Catalogue description ---- To the COUNTESS OF LINDSEY.

--" Wee have had severall reports here about my Lord Chancellor being layd aside, but I cannot find that there is any great ground for them. It is also talkt about this evening that the Treasurer also is to lay down, and Lord Halifax to come into his place ; and some, I find, think that he and the Chancellor are so linked together as that if the one goes out, the other will do so also. Lord Wharton it seemes is a declared enemy to both."

I have told Mr. Bertie that on hearing that he had a fit of the gravel, your Ladyship wrote to me " in expressions that showd the concern of own mother rather then a mother in law [i.e.,step-mother], and desired me to recollect what method I had used to cure you of that distemper, that it might be applyd to his case. This he seemd to take exceeding kindly, and desired me to return his thanks, together with his duty." [Law business.]