Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Wigs and the Rebellion of Charles II
Atterbury the conspirator who then held the episcopal sea of Rochester was now under elaborate disguise of ciphering cant names writing to the pretenders sanguine accounts of what was going on a court from these letters we learn how high the jack-a-bite hopes were raised by the removal of the two ministers. in his eyes leaving his master as painfully agitated as himself there was one quarter in which the split in the wig party and the fierce quarrel in the royal family stirred the liveliest delight Atterbury wrote to the pretender that he would rather throw the British crown to him than suffer it to devolve on his detested air every movement of the public funds sent their spirits
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