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 538 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

Bomont, Lord Cornbery, Lord Cobham, Mr. Poultney, and Sir William Windham. I thought it scandelouse for such a woman as she to be rediculing the King and the poor Queen. .... a Dieue my Dear ever yours.

��[Lord Wentworth.]

LONBO'N, /a7!uary lo, 173S.

My Lord,

It was with great pleasure I receive last night a letter from your Lordship in the Keyonick (sic) stile ; I think you succeeded in it vastly for it contain'd a good deal in few Avords, and just in her ladyship's way of expressing herself,

only yours was a greal deal easier to be found out

I must begin with a very odd story that my mother heard at Mr. Scawen's and he is very possitive about it, but niether she nor I believe it, because she has heard of it from nobody else. A Saturday night between one and two a clock the King waked out of a dream very uneasy and order'd the vault where the Queen is to be broke open immetiatly and to have the marble coffin also open'd, and went in a hackney chair thro' the horse guards to Westminster Abbey, and went down into the vault and stood and consider'd her coffin very attentively a good while and then w^ent back again to bed. I think it the strangest thing that could be, for it was im- possible for the King to think she was not there, and besides it must have shock'd him so that he would not have come to chapel as he did with no alterations in his looks.

��January 12, 1738.

The story about the King I believe was true, for Mr. Wallop told me he heard of one that saw him go thro' the Horse Guards a Saturday night with ten footmen before his chair, and he went towards Westminster .... There is copy of verses made upon the Duke and the Prince of Wales comparing one to a monkey and the other to a lump of lead.

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