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and tho his supper was ready he wou'd not stay to eat it. The next day he came to offer the Queen to lay down his place, with leave to go into the country ; but the Queen bid him consider on't, and gave him leave to go into the country. The Saturday morning he went out of town the Queen her- self gave orders that the leading coach shou'd be to go out with her only to attend the Gold Staff in waiting, so the Duke of Sommerset might be at liberty to take the Master of the Horse's charriot and horses to travel with, but he con- tinued to the last in a huff and went out of town in his own coach, and not thro' St. James Park, as Master of the Horse he might do. They say he own he has been deceived by Mr. Harley, for all he intended to do was to free the Queen from the power of the two great men, and was promised that things shou'd be carried no further. After that there was some change made he did not like, but was content to bear with hoping 'twould go no further ; but when they came to dissolve the Parliament, 'twas what he cou'd never consent to,
and Mr. L told me this morning that 'twas very true he
was much sett upon having the Parliament continue, and had the vanity to think he cou'd manage that house of Commons as he pleased, and because they wou'd not believe him in that perticular he was angry. 'Tis odd an enough {sic) for him that has been running down those that wou'd be telling the queen upon every rub they met to their will they must lay down, that he so soon shou'd be at the same game himself. He has meet with the juncto, and they all made him believe they receive him very cordially, and he has declared he will give all the interest he has in every place he has any influence in to Whigs.
There is three Tellers of the Exchequer to be out. Mr. Vernon is the first, and what surprises the town is that Mr. Smith the late Chancelor has it. Vernon's son they say is to be a Commissionar of the Excise, some say a Com- missionar of Trade, wch is in a manner to lett the father fall easily. Some talk that the Duke of Ormond is to be Master of the Horse, the Duke of Shrewsbery Lieutenant of Ireland, Duke Hamilton Chamerlain. Others say that Hamilton is
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