124 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
will be better able to make a judgement of matters, for really- some are so uncertain, that they are turn'd first one way then another. The Sunday before last Dr. Hescrourt an old Chaplain thinking to make his court preacht in St. James's Chappel before the Queen a very high and foolish Sermon, and had orders sent to him by the present Lord Chamberlain that he need not trouble him self to preach before the Queen for she had provided one to do it when it came to his turn.
��[Lady Wentworth.]
Twickenham, July 22, 17 10.
My dearist and best of children, ten thoussand thancks to you for all your kindness, whatever coms from you will be highly vallewed by me. I hope you will bring the little dog yourself, but I doe not wish for your comming tell the timse are more setled, sure amongst all thees changis it will be hard if you get not a good one. I thought it had been a brag, but is sartainly true, Lord Paulett, Secretary Johnson neaphew, whoe has a vast estate, was offered to be secretary of state, and he refused it ; and now he has excepted of the preveseel, I thinck it is, or som such great place. Sartain those that has noe dependenc upon the Court ar much happyer, but few ar of that mynd. Last Sunday, thear could not be a more dismall mallancolly sight then poor Lady Tufton led by her eldist son, the eldist daughter following led by the other, and the other fower daughters following one after the other, al in long scarfs, and allamode huods over thear faicis, not a bit to be seen of them. Soe they sat al churchtime, and a very hot day, I wonder they was not smothered. The young lady you ask after was one Mrs. Cornish the shreevs grand daughter that was hanged a little before King Charls dyed or not long after, I forgett which, he was in som plot ;* I thinck your sister Wentworth got aquanted with them at the Bath. This
- Henry Cornish, Sheriff of London, was tried and executed under
very barbarous circumstances in 1685, for an alleged share in the Mon- mouth Rebellion. The judgment against him was afterwards reversed.
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