‘…it grates my soul to take a man into my service that has not only betrayed us, but tricked me several times, one that has been obnoxious to his own countrymen these many years and one that I can never be convinced can be of any use. (‘Letters from Queen Anne to Godolphin’)
Queen Anne; James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry; John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll