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people reported you was coming over in the Packet boat. 'Tis said Lord Privy Seal is sent for over to be Bishop of London, tho' the town has talked of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and of the Bishop that married my Lady Plymouth, and also distinguish't by the name of Lady Masham's Bishop.* I don't hear that Lord Bullingbrook will have the Garter this chapter
��[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]
Richmond, .<4«^/«/ 4, 1713.
I am extreamly peevish at myself for troubling your Lord- ship with a tedious account of Blenheim, quite forgetting that you had seen it which now I perfectly remember, I will not repeat the same fault about your own house at Twitnam where I past an hour very pleasantly last week, but I cannot help saying that I find it soe much improv'd that I can hardly think it is the same place, and I think it altogether extreamly pretty. I am in a very ugly house at Richmond, but like the airings about it very much. I was uneasie at first with think- ing that one could never be alone in a town soe full of com- pany, but find one is seldom hurt by the things one is afraid of I am sory your Lordship hath had soe ill success about the chaplain, and wish I may be more lucky to him, but in almost three years I have not been able to provide for a very deserving clergy man, a kinsman of my wife's. Men of that function are very long liv'd, I have often been told of several being given over that are yet alive. There are about five and forty livings in the Dutchy. The greatest number small ones, but seven or eight very good ones. The best that hath fallen in my time was one in Lincolnshire worth not above one hundred pounds a year, in the fenny part where few people care to goe. Perhaps after such a long time a good many
- Dr. Bisse, who was chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Plymouth,
a daughter of the Duke of Leeds, married her ladyship about August, 1706 (see Luttrell's "Diary"). He was made Bishop of St. David's in October, 1710, and translated to Hereford in January, 1713.
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