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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 84, cont. (p.234) |
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not dead, yet I am buried within a few weeks after I immured my self in this house, the infection strook into the town, into so many houses, as that it became ill manners, to make any visits. Therefore I never went to Knoll, nor Hanworth, nor Ken- ton, nor to the Court, since the Court came into these quarters, nor am yet come to London; therefore I am little able to give you account of high stages. Perchance you look not so low, as our ordinary Gazetta, and that tells us, (with a second assurance) that the D. of Brunswick, Christian, is dead of an Ague. My L. of Dorset even upon the day, when he should have been installed with his six fellowes, fell sick at London; and at Court (which does not exalt all men) his Fever was exalted to the plague; but he is in good convalescence. Of the Navy I hear of no great lim come back yet, but my L. of Essex; something of the disappointing of the designe they had, is imputed to some diffe- rence, in point of command, between him and the Mr. of the Ordinance, my L. of Va- [CW: lencia,] |
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