[94]. Ibid.
[95]. Political pamphlet, entitled a “Continuation of the Review of a late Treatise,” &c. London, 1741, p. 31.
[96]. MSS. B. M. Coxe Papers, vol. xliv.
[97]. Conduct, p. 183.
[98]. Mr. Masham was first page of honour to Queen Anne and to Prince George, and also equerry to the latter. In 1710 he was preferred to the command of a regiment of horse, and advanced to the rank of brigadier-general. At the famous creation in 1711, he was made a peer, by the title of Lord Masham of Oates, in the county of Essex. By his lady, who died in 1734, he had three sons and two daughters. Anne, his lordship’s eldest daughter, married, in 1726, Henry Hoare, grandson of Sir Richard Hoare, formerly Lord Mayor of London.—London Chronicle.
[99]. Conduct, p. 181.
[100]. MS. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson, B. M.
[101]. Conduct, p. 185.
[102]. Coxe, Papers vol. xlv. p. 13.
[103]. Conduct, p. 190.