| Disgrifiad | This was Montagu Bertie, second Earl, brother to Henry, M.P. for Beaumaris, and to Bridget, Viscountess Bulkeley. Reports that on the previous day he had resigned all his employments to the King - probably he meant the lord lieutenancy of Oxfordshire (in 1714 Abingdon, one of the more prominent Hanoverian Tories, had been named as one of the Regents). On the opposite page is a draft answer, dated 13 Sept., in the hand of Lord Bulkeley, "[I] do heartily wish you joy of yor Retirement into ye Country ye only Happyness now a days", a sentiment which shows very clearly what his opinion was of the men and measures associated with the government of George I |