.

9 Aspinall, op.cit., III, p.4.

10 H.C., 895, 16 Nov. 1789. Taken in late 1789, Rookley House had been owned by his

uncle, Henry, Duke of Cumberland; RA GEO/MAIN/35342, op.cit. Relinquished in Oct. 1795;

H.C., 1011, 9 July 1792; The Times, 3664, 17 Aug. 1796;

11 Gentleman's Magazine, LXVI, 1 Jan. 1796, p.80. Born on 7 Jan. 1796.

12 W.H. Wilkins, Mrs Fitzherbert & George IV (1908), p.245. Sir Henry Rycroft is wrongly

referred to as the owner. J.C. Crooke owned the Kempshott Estate, succeeded by his

wife, Elizabeth, until 1832. There are no records of Rycroft as a lessee.

His great-nephew, Sir Nelson (fourth baronet), however, purchased the estate in 1866.

13 Wilkins, op.cit., p.203.