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 488 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

Sir Rowland Winn as they wou'd have been for Sir George Savile, I fancy Lord BurHngton will not be active for him, tho' he may be for Mr. Turner, and am in hopes his people will let Sir Miles have their second votes.

The Dukes of Somerset and Bolton and the Dutchess of Bucks are much our friends, and all of them entirely against the last time. I hope your lordship will give orders about Wakefield, Sheffield, and Barnesley, and what other places occur to you. ^

I am, &c.

��[Godfrey Wentworth.]

WOOLLEY, November if, ^IZl)- My Lord,

I have the favour of your Lordship's letter and beg leave to assure you that I was extreamly concern'd to hear of your indisposition, not only as it deprived us of the honour and credit which our meeting at York would have received from your Lordship's company, but also from the tender regard which I allways desire to express for your lordship's health.

I am obliged to your lordship for the coppy of Mr. Turner's letter which I had not seen before, and by what I learn'd at York did imagine he would not have join'd either party, but have ventured to stand upon his own legs. I atn equally concerned with your lordship that I don't find Sir L. Pilking- ton's name in our list, but am much more so to acquaint you that he appear'd at the head of the other party, byt by what inducements he was drawn over I am really as yet at a loss to conjecture.

I must now beg leave to return your lordship thanks for the kind proposal you made to me at Hutton-pannel, which I have a very gratefull sense of, and should readily have embraced, if the uncertain state of health which I am at pre- sent subject to would permitt me to give that due attendance which I think every person who has the interest of his country

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