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are pretty and admired by all I have show'd them to, tho' as yet I have not obliged any critics with the sight of them. I find by this time your court is out of morning for the Prince, but all that goe to Court here are in as deep as ever, which you may observe from a Gazett which give leave to all persons that has not admittion to her person to go out of mourning ; even that's report to have been publish't without the Queen's perticular order, and 'tis said she has been angry at it, but I believe that only proceeds from an order that the Queen gave last friday, that noe lady should be admitted to come into the Chapel at St. James's that had any colour'd handkercheifs [or] anything of colours about them, for she said to Lord Chamberlain that there was ladys that came into the very face of her with those colour'd things, and she would not suffer it in her house. Some say the Dutchess of
M daughters have sett the example to these ladys that
have given offence, and this puts me in mind of the obser- vation among the ladys one the first night the Queen saw
company upon her bed, that the Dutchess of M was the
only one that had powder in her hair or a patch on her face
��London, 15 April, 1709. Dear Brother,
Yesterday the house of Lords came cleaverly over the Scots and those that joined with them in the house of Commons in the amendments they had sent up to them in the Treason Bill ; they have past it with those amendments but with this amendment only isic), that whereas the com- mencement on't was to have been in some time in June, they, the Lords, have said it shall not begin till after the death of the Pretender. I was at the court of request, and 'tis variously talk't whether it will pass so, or whether there will be a Conference demand upon't, which I shall not be able to tell you till next post, and then I may be able to inform you a little of the managers of this affair, which has been a great tryal of skill among the cunning men
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