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 your Lordship may have a son next year and every year till you are weary is the sincere wish of yours &c.

��April—, 1 7 13.

I congratulate your Lordship with all my soul upon the peace, which generally people seem to be glad of, and I believe some who put on an uneasy countenance are pleas'd and approve it in their hearts, but I am happyer in it then most people, being always a true well wisher, that it might succeed in your hands.

The parliament meets now without fail on Thursday, and they hope that two months will dispatch the business, but the

gentlemen will have a disappointment in being eas'd

the shilling which would be [so] popular a thing that I wish heartily two could be taken off of the land, but that cannot be without a further mortgage, and all those excise taxes are soe expensive in the gathering that they doe not near answer what they are given for. I hope it will not be long now before you will come to take your rest a little in your own countrey and see as much happyness as you can desire, which cannot be more then is wish't you by your Lordships real servant. I hear there is a Councell to night, but I could not goe having been out of town all day and [returned ?] too late for it.

[Peter Wentworth.]

London, April 6, 17 13. Dear Brother,

Last Friday we received the news of peace being sign'd by the Dutch, with a great deal of joy, but I did not writ that post because I staid to hear what people said of it abroad. The next day I went to Court, there ever>' body was mightily pleased, and a world of members of the house of Commons wish't me joy of the glory you had in bringing this great affair about ; even some that used to say " damn the Dutch, no matter if they sign or no," express their satis-

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