Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 1 (of 3)

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EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT [10] TO THESE MEMOIRS.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. A. D. PAGE 1751 State

ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. I. George II. Frontispiece . Mr. Pelham p.

1751

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

1752

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

1753, AND PART OF 1754.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

1754

CHAPTER XII.

APPENDIX. B.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter.

The Appendix has sections marked B to K; there is no section A, and no section J.

As the Editor notes in his Preface, “Some, though very few, coarse expressions, have been suppressed by the Editor, and the vacant spaces filled up by [3 or 4] asterisks.” A few names have been editorially omitted; these are sometimes indicated by —— and sometimes by ****.

Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.


MEMOIRS

OF THE REIGN OF

KING GEORGE THE SECOND.

VOL. I.



MEMOIRS

OF THE REIGN OF

KING GEORGE THE SECOND.

BY

HORACE WALPOLE,

YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.



EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.

WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES,

BY THE LATE

LORD HOLLAND.


Second Edition, Revised.

WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTTOES.


VOL. I.


LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1847.



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