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 it for better for worse as you have don me, and to my dearest soul adieu yours for ever.

[P.S.] .... The Parliament is put of tell friday sevenight most peaple think 'tis because the Scotch members are not yet com up, and they are all of the court party, and the Whiggs are all in town to a man. I have been all this day in search of a Ballet made of Lord Treasurer and Mrs. Oglethorp, but could not get it to send to you.

��[PETER WENTWORTH.]

London, November 2^, 171 1.

��Dear Brother,

��The Queen was at the Chapel last Sunday and was so well as to see company in her bedchamber afterwards. I writ you this good news because some people have made it their business to spread abroad a report as if she was dan- gerously ill.

'Twas very variously reported as to the setting or proroga- tion of the Parliament. I was at the Duke of M levee

this morning, his house is very fine, but 'tis not filled so much with Company as when he was in lodgings. He said the parliament wou'd be prorogued to munday next, but I went after to the Court of request and there I heard from a member of the house of Commons who had it from the speaker that it wou'd be till Thursday or friday sevenight. All the Whigs arc in town, but the Torys that think they have been neglected delay coming. Some say the seting of the house is deferr'd till the coming up of the Scotch, others that till the messenger that was depatch't for Holland from Hampton return.

You desire to hear what the Whigs and Torys say, knowing you have the post Boy, by Abel Rooper, I have sent you this enclosed wch writs in opposition to him. The pamphleet war grows fiercer than ever, and if the Wisdome of the Legislature does not find out some remedy to moderate it, grave people think it may be of ill consequence. It is not yet certainly known who is to be the third Plenipo. Some say Sir Charles Hedges,

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