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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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grudgingly remarked: ‘That fellow costs me 50/. a-year.’ Of the charges of political ingratitude and trea- chery, posterity is unable to acquit him. He had been raised by the favour of James the Second from the position of a page to the peerage, to great wealth and high command. At the very first opportunity he betrayed and forsook his benefactor, and went over to William the Third, whom the Revo- lution had brought from Holland to dethrone the Stuart king. Later on, when Queen Anne had loaded him with titles, honours, and riches, he entered into underhand plots with the exiled Stuarts. The one redeeming feature of his character was his love for his wife, to whom he ever showed unswerving fidelity and devotion. In the year 1671, about the same time as John Churchill was appointed page to James the Second, then Duke of York, Sarah Jennings, a beautiful child of eleven, the daughter of a Hertfordshire gentleman, who was blessed with a family of twenty- two children, was received by the Duchess of York, and transferred to the household of Princess Anne. Endowed with an indomitable spirit, haughty, ambitious, and grasping, the penniless beauty soon com- pletely mastered the weak nature of her young patron. As she grew up, Anne formed for her lady-in-
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