| Description | The first (BHILL/211) is from Counsellor Thomas Kyffin of Maenan who craves pardon for offending his Lordship "thro’ the effects of too much Liquor";
BHILL/212 is an example of special news served up from London (Feb. 1, 1707-1708)3; 213 is really to Cadwaladr W., the Lord's agent, from a gentlemen who had not been able to pull on his shoes for nine weeks past; BHILL/214 is from William Carter [son of the erstwhile Puritan Sir John Carter of Abergele], who writes in handsome script the gossip of London, and is willing to do any odd jobs of kindness for Lord B.; BHILL/215 refers to the fatal duel between Lord Mohun ["Mohone"] and the Duke of Hamilton; the last (BHILL/216) is from Cadwaladr Williams, about a funeral at Dinas and the accidents that befell a will. Carter, in referring to the Lord's absence from London at the end of 1711, says that he [Lord B.] had lost a "British Peerage", "tho’ perhaps you would not care to bee one, when they are made by the douzen" (in reference to Queen Anne's comprehensive new patents to discomfit the Whig majority in the House of Lords) |