The Scottish Friend of Frederic the Great the Last Earl Marischall volume 1
The Scottish Friend of Frederic the Great the Last Earl Marischall volume 1
Edith E Cuthell
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His estates in Scotland, which had fallen to the Crown on his attainder, had just 132 THE SCOTTISH FRIEND OF been bought by the York Building Company, so called from its habitat in the Adelphi, and which had just floated a special fund of over £1, 000, 000, to buy up forfeited estates in Great Britain, of which the Government, having their hands full, were anxious to dispose. The Keith estates were bought for £41, 172 — sixteen years' purchase. Life in Rome was luxurious and expensive. The eccl...esiastical atmosphere at the Palazzo in the Piazza dei Apostoli — James was becoming more and more of a bigot — was hardly to the Earl Marischall's taste. Moreover, always a man of action rather than a diplo- mat, he was anxious to return to Spain, where active military service might be found. " His Majesty, who knew that we were in want of money, sent his favourite, Mr. Hay, to the Pope, to desire him to advance him a thousand Koman crowns on his ordinary pension, which the other refused to do on pretence of poverty.
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