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  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

  This is Volume 3 of 3. The first volume can be found in Project
  Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57016.
  The second volume can be found in Project Gutenberg at:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57851.

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  MEMOIRS

  OF THE REIGN OF

  KING GEORGE THE SECOND.


  VOL. III.


  [Illustration: M^R. PITT.
  London: Henry Colburn 1846.]




  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. III.


  LONDON:
  HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
  GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
  1847.




CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.


              CHAPTER I