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could have effected it or no, I know not, but my Lord Chamberlain most generously declined that motion. However, these contests put off my election till Friday last, and me from having an account of it till this morning, which saith that on Thursday last the precept came to the mayor, and that the very next morning Sir Joseph and myself were unanimously chosen without the least opposition, so that matter is over. I have done Sir W. Temple all the good I can at Cambridge, and I do not doubt that he will be chosen there also. Sir Henry Capel will be elected in two if not in three places; as at Tewkesbury, his old borough: for the county of Brecknock, in Wales; and for Shoreham in Sussex; for Mr. Hales, to whom he inclined to surrender that interest, is chosen at Hythe, one of the Cinque Ports. But that you may be assured of my care, I have sent my deputy auditor into Cornwall, to Launceston, to secure my being chosen there, and to tell them that I design to be with them as soon as I received their answer, which I expect every hour, and so ride a journey of 300 miles on horseback outright, and this without compliment is done to serve yourself and Sir W. Temple, that so which of you wants it may have it; the preference being wholly yours. So