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his means Nova Scotia was added to the dominions of Great 
Britain. He advised the establishment of the Queen Anne's 
Bounty Fund, and induced the Queen to contribute £100,000 to 
the war fund when extra taxes were imposed upon the people. 
He worked with the utmost energy to obtain the union of England 
and Scotland, and at last was gratified by seeing that accomplished, 
when he was made Lord Treasurer of the United Kingdom. 
From this time the star of Godolphin paled. He had long 
been assailed in Parliament by partisan malcontents, and even 
when his former friend Harley joined his enemies, he for a time 
bore down all his assailants, ever remaining silent under attack, 
while he wrote his friend Marlborough, that no galley slave 
could suffer more torment than he had to undergo. It is un- 
necessary to discuss the politics of the period, but eventually 
Mrs. Masham, and Harley, Earl of Oxford, supplanted the Duke 
and Duchess of Marlborough, as the dear friends of the Queen, 
and Godolphin lost all influence with Anne, who sent him a very 
summary letter of dismissal, which evoked a very bitter reply 
from him, probably the bitterest ever written by a subject to a 
sovereign. 
The fall of Godolphin, which Marlborough did all he possibly 
could to prevent, had a terrible effect on the financial credit of 
England. Bank shares at once fell from 140 to 110, and soon to 
106, whilst the bank refused a loan of £400,000 to the new 
Government. I may here remark that Bishop Burnet records, 
with respect to Godolphin's assailants, that their attack about the 
Scotch Treasury was an effusion of Tory malice, and adds that 
the Earl of Godolphin's unblemished integrity was such that no 
imputation of any sort could be fastened upon him. 
Earl Godolphin, after a long illness, died at the Duke of Marl- 
borough's house at St. Alban's, 15th September, 1712. His age 
was about eighty, but there is no exact account of the date of his 
birth. Mr. Tregelles says that four dukes — namely, Eichmond, 
Schomberg, Devonshire, and Marlborough — were the pall -bearers 
when the remains of one of our most illustrious Cornishmen were 
interred at night in Westminster Abbey. 
There is no important record of Francis the second and last 
Earl Godolphin. He filled many court appointments, and married 
Marlborough's daughter, who became Duchess of Marlborough. 
They had one son, and two daughters ; the son, who was Marquis 
