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A painting of Dorothy Townshend (nee Walpole) sister of England first de facto prime minister Robert Walpole and step-grandmother to Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who degreed the infamous Townshend Acts on the American Colonies.

A passage from Oroonoko where he asks Trefry to provide him with alternate robes befitting a slave so people would not recognize him.