as an orange seller is told in the Memoirs and also, with less detail, in Pepys's diary. According to the Memoirs, she and her friend Miss Price wanted to consult a fortune-teller incognito. They went out disguising themselves as orange sellers. Jennings was courted by the Duke of York, the future James II, who thought his wife's maids of honour to be his property, but she refused to play such a role. She was also courted by Richard Talbot and by George Hamilton, second son of Sir George Hamilton. First marriage and children In 1665 Frances Jennings married George Hamilton. At that time George was an officer in the Life Guards. Her marriage resembled that of her husband's elder brother James, for whom the king arranged a marriage with a Protestant girl with the purpose of converting him to that religion. The King seemed to have been concerned about the future of his Catholic friends in the army. The King granted the couple a pension of £500 per year. Hers is the sixth of the seven marriages with which end the Memoirs, written by her husband's brother Antoine Hamilton. Elizabeth, their first child, was born in 1667 and baptised on 21 March at St Margaret's, Westminster, in an Anglican ceremony. On 28 September 1667, all Catholic soldiers were dismissed from the Life Guards. Hamilton then took French service. She followed him to France and converted to the Catholic religion. In 1671 Hamilton recruited a regiment in Ireland and served under Turenne and then under his successors, first Condé and then Luxembourg. Her husband was considered a count in France and she therefore became comtesse Hamilton. The couple seems to have had six children, but the only ones known by name seem to be the following four daughters: Elizabeth (1667–1724), married Richard Parsons, 1st Viscount Rosse in 1685, and was mother of Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse Frances (died 1751), married Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon in 1687 Mary (1676–1736), married Nicholas Barnewall, 3rd Viscount Barnewall in 1688 Henrietta seems to have been younger than the three listed above. Not much more is known about her. Elizabeth, the first daughter, was born in England and baptised following the Anglican rite. She married Viscount Rosse, a Protestant loyal to James II in 1685. Her husband was one of the only five Protestant lay members of the Irish House of Lords of