… 1884), vol. 1, p. 112. Boscawen’s life was not free from tragedy and loss, and her last years were embittered by the French Revolution and the ensuing wars. 18 During the reign of terror, she reminisced to Lady Chatham that she had met many of … I pass [the Heat] very quietly under the Shade of my Trees, or in cool Rooms, where I may reflect if I please how many french Ladies I entertain’d in them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A …