The Duke, who was in some respects the greatest personage in the realm, kept up his state here at a weekly cost of about L50, a good deal less--allowing for the fall in the power of the pound sterling--than it would now cost him to live at a fashionable London hotel.

He paid L9, 10s.

a week for the keep of nineteen horses, 18 shillings board wages for three laundry-maids, and L1, 17s.4d.

for seven dozen of tallow-candles.

The wines served at the ducal table were Burgundy, Bordeaux, "Shampane," Canary, "Renish," and Portaport, the last named at a shilling a bottle, while he paid no more than L3, 18s.
for six dozen bottles of Bordeaux, and L1, 1s.