Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of Goodallphin's Ministry
James II made him chamberlain to the Queen, and he was often bitterly reproached in after years for the exuberant complacency with which he had attended his royal mistress to her papistical devotions. He secretly took pains to send messages to James at Saint-Germain that no kindness from the usurper could ever make him forget his duty to his lawful king. When he died, after more than five and twenty years of nearly continuous public employment, he left no larger sum behind him than twelve thousand pounds. Goodallphin's ministry will always be remembered in connection with one domestic event of the highest degree of political importance. I mean the incorporating union between England and Scotland
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