The History of St. James's Square And the Foundation Ofthe West End of London : With a Glimpse of Whitehall in the Reign of Charles the Second
The History of St. James's Square And the Foundation Ofthe West End of London : With a Glimpse of Whitehall in the Reign of Charles the Second
Arthur Irwin Dasent
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When Queen Anne lay a-dying the action of the Duke of Argyll secured the Treasurer's White Staff for Shrewsbury, thereby baffling the designs of Bolingbroke, who, had he obtained it for himself, intended to proclaim the Pretender so soon as the breath should be out of the Queen's body. By a strange fatality Shrewsbury's father was killed in a duel by the Duke of Buckingham in 1667, and his brother by the Duke of Grafton in 1686. He was the last High Treasurer of England, that ancient and honour...able office having ever since been executed by Commissioners. An amusing story is told of his Duchess, who was a foreigner and not very well acquainted either with the English language or seem- ingly with the Bible. Talking one day with Lady Oxford the Duchess said, " Madam, I and my Lord are so weary of talking politics, what are you and your Lord ? " Lady Oxford, who was accounted a very pious woman, only sighed and remarked that "she knew no Lord but the Lord Jehovah," to which the Duchess made answer : " Oh dear, who is that ?
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