[510d] “I” (MS.).
[510e] Obliterated. Forster reads, “devil,” and Mr. Ryland, “bitch.”
[511b] Victor Marie, duc d’Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1727).
[511d] Several words are obliterated. Forster reads, “the last word, God ’give me”; but “’give me” is certainly wrong.
[512] See p. [69]. Sir Thomas Hanmer married, in 1698, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella, Dowager Duchess of Grafton, daughter of Henry, Earl of Arlington, and Countess of Arlington in her own right. Hanmer was not made Secretary of State, but he succeeded Bromley as Speaker of the House of Commons.
[513a] William Fitzmaurice (see pp. [91], [263]) entered Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on March 10, 1712–13, at the age of eighteen.