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 LETTERS OF PETER WENTWOKTH. 20 =

��Letters addressed to tJic Earl of STRAFFORD, at Utrecht and the Hague. November, 171 1 — December, 17 14.

[Peter Wentwortil]

Hampton Covvct, November 2, 171 1. Dear Brother,

Since I have been here I have had but one oppor- tunity of seeing your house at Twittenham, the building secm'd to go on faster then the work in the Garden, tho' that was pretty well advanced since I saw it. Ever since you left me I have waited close at Windsor and here to make up for my absence before, so that at court I here less news then at London, yet because I think it a long while to be without corresponding with you I shall endeavour to entertain you with the little I have, espicially now the Queen is fain ill of the Gout, that I don't know when I shall be in London. My Lord Treasurer has been ill for two or three Councels before we came from Windsor, they say he's better, but not yet able to come here, some will have it a politick sickness to avoid sollicitations at the Treasurery &c. I suppose you know what Count Galliash is order'd away for, yet however wanting other news I shall tell you what I hear here, that when the Secretary of State sent him the proposals of the french for Peace, to communicate to his Master, he sent them that night to the daily Courrant, wch printed them the next morning. 'Twas certain Stock fell upon their being publish't, and since that they say he has not been very mannerly in his Expres- sions towards the Queen. There was a letter he writ to Lord Dartmouth I hear was taken very ill. I heard before the disgrace of the Count that the forreign Ministers thought they were not used well by our Secretarys to be sent these proposals of the french not till two posts after you was gone, so that they said their Master's Minister at the Hague as soon as you came there wou'd know them and give an account to

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