her this last week, besydse dyning thcar on Sunday, and two days more at Arrundels ; thear I did not dyne, the Docter having soe much company, soe I went as soon as I had dyned, and playd att cards al day, and had tea and coffy and cake and wyne in the afternoon, and at Mr, Arrundel's cost, but a good supper at night at the Dockter's ; so you see I leed
a merry life
Lord Sandwidg was ill of a feavour, his Lady reported he was mad and would never be fitt for buisnes, soe would have bcgcd his place for his son and that was not aproved of, but it had lyke to have been geven away from both. But a good freind of my Lords has told him of it, and brought him a coach and six horsis and carryed him away from the place and sarvents whear she left him ; he is at Dr. Montegues.*
J actuary 30, 1706. My dearest and best of children, I doe agree with you in the advyse you giv me in yours of the 24th of this instant, and will indevour al I can to keep out of debt, for I will
make noe entertainments that I can avoyd I lyke
being at Twittingham much better than hear, if I consedered my own pleasure moste, only in spight of all the art mankinde can fynd out thear is severel resons for that to be dearer then hear, and alsoe although all playsis ar alyke to me for health, myne consisting only in my mynde, but Betty never has her health soe well thear, ether very early in the spring or very lait in the year, nor many more are soe that dwel in
Twittingham To live at Ashby would be [more]
chargable then hear amongst such a next of Begers, and your grandmother was an exsterordenary woman, she had skill in surgery and alsoe in Phesickf — God knows I am igno- rant in both ; and at Waikfield I thinck it not proper having formerly leved thear, and thear being a great deal of gentry
- Lady Sandwich was a daughter of John Wilmot, the profligate Earl
of Rochester.
t The lady here alluded to was the wife of the first Sir William Went- worth, of Ashby Puerorum in Lincolnshire ; she was, as is stated in the Introduction, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Savile, of Wakefield.
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