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 greatist I shall have will be your dear letters, which ar always a joy unexspresable to me. Thear is a story goes for truith that Lady Harryot Vear shows a contract of Mr. Anslow's under his hand and seal ; its said he has offered her five thoussand pd. or an enewety of five hundred a year for her lyfe, but she can recover half his wiv's fortune, he has laitly marryd a great fortune Mrs, Knight.*

��Letters of Peter Wentworth, and of Lady Wentwortii, to Lord Raby, at Berlin, 1708-1711.

London, December 21,1 708. Dear Brother,

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At last I have got some town news for you. Tis said Tom Anslow is put into a terrible fright, for there's a lady, now he's married to the Indian Queen claims him and her fortune, which she says the law will give her, for she has a contract under his hand and seal of marriage, which she will a year to be quiet, but 'tis thought she will have twice as much from him, and so 'twill end. Lady Harriot Vere is the Lady and 'tis said Tom Anslow was really so much in love with her as to intend to marry her, till he found or at least thought she had an intrigue with Lord Chancelor.t I think here's a pretty deal of scandal for one letter,

[P,S,] 'Tis not your Addison but his brother that goes secretary to lord Wharton, as Mr, Addison told me yesterday himself I told him he wou'd do well to get this place for his brother.

of " Mr. Knight, of Jamaica."
 * Thomas Onslow, son of the Speaker, Sir Richard, married a daughter

t Lord Somers, whose character was otherwise stainless (to which let Swift's dedication to him of A Tale of a Tub bear witness), was not noted for the rigidity of his morals.

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