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that His Majesty's kindness was never alienated from him on that account:- I presume to say underline with certainty, /underline from the repeated acts of favor and protection which were underline continued /underline to my Brother, & which never ceased till His Majesty;s much lamented illness: and amongst which I will only beg leave to name His Majesty's gracious pleasure in continuing him at Cranbourn Lodge in the management of his Farms; the retaining him as Groom of His Majesty's Bedchamber; and the sending his pecuniary assistance, though the hands of Earl Harcourt, to Mrs. George Villiers, that it might reach him in safety.

If in the course of that which I have humbly submitted to your Majesty, I have been wanting in any expression of form, which might more properly have conveyed my sentiments of defence, and respect, I must humbly trust to your Majesty's condescending candor for forgiveness.