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well of your good intentions for me and my family, and when people talk Lord Strafford shou'd do so and so for you, my answer is, everybody knows best his own affairs and what good you'll do us, you must take your own time for't. I am sattisfied you love us, and really wash us well

Kensington, August 20, 1734. Dear Brother,



A gentleman told me t'other day that Mr. Delafay was dieing. I knew he had some good places in Ireland and I had my eye upon them, but knew not the names of them ; knew they were sine cures, for he has always lived in England at the Secretary's Office. I was told one of his places was house keeper of Dublin Castle for life, which he had sold lately for three thousand pounds, another called the King's wine taster of Ireland, worth three hundred a year, which I designed to ask of the Queen for the joke sake, for the gentleman told me he had got a grant of the reversion for

his son, a young fellow of twenty. I believe Sir R. W

will sooner lett me have some employment in Ireland then here, if I can have timely notice of some place of three or four hundred a year. I have write to Mr. Conoly to desire he'll order some of his people to look out sharp for me, and give me timely information. I dined yesterday with one Major Farrer a Yorkshire man who was braging how many voters he had brought in for the court, and railed much at his late Coll. Lord Stairs, who had put him by of his right of being major three times ; but was full of his praises and encomiums of Lord Malton, to whom he owed his now being major, for as he ask't nothing for himself he cou'd serve a friend, and he was of so generous a temper that he took a pride in doing so. To his praises of my Lord Malton I heartily join'd with him, for his kindness to George, but as to his invectives against Lord Stairs I was silent, tho' 'tis the fashion now at court to rail at him. He told me all the Whigs had taken a resolution not to appear at York races ; I said we Whigs were generally reckon wise men, and was

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