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against Foreigners setting in either house or having Employ Civil or Military he, was in this Act excepted.

I hope the resolution you have taken of staying to see the King first will prove for the best, and am glad to find you have had the same thoughts of the bedchamber as I, but if you don't bring it about I shall despair of it, for the Duke of Shrewsbury has so many people flocking about him, that there's no speaking to him now, I have been to see yet but four of the Kings, Shrewsbury, Kent, Halifax, and Abington ; the two or three others I intend to wait upon is Argile, Dart- mouth, and Somerset. If I may be of the Bedchamber they will have a Querry to dispose of If it be my hard Fate only to continue Querry I shall loss the Pension the Queen wou'd have continued to me till she had given me some thing else better, for all the Querrys had some other Place. I am not at liberty to deliberate wch is best, to go over or stay here

for the Arrival of the King, for by Act of P all her Late

Majesty's servants are obliged to take the oath of office to the King, wch I have done. 'Tis expected that we shou'd attend the funeral wch is thought will be within a fortnight, all the servants are order'd to wait as they did in her life time till she's under ground. My sister A[rundell] has had much setting up and has behaved herself with much more decency after the Breath was out of the Queen's Body then any of the bedchamber women. She's well spoken on by every body, I have heard it mention'd by people that did not know me. Lady Masham, Mrs. Hill and Danvers are cry out upon for their behaviour; tho' they roar'd and cry'd enough whilst there was life, but as soon as there was none they took care of themselves.

Mons"" Bothmar has been all over Lady Masham's lodgings in St. James's and I hear her goods are to be removed very soon

[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

August 31, 1 7 14. I am asham'd to have let a post goe, tho' but one, without my thanks for your Lordship's kind letter of the 31st new

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