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 468 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

Hampton Covrt, July 22, 1731. Dear Brother,

Here am I at the fountain head of news, and know no more then when I was at London, as to what you want to know whether the King goes to York ; but I have given my self airs among some as if you were making preparations to receive him. The Marquise de Mermond you know is every day with them, he told me, that tho' there was yet no orders for the King's going it might happen that he might go, and he knew the King design'd to lye at Lord Malton's and it might well happen, he might breakfast with you the next day. You are nearer York so he cou'd not so well lie at your house. He talks that 5 or 6 days is soon enough to give orders, when 'tis possitively resolved of When I spoke to Mr. Bloomberg to give me the King's Rout to York, which he has promised me if he went, but he believed he wou'd not. He tells me his mother writes him word all the Northern people are in great expectation of his coming ; and of late nobody but Lady Burlington ventured to speak to the King about it, and then he talked to her as if the first day he sat out he wou'd lye at Notingham. Then Lord Scarborough told him, he ventured to put in his word and say if he intended to have Guards 'twas impossible. My Lord Scarborough so little thinks of it, that's he's gone to his house in Sussex, and I believe as I said in my last, since the King can't go in the manner he wou'd, he won't go at all. The Duke of Graffton is always here, and from the Rumour that still continues in the North of his coming you may make the complyment by him to invite the King to Wentworth Castle, and not cost you one farding. Sir Robert does not come from Northfolk till next Sunday, as Horace told the king yesterday at his levee. The Queen and all the Royal family has been very Gracious to me in their words and looks since I came here. in order to walk with the Queen a little after 6, so that if I was not master of my resolution of never takeing a drop of Wine too much at that Table, I have no opportunity to do it;

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