[280] "We entered into the King's service to hinder the law from being indecently and unconstitutionally given to him."—Grenville Papers.
[281] Walpole: Memoirs of George III.
[282] Walpole: Memoirs of George III.
[283] William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire (1720-1764).
[284] Charles Watson Wentworth, second Marquis of Rockingham (1730-1782).
[285] "A severity of which there had been no precedent in the last reign, but in the cases of Lord Bath and Lord George Sackville; the first, in open and virulent opposition; the second on his ignominious sentence after the Battle of Minden."—Walpole: Memoirs of George III.
[286] Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton (1735-1811).
[287] "I have reason to believe that there will be a general déroute from the Duke of Grafton's Lieutenancy of the county of Suffolk to the underlings of the Custom House," Rigby wrote at the time, "and I think, if military men are excepted, as I trust they will be, the measure entirely right."—Bedford Correspondence.
[288] Grenville Papers.
[289] Lecky: History of England in the Eighteenth Century.