improperly omitted the Preface, I have

directed it to be added.

At the acceffion of queen Anne, having his fortune improved by bequests. from his father, and his uncle the earl of Bathe, he was chofen into parliament for Fowey. He foon after engaged in a joint tranflation of the Invectives against Philip, with a defign, furely weak and puerile, of turning the thunder of Demofthenes upon the head of Lewis.

He afterwards (in 1706) had his. eftate again augmented by an inheritance: from his elder brother, Sir Bevil Granville, who, as he returned from the government of Barbadoes, died at fea. He continued to ferve in parliament; and in the ninth year of queen Anne was. chofen

chofen knight of the fhire for Corn

wall.

At the memorable change of the ministry (1710), he was made fecretary at war, in the place of Mr. Robert Walpole.

Next year, when the violence of party made twelve peers in a day, Mr. Granville became Lord Lanfdown Baron Biddeford, by a promotion juftly remarked to be not invidious, because he was the heir of a family in which two peerages, that of the earl of Bathe and lord Granville of Potheridge, had lately become extinct. Being now high in the Queen's favour, he (1712) was appointed comptroller of the household, and a privy counsellor; and to

his other honours was added the dedication of Pope's Windfor Foreft. He was advanced next year to be treasurer of the household.

Of these favours he foon loft all but his title; for at the acceffion of king George his place was given to the earl Cholmondeley, and he was perfecuted with the rest of his party. Having protefted against the bill for attainting Ormond and Bolingbroke, he was, after the infurrection in Scotland, feized Sept. 26, 1715, as a fufpected man, and confined in the Tower till Feb. 8, 1717, when he was at last released, and restored to his feat in parliament; where (1719) he made a very ardent and animated fpeech against the repeal of the bill to

pre

prevent Occafional Conformity, which however, though it was then printed, he has not inferted into his works.

Some time afterwards (about 1722), being perhaps embarraffed by his profufion, he went into foreign countries, with the ufual pretence of recovering his health. In this ftate of leifure and retirement, he received the firft volume of Burnet's Hiftory, of which he cannot be fupposed to have approved the general tendency, and where he thought himself able to detect fome particular falfehoods. He therefore undertook the vindication of general Monk from some calumnies of Dr. Burnet, and some mifrepresentations of Mr. Echard. This was anfwered civilly by Mr. Thomas

Burnet,

Burnet and Oldmixon, and more roughly by Dr. Colbatch.

His other historical performance is a defence of his relation Sir Richard Greenville, whom lord Clarendon has fhewn in a form very unamiable. So much is urged in this apology, to justify many actions that have been represented as culpable, and to palliate the reft, that the reader is reconciled for the greater part; and it is made very probable that Clarendon was by perfonal enmity difpofed to think the worst of Greenville, as Greenville was also very willing to think the worft of Clarendon. Thefe pieces were published at his return to England.