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 532 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

dismal widower, I am not at all surprised at it (for I allways thought him a most dismal stupid man). Lady Anne desires her duty to your Lordship and thanks you vastly for the hare which was a very fine one ; Lady Hariot also desires her duty and I hope Dear Papa will doe me the Justice to believe I am with the utmost trueth his

Most Affectionet and most

Dutifull Daughter,

��[Peter Wentworth.]

Kensington, November y^, \72>7- Dear Brother,

The Queen being so often reported dead when she was alive, made me desire you wou'd not believe her dead till you heard it from me, which I sincerely wish't I might never live to tell you, for she was wanted in this world, I am not ; but so is my hard fate, that I am obliged to tell you that the best of Queens died Sunday night between ten and ii. The King talk't of going next day to this place, but P. Emelia

and Caroline being so ill as to keep their beds, Sir R. W

and the Duke of Graffton perswaded him to keep at St. James'. The Lord Chamberlain has order'd all the servants that are in waiting shall do their duty every day from 12 at noon till hours for dinner, this to be continued till she's bury'd ....

Kensington, December i, 1737. Dear Brother,



The Queen made no will that I believe, saying all she had was from the King, so she wou'd leave it all to him. They say there was more policy in this then love, for the world will never know what she dyed worth. After she was speechless a little while before she dyed she pulled off her rings and put them into the King's hands. There was a chattering lady condemned that, but I see nothing worthy of

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