[41] Letter of Peter Wentworth to Lord Strafford, 31st July, 1729.
[42] Chamberlain to the Queen.
[43] On the 5th September, 1724, King George I., attended by many of the nobility and gentry, dined with Lord Orkney at Clieveden, where he was magnificently entertained.
[44] Suffolk Correspondence.
[45] These letters are preserved in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum. Some of them have been published in the Wentworth Papers, but many of those quoted here have never been printed.
[46] One of the Bubble schemes.
[47] Claremont was one of the seats of the Duke of Newcastle.
[48] The Right Hon. Henry Pelham, son of Lord Pelham and brother of Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, whose title had been revived in his favour by George the First.
[49] This was probably a practical joke played on Peter Wentworth, as he never held the office of secretary to the Queen.
[50] The double marriage scheme which had cropped up again for a brief space.