before 8 a clock, and she did order him to go home by 7; but being the thanksgiven day, he staid out Mobing on't till he thought 'twas time enough to come to us to Mons. Vriberg's where we were invited to a ball that night, or else I had not left it to the hasard of its not being carried. I left a great charge before I went out that it shou'd be certainly carried before nine a clock and when the maids found the man did not come home they attempted to go with it but said they cou'd not get along for the Mob. I had done up this Medley as a paper mightily commended by some toping Whigs, and the next post to have sent you the Examiner if any thing worth notice, wch is a paper of the Tories, and I find it handles a matter wch is really the reigning Vice of the times, but it is practised by one side almost as much as 'tother. I have got some very smart pamphlets of both sides but don't know how I shall send them you, for they are to big to be conveyed by letter, I have very little to add this post but only the discourse continues that the treasurery will be in one hand ; but I was told to day that the Bishop of Rotchester ask't the Lord of that Name if the report was true, he did assure him it was not a time for him to accept of that office. I met likewise with a relation of the Master of the Rolls who tells me the Master is very well and has not thought of selling his place for 20,000/. ; for if he lives to the year 171 1 by leases that will be out then he will receive above 30,000/.; all Chancery lane is his as Master of the Rolls, so that one does not know what to believe.*
London, 10 November, 17 10. Dear Brother,
Since I writ to you last tucsday I have seen Mr. Tilson, and find he's of opinion as I sent you word some time agoe my Lord Berkley was, that they were happiest
- Sir John Trevor was Master of the Rolls from 1685 to 1688, and
again from 1693 to his death in May, 1717. He was member for Yar- mouth, but in 1695 was expelled the house for receiving a bribe to further a bill. His judicial character seems, however, to have remained unimpaired.
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