David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ They all think themselves unhappy by being of a persuasion different from the Government, apprehending daily greater calamities than they yet lie under, that most of them are disposed to marry their children rather into England and Holland than in France. ”

“ Amongst this number there is one who will give 200,000 crowns down, paid in London and in English crowns, viz., £25,000, with a very pretty daughter as modestly bred as I have ever seen.”
Negotiations for a marriage with the Earl’s son were commenced in due time. In 1682 the ambassador was annoyed that his brother on being created Marquis of Halifax did not ask for an additional earldom, and that thus he had no second title for his son except Lord Savile of Eland. As a diplomatist he was nervous lest the young and important lady should think the title of Lady Savile beneath her acceptance. ”