Affairs will not permit him to come to see me this Summer. Your Lordship will be so kind as to assure him that whenever he does me the Favour no body shall be more welcome. His Expression of the Honour he has for your Lordship and the value he puts upon your Favour give me a greater esteem for him and a greater Opinion of his Judgment than all his other Writings besides. I do not know anything he has publish'd that I have not got. I am a Subscriber already for his Translation of Homer's Odyssee. If there be any thing else that he is going to publish I shall be very glad to be a Subscriber to it.
I am with a very particular Esteem and Respect My Lord your Lordship's most Oblig'd Obedient
Humble Servant
BEDFORD.
My Wife joyns with me in her humble service to my Lady Strafford.
��[Lord Bathurst.]
RiCHKlNGS, October 2(3, 1725. My Lord,
I am but just return'd home from a long Northern Expedition which has taken me up above a month. My own affairs carried me into Darbyshire and Staffordshire, and having promised Lord Carlile to wait on him at Castle Howard, I took the opportunity of an interval of time that I had to pay that visit. I was oblig'd to be in Staffordshire within a week upon an affair of some consequence to me, but I cou'd not pass so near Stainborough without calling there. I came from Lord Downes that morning and got thither time enough to see the House and gardens and the Menagerie before it was dark. I was oblig'd to go on to Rotheram that night, else I cou'd not have got to the place of my appoint- ment the next day, but your Lordship's steward was very obliging to me, and presst me to stay that night. I shou'd have ventur'd to have taken that liberty rather than have
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