(83) It is remarkable, that either the weak propensity of the Stuarts to popery, or the visible connexion between regal and ecclesiastic power, had such operation on many of the branches of that family, who were at a distance from the crown of England, to wear which it is necessary to be a Protestant, that two or three of the daughters of the king and Queen of Bohemia, though their parents had lost every thing in the struggle between the two religions, turned Roman Catholics; and so did one or more of the sons of the Princess Sophia, brothers of the Protestant candidate, George I.

(84) Afterwards George ii.

(85) I believe it was a fact, that the poor weak Queen, being disposed even to cede the crown to her brother, consulted Bishop Wilkins, called the Prophet, to know what would be the consequence of such a step.  He replied, “Madam, you would be in the Tower in a month, and dead in three.”  This Sentence, dictated by common sense, her Majesty took for inspiration, and dropped all thoughts of resigning the crown.

86) James Craggs, Jun, buried in Westminster Abbey, with an epitaph by Pope. [Craggs died on the 16th of February, 1721.  His monument was executed by Guelphi, whom Lord Burlington invited into the kingdom.  Walpole considered it graceful and simple, but that the artist was an indifferent sculptor.  Dr. Johnson objects to Pope’s inscription, that it is partly in Latin and partly in English.  “If either language,” he says, “be preferable to the other, let that only be used; for no reason can be given why part of the information should be given in one tongue, and part in another, on a tomb more than in any other place or any other occasion:  such an epitaph resembles the conversation of a foreigner, who tells part of his meaning by words, and conveys part by signs.”]

(87) I think it was the sixpenny tax on offices.

(88) Sarah Cadogan, afterwards Duchess of Richmond.

(89) Queen Anne’s creation of twelve peers at once, to obtain a majority in the House of Lords, offered an ostensible plea for the restrictions.

(90) Sir Robert published a pamphlet against the bill, entitled, “The Thoughts of a Member of the Lower House, in relation to a project for restraining and limiting the powers of the Crown in the future creation of Peers.”  On the other side, Addison’s pen was employed in defending the measure, in a paper called “The Old Whig,” against Steele, who attacked it in a pamphlet entitled “The Plebeian."-E.

(91) The effect of Sir Robert’s speech on the House,” says Coxe, “exceeded the sanguine expectations:  it fixed those who had before been wavering and irresolute, brought over many who had been tempted by the speciousness of the measure to favour introduction, and procured its rejection, by a triumphant majority of 269 against 177.”  Memoirs, Vol. i.-E.

(92) James, third Earl of Berkeley. knight of the garter, etc.  In March 1718, he was appointed first lord of the admiralty, in which post he continued all the reign of George the First.  He died at the castle of Aubigny in France in 1736.]