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We observ'd before that the Whigs had the money, & the Torys the Landed interest, both were necessary for His Service, for which reason, wherever He saw the the one or the other likely to abandon Him in a body, He instantly endeavour'd to fling out a lure to some of the Leading Men among them & so temporiz'd for a while till time should put him upon ^ addition an /addition advantage Ground again; Ld. Shrewsbury's Office was still vacant nor could he possibly be replac'd there without a total breach with the Whigs, which did not at all suit his policy; He therefore took