OF THE

LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION

OF

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD.

BY

WILLIAM COXE, M. A. F. R. S. F.A. S.

ARCHDEACON OF WILTS.

A NEW EDITION:

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER Row.

1816.

OF TH

UNIVERSì

CAUFORINA

1208
v. 1

"Omnia prius experiri verbis quam armis sapientem decet."

Terence.

"The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the "blood of man. It is well shed for our Family, for our Friends, "for our God, for our Country, for our Kind. The rest is vanity, "the rest is crime."

Burke.

REV. HUMPHREY SUMNER, D.D.

PROVOST,

AND TO THE

FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS

OF

KING'S COLLEGE

IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

THESE

MEMOIRS OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE,

(ONCE A SCHOLAR OF THEIR SOCIETY)

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR,

WHO IS INDEBTED FOR HIS EDUCATION

TO THE

PIOUS MUNIFICENCE

OF

HENRY THE SIXTH.

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