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Title: The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete
Author: Anthony Hamilton (Edited by Sir Walter Scott)

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MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT
By Anthony Hamilton
EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY SIR WALTER SCOTT

CONTENTS:
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON
CHAPTER FIRST.
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER SECOND.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT AT THE SIEGE OF
TRINO, AND THE LIFE HE LED THERE
CHAPTER THIRD.
EDUCATION AND ADVENTURES OF THE CHEVALIER
GRAMMONT BEFORE HIS COMING TO THE SIEGE OF TRINO
CHAPTER FOURTH.
HIS ARRIVAL AT THE COURT OF TURIN, AND HOW HE SPENT
HIS TIME THERE
CHAPTER FIFTH.
HE RETURNS TO THE COURT OF FRANCE--HIS ADVENTURES
AT THE SIEGE OF ARRAS--HIS REPLY TO CARDINAL
MAZARIN--HE IS BANISHED THE COURT
CHAPTER SIXTH.
HIS ARRIVAL AT THE ENGLISH COURT--THE VARIOUS
PERSONAGES OF THIS COURT
CHAPTER SEVENTH.
HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH MISS HAMILTON--VARIOUS
ADVENTURES AT THE BALL IN THE QUEEN'S
DRAWING-ROOM--CURIOUS VOYAGE OF HIS
VALET-DE-CHAMBRE TO AND FROM PARIS
CHAPTER EIGHTH.
FUNNY ADVENTURE OF THE CHAPLAIN POUSSATIN--THE
STORY OF THE SIEGE OF LERIDA--MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE

OF YORK, AND OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE ENGLISH
COURT
CHAPTER NINTH.
VARIOUS LOVE INTRIGUES AT THE ENGLISH COURT
CHAPTER TENTH.
OTHER LOVE INTRIGUES AT THE ENGLISH COURT
CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
RETURN OF THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT TO FRANCE--HE IS
SENT BACK TO ENGLAND--VARIOUS LOVE INTRIGUES AT
THIS COURT, AND MARRIAGE OF MOST OF THE HEROES OF
THESE MEMOIRS

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON.
Anthony Hamilton, the celebrated author of the Grammont Memoirs,
much cannot now be with certainty known.
[For uniformity's sake the writer of this sketch has followed the
Memoirs in the spelling of this name; but he thinks it necessary to
observe that it should be Gramont, not Grammont.]
The accounts prefixed to the different editions of his works, down to
the year 1805, are very imperfect; in that year a new, and, in general,
far better edition than any of the preceding ones, was published in Paris,
to which a sketch of his life was also added; but it contains rather just
criticisms on his works, than any very novel or satisfactory anecdote
concerning himself. It is not pretended here to gratify literary curiosity
as fully as it ought to be, with regard to this singular and very ingenious
man; some effort, however, may be made to communicate a few more
particulars relative to him, than the public has hitherto, perhaps, been

acquainted with.
Anthony Hamilton was of the noble family of that name: Sir George
Hamilton, his father, was a younger son of James, Earl of Abercorn, a
native of Scotland. His mother was daughter of Lord Thurles, and sister
to James, the first Duke of Ormond; his family and connections
therefore, on the maternal side, were entirely Irish. He was, as well as
his brothers and sisters, born in Ireland, it is generally said, about the
year 1646; but there is some reason to imagine that it was three or four
years earlier. The place of his birth, according to the best family
accounts, was Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, the usual residence
of his father when not engaged by military or public business.
[In September, 1646, Owen O'Neale took Roscrea, and, as Carte says,