The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wild Flowers Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The King dines with my Lord Romney on Monday next at Greenwich, and talks of going to Windsor towards the latter end of next week, and will stay till the new knights' instalments are over, which they say is to be on Monday se'nnight, and that the King will be at the charge of their entertainment. MR. VERNON TO THE DUKE OF SHREWSBURY. May 25,1700. There is little to acquaint your Grace with this post, but I can't omit mentioning what I heard yesterday from my Lord Coningsby, that the Tory party seeing no other removes made, as they expected, to make room for some of them, they begin to say they smell a design of piecing up again with the Whigs, and therefore he believes they will be in no better humour the next winter than they were the last. They suspect that Mr. Montague carries messages between the King and my Lord Somers, and some of them think that my Lord Sunderland is going into the country because he cannot influence the King to enter further into the Tory measures. I perceive that either he or they understand this matter by halves. It is certain that my Lord Coningsby would be glad to see Mr. Harcourt, andI know not whom besides, brought into places. He is going into Herefordshire, and tells my Lord Sunderland that he will take Heythrop in his way, and make your Grace a visit. He said nothing of it to me, nor do I know why he should make it a mystery. My Lord Sunderland has called here this evening to tell me he came from dining with the King at my Lord Bradford's, that he had a good deal of discourse with his Majesty about your Grace, and the King has assured him, that you shall be at your entire liberty whether you will take any employment or not, and if you choose to resign every thing, it shall not in the least alter his kindness towards you, only he desire...