PART II

’FORTY-FIVE LAUGHTER OF A SPANIEL Maria Herries died on the morning of February 14, 1745, thus missing by exactly four months the attainment of her hundredth year. This lamentable failure afforded great grief and a sense of affronted egotism to the whole of the Herries family. Bad news flies apace, and in a surprisingly short time the event was known to, and greatly bewailed by, the children and grandchildren of Robert Herries in Kensington, the family of Maurice in Portsmouth, of Humphrey …