We were laughing so much at this, that the King crossed the room to Lady Hervey, who was with us, and said, “What are those boys laughing at set” She told him, and that I had said I was so awkward at undressing myself, that I had stood for an hour in my stays and under-petticoat before my footman.  My thanks to Madame Grifoni.  I cannot write more now, as I must not make my letter too big, when it appears at the secretary’s office nouc.  As to my sister, I am sure Sir Robert would never have accepted Prince Craon’s offer, who now, I suppose, would not be eager to repeat it.

(486) Charles, Lord Cadogan, of Oakley, to which title he succeeded on the death of his elder brother, William, Earl Cadogan, who was one of the most distinguished “of Marlborough’s captains.”  Charles, Lord Cadogan, did not die at the period when this letter was written.  On the contrary, he lived, till the year 1776.-D.

(487) John, seventh Earl of Westmoreland.  He built the Palladian Villa of Mereworth, in Kent, which is a nearly exact copy of the celebrated Villa Capra, near Vicenza.  He died in 1762.  Sir Francis Dashwood succeeded, on his decease, to the barony in fee of Le Despencer.-D.

(488) Sir Francis Dashwood, nephew to the Earl of Westmoreland, had gone violently into Opposition, on that lord’s losing his regiment.

(489) Mr. Glover. (Walpole always depreciates Glover; but his conduct, upon the occasion referred to in the text, displayed considerable ability.-D.) [His speech upon this occasion was afterwards published in a pamphlet, entitled, ,A short Account of the late Application to Parliament, made by the Merchants of London, upon the Neglect of their Trade; with the Substance thereof, as summed up by Mr. Glover.,,]

(490) Arthur Mohun St. Leger, third Viscount Doneraile, in Ireland, of the first creation. 
                 He was at this time member for Winchilsea, was
appointed a lord of the bedchamber to Frederick Prince of Wales in 1747, and died at Lisbon in 1749.-D.

(491) George Forbes, third Earl of Granard in Ireland; an admiral, and a member of the House of Commons.-D.

(492) Third son of the first Duke of St. Albans, created in 1750 Lord Vere of Hanworth in Middlesex.  He was the direct ancestor of the present line of the St. Albans family.  His wife was Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Chambers, Esq. of Hanworth, by Lady Mary Berkeley, the sister of lady Betty Germain.-D.

(493) William Richard Chetwynd ’second brother of the first viscount of that name; member of parliament successively for Stafford and Plymouth.  He had been envoy at Genoa, and a lord of the Admiralty; and he finally succeeded his two elder brothers as third Viscount Chetwynd, in 1767.-D. [He was familiarly called “Black Will,” and sometimes “Oroonoka Chetwynd,” from his dark complexion.  He died in 1770.]