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Rh knew any prosecution of that nature take effect; he knew of a person who was prosecuted for building a meeting-house, but upon his submission and promise to leave itt off the prosecution was stopt, and as soon as the prosecution was stopt he went on again. Itt was built, and had been preacht in ever since in open defiance of the law.

The question was then putt and every body continued in the same mind they were off before. I believe I cou'd recollect some other passages in the long transactions of this bill, but I'm afraid I have tir'd your Lordship already, and I'm going to night out of town, and 'tis already dark.

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June 25, 1714.

My Lord,

I who have had the honour to write to you formerly am not a Person who write for mony; but have the happiness to be entrusted with the instruction of a Relation of your Lordship's, and among us we endeavour to pick up what Parliamentary and Domestick news we can. Different persons are now forming to themselves different schemes, some think that Lord Treasurer will be cashired, and that Lord Bolingbroke will be made Lord Treasurer, that Sir Wm. Windham will be made a Lord and Secretary of State, and Mr. Campain who was lately one of the Comm. of accounts, Chancellour of the Exchequer, and Sir Const. Phipps is to come out of Ireland to be made Attorney General; others talk as if the D. of Somerset was to be Master of the Horse again. The whole discourse of the Town now runs upon those impudent methods that have been used in listing Souldiers for the Pretender. There has been a very sad discovery of one Capt. Hew who was listing Souldiers for the Pretender in Town. One of the Queen's Messengers disguised himself under pretence of listing himself in the Pretender's service, and being appointed by this Capt. Hew to meet him at a certain place