pd.* My sister Skinner is just come, this was to goe by the Waterman, but now by her man. She tells me great news, I wish it was treble as much. She ses thear is ten thous- sand pd coming from Ireland to be put into the Bank of England. I sopose you are assured of the safty of it or elc you would not place it thear. I told her the sencear truith- that I did know nothing of it. Pray tell me if I may wish you joy or not of being Embassedor, your Brother Peter asures me it is soe. If you be yourself cannot be half soe much rejoysed at it as I am, my joy is upon what you thinck not of, for myne is cheefly upon your being out of danger, and I trust in God the wars will be ended before your time will be out I hear my neaphew Batthurst has carryed his election
[P.S.] Fubs is fonder of my neic Hanburer than
ever she was of you. She can not move out of one room to a nother, with out her following ; and is very still tell the water is put upon the table, then she jumps up and drincks out of a glas. She will bight her friend Betty if she offers to medle with my neic, and I coiild fill a hole sheet of paper, should I tell you all her suttle tricks.
Twickenham, //<f«^ 12, 1705. .... In my last I told you Sir John Stanly brought Secretary Hedgis to se your lodginsf and if he had lyked them he had been to have had them. I writt to my sister Battherst, whoe was soe very oblidging that she writt emed- getly to the Dutchis, and urged that I had not my health in the country in the winter : and yesterday she sent the Dutchis letter in answear to it, which was that it was to be feared that I could not keep my lodgins long, for sooner or later I must exspect to loos them, for it was but resonable that the Queen's own famely should be provyded for before strangers.
- This lady, a daughter of Lord Gainsborough, was married to the
Duke of Beaufort in February, 1706, carrying with her, according to Luttrell, a fortune of 60,000/.
t At the Cockpit, Whitehall, occupied by Lady Wentworth when not at Twickenham.
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