TotheRightHonourabletheLadyKilmorey"Mary Offley, wife of Thomas Needham, seventh Viscount Kilmorey. He died in 1710, she in 1765 aged 80."
(Tucker [1992], 220)
,withaLetter,whichwaswrittenbythelateLadyRoydon,oftheKingdomofIreland,justbeforeherDeath.Startnot,nortrembleattheSightofthis;ItcomesnotwrittenfromtheRealmsofBliss:'Tistrue,yousee,youronce-lov'dRoydon'sHand;ThencemayconcludefromHeav'nsomehighCommand;ConsciousperhapsofyourcelestialFrame,Youthinkyou'recall'dtoWorldsfromwhenceyoucame.Notso—butereherSoulbeganitsFlight,Shethoughtofyou,andstaida-whiletowrite;KindlyformeherdyingSuitaddress'd:Thenviewit,Madam,asherlastRequest.