- In 1684 Claus (Niclaus) Wedig Lepel was one of Prince George's pages. Luttrell's Diary (which I quote at second hand from Note & Queries, thus mentions him: Tuesday, 10, Jan. 1698/9. Mr. Lepell, for whom the Commons yesterday past a bill of naturalization, is page to the Prince of Denmark, and has lately married a lady worth, £20,000.
Among the London Marriage Licenses, 1521 — 1869, edited by Mr. Joseph Foster, is the following; Lepell Nicholas, of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, gen: bachelor, 32 and Mary Brooke, of same spinster, 25, her parents dead, alleged by John Adams, of St. Margaret, Westminster, gent. — at any time or place in England. 10, Aug. 1698.
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