Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy
- Date:
- 1866
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Credit: Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![This morning the Lord Chancellor (William Cowper), at audience of the King, gave it to be understood, that unless the Earl of Oxford made his escape, he will perhaps be under arrest within 24 hours. Inquiry is being made concerning the author of a certain libel which advocates the enormous and sacrilegious crime, of taking the King's life in order to place the crown on the head of the Pretender ; and the author is suspected to be the Bishop of Rochester [Atterbury], whose counsels encourage the Duke of Ormond. I have this moment returned from the Court, where I was present when the King gave the Lord Chamberlain's staff to the Duke of Bolton, to the surprise of many persons, as divers other profitable crown appoint- ments are in this nobleman's family.* July 19, 1715.t GlACOMO QtTERINI TO THE PROCURATOR VeNIER. I am at a loss to tell your Excellency how kindly his Majesty received me. I write the account to the Tribunal with reserve, lest it be sup- posed that I flatter myself, but assuredly the King made me the same cordial demonstrations of good-will and affection as was his wont when mere Duke of Hanover and Elector of Brunswick : his sentiments with regard to me are not changed in the least; but I think his countenance is altered. Instead of being well preserved he has become rather aged, which I believe must be attributed to the burden of Crown business, and to those disappointments which u sovereign of England never fails to experience at the hands of one party or the other. He is also, perhaps, disturbed by family disagreements. I subsequently had a second private audience, and on both occasions I spoke about the passport for Colombo, and the purchase of ships. He answered me favourably throughout, and I am certain, that at least underhand, he will give me every possible assistance for the attainment of my object. For the passport he referred me to Stanhope, Secretary for the affairs of the Levant; and with regard to the ships, he told me to obtain information from the Muscovite ambassador, Prince Karaskin [ Carakin), as he would tell me in what way he had obtained vessels for the Czar. It requires time to discuss matters seriously with the foreign Ministers in London, but they have all visited me, with the exception of the Frenchman, solely because they remark the favour shown me by the King and the royal family. Last evening, moreover, together with Madame de Kilmanseek, and the Duchess of Shrewsbury [AdelhidaPaliotti], and Lady Albermarlo [Isabella Gravemoor]. I accompanied the King to the opera, and supped with him for the third time in Madame de Kilmanseck's apartments. The King has done me the favour to desire the chamberlains on duty to allow me access to the private apartments like an intimate attendant, a distinction conceded but to a few Germans, and to the lords in waiting. I have visited the Prince and Princess of Wales, who greeted me with marks of extraordinary kindness. The Princess conversed with me a long while in her own apartments, repeating what she confided to me at Hanover about the misunderstanding between the Prince, her husband, and the King, his father; and she remarked that it might cause very great detriment to the royal familv-. The clamour of the soldiers and the shouts of the populace, both in London and Oxford, wishing long life to King James III. will lie known to your Excellency through the newspapers ; it is thus evident that since some time the King is no longer so popular as he was at first. He is thinking about the remedies; purposes going to Hanover on the proro- gation of Parliament ; and means to augment his troops instead of • This is in accordance with Collins' Peerage (vol. ii. p. 3S2. ed. 1812), where it is stated thai on the Sth July (O. S.) 1715, Charles, second Duke of Bolton, was declared Lord Chamherlain. t The foroKOinR extracts will suffice to rive an idea of Querini's official correspondence with the Inquisitors of State, which terminated on the /,- of July 171G.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021284_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
