Horace Walpole, Reminiscences. Footnote 283: For the rest of this curious letter, see Appendix. It was kindly pointed out to me by Deputy Holmes, Esq. keeper of the Manuscripts, British Museum. That gentleman found it crumpled up among Dr. Coxe’s papers, while he was arranging those manuscripts in their present convenient form. To this letter there is neither date nor address: on the back it is endorsed, “From the Duke of Marlborough;” Mr. Holmes surmises, in the handwriting of Lord Godolphin. Archdeacon Coxe has not noticed the Duke’s perplexity on the point expressed in this letter. Footnote 284: See Opinions. Footnote 285: Horace Walpole, Reminiscences. Footnote 286: Coxe, p. 646. Footnote 287: Coxe, vol. vi. octavo, p. 646. Footnote 288: “Our bishops,” says the Duchess, writing of the Princess, whose condescension she had so greatly extolled, “are now about to employ hands to write the finest character that ever was heard of Queen Caroline; who, as it is no treason, I freely own that I am glad she is dead. Upon her great understanding and goodness there come out nauseous panegyrics every day, that make one sick, so full of nonsense and lies. There is one very remarkable from a Dr. Clarke, in order to have the first bishoprick that falls, and I dare say he will have it, though there is something extremely ridiculous in the panegyric; for, after he has given her the most perfect character that ever any woman had, or can have, he allows that she had sacrificed her reputation to the great and the many, to show her duty to the King and her love to the country. These are the clergyman’s words exactly, which allows she did wrong things, but it was to please the King,—which is condemning him. I suppose he must mean some good she did to her own country, for I know of none she did in England, unless taking from the public deserves a panegyric.”—Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 169. Duchess of Marlborough’s Opinions. Footnote 289: See Dr. Coxe, p. 648. Footnote 290: Coxe, p. 649. Footnote 291: Newspapers of the day. Footnote 292: Coxe Papers, vol. xli. p. 76. Footnote 293: Warton’s Essay on Pope, vol. ii. p. 303. Footnote 294: Swift’s Correspondence, vol. xv. p. 236. Footnote 295: Biographia. Footnote 296: London Chronicle, November 21, 1758. Footnote 297: His avarice has been attributed greatly to the Duchess’s influence. Footnote 298: Collins’s Baronage, vol. ii. Footnote 299: See Lady M. W. Montague’s Letters. Footnote 300: Coxe, p. 653. Footnote 301: Coxe, p. 653. Footnote 302: See some curious letters in the Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 70. Footnote 303: Burke’s Extinct Peerage, art. Coningsby. Footnote 304: By Frances, daughter of the Earl of Ranelagh. Footnote 305: Oct. 8, 1722. The Duke died June 16, 1722. Footnote 306: Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 70. Footnote 307: Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 71.