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 LETTERS OF PETER WENTWORTH. ^J

more happyer ar they, that have a little of thear own to trust to, and to liv quietly by them selvs, lyke Lord Shasbury, then to be lyable to all the turns of state. We have exsessif cold weather, the Keynall is froze every night, and in the morning

the ise is broak for the pore ducks Thear is thre sisters

in law of neic Hanbury's, Lady Ascough's daughters, that will be worth 20,000 a peic, but the youngest of the thre my Lady will giv her ten thoussand more then the other twoe, soe she will be worth thirty thousand pd. She has a great deal of witt, but not very handsom, the second is the han- somist. The youngist was a great favorett of the son's, soe senc his death she is soe of her mother's. It would rejoyc me to hear sum great fortune in your country was fallen in lov with you, and that you was soe with her, and whye might not I then com and liv at your little country hous, and never apear but when you and your famely was at court and then only in the garden ; twoe rooms would sarve me, Pug, Fubs and Puss. I forgett whilst I am pleesing my self I am troubling you, thearfore will only asure you that noe pen can exspres how wel I love you and how much I am, dearist, dear creeture, your moste infenit affectionate mother.

��[Peter Wentworth.]

London, March i, 1709. Dear Brother,

His Lordship (Godolphin) begins to want friends, for a Saturday there was warm speeches against him, and was roasted as they call it. The matter was not minced, for they name him, particularly Auther Ansley* said he cou'd not

find why Gentlemen shou'd be shy in naming the T r, for

he wou'd take it upon him to say, for all the great encomiums that some Gentlemen where continually making upon him that never was the Treasure worse manage, what to have a million of mony paid by the country, and not paid into the

for Cambridge University.
 * Arthur Annesley, afterwards fifth Earl of Anglesey, was member

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