540 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
crowd at court yesterday, and every body in their best cloths.
Madam V 1 was there not very fine, and the King did
not speak more to her then he did to othere people. I am now quite fond of the Bishop of Oxford, for he told me he saw Lord Went worth as he cam in, and he looked like an angile, for he realy thought him the handsomest young man in England, And after the King was gon the French Ambassadriss cam to me and sayd she was mightily obliged to my Lord my son for his politness, for she cam very late
and he wou'd give her his place The Duke of Bedford
is thought in great danger ; Lord Essex is down with him, and 'tis said won't leave him, tho I heard to-day one part of his estat reverts to the Crown .... The article in the news about the Bishop of York's Pallas being burnt was put in as a joke, he never allowing any fire in his kitching since he left
Yorkshire. I heard Sir R. W laughing at it to the
Bishop of Oxford
My Dearest, a Dieue, Ever Yours.*
��[Lord Wentwortii.]
London, Janucvy 2, 1739.
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According to your lordship's orders I begun to day to ride, the major seem'd very glad to see me, and I believe his joy was very sincere, for he has very few schoolars ; all I saw was a Captain How, Mr. Corbet, Mr. Whitworth, and a interest to add that her will is dated January 26, 1739-40, about two months after his death. In it she desires to be decently and privately buried in the family vault at Toddington, near her dear deceased lord and hus- band ; and leaves all her jewels and the furniture of her house at Twickenham to her son William, then Earl; 1000/. to each daughter; and all else to her son. Lord Bathurst was made sole executor. Two codicils to this were executed in March and August, 1754, by which she leaves to her daughter Lady Anne ConoUy, " my late lord's picture (drawn by Lens) set with diamonds, and all my Dresden china"; there were other legacies to daughters and grand-daughters.
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