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._ Footnote 99: Conduct, p. 181. Footnote 100: MS. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson, B. M. Footnote 101: Conduct, p. 185. Footnote 102: Coxe, Papers vol. xlv. p. 13. Footnote 103: Conduct, p. 190. Footnote 104: Other Side of the Question, p. 311. Footnote 105: Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 63. Footnote 106: Ibid. p. 105. Footnote 107: MS. Letter, British Museum. Footnote 108: Preface to Lord Wharncliffe’s Ed. of Lady M. W.’s Letters, p. 74. Footnote 109: Conduct, p. 197. Footnote 110: Cunningham, b. ix. p. 82. Footnote 111: Lediard, vol. ii. p. 5. Footnote 112: Other Side, p. 316. Footnote 113: B. ix. p. 80. Footnote 114: Conduct, p. 70. Footnote 115: Lediard. Footnote 116: Conduct, p. 191. Footnote 117: Conduct, p. 202. Footnote 118: Coxe Papers, vol. xliv. Footnote 119: London Chronicle, 1763. Footnote 120: MS. Footnote 121: See Appendix. Footnote 122: Conduct. Footnote 123: Conduct. Footnote 124: Coxe, book i. p. 377. Footnote 125: Burnet, vol. v. p. 358. Footnote 126: Coxe, p. 370–372. Footnote 127: Correspondence, vol. i. p. 83. Footnote 128: Ibid. p. 84. Footnote 129: Cunningham, b. ix. p. 141. Footnote 130: Cunningham, vol. x. p. 132. Footnote 131: Burnet, p. 373. Footnote 132: Burnet. Footnote 133: See Lives of St. John Lord Bolingbroke, by Goldsmith. Biog. Britannica, &c. Footnote 134: Cunningham. Footnote 135: Letters on History. Footnote 136: See Lives of Bolingbroke—Coxe, Burnet, Lediard. Footnote 137: Lediard, vol. ii. p. 9. Footnote 138: Lediard, vol. ii. p. 9. Footnote 139: Burnet, b. v. p. 384. Footnote 140: Conduct, p. 214. Footnote 141: Ibid. 216. Footnote 142: Ibid. Footnote 143: Conduct, p. 222. Footnote 144: Conduct, p. 219. Footnote 145: Aug. 19, 1708. Footnote 146: Conduct, p. 222. Footnote 147: Preserved in the Coxe MSS. B. M., and given in the Appendix to this volume. Footnote 148: Burnet, vol. iv. p. 247. Footnote 149: Conduct. Also Narrative, by the Duchess, of the events which took place after the Prince of Denmark’s death. Coxe, vol. iv. p. 234. Footnote 150: Macauley. History of England from the Revolution, p. 218. Footnote 151: Cunningham. Footnote 152: Cunningham, book ii. p. 300. Footnote 153: