I must tell you of Stosch’s letter, which he had the impertinence to give you without telling the contents.  It was to solicit the arrears of his pension, which I beg you will Tell him I have no manner of interest to procure; and to tell me of a Galla Placidia, a gold medal lately found.  It is not for myself, but I wish you would ask him the price for a friend of mine who would like to buy it.  Adieu! my dear child; I have been long in arrears to you, but I trust you will take this huge letter as an acquittal.  You see my villa makes me a good correspondent; how happy I should be to show it you, if I could, with no mixture of disagreeable circumstances to you.  I have made a vast plantation!  Lord Leicester told me the other day that he heard I would not buy some old china, because I was laying out all my money in trees; “Yes,” said I, my Lord, I used to love blue trees, but Now I like green ones.”

(19) Probably the old brick building near the bottom of the Green Park, which was called the Queen’s Library,” and which was pulled down by the late Duke of York when he built his new house in the Stable-yard, St. James’s.-D.

(20) John West, seventh Lord Delawarr, created Earl Delawarr, in 1761-D.

(21) Henrietta Cantillon, wife of Matthias Howard, third Earl of Stafford.-D.

(22) Penelope Atkyns a celebrated beauty, wife of George Pitt, Esq. of Strathfieldsaye, in Hants, created in 1776 Lord Rivers.-D.

(23) Afterwards Duchess of Kingston.-D.

(24) last conspicuous Jacobite at Oxford.  He was public orator of that University and principal of St. Mary Hall.-D.

(25) Lord Noel Somerset,- who, in 1746 succeeded his brother in the dukedom.

(26) Edward Harley, of Eywood, in the county of Hereford, to whom, pursuant to the limitations of the patent, the earldoms of Oxford and Mortimer descended, upon the death, without male issue, of the Lord Treasurer’s only son, Edward, the second Earl.  Lord Oxford was of the Jacobite party.  He died in 1755.—­D.

(27) Thomas Pitt, Esq. of Boconnock, in Cornwall, warden of the Stannaries.  He married the sister of George, Lord Lyttelton, and was the father of the first Lord Camelford.-D.

(28) Phelypeaux, Count de Maurepas, son of the Chancellor de Pontchartrain.  He was disgraced in consequence of some quarrel with the King’s mistress.  He returned to office, unhappily for France, in the commencement of the reign of louis the Sixteenth.-D.

(29) General Wall, the Spanish ambassador.  Gondomar was the able Spanish ambassador in England in the reign of james the First.-D.

23 Letter 4 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, May 17, 1749.