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‘Dearest of Men’




                                  I do not like being poked down at Bottesford


                                 I shall like better to be buried in the middle of Blackberry or Winsor Hill,


                                 A plain but Handsome Monument, & Figure in White Marble em-


                                 bracing the two dear children I have lost’




                                    The spirit of her wishes was followed in the construction of the Mausoleum on Blackberry Hill.
                                       Elizabeth may have been considering Capability  Brown’s intention of siting a monument in the
                                 middle of
                                       Blackberry Hill—a feature that had not yet been implemented.




                                   The Duchess, among gifts and instructions, also tells the Duke to;

                                  ‘Go on with Belvoir, it will be an  amusement to you’
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