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Tuesday he was sent for express by lord Bolingbroke. Next Tuesday the queen goes to Windsor. What changes we are to have, will probably appear before she goes. Dr. Arbuthnot dines with me to day, and in the evening we go to Kensington.





LONDON, JULY 22, 1714.


PRAY send me the other copy, and let us have the benefit of it, since you have been at the trouble of writing. Unless ———[1] be served against his will, it is not likely to be done at all; but I think you used to take a pleasure in good offices of that kind; and I hope you would not let the cause suffer; though I must own, in this particular, the person who has the management of it does not deserve any favour. Nothing being left for me at St. Dunstan's, I sent to B——[2] for an answer to my last. He says, it is not yet restored to him; as soon as it is, I shall have it. This delay begins to make me think all ministers are alike; and as soon as the captain is a colonel, he will act as his predecessors have done.

The queen goes to Windsor next Tuesday, and we expect all matters will be settled before that time. We have had a report, that my lord privy seal is to go out alone; but the learned only laugh at it. The

  1. The blank should probably be filled up with the word treasurer, or Oxford.
  2. Barber.
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