Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732) was an English historian, diarist and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish boroughs.
[1] His Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, a chronicle of the Parliaments of England and Great Britain, was distilled from his diary and published in 1857, after Macaulay had drawn attention to the manuscript in All Souls College, Oxford.
The legislation itself is covered by the official parliamentary journals, but Luttrell's diary is often the only record of debates within the Palace of Westminster.
Luttrell's diary also covers major events in diplomacy, literature and the arts, as well as parliamentary proceedings, and is supplemented in those areas by annotations within his massive library.
Although she had a surviving son in the person of Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, she had suffered two stillbirths, three miscarriages, and lost 4 babies within hours, minutes, months, or years after they were born.