Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bute” in chapter 16 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:
...ond died suddenly of apoplexy; and on the morning of the twenty-fifth day of October, 1760, his grandson, the pupil of Leicester House, then but twenty-two years of age, while riding with the Earl of Bute , was overtaken by a secret message that he was king.
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