(607) An Irish tailor at Florence, who let out ready-furnished apartments to travelling English.  Lady W. had reported that Lord Orford was flying from England and would come thither. (608) George Walpole, afterwards the third Earl of Orford.  He succeeded to the earldom in 1751, and was appointed lord-lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the county of Norfolk Mr, Pitt, in a letter, written in 1759, says, “Nothing could make a better appearance than the two Norfolk battalions:  Lord Orford, with the port of Mars himself, and really the genteelest figure under arms I ever saw, was the theme of every tongue.”  Chatham Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 4.-E.

(609) George the Second.

(610) Frederic, Prince of Wales.

(611) Dr. Secker, afterwards Bishop of Oxford. (And eventually Archbishop of Canterbury.  According to Walpole, he was bred a man-midwife.-D.) [Secker had committed in Walpole’s eyes, the unpardonable offence of having “procured a marriage between the heiress of the Duke of Kent and the chancellor’s (Hardwicke’s) son;” he, therefore, readily propagated the charges of his being “a Presbyterian, a man-midwife, and president of a very freethinking club,” (Memoires, i. p. 56,) when the fact is, the parents of Secker were Dissenters, and he for a time pursued the study, though not the practice of medicine and surgery.  The third charge is a mere falsehood.  See also Quarterly Review, xxv’i. p. 187.]

(612) The Prince was a member of the Saddlers’ company.

(613) Hugh Boscawen, second Viscount Falmouth, a great dealer in boroughs.  It is of him that Lord Dodington tells the story, that he went to the minister to ask a favour, which the minister seemed unwilling to grant; upon which Lord Falmouth said, “Remember, Sir, we are seven."-D.

(614) Author of Love Elegies. [See ant`e, p. 210.)

(615) Frances, daughter and heir of the last Lord Scudamore, wife of Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort; from whom she was divorced for adultery with Lord Talbot.  She was afterwards married to Colonel Fitzroy, natural son of the Duke of Grafton. [The duke Having clearly proved the incontinence of his wife, obtained a divorce in March 1743-4.)

263 Letter 72 To Sir Horace Mann.  Downing Street, June 14, 1742.

We were surprised last Tuesday with the great good news of the peace between the Queen and the King of Prussia. it was so unexpected and so welcome, that I believe he might get an act of parliament to forbid any one thinking that he ever made a slip in integrity.  Then, the reported accounts of the successes of Prince Charles and Lobkowitz over the French have put us into the greatest spirits.  Prince charles is extremely commended for courage and conduct, and makes up a little for other flaws in the family.