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 the sety of London bye it and mak a presant of it to put in

the Queen's Crown You know your grandfather's

Burlen [sic), they say he put ten thoussand pd in the lottry and lost it all, and is really worth forty thousand pd ; what straing luck som people hav, he always was of a generus temper. I wonder how he got his ritchis, his wife was my mother's woman, and the best creeture that ever was, but dyed in a year after she was marryed, and he a wedoer ever

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[Peter Wentworth.]

19 December, 17 10. Dear Brother,



The town talk of a world more officers that are to be out and have give Cadogan's regiment of Horse to Lord Windsor,

but Mr. L tells me there's to be no more, and as for

Cadogan he knows he had clear himself from being Guilty of such indiscrestion as th' other three Gentlemen.

There's some people talk pretty freely of lord Stairs as to his coming quite about, and some whisper as if they suspect him to be an informer. Lord Orrery as a friend to the Duke of Argile and his being to have Meredith regiment is but into the same clase, but I can't tell where is the scandal of in- forming, if the matter of their information be true. I have sent you the last Medley, wch is a very impudent paper, but carries the sence of those that seem not to approve of the dismission of these officers. There's several has made intersestion for Honneywood to be restord as a young man that might be drawn in, but 'tis thought he can't be pardon'd without th' others. He and Mackcartney are to sell for 2,500, and Merideth for 3,500, wch Lord Orerry can well afford to give for he can sell his for more mony. 'Tis talk't affresh

now that the Duke of M wou'd command the Army next

year, and they say Lord Rivers going again to Hanover makes it plain he was very well received there, not with stand reports to the contrary ; and now he goes with con- firmation of what the Elector agreed to, wch is supposed to take the command of the Army in Flanders upon him, and

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