Lord Townshend to General Stanhope, August 26, 1710 1710 The Duke of Marlborough to Robert Walpole, September 18, 1710 279 280 - 280 * Letter from the King to the Prince of Wales, July 5, 1716 Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, July 30, August 10, Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, August 7-18, 1716 Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, August 30, September 10, 1716 281 - 285 289 Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, September 28, October 1716 - 305 Secretary Stanhope to Robert Walpole, December 15, 1716 - 307 Robert Walpole to Secretary Stanhope, December 12-23, Secretary Stanhope to Robert Walpole, January 1, 1717 Secretary Stanhope to Robert Walpole, January 16, 1717. * Lord Stanhope to Lord Sunderland, 1719 * Lord Stanhope to Lord Sunderland, August 3, 1719 Speaker Onslow's Remarks on various Parts of Sir Robert Walpole Conduct, and Anecdotes of the principal Leaders of the Opposition 351 On the Conduct and Principles of Sir Robert Walpole by 351 *The three Letters thus marked have been added to this Edition. APPENDIX TO VOL. II, CONTAINING ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1719--1730. Robert Walpole to the King Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, May 29, 1722 Lord Townshend to Robert Walpole - 393 - 398 - 402 410 - 411 Robert Walpole to Lord Townshend, July 23, August 3, 1723- 407 412 413 Robert Walpole to the Duke of Newcastle, September 1, 1724-415 418 Horace Walpole to Robert Walpole, July 12-23, 1730 Horace Walpole to Sir Robert Walyole, August 5-16, 1730 - 430 Paper, in the hand-writing of Sir Robert Walpole, without date or signature; but was inclosed in a letter to Horace Walpole during the course of their correspondence in 1730 APPENDIX TO VOL. III, CONTAINING ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1735-1737. - 432 Thoughts on the present State of Affairs, August 15—26, 1735 396 Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, December 4-15, 1735 402 Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, December 4—15, 1735 403 Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, December 24, Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, December 24, 408 Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, June 18-29, 1736 Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, July 29, August 9, Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, September 30, 417 Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, September 20, 419 Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, October 29, Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole to be laid before the 422 - 425 Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, October 11-22, 1736 - 431 The Earl of Waldegrave to the Duke of Newcastle, January 2, 1737 437 Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, December 30, Sir Robert Walpole to the Earl of Waldegrave, March 7-18, Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, November 15, 1737 APPENDIX TO VOL. IV, CONTAINING ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Sir Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, August 3-14, 1739 383 - 385 The Earl of Cholmondeley to the Earl of Orford, November 5, 1744 394 The Earl of Orford to the Earl of Cholmondeley, November 7, 1744 - 395 The Earl of Cholmondeley to the Earl of Orford Horace Walpole to the Earl of Orford, November 8, 1744 ORN MEMOIRS OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. PERIOD THE FIRST: From his Birth, to the Accession of GEORGE 1. 1676-1714. CHAPTER 1. 1676-1701. Family-Birth-Talents-Education-Country Pursuits—Mar- : riage-Paternal Estate. THE THE Ancestors of Sir Robert Walpole, who was the eighteenth male of his family, in a lineal descent, may be traced from the Conquest. They took their surname, according to the custom of those days, from the town of Walpole, in Norfolk, on the borders of Lincolnshire, where they had their residence, until one of them exchanged the family seat for Houghton, in the same county.* * Annexed Genealogical Table. Edmonson's Baronagium. Collins's Peerage; Article, Earl of Orford, Documents among the Orford Papers. Sir Edward Walpole, his grandfather, was elected member for the borough of Lynn Regis, in the convention parliament, assembled in April, 1660, and voted for the restoration of Charles the Second. As a recompence for his zeal in the royal cause, he was created Knight of the Bath. He was remarkable for his eloquence and weight in parliament; and once, on a warm altercation in the house, he suggested an expedient which was immediately adopted by both parties, for which Waller the poet, in a high strain of panegyric, ironically proposed that he should be sent to the Tower, for not having sooner composed the dispute when he had it in his power. He died in 1667. * Robert, the eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Walpole, sat in parliament for the borough of Castle Rising, in the county of Norfolk, from the first year of William and Mary, till his decease in November 1700. He was deputy lieutenant, and colonel of the militia, in the county of Norfolk, and took as active a share as his situation and circumstances permitted in forwarding the Revolution. He considerably improved his estate by prudent management; educated a large family with much credit, and was held in great estimation by the Whig party, whose measures he appears to have uniformly supported. He had by his wife Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir Jeffery Burwell, of Rougham, in Suffolk, nineteen children; of whom • Edes Walpolianæ. |