Note 130 — Book the Fourth

From the Annual Register, 1837, p. 147. “xvii Sept. 1837. At the private chapel of the rt. rev. the bishop Griffiths, (Vicar-Apostolic of the London District) Caroline Shirley, only daughter of Robert Sewallis Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, to Don Lorenzo Sforza, Duca Sforza, only son of the late Don Francisco Sforza, Duca Sforza, of Rome.”

(There is a slight inaccuracy in this notice. Duke Lorenzo should be described as only surviving son of Don Francisco, not as only son; for Don Francisco’s elder son, Don Salvatore, died xix May 1832; and Don Francisco’s daughter Donna Anna, wife to Don Marino Torlonia, egregiously failed, before the Tribunal of the Ruota, to dispossess her younger brother the aforesaid Don Lorenzo, the legitimate son, born on the night between xvii and xviii of March 1807, to the aforesaid Don Francisco Sforza-Cesarini, by his wife the Duchess Geltruda de’ Conti. This hideous law-suit was the excitement of all Rome at the time.)