September % 1707.
.... Lady Derringwater's new husband corns every day to the coffy hous in his fyne coach and twoe footmen to wait of him, and the coach waits at the coffy hous, and all elc hear walks to it, soe he is laught at for it.
Secretary Johnson has a vast deal of company dayly, hear is hardly a day that he has not a coach and six horsis at his doar, and some timse twoe or three more. Sure he must have a vast esteat to entertain soe many, and he has aboandenc of men at work in the grownd before his hous, I see six or seven digin ; it will be a sweet place when he has don, for I thought it very fyne before.
Sir Thomas Skippoth has turned out his , and is grown
a very good husband, his lady lives with him hear. Lord Dyzer will not be recondsyled to his son, soe he livs with her mother Mrs. Henage ; indeed she is very prety and well bred and has a great deal of witt, very lyke her father the Duke of Devenshire.* ....
November 14, 1707. .... Mrs. Hillf now owns her marradg to Coll. Massum ; its much pety Betty can not gett to be made of honor. She would soon gett a good husband, she is now hansom, but will soon fayde, she is not a lasting buity. Pray what is becom of the lady you told me of a month agoe, I fancy it was only a dreem or will proov noe better. I hear Sir Clously Shovell has left a daughter that will be a vast fortune ; pray make inq after her, his son was drownd with him I am sure,
- Luttrell in his Diary writes, under date Dec. 10, 1706 : "The lord
Huntingtour, only son of the Earl of Dysert, is married to Mrs. Henneage, natural daughter of the Duke of Devon." Juliana Wentworth, wife of Peter, writing to her brother-in-law, puts the matter as follows : —
" Mrs. Harriett Cavendish that use to kiss Grigson the gardener is marri'd to Lord Huntingtower, and Lord Dissert his father says he suspected it, and could have hindered itt if he had pleased, but if he had known his son would have hang'd himself or cut his throat he should for him."
t Abigail Hill, who ultimately supplanted the Duchess of Marlborough in Queen Anne's favour, married Samuel, afterwards Lord, Masham.
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