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 Lordship may be assur'd you arc always uppermost in my thoughts, being sincerely with the utmost regard and Esteem, &c.

��[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]

[Bruton?] February 14, 1736. My Lord,

After a thousand acknowledgments for your unwear}'ed goodness, give me leave to say I am unjustly complained of, for with what face can I without absolute necessity trouble my nearest friends with letters from such a place as you know this is. Tho' I never stir, it is a pleasure to hear of your motions, because I believe they preserve your health. My Lady Westmerland I have known ever since I was her neigh- bour in Dover street and remember dining with her in your Lordship's green house at Twitnam ; but My Lady Kildare is a much longer acquaintance, your Lordship very justly remarks her great politeness and entertaining conversation, but perhaps you do not know that it is never at the cost of any body she lives with at all civilly ; in this she is strict to a scruple. My Lord Poulet I visit once in a summer, I doe not hear he stirs in matters of election. He is constantly kind to me ; his son I know but little, I may truly say a day seldom passes without my remembring your kind visit here, in a humour that left me noe room for wishes, unless it were for lengthening that happyness. I have sent for the pamph- let that is soe much in vogue, tho I read but few, unless well recommended as this is. I don't know how 'tis in other places, but where I am concerned noe tenants pay, and we must live upon air, tho' moist and unpleasant with the con- tinual rains.

The entertaining letter I have now before me cures all present uneasynesses and I am with the greatest truth &c.

B.

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