Concise and impartial characters of two hundred of the British nobility, officers, civil, military and naval [electronic resource] : With other eminent persons, in England and Scotland, from the revolution to this time. By John Macky, Esq; to which are prefixed, memoirs of the author's secret services, for near forty years, till he died in Holland 1726, where he was sent by Sir Robert Walpole, and by him most generously rewarded. Published from his original manuscripts, and attested by his son, Spring Macky, Esq