60 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
wyne and sack, and Tea, and spoake very hansomly of you, and hee is com to see me att Twittnam. I am in lov with him, and alsoe with his wey of living, it is very delightfull ; he is very obliging and has a mighty ingagin way, but he loocks as if he was very short lived, which is pety. Was he twenty years older and I as many years younger, I would lay al the traps I could to gett him, his youmore and myne are soe alyke, and he has many contryvencis in his hous that is just to my fancy. I wish Betty had him, he would be next to you in my affection ; he is one that I could sooner be in lov with then anybody I ever yett see, he managis his hous, and many of his affairs very lyke you, and is neet in his person lyke you. I wunder my sister Batthurst gott him not for neic Batthurst ; she is this day marryed to Mr. Pye.
��Twickenham, /^z^-^wj/ 28, 1707,
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This town is full of nothing but of Lady Ash, whoe has left her husband, and Lady Deringwater* whoe last Tewsday cam and went in her moarning coach for Mr. Grims to church, and was marryed to Jamse Roock, Coll. Roock's son. Grims has been dead not thre qrs. of a year yet ; she turned Lady Tuften's children out of the church, and said she would not be marryed tel they went out. She was marryed in whit sattin. She has setled fower hundred a year upon him for her life, and the rest she keeps for her self and hous. She ows a great deal of mony hear ; he sent the ringers twoe ginneys and his mother sent half a one, and his mother is as fonde of her as I should be of your bryde. But God I hope has a greater blesseng in stoar for you, then such a wife. Mr. Bellemear gave her, and wyne was as plenty as small- bear.
- The Countess of Derwentwater, mother of the last Earl, executed
for his share in the rebellion of 17 15. She was a natural daughter of Charles II. by Mrs. Davis. Luttrell records her marriage with " Mr. Graham" in May, 1705.
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