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Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 286: Lucy Walters.
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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.


Lucy Walters.

[1175]Memorandum:—Mr. Freeman (who maried the lady Lake) has the duke of Monmouth's mother's—Mrs. Lucy[1176] Walters, who could deny nobody—picture, very like her, at Stanmore neer Harrow-on-the-hill.