Dorchester demanded that the estates should be put into entail.

Also he desired that his future son-in-law should provide a town residence for Lady Mary.

This did not seem unreasonable, but Montagu did not see his way to agree to them.

He was willing enough to make all proper provision for his wife, but he declined absolutely to settle his landed property upon a son who, as he put it, for aught he knew, might prove unworthy to inherit it, who might be a spendthrift, an idiot, or a villain--as a matter of fact, the only son of the marriage turned out most things he should not.

Anyhow, Montagu held strong views on the subject, and these he expounded to Richard Steele, who presented them in No.