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within the House, at the back of the throne.
The peers in their minority were on their own benches. In 1705 the
number of these little lords amounted to no less than a
dozen--Huntingdon, Lincoln, Dorset, Warwick, Bath, Barlington,
Derwentwater--destined to a tragical death--Longueville, Lonsdale,
Dudley, Ward, and Carteret: a troop of brats made up of eight earls, two
viscounts, and two barons.
In the centre, on the three stages of benches, each lord had taken his
seat. Almost all the bishops were there. The dukes mustered strong,
beginning with Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset; and ending with George
Augustus, Elector of Hanover, and Duke of Cambridge, junior in date of
creation, and consequently junior in rank. All were in order, according
to right of precedence: Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, whose grandfather
had sheltered Hobbes, at Hardwicke, when he was ninety-two; Lennox, Duke
of Richmond; the three Fitzroys, the Duke of Southampton, the Duke of
Grafton, and the Duke of Northumberland; Butler, Duke of Ormond;
Somerset, Duke of Beaufort; Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans; Paulet, Duke
of Bolton; Osborne, Duke of Leeds; Wrottesley Russell, Duke of Bedford,
whose motto and device was Che sarà sarà, which expresses a
determination to take things as they come; Sheffield, Duke of
Buckingham; Manners, Duke of Rutland; and others. Neither Howard, Duke
of Norfolk, nor Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, was present, being
Catholics; nor Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, the French Malbrouck, who
was at that time fighting the French and beating them. There were no
Scotch dukes then--Queensberry, Montrose, and Roxburgh not being
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