And say to all the world, “This was a man!”
His Lordship married Anne, daughter and heir of Colonel Edward Griffith, one of the Clerks Comptrollers of the Green Cloth, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Dr. Thomas Laurence, first Physician to Queen Anne; and by her had two sons, twins, born December 18, 1719; but their mother died in child-bed. Thomas, the younger, was in August, 1741, appointed Captain in Honeywood’s Dragoons, and going over sea, died February, 1742-3.
William, Viscount Petersham, the eldest son, succeeds his Lordship in honour and estate; and thereby makes a vacancy in the House of Commons for Bury St. Edmunds. [Extracted from some printed paper of 1756, and annexed to the MS. as a note by the author of the Memoirs.]
[22] Sir Hugh Smithson had married the Lady Elizabeth Seymour, only surviving child of Algernon, Duke of Somerset, and heiress of the house of Percy, on which account they were created Earl and Countess of Northumberland.
[23] The author of these Memoirs.
[24] Vide the [Appendix, B.] [A.] The author of these Memoirs, in a MS. note on Doddington’s Diary, asserts, that the Constitutional Queries were generally ascribed to Lord Egmont.—E.
[25] Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough and Earl of Sunderland, Knight of the Garter and Lord Steward.
[26] In the year 1744, besides several other libels and ballads, had been published two pamphlets that made much noise, called “The Case of the Hanover Troops,” and the Vindication of that Case, supposed to be written by or under the direction of Pitt, Lyttelton, Doddington, &c. The first was answered by old Horace Walpole, in a pamphlet called “The Interest of Great Britain steadily pursued.”
[27] William Barrington Shute, Viscount Barrington, one of the Lords of the Admiralty.
[28] Bosavern Penlez, condemned for stealing linen, and demolishing a bagnio in the Strand. Fielding wrote a pamphlet to justify the condemnation of him.