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 50 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

October 2, 1705. .... I have bespoak little Hanbury for my husband, for when he is Twenty I shall not be fower scoar as thear is on

laitly of that age has marryed one of Twenty Is cosin

Wentworth* yett com to you, I wish he had Betty. My sister Batthurst givs a great carrector of Johnson's Daughter the great fortune, I wish you had her, or Lady Rachell ; the last I lyke mightely, she has soe much goodnes in her loocks.

��December 14, 1705. My dearist and best of children, — I long to hear you have made your entry. I wish Mr. Powell would givthe discription of it to your brother, then I should have the pleasure of hearing it. My sister Batthurst has been with the Queen and goes abroad again. My neaphew askt me whether any body gave you an acount of the Parlement affairs for he sade if you had it not from better hands he should be glad to have soe good an opertunety of keeping a constant correspondenc without having his letters a trouble to you, and aboundenc of kynde exsprestions. Last night Lord Wesmeath was to see me ; it is in the newspapers now that Lord Bellew is turned prodistant, and the old Boe Feeldingf is maryed to the Dutchis of Cleevland, and she owns it and has kist the Queen's hand senc ; and the young Boe Feelding, he that was king William's page, the Lady Deana Howard, Lord Bradford's Daughter, I think she is ; her Daughter marryed Lord Dudly and has a son. This old lady, for she is near fifty if not quite, is fallen in love with this young Feelding,


 * Sir William Wentworth, of Bretton, near Wakefield.

t " Beau," otherwise Robert, Fielding was " that eminent hero and lover, Orlando the handsome," whose gallant career is fully set forth by Steele in Nos. 50 and 51 of the Tatler. Luttrell has many entries in his Diary about him : 1706, June 29. — Handsome Fielding, that married the Duchess of Cleveland, died yesterday. July 2. — Beau Fielding, not dead as reported. July 25. — Handsome F. committed to Newgate, the Duchess having sworn the peace against him. On the 27th he was bailed out, and on October 24 his wife appeared against him at the Court of Queen's Bench.

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