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money, if he had occasion, but his answer was that he wanted for nothing, tho I am apt to think his circumstances are not plentifull.

Your Lordship will wonder to hear I have sold Cane Wood. A Lord Blantire of Scotland offer'd me 4,000 pounds for it, which I thought worth hearkening to, considering the little time I stay out of town, and that a place of half that sum might serve me. I wish I may get a house in your neigh- bourhood of Twitnam, for I was always fond of that part of the country. I am still at Cane Wood, but would be glad to remove since it is none of my own. It seems 'tis the D. of Argyle hath bought it under another name, and I am desir'd to stay till the goods are valued, part of which he desires to buy. I forgot to tell you that soon after you went, I met Lord Treasurer who with a shake by the hand, told me that our friend My Lord Strafford was got well into Holland. I was not sory to find that he knew I had the happyness of such a friend. The new Duke of Leeds is enrag'd at his father's will, who hath leapt over him to leave his estate to his son, and he threatens to pull him out of his coach. I could not but be sory for the success the French have lately had, but am not at all soe for the Dutch being humbled who seem'd for some years to have lost the tramontane, and to forget what they and their neighbours were. I hope we shall soon be happy in a peace and noe circumstance in it Avill please me more then the honour you are like to gain by it.

��[Peter Wentworth.]

Windsor, August 17, 17 12.

��Dear Brother,

��Friday day last we had an account that for certain my Lord Rivers was dead, and it was so firmly believed at London that Capt. Dilkes writ me word 'twas certainly true. My Lord Cardigan at the waiting room mention the report to my Lord Treasurer, and his answere was, 'twas not true, for he had a letter from him a Tuesday last, and that he was

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