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

--Mr. Cottingham and I " are become very great," as I have had to be with him often about a cause belonging to Merton College, of which I have had the chief management.

" We have had a solemn tryall, which held two severall afternoons, before the Master of the Rolls, and are come off victorious." He assures me that Sir Thomas Powis, however he appeared in the pleadings, has been very earnest with Lord Lindsey to accommodate matters with your Ladyship, and Mr. Peregrine Bertie tells me he wrote to his brother Albemarle to use his persuasions also, but has received for answer that my Lord said he knew not what agreement could be made.