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1712.0909.Ta



Addressed:
To Mr. Prior.


Whitehall,¹ Auguſt 29th, 1712.

Dear Matt,²

I am at laſt involved in the common
calamity, and have got the fever upon me,
which almoſt every creature in this coun-
try has felt. This muſt be my excuſe to
Madame de Croiſſy and Monſieur de Torcy,³
if I do not acknowledge by letter the many
civilities which I received, and which I pre-
ſerve a moſt grateful ſenſe of.

I am preparing a cargo of Honey-water,
Barbadoes-water, and Sack, whereof I ſhall
deſire you to take upon you the diſtribution.
Drift ſhall be haſtened to you, and by him
you ſhall have an account of your own
affairs.

I wrote to the Plenipotentiaries at Utrecht,
to inſert in the Treaty with Spain, the ſame
acknowledgment of our own⁴ ſucceſſion, as
in that with France, and it will be proper
you ſhould prepare the French miniſters on
this head; you will mention it as a point
which the Queen takes to be of courſe.
When we make ſuch a ſtride for Philip, it
is not to be ſuppoſed, that he can pretend to
diſpute what his grandfather has ſubmitted
to.⁵ Adieu, my head-ach delivers you from
farther trouble at this time, but woe betide
you when I am well.

Ever, dear Matt, faithfully your's,

Bolingbroke.

Notes
1.
This letter survives in manuscript in PRO SP 105/266, which we consider to be inferior to Parke's printed version. The source text is therefore Parke's edition (Bolingbroke). His line endings are preserved, but page breaks are ignored. Annotations point out substantive variants found in the manuscript. SP 105/266 lacks the place name in the dateline.
2.
SP 105/266 lacks the salutation.
3.
SP 105/266 has "to Mouns^r de Torcy".
4.
SP 105/266 lacks "own".
5.
SP 105/266 omits the rest of this paragraph and the complimentary close and signature.

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