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MEMOIRS

RELATING TO

That Change which happened in the Queen's Ministry, in the Year 1710.

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Written in October, M.DCC.XIV.

AVING continued, for near the space of four years, in a good degree of confidence. with the miniftry then in being, although not with fo much power as was believed, or at leaft given out, by my friends as well as by my enemies, especially the latter, in both houfes of parliament: And this having happened during a very bufy period of negotiations abroad, and management or intrigue at home, I thought it might probably, fome years hence, when the prefent fcene fhall have given place to many new ones that will arife, be an entertainment to thofe who will have any perfonal regard for me or my memory, to fet down fome particularities which fell under my knowledge and obfervation, while I was fuppofed, whether truly or no, to have part in the fecret of affairs.

One circumftance I am a little forry for, that I was too negligent (againft what I had always refolved, and blamed others for not doing) in taking hints or journals of every thing material as it paffed, whereof I omitted inany that I cannot now re VOL. XII. A

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