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 I was, however, grieved by the bad accounts of my lady's health. She continued poorly, and my lord thinking she would be better in the country, took a furnished house at Richmond, about four miles from London, where she was shortly after delivered of a dead child. Her recovery was long doubtful; and by the doctors advice, my lord went with her to spend the summer at Clifton, near the Bristol hot-wells; which seemed to me like a sentence of death; for it is there that people who have consumptions are, if able to afford it, sent to die. But it pleased God, that my lady should not be taken from her family so soon.

By the time that I was able to go to Clifton, which was about the middle of July, I found her restored almost to her usual health. I could then only walk on crutches, but I was so wearied of doing nothing, that I was very anxious to resume my duty; and as I had one of my