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[273]. Scott’s Life of Swift.
[274]. Lord Chesterfield’s Characters.
[275]. Lord Chesterfield. Horace Walpole.
[276]. Such was also the case even with the great Lord Clarendon, after many years of exile. See Mr. James’s Life of Louis Quatorze, vol. iii.
[277]. Coxe, p. 629.
[278]. Mem. of Lord Walpole. Coxe, p. 8.
[279]. The origin of Mr. James Craggs is said by Lady Mary W. Montague to be derived from a very low source. His father was footman to the Duchess of Norfolk, and a footman of the old school, who managed his mistress’s intrigues as well as other household affairs.—Lady M. W. M.’s Letters. Hence the epigram in Horace Walpole’s Letters.
[280]. Coxe, Appendix.
[281]. Life of Lord Walpole, p. 20.