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[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

February 27, 17 13.

I wish your Lordship much joy of your daughter, and tho' I wish't at my heart, it might be a son, yet I hope you will live to see her a satisfaction, and an honour to you, and your family, and that you will soon come over, after finishing that great affair, in order to a son. They send me word My Lady is very well and I hope she will continue soe. It is generally said the Parliament will sit to do business if anything can be believ'd after soe many delays, but the funds being near expiring makes it every day more necessary. I am much concern'd when I hear of any Lords' discontents, for fear of another inundation of peers. They say the Queen looks very well after the tedious fit of the gout she hath had, and it is thought she will be at the house on Tuesday. My Lady Portland is going into Holland with a prospect of finishing her troublesome law suit, where I fear she will not find many friends besides your Lordship. I wish her success with all my heart. There is such running after my Lord Carbery's rich daughter, as you never saw. My Lord Lumley makes the greatest bustle, but whether the most in favour, I doe rtot know. My Lord Winchester and Lord Hertford are alsoe in pursuit. I believe your Lordship was very sory for Lord Cornbury, and Captain Powell should be condol'd with. It was a melancholy thing to see such a young man drop. His sister will be a fortune by this, and I have heard that My Lord Ashburnham likes her, but have not heard whether enough to think of marrying. My Lord Paget is dead and hath left all he could from his son to his housekeeper.

[Peter Wentworth.]

London, March 3, 17 13. Dear Brother,

Altho' last Saturday Lord T shook several country

gentlemen, members of the house of Commons, by the hand,

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