(446) Sir Robert, at the persuasion of his brother, Mr. Selwyn, and others, desisted from this grant.  Three years afterwards, when the clamour was at an end, and his affairs extremely involved, he sued for it; which Mr. Pelham, his friend and `el`eve, was brought with the worst grace in the world to ask, and his old obliged master the King prevailed upon, with as ill grace, to grant. ["February 6.  Sir R. Walpole was presented at Court as Earl of Orford.  He was persuaded to refuse a grant of four thousand pounds a-year during the King’s life and his own, but could not be dissuaded from accepting a letter of honour from the King, to grant his natural daughter Maria, precedence as an earl’s daughter; who was also presented this day.  The same thing had been done for Scrope, Earl of Sunderland, who left no lawful issue, and from one of whom Lord Howe is descended."-Secker ms.]

(447) Mary, daughter of Edward Blount, Esq. and wife of Edward, ninth Duke of Norfolk.-D.

(448) The Princess of Wales.-D.

(449)General Charles Churchill.-D.

(450) Philip Gibbons, Esq.-D.

(451) Sir John Rushout, the fourth baronet of the family, had particularly distinguished himself as an opponent of Sir R. Walpole’s excise scheme.  He was made treasurer of the navy in 1743, and died in 1775, at the advanced age of ninety-one.  His son was created Lord Northwick, in 1797.-D.

(452) George Treby, Esq.-D.

(453) Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq.  He left the Treasury in February 1742, and was made treasurer of the navy.-D.

(454) “February ii.  Lord Orford and Sir Charles Wager resigned.  Mr. Sandys kissed hands as chancellor of the exchequer:  Lord Wilmington declared first commissioner of the Treasury:  offers made to the Duke of Argyle, but refused:  none to Lord Chesterfield."-Secker ms.-E.

(455) Lady Sandys was daughter of Lady Tipping, niece of Russel, Earl of Orford.

(456) Sir Thomas Wentworth, the great Earl of Strafford, took the title of Raby from a castle of that name, which belonged to Sir Henry Vane, who, from that time, became his mortal foe.

(457) Sir Charles Wager. [In the following December Sir Charles was appointed treasurer of the navy, which office he held till his death, in May 1743.)

(458) Mrs. Goldsworthy had been a companion of the Duchess of Richmond.

(459) Posterity has not confirmed the eulogium here given to the indecent trash of the younger Cr`ebillon:  but in the age of George ii. coarseness passed for humour, and obscenity was wit."-D

224 Letter 54 To Sir Horace Mann.  Feb. 18, 1741-2.