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remove him from his place at sea, and the King will have a good
place to bestow. He says to me, that he could wish when my Lord
comes that he would think fit to forbear playing as a thing below
him, and which will lessen him, as it do my Lord St. Albans, in
the King's esteem: and as a great secret tells me that he hath
made a match for my Lord Hinchingbroke to a daughter of my Lord
Burlington's, [Richard Boyle second Earl of Cork, created Earl of
Burlington, 1663.] where there is great alliance, 10,000l.
portion; a civil family, and relation to my Lord Chancellor,
whose son hath married one of the daughters: and that my Lord
Chancellor do take it with very great kindness, so that he do
hold himself obliged by it. My Lord Sandwich hath referred it to
my Lord Crewe, Sir G. Carteret, and Mr. Montagu, to end it. My
Lord Hinchingbroke and the ladies know nothing yet of it. It
will, I think, be very happy.
30th, I met with Mr. Pierce, and he tells me the Duke of
Cambridge is very ill and full of spots about his body, that Dr.


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