Journal of Robert Fulke Greville. Volume 3, Summary narrative connected with the appointment of Robert Fulke Greville between the years 1781 and 1819 as Equerry and as Groom of the Bedchamber to His Majesty.

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of Her Majesty having the care of the Person of The King should now be granted to H. R. H: The Duke of York & Albany (as Custos) during His Majesty's Indisposition and likewise the powers vested in Her late Majesty in relation to the Application of His Majesty's Privy Purse or Revenues of the Dutchy of Lancaster were at this time vested in the Duke of York--and new Pensions payable out of the Privy Purse were to be authorized by the Duke of York-- Thus was the Question of the Reduction in His Majesty's Windsor Establishment, brought forward in Parliament by Lord Castlereagh, refer'd to an up-Stairs Committee of The House of Commons, & from thence reported on in The House of Commons-- By this course Ministers got rid of their responsibility, & thus The Windsor Establishment, tumbled out with no great tenderness, in its precipitate fall, had not their helping hand to render it less severe, and the respect they were afterwards ^ [[addition]] desireous of [[/underline]] Shewing to the decisions of the Committee, ingeniously, shelterd them from no inconsiderable portion of censure which their apathy in me assures


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