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house have not always loved their parents. Later 

 on, he was thought to have grown a little im- 

 patient under the yoke of this masterful mother. 

 Before long the staff of preceptors fell all by 

 the ears, the high officials quarrelling with the 

 sub-tutors, who were understood to be in more 

 favour with the mother. The former complained 

 of Stone as taking too much on himself ; and as 

 for Scott, Horace Walpole tells a wicked story 

 of the Bishop turning him out of the Prince's 

 Chamber " by an imposition of hands that had 

 at least as much of the flesh as of the spirit." 

 What brought these jars to light was the Bishop 

 finding in the Prince of Wales's hands a French 

 book written to justify James II.'s measures, 

 an offence which Stone tried to palliate by 

 making out that this Jacobite treatise had been 

 lent the Prince by his sister, to whom, one 

 understands, it would do no such great harm. 

 The end of it was that both Governor and 

 Preceptor resigned their offices, replaced by Lord 

 Waldegrave and the Bishop of Peterborough, 

 who appear to have got on for a time more 

 smoothly with the subordinate instructors, as 

 with the family. The new Bishop, said their 

 mother, gave great satisfaction, and the children 



