Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

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Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 12 Febr. 1745.

(Begrafenis van Wassenaer.)

I have been particularly charged by him during his illness to remember him to you. And tho' at that time he was not apprehensive of the condition he was in, I should be sorry not to have mention'd to you the last commission he charged me with ... Mr. Twickel prepares for his journey to the Court of the Elector of Cologne.

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This morning the places left by Count Wassenaer were disposed of. Mr. van der Duin is in the Gecommitteerde Raad, the Pensionary has the Seals, and I the place of Curator of the University of Leyden. Mr. de Wassenaer the Baillif is in the Council of State, instead of Van der Duin, and Wassenaer Katwyk in the Chambre des Comptes, instead of his uncle¹⁾.

1) Frederik Hendrik van Wassenaer-Katwijk (1701-'71) was een broerszoon van de baljuw (C.L. Wassenaer-Doeveren); lid van de Holl. Ridderschap sedert 1727.