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Rh Pray favour me with a line. I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant. Pray come up.

LONDON, AUG. 5, 1714.

HAVE writ to Dawson for a license of absence for you; but you know you must take the oaths in Ireland within three months. There are a great many here in the same circumstances; and in all probability, some of them will desire an act of parliament to have leave to do it here. In that case, it will be no difficult matter to have you included. Mr. Lewis tells me, he wrote to you to come up to town, and I see no reason why you should not. All matters go on very quiet, and we are not apprehensive of any disturbances. Stocks never rose so much in so few days. This is imputed to the hatred of the old treasurer, and the popularity of the new one. The whigs were not in the council when he was recommended. Lord Bolingbroke proposed it there, as well as to the queen; and I hope they two are upon