356 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
your 500/. wch shows they have a mind you shou'd be quiet still, and really if you cou'd let the Queen know by the Duke of Shrewsbury that what you do is purely in defference to her, I mean in case you was come to a resolution to comply with their expedient. I believe my Lady Roistone will not dye this bout, but if she does I beg I may have nothing to do in that affair, for I remember what a scrap I had like to have brought my self into about my Aunt Skinner, and in this affair I forsee a great many more reasons to deter me from medling, and I really think Mr. Ellison very honest, and if you will give him authority and stand by him when you have done, nobody fitter. Since I came home I have been no where so know no news.
[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]
September 29, 1 7 1 3.
I am really much concern'd at what hath happen'd to disquiet your Lordship of late, but hope some expedient will be found to satisfy you, rather then comply with the desire you have shewn of being recall'd which would have but an odd look, the minute after your doing such good services. I was at Windsor on Sunday where one never hears anything, but by chance, and if any sort of inquisitiveness appears, you are less likely to hear a word.
Lord Paulet and Lord Dartmouth are both in the countrey, or I would have contrived to have turn'd the discourse upon your subject, without naming you first. The most of the elections are over, the gentlemen are not come back, and the court was thin. They say My Lord Ila is not in the court list of Scotch peers and will not be one.
Lord Mar is in Scotland and Secretary of State, tho' one of the hottest for dissolving the Union ; I am sorry to see that that sort of behaviour meets with better rewards then sincere zeal and affection. The D. of Shrewsbury says there is noe difference in Ireland but protestant and papist. I wish he could bring it to that, but the truth is that they are to the full as much divided as here, but he will fare the better there,
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