Hester Lisle

[6] According to Alice Greenwood, in the early days of her marriage Princess Caroline replaced Mrs. Pelham among her bedchamber women, for "sufficiently good reasons", by Hester Lisle, known in service as Mrs.

[11] In 1805 Hester Lisle wrote to her daughter Marcia from a house at Catherington, explaining how the Princess had been driven 62 miles (100 km) in her carriage to get there in under seven hours.

[14] In an 1810 letter to Lady Charlotte Bury, the Princess described her as "my lay sister, Mrs. Lisle, who has taken her resemblance from the springing skeleton.

[16] Matthew Gregory Lewis wrote to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in August of that year, of the replacement of "poor shivering Mrs. Lisle" by Lady Anne Hamilton.

[18] Interpretation of Lisle's other evidence, with its equivocal reporting of Caroline's flirting, did not make it easy to condemn or to exonerate the Princess.

[6] Her testimony of improper conduct by the Princess towards Thomas Manby amounted to disapproval, rather than support for a charge of adultery, which in law would have been high treason.

Spencer Perceval, attorney-general in the second Pitt ministry, in a report published later after his death in 1812, wrote on behalf of the Princess: What Mrs. Lisle exactly means by only flirting conduct—what degree of impropriety of conduct she would describe by it, it is extremely difficult, with any precision, to ascertain.

This claim was strongly rebutted, and Henry Brougham who was leading the Whig agitation, against the Prince Regent and supporting the Princess's effort for better treatment, was vexed by the development.

Macquarie sent Brooks and the Emu, "declared unfit for colonial service", back to the United Kingdom from New South Wales that month, with a cargo of emus and black swans.

[39] Hester Cholmondeley married in 1773 William Clapcott Lisle; the couple eloped, and the wedding took place on 7 September in St Martin, Jersey.

[45] A newspaper notice in June of that year announced a meeting in Puddletown for creditors of William Clapcot Lisle, of Holyport.