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 you, for wch be pleased to accept my humble thanks. The Lords presented their address yesterday to the Queen ; her Answere I suppose you'll have from the office. Wednesday the Commons order'd an addre.ss to the same purpose, 'twas mov'd by Mr. Stanhope, and seconded by Auditor Harley, for fear some Whig shou'd second. There was a profound silence for some time in the house, but it was agreed to by all but Sir Wm. Whitelock,* who told them he cou'd not be for that Address because he remember'd in Oliver Cromwell's time, when he obliged France to banish the person Charles Stuart, it hastened on his Glorious Restauration, wch follow'd in a year and a half afterward. The Speaker went out of the house, so the house was adjourn'd till to day; malicious people reported 'twas a Politick sickness, to hear first what answere the Queen gave the Lords, before their Address [should i*] be reported to the house. Mr. Stanhope's friends think he had not fair play, he having first moved it, and debated it, that he was not put into the chair in the Committee that was to draw up the Address, but that they shou'd choose Mr. Harley, contrary to the known rules of the house. They tell me there was some debate in the house of Lords, upon the Queen's Answere to them, but what it was I shall not know till to morrow.


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��[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

July 3, 1713. I must begin with my thanks to your Lordship for your willingness to lend me your house at Twitnam if I had occasion for it, which I take as I ought to doe, extream kindly, but I am very cautious how I trouble my friends, and always very fearful, least they should suffer by their kindness to me by my own or my servants' ill luck or neglect. I have taken

Addresses referred to in this and the preceding letter urged certain steps to be taken against the Pretender.
 * Of Henley, for many years member for Oxford University. The

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