TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This is Volume 2 of 3. The first volume can be found in ProjectGutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57016
The List of Illustrations has been copied from Volume I. This listdescribes six illustrations, two in each volume.
As the Editor notes in his Preface in Volume I, “Some, though veryfew, coarse expressions, have been suppressed by the Editor, and thevacant spaces filled up by asterisks.” There is one such occurrencein this volume (on page 205). Some omitted textis indicated by * * * (on page 416.)
The Editor has also inserted the occasional [word] in brackets, whenthat makes the passage more sensible.
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have beenplaced at the end of each chapter.
Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
MEMOIRS
OF THE REIGN OF
KING GEORGE THE SECOND.
VOL. II.
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. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1847.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| A. D. | PAGE | |
| 1755. | Endeavours for Peace with France in vain | 2 |
| Duke of Dorset removed; Lord Hartington made Lord-Lieutenant | 3 | |
| Debate on King Charles’s Martyrdom | ib. | |
| Affair of Sheriffs-Depute in Scotland, and Debates thereon | 4 | |
| Ireland | 10 | |
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