LETTERS OF LADY WENTWORTIL 4I
and that your days may be long and prosperus. I pray God grant thees blessings to, dearest dear childe, your moste infenit affectionat mother.
Fubs, Pug and Pus presents their duty to Folly and Baden.
March 16, 1705. .... Lady Windum, Lady Hyde's sister is dead, and Lorde Dalkith the Duke of Munmouths eldest son is dead, was abroad a Munday and Tewsday he was about his own hous, and dyed Wensday morning at fower of the clock ; and there is twoe Strang fishis taken up, and fower sons was seen by severell and a flaiming soard. This I was told for truith, but I know not how to afirm it for truith, but this I will afirm for truth that no son was more beloved by a mother then you ar by yours.
Twickenham, March 30, 1705.* My dearest deare childe, we came hear last Tewsday, which hendred me from writing. 'Indeed your gardens are very fyne, and in very great order. We drinck your health every meal. I wish you could be hear with out danger, but when I consedder how many hassards you must run in coming hear I then hartely thanck God for your absenc, and beg he of his marcy will contenew you in health and prosperrety, but that you may still stay whear you are tell the warre is
- Lord Raby's house at Twickenham was on the site of what is now
known as Mount Lebanon ; he bought it in 1701. It was originally the house of Pepys' friend, Dr. William Fuller, a schoolmaster ; and after- wards belonged to Lady Ashe. On the fourth Earl of Strafford's death it became the property of his sister. Lady Anne Conolly, who pulled it down and built the present house. Her daughter Frances, Lady Howe, inherited it ; then Miss Fanny Byng. In recent times Mount Lebanon was occupied by the Prince de Joinville, third son of Louis Philippe. The neighbouring house, now the Orleans Club, was in the time of Queen Anne owned and occupied by James Johnstone, often named by Lady Wentworth as " Secretary Johnson," he having been Secretary of State for Scotland. These particulars are derived from the Rev. R. S. Cobbett's Memorials 0/ Twickenham., an interesting work containing extracts from the parish registers which have assisted the present editor in verifying many matters mentioned in Lady Wentworth's letters.
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