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VIVIAN GREY.

interest; and to think of John Conyers for the farm of Maresfield, now vacant.

"With respect to the former, I can't help thinking Ministers remarkable wrong on the point of the game laws particularly, to say nothing of the duty on felled timber, malt, and brown mustard. 'Tayn't the greatness of the duty that makes the increase of the revenue. That's my maxim.

"As for Maresfield, I certainly had an eye to it for my second son, William, as ray mistress says, he's now getting fittish to look out for himself in the world;—and then there's my nephew at Edgecombe, the son of my sister Mary, who married one of the Wrights at Upton, and I always promised old Mr. Wright to see Tom well done by. That's the ground I stand upon. But, certainly, to oblige your honour, I can't say but what I'll think of it.

"Sir Hanway says, Conyers told him that White footed Moll died on Wednesday. She