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 LETTERS OF LADY WENTWORTH. 4/

Twickenham, /z/«^ 15, 1705. Lady Ellenor Hollis and a nother of the Duke of New- castle sisters has bought your little hous hear. The young Lady Blunt livs the next doar to it at Mrs. Clarcks, and one that livs very high and has a very fyne coach and leverys has bought Mr. Ryly's house, they call him Captain Goar. My cossin hear take great delight in fishing, and ketch many ; they say the pond by the syde of your Hand has many fish, but some say its nothing but vermin, they tryed but could gett none thear. Mr. Johnson ses you will repent your not takin his advyse to doe it up for he ses it will stinck soe that it will be very offensiv to the hous, and unholsom

August 14, 1705. My dearist and best of children, I think I forgott to tell you in my last that my neaphew Batthurst has bought Cobhom, Lady Cornberry's estate ; it is a great one and thear is as great a hous upon it as St. Jamsis, it is forty seven thousand pd *. . . . The night before last was an exstreem wynde has broak one of your windos in your dynin room quite down, and every windoe in myn a little. Lady Over- kirk's one I se is quite down and many more broak ; I hear thear is a market boat and seven people drownd. . . . '

[P.S.] Sir William Umble t dyed last Sunday night.

August 21, 1705. .... I wish insteed of thees lodgins you had such a prety hous, and as well furnished as hers (Mrs. Hanbury's, her niece's). They have a lees for five year of it ; thear is a little garden, a gravel walk in the midle, and a gras walk of each syde, at the end an arber the hole breadth of the garden, and

Clarendon, from the Stewarts, Dukes of Richmond and Lennox. Her daughter married John Bhgh, first Earl of Darnley, and Cobham is still in the hands of the last-named family ; so Lady Went worth must have been misinformed about the sale of that estate.
 * Cobham descended to Lady Cornbury, afterwards Countess of

t Sir William Humble was buried at Twickenham August 18.

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