"I hope after staying in the town on purpose, you do not intend to omit it.

I beg you would not leave any sort of business unfinished, remembering those two necessary maxims, Whatever you intend to do as long as you live do as soon as you can; and to leave nothing to be done by another that 'tis possible to do yourself." What sort of a man must Montagu have been at the age of thirty-six that his wife should deem it necessary to give him such first-aid advice?
Montagu was evidently of a procrastinating turn of mind.

He had, as has been said, sat for Huntingdon in the House of Commons from 1705 until 1713.

In the latter year Parliament was dissolved on August 8, but Montagu had made no definite plans as regards his future political career--for some reason or other his father reserved for himself the seat for Huntingdon.

Montagu found no other constituency, and consequently did not sit in the new Parliament that assembled on the following November 11.
"I suppose you may now come in at Aldburgh, and I heartily wish you was in Parliament," Lady Mary wrote to him.