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much longer at Windsor, it will be well if some of her cabinet councell are not drown'd for I never saw ways soe full of water as they were last week. I know noe greater pennance then lying at Windsor; I came back heartily tired. You see what was done at Council, a proclamation for Macartney, and another for the election of a new peer in Scotland. The D, of Richmond's house was search'd for Macartney and the Committee of Cabinet sent for him to acquaint him with it, out of respect, but he takes it another way, and says they have noe right to send for anybody but in matters of treason. I think the D. of Marlborough is gone at last. The reason is yet a mistery, and I have often reflected upon what a great minister told you concerning him, which I cannot believe. That Duke stay'd at Sir Harry Furnesses for a wind, and now I hear Sir Harry is dead.* The Whigs drop off apace, and the town grows more dull if possible then ever, and I find myself soe much soe that it is fit I should hasten to the assurance of my being as much as ever yours, &c.

��[Lady Strafford.]

St. James's Square, Dece?nber i6, 1712.

.... I receaved the half pound of Bohea tea and 'tis extremly good. Here cam yesterday to me a warrent for a fatt doe out of Windsor Park ; I believe 'tis your fee upon being in the Admiralty, for it came from that ofhce.f They say the instalment will not be yet. I think I ought not to have writ so long a letter to you to day, for I am sure you'll have a very long won from Lady Wentworth with very great lamentation ; for her monkey is dead. I have been

as little merry as I could sence, for Lady W was so much

troubled about it that she was realy angry if I laughed, and

wich.
 * Sir Henry Furness was a London alderman, and member for Sand-

t On Dec. 30 Lady Strafford writes : — " The Commissers of the Vitelling Office sent here last week a doz. of tongues and a doz. of marybon's as your fee of being in the Admiralty."

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