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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 1 (of 3)

Chapter 32: FOOTNOTES:
By Horace Walpole
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A collection of annual memoirs that recount political affairs, court life, and public controversy during a mid-eighteenth-century British reign. The author assembles parliamentary reports, diplomatic and military incidents, and intimate anecdotes to produce lively character sketches of leading figures and to illuminate factional politics and social manners. Organized chronologically with notes, appendices, and editorial annotations, the text blends reportage, personal observation, and anecdote written with the explicit aim of informing future readers.

FOOTNOTES:

[229] Being deprived of this income, Keith swore he would be revenged of the Bishops—that he would buy a piece of ground and outbury them.

[230] Yet no amendment was ever made in it, and all its clauses and faults supported by the utmost rigour of the power of Chancery.

[231] An expression of Lord Lyttleton on Lord Hardwicke.

[232] Meaning by his son, Charles Yorke.

[233] The King had just given Cranborn Lodge in Windsor Forest to the Duke.

[234]

“Il marche en philosophe, où l’honneur le conduit,

Condamne les combats, plaint son maître, et le suit.”

Henriade.

[235] Vide Appendix.

[236] The plantations are reckoned in the diocese of London.

[237] [He was consequently dismissed, and, with an allusion to his profession of architect, said, with much good humour and pleasantry, “So, after all, I shall not be Inigo, but Out I go, Jones.”]—E.

[238] For making a league with the Algerines.

[239] Lord George Sackville.