Tho' I could talk to you for ten hours, yet I find my pen goes on soe heavily that I will for this time take leave of your Lordship sooner then I intended.
[Peter Wentworth.]
London, August 6, 1714.
Dear Brother,
Since we were to have for a time 26 kings I was sorry not to see you among them; you and lord Angelsea being absent made but 24. At the end of the throne there was a bench run quite across the house of Lords where the Regency sat, the Chancelor in the Middle. He made speach to both houses, the lords were all in their Robes, even those lords that mett with a disappointment that they were not named, among these I heard it reckon a great jest, that Lord Windsor shou'd be very angry he's not one, and his Lady too resents it. . . . .
The Duke of Marlborough was never so much out of favour with me as he's now at present, for the insulting manner he enter'd the town, he that used to come so privately when in favour, and with Victory, to suffer himself to be met with a train of coachs and a troop of Militia with drums and trumps. He's asham'd of it and says be beg the City to excuse their complyment but they wou'd not. To day Sir John Packington mov'd the house that Doctor Ratclift[1] shou'd be expell'd the house, for not coming to the Queen when sent for, but he was not seconded and so it dropt. He's a Dog and I don't love him for what he did to the Duke of Gloster, but however he has this to say for himself, that he knew the Queen did not send for him and had expressed her aversion to him in her last illness. Mr. Addison being made secretary to the Lords justice makes people fancy he'll be one of the secretarys of State when the King comes, and the report runs that he had orders to settle all Lord Bullingbrook's papers,
- ↑ This eminent physician had entered Parliament in August, 1713, as member for Buckingham. He died on November 1, this year.
