2/6 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
fretting for their Ladies being refus'd to be of the bed- chamber. I would not give much to Duke Hamilton for what he'll get for his pretentions, but I fancy he would give a good deal to be rid of his wife, who grows every day madder and quarrell'd lately at the play house with My Lord Tyrawly's Son, soe loud, that every body heard it, with such language as is seldom used but at Billingsgate, and he taking it in the best manner that could be, laughing extreamly at her. Yesterday the Commons carried their representation to the Queen which takes up near an hour in reading, and is in the best of language, penn'd by Sir Thomas Hanmer who outshines all in that house. Mr. Lechmore gave it high com- mendations, and said it was pity soe fine a thing, was not true, but when he was call'd upon to show in what particular, he was not very ready to doe it. Mr. Hambden said it was writ not to inform but to inflame the Nation, for which he had like to have been sent to the Tower,
On Saturday night last Sir William Wyndham's house, the next Street to that where I live was burnt to the ground without saving so much as their clothes, and two of the maids kill'd with jumping out of the Window.*
��[Peter Wentworth.]
London, March 7, 17 12. Dear Brother,
I have no fresh news but rather then miss this post I shall writ [what] I heard past in the house of lords upon rejecting the Place Bill last week.
The whigs and those that were out of place was for it, and some of the Tories who either themselves or relations had places was also for it, so 'twas carried by six for the committing on't. They tell me my Lord Anglesea made a
- On March 4 Lady Strafford writes in reference to this fire in
Albemarle Street : — " Sir W. Wyndham gave 7000/. for the house, finely furnished and fine pictures brought from his country house." Sir William and Lady Katherine were "forced to go in the street without clothes." The Queen gave them lodgings for a time in " St. James's house."
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