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Bertie, whose wife had inherited the manor of Stanwell,1Lysons, Middlesex Parishes, 264-5. sat as a Tory for Middlesex, where he had ‘a great and well established’ interest.2Duke of Chandos to Bertie, 14 Mar. 1722, Chandos letter bks. From 1715 he voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. On 22 Nov. 1724 he seconded a motion for an inquiry into the outrages committed by outlaws in Wapping under the pretext of sheltering for debt,3Knatchbull Diary. becoming a member of the committee set up to conduct this inquiry.4CJ, xx. 352-3. He did not stand in 1734, dying 18 Oct. 1735.