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This reaction, however, was but short-lived, for no sooner had the poor King retired to the privacy of his bed-chamber at Whitehall Palace, than an imperious message from his son-in-law ordered him to remove without delay to Ham House, Petersham. Tradition, regardless of fact, associates the grand old seat of the Lauderdales and Dysarts with King James's escape from England.
Personal offence I have given them none. The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. It is well, it is perfectly well. I have to do homage to their justice. I have to thank the Bedfords and the Lauderdales for having so faithfully and so fully acquitted towards me whatever arrear of debt was left undischarged by the Priestleys and the Paines.
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