Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

II.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1712]

Den Haag, 4 Dec. 1736.

I am sorry to tell you, Dear Madam, that Monsieur

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Boetselaer¹⁾ dy'd this morning between 8 and 9, and last Saturday²⁾ at five in the morning the Pensionary Slingeland dyed too, so suddenly that his wife, who was in another room, had not time to get to him before he was dead. The day before he had been in very good health, dined with his family, in the evening spoke about an hour with Mr. Trevor³⁾, afterwards was busy an hour with his Secretary, and went to bed in good health. At four he was a little out of order, and when his servant perceived him ill in a manner he was not used to see him, went to call Madame, who came immediately, but found him dead. This is a very great loss, and I may say, an irreparable one.

1) J.G. van Boetzelaer (1680-1736), lid van de Ridderschap sedert 1714.

2) 1 Dec. 1736.

3) Robert Trevor (1706-'83), in 1764 door de dood van zijn broer vierde baron Trevor, in 1776 verheven tot burggraaf Hampden; secretaris van het Engelsche gezantschap in Den Haag 1734-'39 (en bij de veelvuldige afwezigheid van de gezant, Horace Walpole, chargé d'affaires), envoyé 1739, gezant 1741-'46.