18th. Comes my old good friend Mr. Richard Cumberland [Richard
Cumberland educated at St. Paul's School, and Magdalene College,
Cambridge, made Bishop of Peterborough 1691. Ob. 1718, aged 86.]
to see me, being newly come to town, whom I have not seen almost,
if not quite these seven years. In a plain country-parson's
dress. I could not spend much time with him, but prayed him to
come with his brother, who was with him, to dine with me to-day;
which he did do: and I had a great deal of his good company; and
a most excellent person he is as any I know, and one that I am
sorry should be lost and buried in a little country town, and
would be glad to remove him thence; and the truth is, if he would
accept of my sister's fortune, I should give 100l. more with him
than to a man able to settle her four times as much as I fear he
is able to do. Comes Captain Jenifer to me, a great servant of
my Lord Sandwich's, who tells me that he do hear for certain,
though I do not yet believe it, that Sir W. Coventry is to be
Secretary of State, and my Lord Arlington Lord Treasurer.
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