Note 66 — Chapter VII
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They offered him the Duchy of Lancaster for life, with a pension of 2000l. a year; permission to remain Attorney-General (which produced 7000l. a year), and the reversion of the first Teller of the Exchequer for his nephew, Lord Stormont. At the beginning of October they bid up to 6000l. a year in pension. They pressed him to stay but a month, nay, only to defend them on the first day. Was innocence ever so extravagant, or so alarmed?—“Good God!” said Murray himself, “what merit have I, that you should load this country, for which so little is done with spirit, with the additional burthen of 6000l. a year?”