72/88 [T.S.]] [Footnote 54: It was Nottingham who moved this argument in the form of an amendment to the address on 7th December, 1711. See _infra_, and also vol.v., p. [T.S.]] The other lord, in whom the discontented managers placed much of their hopes, was the Earl of Nottingham, already mentioned; than whom no man ever appeared to hate them more, or to be more pleased at their fall, partly from his avowed principles, but chiefly from the hopes he had of sharing in their spoils. |