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wou'd be sent in his instead {sic), but upon Sir Thomas Parker's being made lord cheif justice, and the Queen's speech at the rising of the ParHament, that vanish't. I can't recollect whether at the time I writ you this, if I did not 'twas omitted by my illness, tho I think I did writ you how the Duke of Argile had ingratiated himself by declaring to the Queen that he wou'd seeze any persons she pleased to command, and some say carried his speech so far as to say he wou'd bring her their head, and then he and his brother voted in the tryal as desired. Wch puts me in mind to repeat what I remember I did writ to you from Epsom, wch I now do to confirm you that the Tryal gave great offence at court, and was a stumbling block to the late ministry, and all that adhered to them. The account I had from old Coll. Corn- well, who I went to see at his house at Biflit. He told me he was to see Lord Kent,* and he seem'd to be in a great perplexity how to vote in the Doctor's tryal ; Cornwell told him the surest way to know the Queen's mind was to ask her himself He took his advise, and the Queen told him she thought the Commons had reason to be sattisfied that they had made their allegations good, and the mildest pun- ishment inflicted upon the Docter she thought the best. He went away, and voted for the severist. Cornwell went to him the next day, and when he told him what he had done, Cornwell told him he might expect to have his key sent for very soon. The Duke said no, 'twas the wisest thing he had done a great while, notwithstanding he knew he had acted

against Q n's opinion, for he had such fresh assurance

given him upon that subject that cou'd not fail ; but Cornwell was in the right and his Lordship deceived, as he own to him

afterwards but told him the Q had dismist him with all

the marks of kindness, and promises of doing anything for him he cou'd ask. Then Cornwell said to him 'twas his business to ask something; he said he cou'd think of nothing but one thing, wch was that his Lady might be of the Bed-

Ruthyn, He was created Duke of Kent in April, 1710.
 * Henry Grey, twelfth Earl of Kent, descended from the Greys de

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