Note 152 — Chapter XVII

“Thomas [Thynne] known as ‘Tom of Ten Thousand,’ who succeeded to Longleat [subsequently the home of the Marquesses of Bath], and lived there in great magnificence. He was basely assassinated, while in his coach in Pall Mall, 12 Feb., 1682, by the connivance, it is thought, of Count Königsmark, a Swedish nobleman, who was tried for the crime, but acquitted; his associates, who actually committed the murder, were hanged.” Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, see “The Marquess of Bath”. Count Königsmark invented the blade of a small-sword once fashionable, called the “Clichernarde”. See Schools and Masters of Fence, by Egerton Castle, p. 239.