daughter, was born, and was baptised in St. Albans Abbey on the 17th June of the same year as recorded in the register mislaid for 137 years and found in an old barn in 1880. Beside Hollywll House, the Jennings also often used Waterend House on the River Lea. Built by Sarah's grandfather Sir John Jennings in 1610, it stands little changed today, three stories high, beamed and panelled. As it would be difficult for coach and horse in winter, the town house of Holywell was needed as well. Royalists, the Jennings family lived quietly at Waterend during the Civil War. There were nine children in all, four dying in infancy. At the death of Mrs. Jennings, buried in St. Albans Abbey, only two daughters were still alive, Frances and Sarah, and from this beginning the story of Queen Anne, Sarah Jennings and her cousin Abigail Hill evolved. (13) It is not part of this chronicle to relate more fully than to recall that upon becoming a maid of honour to Mary of Modena, wife of the Duke of York, she fell in love with and married the young John Churchill when she was eighteen, and thus, incidentally, making the great Pitts kinsmen of Sir Winston Churchill. As her dower, Sarah received Holywell House, and the young couple made it their country home. After the death of Sarah's father in 1668, the rights of her sisters in the manor of Sandridge were bought by Churchill, who thus acquired the whole manor. With the accession of the Duke of York to the throne, Churchill received a Peerage, choosing the title Baron Churchill of Sandridge. His subsequent brilliant generalship brought him his title Duke of Marlborough - his victories of Blenheim, Ramillies and Oudenarde need no recounting. It will be recalled that Lord Cobham of the Streatham chronicle had served under Marlborough in Flanders. After the death of her beloved Duke in 1712, Sarah lived for a further twenty-two years. The Duke in 1712 had purchased Parkbury, St. Albans and also Astwick, as already remarked, so that these two manors were also controlled by Sarah, and how efficiently, and how ruthlessly she supervised those estates! In 1736 she built the Marlborough Almhouses, still unchanged from the time that they were constructed, in the manor of Newland Squillers in the heart of St. Albans which she had purchased in 1736. She died in 1744 at Marlborough House, Smollet recording that 'in October the old Duchess of Marlborough resigned her breath in the 85th year of her age, immensely rich and very little regretted either by her own family or by the world in general'. (13) Such an epitaph is perhaps rather harsh for this ramarkable woman who left her personality stamped upon the pages of history, and her selfishness and hardness is perhaps mellowed by the fact that she
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