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Page 7 - ... it. This King in his first year sent him the Garter; which, in many respects, he had expected from the last. And the sense of that honour made him so readily comply with the King's command in attending him, when he had no confidence in the undertaking, nor any inclination to the Scots ; who, he thought, had too much guilt upon them in having depressed the crown to be made instruments of repairing and restoring it.
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| Title | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 7 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Edmund Lodge |
| Author | Edmund Lodge |
| Publisher | Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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