and if you will please to send any pedigree or anything you have a mind to have incerted of our family it shall. All for half a guinea, and that not to be paid till the book is deliver'd which is a very reasonable article, so I have engaged for you. .... Mr. Steel told me he knew a Gentleman that says he can inform you of several things that will be very advan- tageous to you concerning your post fines ....
London, 7 Ju?ie, 1709. Dear Brother,
The Tatlers begin to swell to a volume as you see by the number of this last ; therefore since you like them I think I had best make collection of the whole and take the first opportunity that presents to send them over, for by the post 'twou'd be too chargeable. I think in some of my former
I sent you word the Dutchess of M had begun her
building on her grant of the Frierry, and which had an addition of a peice of the Queen's garden. I have now sent you the verse of the Garden Plot, which I had heard talk't of with rude application, but cou'd not meet with before. The House is to built after the model of the Duke of Bucks, upon which account there is struck up a greatest where there
has lately been a coolness, the said Duke and his Dutchess,
with her Grace of M visset their work very often together.
But since the Tatler has put out advertisment, that he's a printing a choise collection of latin sentances for the benefitt of Mason and Builder, may be his Grace will stay till he sees them come out, before he resolves of any to be fix upon this new building, of which he's the cheif architect.*
- Under date 19-30 April, 1709, Lord Raby's French correspondent
writes : — Outre la maison qu'occupoit autrefois la Comtesse de Royer, at qu'on a commence k abbatre pour batir un superbe Palais pour la Duchesse de Marlborough, S. M. a fait encore Present h. la Duchesse k cette Favorite d'une bonne Partie du Jardin Royal du Pare de St. James, dont le Feu Roy Guillaume avoit donne la Jouissance a Mr. Boyle Secretaire d'Etat pendant sa vie, Jeudy dernier on fit le Partage de ce Jardin, et commeles Jardiniers de la Duchesse de Marlborough vouloient empieter sur le Terrain de Mr. Boyle, cclui-ci niarqua lui mcme la separation.
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