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1712.0315.Fa







Tuesday Morñ¹

If I haue not seen my Lord Treasurer
in four Days, I think I haue had as
many Distempers to answer for
my Negligence: I am in close conference
with Pere Gaultier, He convinces Me
that it is necessary I should wait
on your Lordsp as soon as you
can possibly [...]˂lett˃ Me, in ordine ad
Spiritualia—if you Eat sur le
tambour at 4 I will accost m^r
Reed at that hour, otherwise I
will come at what time you may
please to appoint: I haue an other
proposition w:^ch thô it looks like
vanity on my side may haue it's
convenience on yours: that, (may
be) your Lordsp coming at 3 frõ
St Iames' may be sett in your
Chair at my back door, and by
so doing giue Me half an hour
to receiue your Commands: pray lett
Me know how to guide my Self
and do me the justice to beleiue
that in spight of Coughs and
Coliques I am till Death

My Lord
your Ser^t

MPrior.

Remember the Pecuniary
Matter, (good my Lord,)
I would not vrge it so,
if it were for my Self:
I will repay it, foy d'hon­
­néte Homme.² at Lady day.

2.

Endorsed:
Priors Letter

Notes
1.
This letter lacks a formal address and salutation, but the addressee is identified in the first sentence as the "Lord Treasurer." We place the letter in 1712 because of its reference to conferences with Gaultier. The March date is derived from mention of a forthcoming Lady Day (25 Mar.). Furthermore, on 6/17 Mar. 1712, Prior wrote to Torcy of Gaultier's departure for France. The present letter is dated "Tuesday Morn"; therefore it was probably written by the Tuesday before Prior's letter to Torcy, or by 4/15 Mar. 1712. (The "1711" that appears on the manuscript is a conjecture in a later hand.) The Lord Treasurer in March 1712 was Oxford.
2.
The underscoring is Prior's.

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