April 4, 1710.
.... Your godson Arundell is sure as lovly a boy as ever was seen, and of an undanted sperritt. I wish he was a Cornett, he is the very pictur of your poor brother Will., you could not help being fond of him, if you see him, he has such a wheedling ingagin way with him. I am Tom didemus both for the peac and seeing you, I wish hartely for both. I beg you to be sencear and to tell me the real truith, whether I shall be blest with seing you or not, and near what time, for I would goe to Twitnum, its now fyne warme wether, but if the leest hopse of seing you I would not goe for the world, tell you came, so I beg you for one to trust me with a secrett and you shall see its possable for one of our sex to keepe one. Pray why would you not trye to gett Sir W. W. for Betty. Sir Sumthing Keneday is kild in a dewel, noe quarrel of his own, but takeng a nothers part.[1]....
[Peter Wentworth.]
7 April, 1710.
I can not enough express my thanks for the great concern you tell me you have for my illness, and I am willing to believe that your kind wishs with those of my other friends has contributed to my recovery. My Sickness came very unseasonable for I was a diligent attender at the Drs. tryal and pleased my self with the fancy that I shou'd have sent you more particulars then any body, for the Saturday, the day before I fell ill, I got into the house of Lords, wch was the first day they debated whether the house of C had made out their charge against the Dr., and truely from that days debate I did not think the Dr. wou'd have got off so triumphantly, for all that spoke then for the Dr. were Lord Haversham, Notingham, jernsey, and lord North and Grey.
- ↑ Under the same date as this letter Luttrell records:—"Sir Richard Kennedy was some days since killed by one Mr. Dormer, in a quarrel at Woodstock."
