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satisfaction in hoping to see your Lordship here next year and show you quite a new scene about the House. I have cut throw one of the Hills and lett in a View up one of the Diagonals which terminates upon a little building which I have erected ; next summer I shall build another to answer the other Diagonal and cut thro' that Hill, and by removing part of the Hill before the House in the straight line I shall have a View of the Park which I propose to sett off a little with some proper Ornaments. All this levelling work will not amount to above 50 or 60/. and the situation of the House will appear as good again as it does at present. I have brought a considerable quantity of stone and lay'd it round that stand in the great Centre of my wood, that when some unskillfull person sees it, he may be convinc'd that wooden machine was not erected with a design to remain, but only for a trial to see what height and size v/ou'd be proper for the stone-building ; having done this I may lett my stone lie there as long as Lord Bristol has left his for the building of his House. I waited upon My Lord Chancellour [Talbot] a little time ago who has a pretty place about 12 miles off, but a sad House, and finds himself oblig'd to build. He has not begun yet, he has very good stone near him but he is so surrounded with Common fields that I think he cant possibly make a great thing of it, but it may be made a pretty thing. The Park may be made like yours at Boughton and he has a pretty river runs by one side of it. It is just such a kind of place which I beleive your Lordship will agree with me can't possibly make a noble seat, like Wentworth Castle, Castle Howard, &c. My Lord Chancellour is very fond of.sports, and he has a fine Country about him for that purposej

Having nothing more to send your Lordship from hence I shall only beg leave to make my Compliments to Lady Strafford the young Ladies and Lord Wentworth, and I beg your Lordship to tell him that if he likes hunting he must come here to see it in perfection ; you have nothing like it in Yorkshire except upon the Wolds, which is too far from you. I'm sure I coud entertain him here in the hunting- season to his satisfaction.

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