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BURNETTS OF KEMNAY : III. GEORGE. 125
The Duchess of Orleans, daughter of the Elector Palatine, and
married to the Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis the fourteenth, to
whom he was principally indebted for his release, also writes to him :
" Monsieur, Jai recu la lettre que vous m'avez escritte, les sentimens
de reconnoissance que vous avez du soin que j'ay pris de contribuer a la
liberte dont vous jouissez me renouvellent le plasir que j'ay eu alors de
vous en faire ;
mais je n'avois garde de manquer a m'employer pour vous,
m'ayant este recommande par des personnes qui me sont si chere, et qui
vous estiment. Je souhaite que votre contentement ne soit altere par
aucune traverses, et vous assure qu'en toutes occasions je vous
temoigneray que je suis veritablement,
" Monsieur,
" Votre bien bonne amie,
" ELISABETH CHARLOTTE."
" A Monsieur Burnet de Kemnay."
In the year 1713, at the age of about 57, Thomas Burnett of Kemnay
married a young and beautiful wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Brickenden, of Inkpen, Berks, known in her family as " Betty Brickenden,"
and settled at Kemnay. The remarrying of this lady, after his death,
with her sons' tutor, gave offence to Mr. Burnett's relations, and her
children were taken to Crathes and brought up by Sir Alexander
Burnett. In course of time the tutor, Dr. George Lament, became a
distinguished physician in London, and at his death, at a great age, in
1795, his property passed to Mrs. Lament's grandson, Secretary Burnett
of Kemnay. This partly consisted of property in Kent, which Mr.
Burnett immediately sold, but, if retained, would have been of great
value, as Tunbridge Wells has since been built upon
portraits at Kemnay of "Betty Brickenden," her second husband, Dr.
Lamont, and her brothers, one known as " Beau Brickenden," the richness
of whose costume illustrates the style affected by the exquisites of that
age. "Betty Brickenden" lies in St. Pancras Churchyard with her
daughter. Mr. Burnett died on the 26th February, 1729, leaving, besides
a daughter, Anne (b. 1717, d. 1787), a son, born 29th September, 1714.
III.
it. There are
GEORGE BURNETT OF KEMNAY, Thomas's only son, married (i), at
the age of 20, the daughter of his cousin and guardian, Sir Alexander