They had one son, Wriothesley, who succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Bedford in 1700, and died of small-pox, in 1711, in the 31st year of his age.

He was chosen to the care of the congregation at Bedford on December 12, 1671.

He hopes it will lick Bedford at Rugger and Malvern at cricket, but he rather bets it won't.

Our course was then directed round Cape Bedford towards Lizard Island.

" "Another Trait of the P. of Wales's Respectful Conduct is that at an assembly he beckoned to the poor old Dutchess of Bedford across a large Room, and, when she had taken the trouble of crossing the Room, he very abruptly told her he had nothing to say to her.

He was well, and he was still in England, in training at Bedford with his regiment, the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.

Ned Parker had been wrecked off the Horn, the crew took to their boats, and only one boat, with one surviving man to tell the tale, was picked up by a whaler coming back to New Bedford from the Pacific; all the rest were gone.

[Footnote 1: H. Jansen, a celebrated gamester, who cheated the Duke of Bedford of an immense sum: Pope hints at that affair in this line, Or when a duke to Jansen punts at White's.]