WINCHELSEA (Anne countess of), a lady of excellent genius, especially in poetry, was maid of ho-
nour to the duchess of York, second wife to king Winchester, James II. and was afterwards married to Fleneage, second son of the earl of Winchester. One of the most considerable of the countess of Winchester's poems was that on the Spleen. A collection of her poems were printed at London in 1713, containing a tragedy never acted, entitled Arifomenes. The countess died in 1720 without issue, as her husband did in 1726.