Folios 130-131. Copy of a [very ambiguous] letter addressed to 'Dear Friend' and...

Folios 130-131. Copy of a [very ambiguous] letter addressed to 'Dear Friend' and signed 'L Y'.The writer says that since his last [letter] he has received a letter from MM from Cork who 'has a number of friends in that part which is very rejoice at His Highness's success, and L [blank] O must set out some day this week, he may come by the stage as far as you think proper and then take water and have delivered the five letters to His Highness, and there is 3 come from F which is extremely lucky our point will work like clockwork at St James's. I hope by the month of March we shall wene [win] the flying colours of Old England and Puggy and her children will get a cage. Douglas is at D Q. His Highness has received very great favours from that quarter lately. We are sure of full success from the intelligence of her favourite at St James's. You will receive this at the widow's. There is five and twenty hundred will be ready the momoment the word is given, that it will be impossible; and till we see the sitting of the Parliament, and see what they would advise this fool to do, that particular must be very carefully taken care of. We have got three of the female assistance; two of them were costly purchases. It is impossible to do without the gold. You'll call at Whitehall and in that two places in Cheapside where you'll get the proper directions from His Highness' own hand if they arrive on Saturday from F. It would be happy if His Highness could procure a few more of the Welch. I am to set out this evening from York. The rest, and His Highness himself, is not returned from Otterbury, so I cannot inform you of their success in that part; but this I can say, with pleasure, he is as much regauld as if he was real, and it is great encouragement to His Highness' 'Copied 18 Oct[ober]. On the back 'For CWJ at Princess Street Coffee House, Leicester Fields'.