there's any truth in the report that they are like to fall out among themselves one wou'd not desire to be rank't of their number. What to advise or to think of this matter I know not, things changing or said to be changing thus every day. I confess your last hint to me that it may turn again th' other way has shaken the opinion I have had hitherto that it wou'd be best for you to be here, but my comfort is your own judgement is most likely to extricate you out of all difficulties. 'Tis not to much purpose to talk of what's past, but I can't help thinking if you cou'd have order'd matters so to have come over when I first writ you the removal of Lord Sunderland wou'd be follow'd with many more chances that you wou'd have got some good thing here, wch nobody wou'd more rejoyced at then I ; at least you wou'd have been better able to judge how things wou'd go, and whether it wou'd have been best for you to scramble off and be out of the way this Sessions. I writ you in some of my former letters that 'twas thought the Duke of Marlborough wou'd indeavour to make his court to the Tories, and I am now told he has made good advances towards them, and 'tis thought necessary for him so to do by those Whigs thats his real friends. I am impatient till I have a letter from you, for the first I have now I believe will lett me know something of your resolution upon the letter you have received long before this from Mr. St. Johns of leave. The Duke of Shrewsbury I writ you thought you upon your way home, when I de- liver'd your last letter to him, but the discourse I have had with Mr. Tilson, and your desire to have several prints sent you as they come out put me in some doubt. My Mother is in daily expectation of you, but your writing to have inquire about Mrs. Herrols lodging put her as I told in so alarm as if you did design them for her, and she wou'd not part with her Garrets for world to leave them to your footmen. Mrs. Herrol is such an impertinant Woman that she's sure they shou'd be scolding every day of their lives. Lord Brookes house is to be lett in Arlington Street, theres five year yet to come of his lease. Lord Barkley told me Lord Asburnham's house is to be sold a great penny in Deans yard but it stands
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