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anxious for [[underline]] their [[/underline]] Attendance, rather than that of his Pages - After this Visit H.M: was constantly calling for his Equerries by Name, & sending for Them - Some went, & others did not, for it had been a measured arrangement by The Physicians that the Pages were to be in constant Attendance in H.M. Apartment, & The Equerries at hand in the next room. The King spoke kindly at this time of all of Them, asked where they were lodged, & desired that none of them should have apartments any where but in the Queen's Lodge - Being informed that they were all under his Roof, He expressed his satisfaction very strongly. From existing circumstances apprehensions were Entertained that new Persons about Him would hurry his thoughts too much, therefore the Physicians thought it adviseable at this time, to let all attendance return to the same system which had been hitherto adopted, & it was now determined to keep H.M.s Equerries as much from Him as possible at present - Orders were accordingly given to this Effect, but as yet it has been impossible to obey them implicitly, as The Kings anxious wishes, & these so often repeated to have his Equerries, inclined the Physicians to relax in their Injunction, by indulging his Wishes partially - Accordingly Two Equerries have been with H:M: this day for a short time - I have been called by Name, & sent for more than once, but hitherto I have not been introduced -