Miss Duncombe?" She fainted and was turned out of the house, and the engagement broken up. On January 24th, 1777, Jacob, then the second Earl of Radnor, married his discarded fiancée's step-sister, the Hon (?) Anne Duncombe, + thus became his step-mother's son-in-law. The Hon. Frances Duncombe is said to have lived at one time under the protection of an Elector of some German state.

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