1. She left the court a free woman after the case against her collapsed because of a legal technicality.

2. Caroline is the feminine version of Charles, a name meaning "strong," "free woman," or "song of happiness," depending on which language root you look at.

3. Unlike the 'Cudgelling Match', the scene is set in town, probably on a Sunday, and there is a figure of higher status, a mulatress or free woman of colour, sporting her fancy straw hat, with her attendants, on the right of the picture