Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 2

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R. Milling¹⁾ aan Willem Bentinck

[B.M., Eg. 1746]

1) Robert Milling, Engels kapelaan te 's-Gravenhage. Brieven van hem in Bentinck I, p. 54 vlg. en 206.

Den Haag, 18 oktober 1748

The fear of your being detained at Aix longer than I could wish made me venture upon writing to you, for should you leave Aix befor this arrives I suppose your letters will be sent after you, which I heartily wish may prove the case, for in my opinion your presence is very necessary in The Hague.

Yesterday a gentleman from Delft²⁾ was with me and told me some things which I thought you ought to be acquainted with and therefor I advised him to write directly to you and because he was afraid to put the letter into the post-office at Delft, he has by his servant this morning sent it to me and I will hope it will come with this safe to your hands.

Things at Leyden are all, I hear, in a great confusion, and no less in Gauda, Tergow and they are, it's said, beginning at Rotterdam. But I need say nothing concerning those stirs - for I suppose you are informed of them from better hands and the prints that are spread abroad there - in Holland.

2) Blijkbaar burgemeester Dirk Willemsz. Ingilby. Vergelijk Bentinck II, nr. 454.