56 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
will promis you to breack none of your chyney ; for fear of your sconsis I bought a small pair of black stands, for fear the chyney ons should be broack, and cosin Hanburer has bought a prety sett to carry to Twittingham ; and sister Bathurst designse to goe to Riskins this summer, and Mr. Batthurst and his Lady. I wish you had Lady Mary Haystins, she for cartain has twelv hundred a year inherre- tanc and ten thoussand pound.* Her brother Lord Hun- tingdon is very much lamented [in] his death, and he has left Mr. Stanup fower hundred a year rentcharge. Lady Harryot Godolfin greeved soe much for the death of her youngist son which was the age of Bel's childe, that she has throan herself into the smallpox by her exses of greef The Duke and Dutchis of Molberry went last Munday to Wood- stock, which you know is geven to my Lord.
March 5, 1706. My dearist and best of children, — I hartely thanck you for
your last kind letter the third of March I thinck five
ginneys is enough, it is what your sister Bellew sent to Peters Nursis, and I sent soe much for I am Godmother, pray be not angree, I could doe no less and it is but to each child once, and I am very proud of Kelly's, I being thear great Grandmother.f But Lord Rockingham gave thre ginneys each, which was nyne in all ; and soe did the great Lord Hallefax, he was Godfather to your sister Bellew ; but Lord Strafford gave but five. Lady Suffolk and Lord Clarranden gave to Molly each of them ten ginneys ; but they stud with King William's Queen. I thinck six would be very Noble for you, But less than five you cannot giv. I fear youl thinck
- Lady Wentworth probably means Lady Elizabeth, or Betty, Hastings,
who inherited Ledstone Hall, in Yorkshire, from her mother. She remained single all her life, and is still remembered in the county by her great works of piety and benevolence. Her character is said to have been sketched in No. 42 of the Taller.
t The writer's eldest daughter married Walter, second Lord Bellew, whose daughter Mary married Dennis Kelly, of Aughrim ; and it was to the child of the latter couple that Lord Raby was about to stand god- father. Thus Lady Wentworth was a great-grandmother at 53 !
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