Correspondence with Lyttelton (_passim_)--Lord Bath--The Lisbon Embassy--_Dialogues of the Dead_--Lord Chesterfield--Earl Ferrers executed--William Robinson’s marriage--Tunbridge Wells--The Stanley family--Ned, the groom--Lord Bath’s character--Lord Mansfield--“Montagu’s main”--Sophocles--Hagley House rebuilt--Dr. Monsey’s ways--Allan Ramsay, portrait painter--Letter to Duchess of Portland--Macpherson’s _Highland Poems_--Bishop Sherlock’s letter--Dr. Young--George Bowes’ funeral--Miss Bowes--Greek Plays and Shakespeare--Green tea and snuff--Death of George II.--George III. king--George II.’s will--Floods at Newark--A great lady’s avarice--The King’s first speech--Attendance at Court--A fashionable dentist--A languid campaign--Bishop Sherlock’s letter to the King--_Billets doux_--Chesterfield’s _bon mot_--An impetuous lover of fourscore--Monsey’s fresh doggerel--George Colman the elder 178–227 CHAPTER V. Admiral Boscawen’s illness and death--Wortley Montagu’s death--“Montagu Minerva”--Voltaire’s _Tancred_--Macpherson’s _Fingal_--Lord Bath’s gift to Mrs. Carter--Dr. Young’s letters--Another _Dialogue of the Dead_--An anonymous letter--the British Museum--A country gentlewoman--Gesner’s _Mort d’Abel_--Lord Bath’s character--The future queen--Mrs. Montagu’s advice to Tom Lyttelton--Monsey’s bloom-coloured coat--Dr. Young’s _Resignation_--Lord Bath’s portrait--The Coronation--Lady Pomfret--Lord Bath at Sandleford--Position of Ministers--An act of humility--Widows’ weeds--The _Bas-Bleus_ and shells--Laurence Sterne 228–273 APPENDICES. “Long” Sir Thomas Robinson 275 Sandleford Priory, Berks 278 Denton Hall, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland 281 INDEX 283 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. II. MRS. MONTAGU _Frontispiece_ _From the engraved portrait by C. TOWNLEY, after FRANCES REYNOLDS, in the possession of Mr. A. M. Broadley._ (_Photogravure._) TO FACE PAGE TEA AND COFFEE IN THE BATH-ROOM 38 _From the drawing by JOHN NIXON, in the possession of Mr. A. M. Broadley._ THE CIRCUS, AT BATH 40 _From a drawing by THOMAS MALTON, in the possession of Mr. A. M. Broadley._ THE KING’S BATH, AT BATH 60 _From a drawing by THOMAS ROWLANDSON, in the possession of Mr. A. M. Broadley._