LETTERS OF LADY WENTWORTH. lOI
find S"" Phipil Warricks memories, wch talks of my Lord Straffords amours, wch my Aunt Skinner was provoked at, and thought a lessening to his memory, and therefore wou'd not allow it to be true, tho' there may be others that may take the account of that intrigue to be true, and yet acknow- ledge his lordship to be as great a man as ever liv'd in an age.
If you have not Lord Clarendon's History, as I think you have not, I think it won't be a miss to send you the Charactor he gives of him, the Charactors he gives of the men of those times is reckon the finest part of his History. Since you left England it has been reprinted in smaller Volumes, wch reduces the price to thirty shillings. I have a set of those,
and can either send you them or writ out my Lord S d's
charactor to go over with that Volume of Rusworth's collec- tions that contains the Tryal. There was an appendix ot Dugdal's Baronage, wch I sent you word some time ago was to come out by subscription, and I had subscrib'd half a guinea for you, the book I have and shall send by the Hamborough Convoy. There's a great many I hear are dissatisfied that they han't said enough of their familys and the man tells them if they please to give him any perticulars he has omitted they shall be incerted in his next edition, so if you please to have any thing added of yours I shall give it to be done.
��[Lady Wentworth.]
December 20, 1 709.
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.... I am very angree with Hall, for I sett him to inquier after a young lady that I writt you word how prety she was, that I se at chappell. I hard she was a fortune and Hall brought me word she would have M&xy little during her father's life, and he was lykly to marry again. She is now going to be marred and has twenty thoussand pound sartain. Hear is Lord Carburer's daughter and the duke of New-
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