Letter 4160

Hyde writes that upon his enquiry, he found that Madame Boromer is only a countess. He says he would have endeavoured to call upon Sloane, but has been too consumed with business. He asks Sloane to admit the Lady according to the custom of the society, for which he will be much obliged. He closes with a note that he will visit soon, sooner if Sloane has any questions about this matter. Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was a politician who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under James II. He went into self-imposed exile to avoid arrest after falling on the wrong side of the Glorious Revolution (1688), but returned to parliamentary politics in the 1690s (W. A. Speck, Hyde, Henry, second earl of Clarendon (16381709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14329, accessed 9 July 2013]).