view'd your ground, but says it will not doe for such a room as My Lord Portland's, for that you cannot take above 17 foot in breadth and Lord Portland hath 23, but it may doe for a gallery. He says he will give me an exact draught of your ground which I will send you I have not been lately at Windsor but I find your precedency business begins to be much talk'd on, and is mention'd in the daily courant. One who is just gone was saying that till there are new powers sent, he that is first nam'd must sign first, unless the privy seal being taken away vacates the first commission, which is more then I can decide I hope some way will be found, for your satisfaction is ever wisht by, &c.
��[Peter Wentworth.]
London, Sepiefnber 2% 17 13.
��Dear Brother,
��I came here early Sunday Morning, having leave from the Queen, and I received from you to day a letter wch lets me know that you have received the letters I lately writ you. I am sorry you persist in the desire to be recalled, because I find the cry runs now that they have found means to sattisfie you, as the Bishop is still to continue to be the same man he was, as to Bristol, tho' the Privy Seals are given to another, and as he stands first under the Great Seal of England there can be no dispute. I did tell the Duke of Argile you had ask't leave to come home and he told me he thought you was in the right, and the other had no more reason to dispute place with you then his footman had ; he is of opinion that the Duke of Shrewsbury is the only man whose word is to be relyed upon, but he wonders he's so over seen as to be sent into Ireland. Since I writ you last I saw Mr. Tilson and he told me you had falln hard upon him, tho' he must always speak his mind that whilst this Commission is in being there is no reason for a dispute, and that there might not there was to be no new one, and he told me Ross had kiss't the Queen's hand to go Envoy to France. I am glad to hear you have received
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