YARMOUTH — YBSTBB. 211 [Cdartjis Paston, itjfled Lord Paston, Ist and only suit. b. and L Ap., by first wife ; (. at Whitehall, 29 May and bap. 81 July 1674, at St Karttn's in the fields, Charles II. and the Dtike of York being his sponsors ; was a Brigadier in the Army. He m. KliBabeth. He <L s.p.ni.(") and v.p. Admon. as "of Qraresend, en. Kent, 20 Aug. 1720. The admon. of his widow, then of St. James', Westm., is dated 16 April 1724.] Barony. I. Earldom. III. 1, AMKLfA SopniA DB Walmodin, flometimcB 1 740 <^1'^ Amrlta Sofhia Mart Ahnb, BARomtss ton Walhodbh . ' in Qorninny, wife or widow of Adam Gottlieb, Baron toh «i^pe Walmodrh, a HanoTerian noble (by whom she had male 1 /OD. issue), and da. of Lieut. Gen. ton Wriidt,(^) having become the mistress of George II. during one of his visits to Hanover in his wife's lifetime, came to England in 1738,(^) soon after the Queen Consort's death, and, after having been naturalised Feb. 1740, was er., 24 March 1740,(d) BARONESS YARMOUTH, co. Norfolk, and COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH, for the term of her life.(o) She d. at Hanover, 20 Oct. 1765, aged about 66, when the peerage becnroe exUnei.{^ Earldom. 1, Frakcib (Sbtmour-Conwat), Earl of Hbrtpord, TV 179^ ^^" ^'* 6 July 1793, earl OF YARMOUTH, oo. Norfolk, and XT. ii^o. n^RQUEss OF HERTFORD. See under " Hirtfobd." YELVERTON, ».e., "Yblvbrton," (recfa'ttt "Yblvbbton op Avonhorb") Barony [I.] {Tdverkm), er, 1796 ; see " Ayommori, Visoountoy [I.], er, 1800. YESTER. [The Lordship of Yester, co. HaddingtoDi which belonged to the family of Gipfaro, or Gifford, from about 1180, passed into the family of Hat, before 1409, hj the marriage of Johanna Giflkrd, the heir of line, with Sir William Hay,(*} of Locherworth, grandfather of John, Ist Lord Hat of YnriB [S.]. ] See «• Hay op Ybstbb," Barony [S.] (fiay), er. 1488. t.«., "Hat of Ybstbr," Barony [S] (//ay), cr. 1694, with the Marquhssati op Twrrddalr [S.l which see. (») Elifsabeth, a da., was living 16 April 1724. (^) She is described in Burke's Extind Peerage as " a young married lady of the ilrst fashion at Hanover, and nieoe of Erangard Meloeine de Schulember^, Duohess of KendaL" («) A. Windham writes thus of her, 22 June 1738, to Charles, Yisoount Townshend,
- Madam Valmoden has fine blaok eyes and brown hair, and toit well shaped, not
tall, nor low ; has no fine features, but very agreeable in the main. (<l) Lord Stanhope remarks that this is " the last instance, in our annala, of a British peerage being bestowed on a Royal mistress." (*) She is called " Amalie Sophie de Wallmoden " (only) in the grant of supporters and confirmation of her arms in 1740, so that whether she was a spinster, wife, or widow, IS not there apparent. (f) <* By the King she had one son, who whs not owned, and who was usually known at Court as Master Jjouis." [Jesse's Court of Ent^and, 1688-1760], llie King is said to have left her £12,000. Horace Wslpole [Oeorge IL] speaks of her as " inofl*ensive, and attentive only to pleasing him [the King], and selling peerages whenever she had an opportunity." Such a one, apparently occurred when Sir Jacob Bonverie was created Viscount Folkestcme in 1747, see vol. iii, p. 888, note"c" She is, however, well spoken of, by her contemporaries, as obliging and goorl-natured. (<) l^ood's Douglaif but other accounts state that tlie said Johanna m. Sir Thomas Hay, the j;re(l^grandfkther of the said Lord.
