Page:The Wentworth Papers 1715-1739.djvu/365

 lovvby is made Dean of Windsor. Mons"" Pless has been in with the Queen three or four times, and staid longer then some people cou'd wish.

We have had horse races, and Lord Portland has been bubled out of his mony ; little Lord Essex was very much concerned for his uncle, and for the ten guineas he had lost of his side.

[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

August 18, 17 13. My Lord,

The joy I always have at the sight of your letters was cool'd when I found your Lordship was indispos'd with a feavorish distemper, which I shall be impatient to hear hath left you. I sincerely doe not know how your garden at Twitnam could be lay'd out better then it is, but my skill is not great. The house I think full enough for the extent of ground, and the use you will make of it, never designing to settle there ; but I cannot approve of some wooden urns painted like stone, ready to be set up before the house, for it looks too paltry for My Lord Strafford not to afford real stone. I sent to Mr. Launce whom I have always imploy'd to goe to Mr. Ellison, but he is out of town for three weeks. As soon as he comes back, he shall goe, but since you give me leave to speak my mind I think your house in the Square needs noe addition, and should be afraid such a room as you have a mind to, should darken it, and such a piece of ground as you have for a garden is such an advantage in a town crowded with buildings, that it is pity to lessen it, and after all My Lord Portland's great room is dark and unpleasant, but you know best what will please you. I went yesterday to counsel at Windsor, where a proclamation was order'd for the parliament's meeting the 12th of November. There I met with abundance of news, Mr. Bromley Secretary, Lord Dart- mouth Privy Seal, and a face I did not know with a white Staf, whom I soon heard to be Sir John Stonehouse They nam'd the new Lord for some place that I have quite forgot,

�� �