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[Peter Wentworth.]

Windsor, July 25, 17 12. Dear Brother,

The best news I can send you from this place is that the Queen is very well. She din'd at Hampton Court a Tuesday, and the next day in the evening she came here, yesterday went out to take the air in her chaises in this forest. She has the use of her limbs more then I have known her for this 5 or 6 years past. The news you send us from Utrecht from the French Plenpos there is flattly contradicted by our news writers, the Post man, &c., and I find there's great ones seems doubtfull who to believe, a little time will show the truth. I don't care to name people's names, but I heard a great man that expects a Garter, and who the Duke of

A says won't become one, tell another great man that he

saw in the Dutch Gazet that Lord Strafford was to have a Garter, and told it as I thought with an air of dissatisfaction ; and I believe the person he said it to thought as I did by his answere, which was " Your lordship knows everything is not true that's in the Dutch Gazet." . . A When I was at Hampton Court I went to walk in your gardens at Twittenham, which are very pleasant, and your stables are fine pile of buildings, and makes a good show from the water. J

[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

July 29, 1 7 12.

I crept out a little more into the world last Sunday to Windsor, where I heard nothing but of people's deaths. My Lady Greenville of an apoplexy playing at Cards with the Duchess of Ormond at Richmond, the Duke of Leeds of convulsions at My Lady Lempster's in Northamptonshire as he was going into the North, and Lord Fitzharding I found struck with a palsie at Windsor, lame all of one side and almost speechless. I din'd at Lord Paulet's, and hearing there was to be a Council resolv'd to stay till Monday to be

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