ing her any." He made no reply, but supped with her and [C] Mercurialis that night, at her own house. His revenge is not the less meditated for that. He tells the words clearly and distinctly to all mankind. Those, who range under his banner, call her ten thousand bitches and kitchen wenches. Those who hate him do the same. And from my heart I grieve, that she should give such a loose to her passion; for she is susceptible of true friendship, and has many social and domestick virtues. The great attorney[1], who made you the sham offer of the Yorkshire living, had a long conference with the dragon on Thursday, kissed him at parting, and cursed him at night. He went to the country yesterday; from whence some conjecture nothing considerable will be done soon. Lord Harley[2], and lady Harriot[3], went this morning to Oxford. He has finished all matters with lord Pelham[4], as far as can be done without an act of parliament. The composition was signed by the auditor, and Naylor, brother in law to Pelham. This day se'nnight lord Harley is to have the whole Cavendish estate, which is valued at ten thousand per annum, and has upon it forty thousand pounds worth of timber. But three of this ten thousand a year he had by the will. He remits to lord Pelham the twenty thousand pounds charged for lady Harriot's fortune on the Holles estate; and gives him some patches of land, that lie convenient to him, to the value of about twenty thousand pounds more. According to my compu-
- ↑ Perhaps lord chancellor Harcourt.
- ↑ Edward, son to the lord treasurer Oxford.
- ↑ Wife of lord Harley.
- ↑ Afterward duke of Newcastle.
