Autograph letter signed : Utrecht, to The Duke of Leeds, 1707 August 9.

Expressing the joy of the young Lords on hearing that the Marchioness consented "...to the cutting of their hair. They both give y'r Grace their most humble thanks for condescending to their request : which kindness, I daresay, they deserve; seing they take so much pains to become such as their Parents wish them to be;" reporting on their progress saying "Amongst other exercises their progress in riding the great horse is so considerable, that they have begun to run at the heads, with spear, dart, pistol & sword; and tho they have run but two or three times, they perform as well as those that have done it two or three months;" informing him that the news he related in his last letter concerning the Duke of Savoy and his approach to Toulon was inaccurate; adding "As to the King of Sweden, far from leaving Saxony, he asks new contributions from that desolate country, and seems not to mind the great preparations of the Czar; and on the other hand has not yet admitted Count Wratislaw, the Emperours Minister, to his audience, tho he has been about a fortnight waiting for it. We hear besides that the Hungarians have declared the throne vacant & intend to proceed to a new Election. God alone knows where all this well end.'