ETTRE MCCCXCn

I^ Duc dYork au Prince d! Orange. Décès de sa fille.

Edenburgh, Mar. 8.

I am sure you bave so much kindnesse for me and so much concerne for onr family as to bave been troubled, when you hard of the losse I bave made of my daughter Isabella, which you will bave knowne as sone I beleve as I; for I heard not of it till yesterday, and the lose is so much the more sensible to me , for the great affliction the Dutchesse is in, for, as for myself I bave been so used to such and so many other troubles and mortifications , that I can , I thanke God , beare them well enough

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and submitt with pacience to his divine will in ail things. This is so unpieasing a subject that I shall saj no more to yen upon it, and assure you that, in what so ever condition I am in, I shall always be as kind to you as you can désire.

For my Sonne the Prince of Orange.