whether she would recover from her confinement, wrote out a draft of a will. Lord Marlborough had given her £7000 to dispose of. Among her intended legacies was £500 to release poor people from prison, which is a testimony to her compassion and kindness of heart. The following anecdote shows her in a different light.

About this time a family group of the Marlboroughs was painted by Clostermann. Horace Walpole in his "Anecdotes of Painting" says that the artist had so many differences with Lady Marlborough that her lord remarked, "It has given me more trouble to reconcile my wife and you than to fight a battle." Clostermann's art was not considered of the highest order, so perhaps Sarah's criticisms were justified.

About a year after Princess Anne received her grant, she, out of gratitude for all Lady Marlborough had done in the matter, surprised Sarah with the very kind offer of a pension of £1000 a year. Sarah says that at this time their circumstances were not very great, but she would not "catch at so large an offer" without first consulting her friend Lord Godolphin. He gave it as his opinion that there was no reason in the world why she should not accept it, as he believed it was chiefly owing to the support Lord and Lady Marlborough had given the princess, that she obtained her settlement.

Lord Godolphin, the lifelong friend of Lord and Lady Marlborough, had spent all his life at court. He first began as page to the Duke of York, later he became groom of the bedchamber to King Charles, which post he subsequently sold for £4550 to obtain another, "the place of the robes," from Mr. Hyde.

Although not a man of brilliant abilities, Godolphin possessed excellent business qualities. Bishop Burnet considered him one of the worthiest and wisest men of