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Rh him, not thinking him enough of their side, and his insincerity daily lost him ground, but some say My Lord Trevor, not Lord Bolingbroke, would have had the chief credit. The time was not fix'd yesterday for the funerall. If I thought your Lordship was to come with our new King it would revive me extreamly, but I doe not know what to wish, till you inform me which way you incline, for that will always be a rule to yours, &c.

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, August 17, 1714.

Dear Brother,

'Twas with a great deal of pleasure I heard the King had writ you a gracious letter, because there was a great many in this town did fancy you wou'd be neglected by him. I can't fancy myself very sanguine by hoping for something better then a Querry; if it was not for the Act of Limitation there might be some danger of losing that, and as my circumstances is it might give me some uneasiness, tho' in reality I shou'd not loose much, for 'twou'd be more expensive to be Querry to him, then to the Good Queen.

Till the Act of P—— is explain'd none but a native born English man can have any employment civill nor military, nor a seat in P——t; the judges' opinion have not been ask't in this matter since the Death of the Queen, but was ask't when the Act past to impower the Queen to leave Kingsenton to Prince George, and then one half was of opinion that the Act did not intend any retrospection, and the other half was of a contrary opinion, and therefore there was a clause in that Act to except him notwithstanding he was not born in England. I have sent you a copy of what the Daily Currant of yesterday says among other things was contain'd in your speech to the states. My lord Windsor was criticising upon the word Acquir'd Right, it shou'd have been undoubted, but he hopes the Daily Currant has mistaken and that what you writ was not, so tho' I have heard others that I am sure is better scollars think the word acquire very well and proper