10 To MANN 15 DECEMBER 1748 OS cellor of Cambridge11 to his heart's content. Somerset tendered his pride12 even beyond his hate, for he has left the present Duke1^ all the furniture of his palaces,1* and forbore to charge the estate, accord­ ing to a power he had, with five and thirty thousand pounds. To his Duchess,15 who has endured such a long slavery with him, he has left nothing but one thousand pound and a small farm, besides her jointure; giving the whole of his unsettled estate, which is about £6,000 a year equally between his two daughters,16 and leaving them absolutely in their own powers now, though neither are of age: and to Lady Frances, the eldest, he has additionally given the fine house17

... in the 87th year of his age' (St Strand (DNB sub Charles Seymour; Arthur James's Evening Post 3-6 Dec. OS). Collins, Peerage, 1741, i. 56), besides the 11. 'The Duke of Newcastle had long house in Lincoln's Inn Fields (see below). made interest to be chancellor of the Prudhoe and Warkworth Castles in North­ University of Cambridge whenever the umberland belonged to the Duke but were should die. Lord Ches­ not occupied by him (Northumberland terfield, Pitt, and Lyttelton . . . per­ County History Committee, History of suaded the Prince of Wales to declare Northumberland, Newcastle, 1893-1940, v. himself for it. . . . This winter Dr Pot­ 18-112, xii. 111-35). ter, Archbishop of Canterbury having 15. Charlotte Finch, sister of the Earl of taken up the Prince's interest, and recom­ Winchelsea and Nottingham, second wife mended him . . . the King in his closet of Charles Seymour Duke of Somerset; by twice in very harsh terms reprimanded whom she had two daughters, Lady Fran­ the Archbishop' and had Chesterfield de­ ces, married to the Marquis of Granby, mand Newcastle's election (HW's note to and Lady Charlotte to Lord Guernsey, his draft of his contribution to Old Eng­ eldest son of the Earl of Aylesford (HW). land, ridiculing Newcastle's appointment, Lady Frances Seymour (1728-60), m. (1750) in HW's MS Political Papers, f. 8). In John Manners (1721-70), styled M. of May 1747 the Privy Council gave out Granby, M.P. Grantham 1741-54, Cam­ George II's declaration (to be circulated bridgeshire 1754-70; Maj.-Gen., 1755; Lt- privately around Cambridge) that George Gen., 1759; commander-in-chief of the II hoped 'that they will not choose any land forces 1766-70. Lady Charlotte Sey­ one of his family for their chancellor mour (1730-1805), m. (1750) Heneage without his approbation.' In the autumn, Finch (1715-77), styled Bn Gernsey, 3d E. the Prince withdrew his candidacy, and of Aylesford, 1757; M.P. Leicester county on 14 Dec, Newcastle was elected (D. A. 1739~4J » Maidstone 1741-7, 1754-7, s°n °* Winstanley, The University of Cambridge Heneage Finch (ca 1683-1757), 2d E. of in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, Aylesford, 1719. 1922, pp. 38-57, which describes the con­ 16. Who received £100,000 each, accord­ troversy in detail). ing to the St James's Evening Post 6-8 12. Somerset's pride is the subject of Dec. OS. See, however, post 26 Dec. 1748 anecdotes in HW's MS Commonplace OS, n. 13. Book of Verses 22, including the story of 17. Lindsey House (for a time called the country fellow who refused to make way Ancaster House), perhaps designed by for the Duke, and thrust a pig in his face. Inigo Jones. After the death of Peregrine, 13. Formerly E. of Hertford. D. of Ancaster in 1742, his daughter Lady 14. in Northumberland, Mary Bertie lived in it briefly before her House in , Marlborough marriage in 1748, about which time the House in Wiltshire, in Mid­ Duke of Somerset took the house (London dlesex, and in the County Council, Survey of London, iii