^{page 142 note a} His mother was the Hon. Anne Bard, daughter of Sir Henry Bard, created Viscount Bellamont in the peerage of Ireland 1646, and who died whilst ambassador in Persia 1660. (See a pedigree of that family in the Collectanea Topog. et Genealogica, vol. iv. p. 60.) Dudley Bard was killed at the siege of Buda, on the 13th July, 1686, in the twentieth year of his age. His name of Dudley was derived from the family of Lord Bellamont's mother, Susan, daughter of John Dudley, wife of the Rev. George Bard, vicar of Staines, co. Middlesex.

^{page 143 note a} Who is supposed to have been privately married to the Queen of Bohemia, the Prince's mother. She died at the Earl of Craven's house in 1661.

^{page 143 note b} A singer and actress of some eminence, whose burial is thus recorded in the register of Lee in Kent: “Mrs. Margaret Hewes, from Eltham, buried Oct. 15, 1719.” (See a letter of her granddaughter Sophia Howe, dated the first of the same month, in the Suffolk Letters, edit. Croker, i. 40.) Her portrait was painted by Sir Peter Lely in 1677; and there are several engravings of i t: see Granger's Biographical History of England, (edit. 1824,) vol. v. p. 397. The original, formerly at Osterley, is now at Middleton, the seat of the Earl of Jersey in Oxfordshire.

^{page 143 note c} Ruperta, born in 1671, was married to Emmanuel Scroope Howe, esq. Brigadier-General in the reign of Anne, and envoy-extraordinary to the house of Brunswick Lunenburg: brother to Scroope Lord Viscount Howe. See the Collection of Original Royal Letters, edited in 1787 by Sir George Bromley, Bart, in octavo: which contains the portrait of General Howe by Lely, as well as that of his wife.

^{page 144 note a} At Combe Abbey is “A Book of Accounts of what is received and paid by the Right Honourable the Earl of Craven as Executor of His Highness Prince Rupert deceased.” (See Warburton's Prince Rupert, vol. iii. p. 558.) At the end of the account is a release to Lord Craven, signed by Mrs. Hughes and Ruperta. One item is:—Of Mrs. Ellen Gwynne for the Great Pearl Necklace, 4,5201.