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she should always desire that the bishops she put in 

 should vote on the side that they who call themselves 

 the Church party do vote on." 



Had her resolution been equal to her judg- 

 ment, several difficulties, and perhaps some 

 blemishes, in her administration had been pre- 

 vented. She declared to his Grace, more than 

 once, that she would neither be in the hands of the 

 Whigs nor of the Tories. And when she, of her 

 ovv^n accord, gave him the early notice (it was 

 on December 16, 1707), that she meant to change 

 her measures y and give no countenance to the Whig 

 Lords, but that all the Tories, if they would, should 

 come in;' she added, ^'and all the Whigs liketvise, 

 that would show themselves to be in her interests, 

 should have favour." 



But though some particulars that passed be- 

 tween her Majesty and his Grace concerning 

 the two parties and their respective principles 

 and behaviour (upon which subject her Majesty 

 would sometimes deliver her sentiments with 

 that freedom that intimate friends take, and 

 which she used with him in talking about persons 

 as well as things ;) are here purposely omitted, 

 as not relating immediately to his Grace, and as 

 being of no consequence to the world, and like- 

 wise for other reasons given in the preface ; yet 

 it seems to be a piece of justice due to her Ma- 

 jesty's memory (and this appears to be the most 



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