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 534 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

��[Lady Lucy Wentworth.]

'Lo'imO'H, December 21^, ly ■^7.

Tho 'tis allvvays a sincere pleasure to me to write to my Dear Papa yet I own when I consider'd I had nothing in the world to say it mortified me extreemly till I reflected I was to dine at Lady Kay's and then I thought if I stay'd till I came home, I cou'd not fail of preducing some news, but I find I have stay'd for little purpose. We had a very gentle pritty dinner, and her gentleman very well dress'd ; she was very sorry you was not of the party. She told us of Lady Kenoul's good luck ; somebody spoke in her favour to the Queen just before she dyed, but the goodness she intended her was by her majesty's death prevented, but now it has been told the King, he said he was sencible by not knowing Lord Oxford much he had not behaved to him so well as he deserv'd, but he hoped to make him some amends by emediatly ordering Lady Kenoul a pension of 600/. a year, and to be paid her and my lord to have nothing to doe with it.* She's coming up to town to return the King her thanks. 'Tis thought their won't be any settled drawing rooms till the twelf day and new years day is over, because the King chooses to avoid seeing so much company as are allways at court on those days. Lord Vane keeps a Lady in the country, so he's now easy without my Lady, but she's comeing to town from the Bath, and says she's sure she can behave in a manner that will make her be esteem'd as well as ever. Poor Lady Kay has got all her trumperys together to be ready to wait on the Prince and Princess a Sunday, but I fancy, tho' she'll spare no pains, she'll hardly rival Lady Archibald. If this frosty weather continues I conclude you'll make your visets on foot to Lady Anne Hervy, but I doubt she'll never return

feeling for the loss of a fathere, but own'd he lived in such dayly agony of somthing even worse then death befalling him .... 'twas a mercy it pleased God to take him."

of Robert Harley, afterwards Lord Treasurer and Earl of Oxford.
 * The Earl of Kinnoull married, in 1709, Abigail, youngest daughter

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