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<N LET TO WIFE>
<A KNYVETT THOMAS>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X MALE>
<Y 20-40>
<H HIGH>
<U X>
<E INT DOWN>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
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<S SAMPLE X>


[^SAMPLE 1:

KNYVETT, THOMAS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
THE KNYVETT LETTERS (1620-1644).
ED. B. SCHOFIELD.
LONDON: CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD., 1949. 
PP. 55.1 - 63.17 (1-9) (KNYVETT)

SAMPLE 2:

HARLEY, BRILLIANA.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
LETTERS OF THE LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY,
WIFE OF SIR ROBERT HARLEY, OF BRAMPTON
BRYAN, KNIGHT OF THE BATH.
CAMDEN SOCIETY, LVIII.
ED. T. T. LEWIS.
LONDON, 1854.  
PP. 1.1 - 6.7 (1-7) (HARLEY)^]

[^SAMPLE 3:

PASTON, WILLIAM.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF LADY KATHERINE
PASTON, 1603-1627.
NORFOLK RECORD SOCIETY, XIV.
ED. R. HUGHEY.
NORWICH: NORFOLK RECORD SOCIETY, 1941.
PP. 64.25 - 65.9  (32) (WPASTON2)
P.  76.21 - 76.42 (48)

PASTON, KATHERINE.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 65.10 - 66.10 (33) (KPASTON)
P.  77.1  - 77.26 (49)

SAMPLE 4:

FERRAR, NICHOLAS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
THE FERRAR PAPERS, CONTAINING A LIFE
OF NICHOLAS FERRAR, THE WINDING-SHEET 
(AN ASCETIC DIALOGUE), A COLLECTION
OF SHORT MORAL HISTORIES, A SELECTION
OF FAMILY LETTERS.
ED. B. BLACKSTONE.
CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1938.
P. 243.14 - 243.30 (5) (NFERRAR)

FERRAR, RICHARD.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P. 278.1 - 278.24 (29) (RFERRAR)^]

[^SAMPLE 5:

BARRINGTON, JOHN.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
BARRINGTON FAMILY LETTERS, 1628-1632.
CAMDEN FOURTH SERIES, 28.
ED. A. SEARLE.
LONDON, 1983.
PP. 76.7  - 77.6  (46) (JBARRING)
P.  79.9  - 79.35 (50)
PP. 96.31 - 97.13 (71)

MASHAM, ELIZABETH.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 78.15 - 79.8 (49) (MASHAM)
PP. 92.1  - 93.4 (65)

BARRINGTON, THOMAS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P. 116.1 - 117.2 (94) (TBARRING)
           
EVERARD, JOAN.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P.  58.1   - 58.20  (31) (EVERARD)
PP. 100.14 - 101.2  (76)
P.  115.17 - 115.33 (93)^]

[^SAMPLE 6:

PROUD, MARY.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
THE OXINDEN LETTERS 1607-1642.
BEING THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY OXINDEN 
OF BARHAM AND HIS CIRCLE.
ED. D. GARDINER.
LONDON: CONSTABLE & CO. LTD., 1933. 
P. 28.11 - 29.30 (22) (PROUD)

PETTIT, VALENTINE.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem. 
PP. 13.9 - 14.27 (8-9) (PETTIT)

OXINDEN, RICHARD.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P.  26.4  - 26.29 (20) (ROXINDEN)
PP. 29.31 - 30.20 (23)

OXINDEN, KATHERINE.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P. 92.1 - 92.21 (76) (KOXINDEN)

PEYTON, MARY.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
P. 87.1 - 87.37 (71) (PEYTON)^]

[^SAMPLE 7:

GAWDY, PHILIP.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
LETTERS OF PHILIP GAWDY OF WEST HARLING,
NORFOLK, AND OF LONDON TO VARIOUS MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY, 1579-1616.
ED. I. H. JEAYES.
LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, 1906. 
PP. 24.18 - 27.5 (GAWDY)^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 55>
[} [\1\] }]
   Sweet Harte I haue sent by this bearer fourteen woodcockes   #
and a brace
of feasants which came to me by chance very fortunately. If     #
you will,
you may send them to my Lady Knyvett, which if you doe, I pray  #
lett
this bearer cary them and remember my humble servis to my Lor:  #
and
Lady. I came home on friday nighte betimes sumwhat wery, but    #
nowe
am very well and doe hope to see the this weeke if it be        #
possible. I
pray remember my servis to S=r= Tho: Holland and my Lady. So my
deerest affection to thyselfe; I commit the to the protection   #
of the Almighty
god and rest

Thy deerest Loving Husband
Thomas Knyvet[{t{] .

Ashwell Thorpe
Ma: 18: 1620.
Eares remembreth his servis you and all the rest.
[\Address:\] To his deerest loving wife m=is= Knyvett at Lady   #
Pewe give
these. Westminster.


[} [\2\] }]
   My deere Harte
the cause of my not writing to thee the last week was becaus I  #
thought
to haue been at home with the before my letter, and therfore I  #
cannot chose
but condemne y=r= to rashe censure of my forgettfullnes; which  #
although
it proceeds from y=r= infinite love, yet the assuered           #
testimonies of my
affection to you haue bene such as showld rather have layd the  #
fault
vpon something else, for I protest to god I love nothing but    #
onely thee,
and so rest assuered. For my busines, if I had not come vp      #
when I did
I thinke I had lost my mony, for certainely my Lo: mayor        #
meanes to
breake assoone as his yeare comes out, but I thanke god, I      #
have got good
securitie for my mony, and assoon as ever all things be         #
finished betwixt
<P 56>
vs I wilbe with the, god willing, the next day, which wilbe, I  #
hope the
next weeke. Till when and ever I rest

Thy loving husband
who loves the more
then his owne life
Tho: Knyvett.
Houborn, Oct. 9.
1621.

   For newes the Kings Chappell at Whithall is curiously        #
painted and all the
images newe made and a silver crusifix amaking to hange         #
therin, against
the spannish Ladys coming, and my Lady Digby is providing to    #
go to
fetch her. My Lo: Chamberlaine thay say shalbe sent in to       #
Irland to
call a parlament, and in his absens my Lo: Digby shalbe put in  #
his place.
This newes you must not be to bould to report, but it is        #
certainely reported
to be true. Remember my servis to my Aunt Bell and pray god     #
Bless
littel Pudd and vs all Amen.

[\Address:\] To his deerest loving wife m=is= Knyvett at        #
Ashwell Thorpe
give these.
Norffolke.


[} [\3\] }]

   Sweet harte I am forst yet to send the shaddowe of my        #
selfe, the true
affection of a substance that loves you aboue all the world.    #
My busines
I hope wilbe effectually dispatcht presently and god willing I  #
will be
with the before you are aware. I haue been to look for stufe    #
for y=r=
bedde and haue sent downe paternes for you to choose which you  #
like
best. Thay are the neerest to the patourne that wee can finde.  #
If you
lack anything accept [\sic\] my company you are to blame not    #
to lett me
knowe of it, for my selfe being only yours the rest doe         #
followe. Thus in
hast Intreating the to be merry and the more merry to think     #
thou hast
<P 57>
him in thy armes that had rather be with you then in any place  #
vnder
heaven; and so I rest

Thy dear loving
husband for ever
Tho: Knyvett.

Houborn 26
Nove: 1621.

[\Address:\] To his deerest loving wife m=is= Knyvett at        #
Ashwell Thorp
give these.
Leave this at Windham to be sent as aforesaide.


[} [\4\] }]
   Sweet harte my entire love remembred vnto the. It is no      #
litle joy to
me to heere of thy wellfare, and our children. I pray god       #
continue it.
I doe purpose god willing to be with the on saturday nighte. My
busines with Jones falls out still vntowardly, ther being a     #
compacte of
knavery amongst them to defraud the creditors but I hope to     #
prevaile
for my mony notwithstanding in a short time. I haue made        #
inquiry of
the land of Starbourg, and haue spoken with Beareblock, which   #
M=r=.
Seriant Richardson did take very ill, fearing least I had made  #
an agreement
with him for his statute, which I would to god I had. I cannot
tell yett how we shall agree but as neere as I can I will       #
deale to our best
advantage. My Lo: Knyvett lyes very weake still but thay that   #
are
about him saith he is much better since sunday then he was,     #
which god
increas and, if it be his will, restore him to his former       #
health againe to
our comforts. Y=r= gowne and things are a making, but will not  #
be done
against whittsunday, which fault I must confess I deserue to    #
be chidden
for, but I hope it wilbe but gentill when I come home. All      #
y=e= weare at
court is plaine white aprons, among the great Ladys.
   Thus deer harte commending vs both and all ours to the       #
protection of
Almighty god I rest

Thy assuered loving husband till
death
Tho: Knyvett.

June 4. 1622.

Commend me to my playfellowe and tell her that wascoats are     #
quite
out of fashion.

[\Address:\] To his most loving and deer wife m=is= Knyvett at  #
Ashwell
Thorpe, give these.
Leave this at Windham to be sent as before.

<P 58>
[} [\5\] }]
   My deerest harte,
   
   I received thy kinde letter, and returne the as true love    #
and affection
as can lodge in the hart of mortallitye. I thanke god I got     #
safe to London
on saturday the fornoone, and am very kindely intertaind of my  #
cousin
Knyvett and his wife with good cheer and good Lodging. I might  #
have
stayd my Journy a while longer if I had knowne it, for my       #
cousin and
my selfe going to the steward of Lambeth, we found that by      #
Judds and
my vncles vnderhand dealing, the Jury haue given in ther        #
verdict and
found my vncle heier to the moitye, but as yet he is not        #
admitted,
and the steward hath promised vs that he shall not be admitted  #
till a
certaine time be past which we desirde. It is like to prove a   #
very troublesome
busines, if we doe not agree quickly, but my cosin is absolute  #
of the
opinion that my cousin Abrahall shall not recover against me.   #
I am
going this afternoone to m=is=. Hamden. I doe purpose to see    #
y=r= mother
also. My Journy into Spaine is stayd, for the neewes heer is    #
that the
Prince is comeing home with all speed, and this is certaine     #
that 2 shipps
with horsses and Tilting provision are sent after and stayd.    #
Some say the
Prince is alredye married, other say noe. It is sayd that the   #
Queen of
Bohemia is in a pitifull case, almost distracted sinc the       #
Princes going
over. I pray god comfort her. Thus praying god to Bless the     #
and thy
houshould, commending my servis to my Aunt Bell, I rest

Thy most true loving husband till death
Tho: Knyvett.

Chancery Lane
April 23. 1623.
I have sent you my key of my closett which I forgott, and I     #
pray looke
for 2 letters which my cousin Abrahall writ, one to my selfe    #
and the
other to my cousin Knyvett, and send them to me.
 
[\Address:\] To his most assuered loving wife m=is= Knyvett at  #
Hapton give these.
Leave this at Robert Dyes of Wimonham to be sent according
to the direction.
Norfolke.

<P 59>
[} [\6\] }]
   Sweet harte
   in great hast I commend my best love to the. I haue stayd    #
till I feare
the post showld be gone for things to send you, but I cannot    #
gett them
to send this weeke, but the next week you shalbe suer of them.  #
I am
going presently to y=r= mother, whoe is going to morrowe        #
morning to the
Bathe. I heear say Anthony Knyvett is with you. I pray send     #
him vp
with all speed, for ther is one busines which he must doe       #
before I can
come downe; it is about y=r= wardshipp which if it be not       #
lookt after may
turne vs to a great deale of trouble and charge. I have had 2   #
meetings
with my vncle but what shalbe done yet I knowe not because my   #
cosin
Abrahall is not in towne. I pray tell Gorge Keeper I would      #
have him
sell the wood in middle woode to the best advantage, according  #
as he writt 
me worde. I am glade to heer of the kinde Answeare of my        #
mother. For
Clarkes kine I pray if thay be good, take them, and he and I    #
will reckone
for them at my retourne. I pray send mony for the horss to      #
Horsnell.
I have sent you with this letter 12 ounz. of counterfeite ose;  #
if thay be
not of the right sise I can have them changd. Send me word      #
which
of the twist you will have of. Thus in hast commend my respect  #
to
my Aunte Bell, I rest

Y=r= most true loving husband
Tho: Knyvett.

[\May 1623\]
[\Address:\] To his True loving wife m=is= Knyvett att Hapton,  #
give these.
Leave this letter at Robert Dyes of Windham to be sent.


[} [\7\] }]
   My deere harte, I cannot forgett the obligation that I am    #
bound in to the,
that is to write to thee, which is the beste expression of my   #
true affection
that I can afoorde thee in my absence. I have seen my mother,   #
who
I thanke her have yeelded me more respecte then she haue vsed   #
to doe. I
hope in god time will wear out all vnkindnes. I was also to     #
see y=r= mother
whoe it pleasd not to give me a sighte of her, but it was       #
happines inoughe
for me to convers with y=r= sister Drury, who talkt at a        #
strange rate, but
<P 60>
I had temper to heer her and so parted vpon fayer termes,       #
onely wishing
them a happy retourne, hopeing the Bath water would coole ther  #
bloods.
The onely happy newes that I can send you of y=r= kindred is    #
that y=r=
cousine Bourh is lately come over with great honor. He was the  #
last
sunday at Greenweech with the Kinge, who conferd the honor of   #
Knightwood 
[\sic\] vpon him, but what eles he haue done I doe not heer. I  #
hope
to make an end of all my busines this weeke, and to be with     #
thee the next.
I haue sent divers things heer in a bundle, some for you and    #
some for
my Aunte Bell. I hope I have pleasd you that I may have more    #
of y=r=
costome. The rest of y=r= bill is makeing redy and also my      #
sweetharts
wascote. In the meane time pray her to accepte of that peece    #
of burdseye
to make a rufe of, falling round with a litle sett, not to      #
deepe is all the
fashion. I have no skill in buing of lace, therfore I hope she  #
will pardon
me. I cannot match my Aunts purles in all the towne, but I      #
will have
some for her if thay be to be got.
   I did y=r= messuage to m=r= Towesend, who is grown so        #
brisk, as no
grownd can hould him. Y=r= Nurss Keeper will be redy to wayte   #
on you
at the time appointed. S=r= Francis Lee and S=r= Phillippe      #
Cary are harde
at it for that wich was truly meante to thee and me, but (gods  #
will be done)
I hope he hath in store for vs sufficient. I have no more to    #
say, but my
everlasting love rest with thee, and that love that makes me    #
but halfe my
selfe till I be with the, and thus praying for a blessing for   #
thine and mine
I rest 

Thy most faythfull loving husband
Tho: Knyvett.
[\5-11 May 1623\]

   I praye remember my servis to my Aunte Bell and tell her     #
for Neewes
that shee must provide clouts, for ther is hopefull Issue       #
towards at the
Tower.
   I have a man preferrd to me by my cosin Knyvett who is very  #
servisable
fellowe, and a very good Taylor both for men and weomen. If     #
you will,
I will take him, but then I would haue you put away Browne      #
alias Griffin
my man. I pray send me word what you thinke of it.
  
[\Address:\] To his deerly beeloved wife M=is= Kynvett at       #
Hapton give these, 
Norfolke.
Leave this letter at Windham, at Robert Dyes to be sent
accordin[{g{]ly.

<P 61>
[} [\8\] }]
   Sweet
Harte (thankes be god) we are come safe to London And I am      #
very sory
I came no sooner to have heard the cause between S=r= Phillipp  #
Carye
and S=r= Fra: Lee, which began on thursday last and held till   #
saturday, and
it is ordred very well for S=r= Phillipp, for the land is to    #
be devided between
the chilldren, whether it be a match or no. S=r= Fran: is not   #
so much 
deiected as cast downe, and swears he will never goe to Lawe    #
againe.
James Pepper and olde Doll have browght m=is= Hambden into a    #
faier
case for shee is like to loose Stanwell presently. She hath     #
caried her
selfe very partially in this busines, for which she will goe    #
neere to smart,
for she hath lost S=r= Phillipp Cary, and he doth propose to    #
prosequte her
lease presently. Little Cromwell hath lost his parte cleane.    #
My Lady
Knyvetts will was cald in open court Paddyes will, and was      #
almost
proved so. I could tell thee howe S=r= Francis, the night       #
before the
heering, made a great feast for his councell, and ther the      #
busines was
debated, and ther it went cleerly of S=r= Fr: his side, S=r=    #
Randoll Crewe
being Judge, but the next day the case was altered. Thus we     #
see what
wrangling ther is for the things of this world, which, if god   #
had seen good
for vs, might have been ours, but his will be done. Oh god      #
sweet harte
heer fell out on sunday last the lamentablest accident that     #
ever was
heard of, at the French Embassadors house in Blacke Friers, a   #
great
<P 62>
number of Papist being at masse and to heer a sermon preched    #
by an
english Jesuite whose name was Wrighte. In the midst of his     #
sermon the
house fell downe and slewe aboue a 100 persons in the place,    #
besides a
great manye that weare mained [\sic\] , and some dead since.    #
The Preest
that preached was beaten all in peeces. Ther wear divers of     #
good worth
in the house, but we cannot heer certainely what thay weare,    #
onely 2 Ladyes,
one the Lady Webbe and the Lady Hutton. Doctor Moore, a         #
Phisition,
a great Papist was slaine ther. It was a most fearefull         #
Judgment of god. 
God of his mercy give vs grace to make good vse of it. Yet for  #
all this
the papists gives out that it was a plotte of the puritanes, so #
insible [\sic\]
are thay of the heinous offence committed against our good      #
god, but suer
I am it will be a great blowe to the Catholicke cause, for      #
many that wear
that way affected are stricken with a great amazement. Ther     #
wear divers
that went onely to heare and see the manner of it, of which     #
some escaped,
that wear perswaded to goe heer the sermon, because it was in   #
english.
His text was out of St. Math: Thou shalt not come out thenc     #
till thou
hast payde the vttermost farthing. So much for this fearfull    #
accident.
   For other newes I can tell you y=r= Nephewe Brooke is        #
married to a fine
gentlewoman, my Lo: Dacres his sister, but what portion I       #
cannot tell.
Y=r= sister Drury hath recovered 100=l= (\per ann:\) and        #
400=l= in mony out of
her husbands estate. Y=r= 2 Neeces m=is= Carr and lusty Bess    #
hath recovered
one 3000=l=, and the other 2000=l=, but from whome I cannot     #
tell. These
are strange things, and I would have you wonder at them the     #
more because
thay be very true. Thus wishing all happines to thee and thine  #
I rest

Thy faithfull loving Husband
Tho: Knyvett.

   Commend my servis to my much honored widdowe and tell her I  #
make
as much hast as possibly I can home.
   My tenants of Staines and I haue triall this day with S=r=   #
Henry Spiller.
God send vs good Luck.
   M=is= Hamden and my cosin Tho: Knyvett are mightyty [\sic\]  #
falne out by
James Peppers meanes and Doll by whom she is to much ruled as   #
all her
freinds say.
[\27 Oct-2 Nov. 1623\]

   I pray make Kate looke in all the littel pocketts of my      #
breeches for my
silver seale and send it me for a token.

[\Address:\] To his most deer & loving wife m=is= Knyvett at    #
Hapton give these.
Leaue this at Wyndhame to be conveyed as aboue.

<P 63>
[} [\9\] }]

   Sweet harte I am very gladde to heare of all y=r= good       #
healths. I thanke
god my busines goes on resonably well. My cosin Knyvett is so   #
delatorye
otherwise I showld soone have beene at home againe, but I hope  #
to be
with the about Saturday come senight at the furthest. Heer is   #
no neewes
worth the sending. I tould my cosin Hunne of my Auntes desire   #
and he
says he saith he hath not spoken with Pettus yet. I pray send   #
me word
whether Bishoppe hath payde the monye or no. I would not have   #
that
mony payde which Kinge writ for vntill I knowe whether it be    #
due or
on [\sic\] . I am in great hast, therfore I can not write so    #
much as I would.
Wherfore praying to our good god to blesse vs and all our       #
actions, I rest,

Thy true loving husband
Tho: Knyvett.

[\? 1623\]
   I pray remember my due respecte to my widdowe and as duty    #
bindes me
my servis to my brace of virgins.

[\Address:\] To his most assuered loving wife m=is= Knyvett at  #
Hapton give
these.
Leave this letter at Windham to be sent.


<S SAMPLE 2>

<Q E2 XX CORP HARLEY>
<N LET TO HUSBAND>
<A HARLEY BRILLIANA>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X FEMALE>
<Y 20-40>
<H HIGH>
<U X>
<E INT UP>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 1>
[}TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S=R= ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT OF THE         #
BATHE.}]

   S=r= - Docter Barker has put my sister into a cours of       #
ientell fisek,
which I hope by God's bllsing will doo her much good. My sister
giues you thankes for seending him to her. I pray you remember
that I recken the days you are away; and I hope you are nowe
well at Heariford, wheare it may be, this letter will put you   #
in minde
of me, and let you knowe, all your frinds heare are well; and   #
all
the nwes I can seend you is, that my Lo. Brooke is nowe at      #
Beaethams
Court. My hope is to see you heare this day senet, or
to-morrowe senet, and I pray God giue vs a happy meeting, and
presarfe you safe; which will be the great comfort of

Your most true affectionat wife, Brilliana Harley

(^Ragly: the 30 of Sep. 1625.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HOUSBAND S=R= ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT, IN           #
BLACKFRIERS,
AT MY LO. LEWSONS HOWES.}]

   Deare S=r= - I thanke you for your letter which you sent me  #
from
Tuddington: which gaue me satisfaction of your being well, so   #
fare
on your journey: which ascurance of your health is the beest    #
nwes
<P 2>
I can heare, except that of your comeing home. I ernestly       #
desire
to heare howe you came to Loundon; and doo thinke your men stay
longe: but I hope they will bringe me good nwes of you, and     #
then
I shall be well pleased. Ned, I thanke God, is very well, and   #
you
will beleeve me, if I say he looses non of his grandfather      #
loue, whoo
is better than you leeft him. And no more to you at this time;  #
but
I beceache the Allmighty presarue you, and giue you happy       #
meeting
with
Your most faithfull affectionat wife, Brilliana Harley.

(^Brompton, the 10th of Phe. 1625.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HOUSBAND S=R= ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT.}]

   S=r= - I thanke you for sending me word, I may hope to see   #
you at
Easter, which time will be much longed for by me. I hope the    #
parlament
has spent as much time as will satisfy them in dooing nothing:
so that nowe some good frute of theare meeting will be brought  #
to
ripnes, which is the effect of our prayers. This day I          #
deleverd the
+L 100 to my father: which he has payed to Mr. Davis: that mony
that was wanting of it, was made vp with the +L 50 pounde Mr.
Lacy payed for wood. The payling of the nwe parke is made an
end of. Yesterday your company only was at Heariford, to shewe
what they had lerned, whear Sr. Jhon Skidemore and Mr. Vahan
weare judges; and so they meane to be of the reest of the       #
companis,
and they haue apointed teen of your company to learne the vse   #
of
theiare armes and so to teache the reest. This last night I     #
not being
very well, made me seend this day for the midwife, which I      #
thinke
I should haue defered to longe. I asure myself I haue your      #
prayers,
becaus you haue so great a part of mine: and I blls God that    #
you
injoy your health, which I beeg of you to take care of. I       #
thanke
God, Ned is well, and I beeg your bllsing for him: and I pray   #
God
preserue you well and giue you a happy and speedy meeting with

Your most faithful affectionat wife, Brilliana Harley.
<P 3>
I pray you present my humbell duty to my father, and my lady.
My cosen Thomkins remembers her loue to you.

(^Brompton, the 17 of Mar. 1625.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S=R= ROBERT HARLEY.}]

   Deare S=r= - Your two leters, on from Hearifort and the      #
other
from Gloster, weare uery wellcome to me: and if you knwe howe
gladly I reseaue your leters, I beleeue you would neeuer let    #
any
opertunity pase. I hope your cloche did you saruis betwne       #
Gloster
and my brother Brays, for with vs it was a very rainy day, but  #
this
day has bine very dry and warme, and so I hope it was with you;
and to-morowe I hope you will be well at your journis end,      #
wheare
I wisch my self to bide you wellcome home. You see howe my
thoughts goo with you: and as you haue many of mine, so let me
haue some of yours. Beleeue me, I thinke I neuer miste you more
then nowe I doo, or ells I haue forgoot what is past. I thanke
God, Ned and Robin are well; and Ned askes every day wheare you
are, and he says you will come to-morowe. My father is well,    #
but
goos not abrode, becaus of his fiseke. I haue sent you vp a     #
litell
hamper, in which is the box with the ryteings and boouckes you
bide me send vp, with the other things, sowed up in a clothe,   #
in the
botome of the hamper. I haue sent you a partriche pye, which    #
has
the two pea chikeins in it, and a litell runlet of meathe,      #
that which
I toold you I made for my father. I thinke within this muthe,   #
it
will be very good drinke. I sende it vp nowe becaus I thinke    #
carage
when it is ready to drincke dous it hurt; thearefore, and       #
please you to
let it rest and then taste it; if it be good, I pray you let    #
my father
haue it, because he spake to me for such meathe. I will nowe    #
bide
you god night, for it is past a leauen a cloke. I pray God      #
presarue
you and giue you good sugsess in all your biusnes, and a speady #
and
happy meeting.

Your most faithfull affectinat wife, Brilliana Harley.
<P 4>
I must beeg your bllsing for Ned and Rob. and present you with
Neds humbell duty.

(^Bromton, the 5 of October, 1627.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S=R= ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT.}]

   My deare S=r= - I ame glad of this opertuenity to present    #
you
with the remembranc of my deare loue. I hope you came well to
Bristo; and I much longe to heare from you, but more a
thousand times to see you, which I presume you will not         #
beleeue,
becaus you cannot poscibilly measure my loue. I thanke God your
father is well, and so are your three soons. Ned presents his   #
humbell
duty to you, and I beeg you bllsing for them all; and I pray
God giue you a happy and speady meeting with

Your most affectinat wife, Brill. Harley.

   If I thought it would hasten your comeing home, I would      #
intreat
you to doo soo.
   I pray you remember me to Mr. Pirson. I thanke God all at    #
his
howes are well.

(^Bromton, the 7th, 1628.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S=R= ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT.}]

   My deare S=r= - I thanke you for your letter, which I        #
reseaued
this weake by the carrier, and I thanke God for my father's     #
health.
I trust in our good God, in his owne good time, he will giue a  #
happy
end to your biusness. I haue rwitten a letter to my father,     #
which
I send you heare inclosed. If you thinke it will not displeas   #
him,
and it may any thinge at all seet forward  your biusnes, I      #
pray you
deleuer it to him. If you do deleuer it to my father, I pray    #
you
seale it first. Allas! my deare S=r=, I knowe you doo not to    #
the
on halfe of my desires, desire to see me, that loues you more   #
then
any earthly thinge. I should be glad if you would but rwite me
<P 5>
word, when I should hope to see you. Need has bine euer sence
Sunday trubled with the rume in his fase very much.
The swelling of his face made him very dull; but nowe, I        #
thanke God,
he is better, and begins to be merry. He inquires for Jhon      #
Walls
comeing downe: for he thinkes he will bringe him a letter. I    #
must
desire you to send me downe a littell Bibell for him. He would  #
not
let me be in peace, tell I promised him to send for on. He      #
begings nowe
to delight in reading: and that is the booke I would haue him
place his delight in. Tom has still a greate coold; but he is   #
not, I
thanke God, sike with it. Brill and Robin, I thanke God, are    #
well;
and Brill has two teethe. Ned presents his humble duty to you,
and I beeg your bllsing for them all: and I beceach the         #
Allmighty
to prosper you all you doo, and to giue you a happy meeting     #
with

   Your most faithfull affectinat wife, Brilliana Harley.

   I pray you, S=r=, send downe no silke grogram. I hope you    #
haue
reseuefed the siluer candell-stike.
   Your father, I thanke God, is much better than he was. I     #
pray
you, S=r=, present my beest loue to my sister Wacke.

(^Desem 4 1629.^)


[}TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S=R= ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT, AT HIS HOWES  #
IN
ALLDERMANBERY.}]

   My dearest S=r= - Your men came to Bromton on thursday last.
I thanke God that you haue your halth. I hope the Lord will
giue vs bothe faith to waite vpon him; and I trust that in his
mercy he will give a good end to your biusnes. It pleases God
that I continue ill with my coold, but it is, as they say, a    #
nwe disceas:
it trubelles me much, more becaus of my being with childe;
but I hope the Lord will deale in mercy with me; and, deare     #
S=r=,
let me haue your prayers, for I haue need of them. Docter       #
Barker
is nowe with me. I thanke God the childeren are all well, and
Need and Robine are very glad of theire boose, and Ned is much
discontended that you come not downe. I beeg your bllssing for
<P 6>
them all, beceaching the Allmighty to presarue you, and to giue
you a joyefull and happy meeting with your

Most faithfull affectinat wife, Bril. Harley.

   I pray present my humbell duty to my father. This day theare
came a man from Ragley to feetche my cosen Hunkes to her        #
mother,
whoo is very sike.

(^Bromton, the 8 of May, 1630.^)


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<P 64>
[} [\32\] }]
[} [\WILLIAM PASTON TO LADY KATHERINE PASTON\] }]

[\26 January 1624\]
To my most Deare and honored Mother,
The Right Worshipfull The Lady Paston att paston Hall.
May itt Speede

Most honored and Deare mother, The Lorde Be Thanked I haue had  #
my
health pretty well since I came hether. I am fainte to play     #
the Sirgion,
with my Tutors finger which was a pitteful one, But now I haue  #
Brought
itt to a fine passe, and is euen well. Deare mother I will      #
euer haue your
precepts in my minde puttinge them allwaies in practice, and I  #
hope iff I
obey them I shall still Keepe your accostomed Loue which, next  #
to the
grace of god, I esteeme aboue anie thinge. The Kinge is         #
expected heere
one Candlemas day or the day after. We heare no newes att all   #
this
weeke euery Saturday your Ladiship shall haue a Letter from me  #
or my
Tutor, if they doe not miscary By the carrier. This 26 day I    #
haue not
<P 65>
hearde from your Ladiship ruffes, standinge comons, (in         #
pottage)
amounteth to a penny a weeke. The master is very thankfull to   #
you
ffor your greate gift, Remembringe his hartiest sseruice to     #
your Ladiship
so with my humblest dutie,  to yovr sellfe, and my ffather,     #
Beseeching god
to showre downe his Blessings one you: and all your housholde.  #
I rest
your Dutifull and obedient sonne
Will: Paston
College Corpus Christy
Ian 26 day

Good mother Remember my Best Loue to my Brother: Cosin Abigall.
and mrs Willson. mr Brende:

<P 76>
[} [\48\] }]
[} [\WILLIAM PASTON TO LADY KATHERINE PASTON\] }]

[\22 February 1625\]

To my much Honored good mother
the Right Worshipfull the Lady Paston att Paston halle
Northfolke

Most deare and honored mother, you must giue me leaue To        #
Epitomise
my letter into A short Compendium for mr Dikes. hast will not   #
Suffer me
To Doe Anie otherwise. good mother my Tutor and I were att the  #
courtt
at newe markett yesterday wher we saw the prince the Duke and   #
mane
other noble men, But not, the Kinge By Reson he was not well.   #
God's
name Be praysed we are all verie well. onely Tom: Hartston      #
contineweth
after the olde sorte haueinge no vse of his hande. He is still  #
in the Towne.
mr Dike is the Lord Lepingtons chaplen Good mother I Remember   #
my
humles Dutie to my father your selfe my loue to my Brother my   #
Chozen
Abigail mrs Wilson prayinge to god almitie to protecte you now  #
and euer
and Reste if ther be no oranges att Norwich if your Ladiship    #
will sende
in your next letter we will sende some by Iohnson:
your filliallay obediente sonne
William Paston

Cambridge
(^Corpus Christi College^)
xxii feb
1624-5

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<P 65>
[} [\33\] }]
[} [\LADY KATHERINE PASTON TO WILLIAM PASTON\] }]

[\January 1624?\]

To my beloued William paston
these be deliuered at Cambridge

My good Child the [{Lo{]rd blese the ever more in all thy       #
goinges ovtt and
thy Cominges in. euen in all thy ways words and words, for his  #
mercy
sake: I was very glad to heer by your first letter that you     #
wer so saffly
arriued at your wished portt. but more glade to reade thy       #
Louinge
promises to parforme my desiers: which I hope in god shall      #
allways
redownd to thy cheefest good bothe for this, and the Liffe to   #
come. and
remember that now is the cheefest time to gayne the truest      #
good bothe for
sowll and body: your Cunditt of Comfort tells you: that: "the   #
seeds
which now in youth you sowe:" "springe vp and sprout increase   #
and
grow:" wherfore Labor to sowe:/ for your grownd is as the       #
tilled earthe,
if you sowe good seed, you shall reape a plentifull and         #
comfortable Crope:
but if it shold lie still with out good seed, it doth           #
naturally bringe forthe
noysom weeds:/ I coold wish that you wold settell your self to  #
certin
howers tasks euery day you rise: and those howld your self too  #
with out 
any wearines: the vse of it wold make it bothe easy and         #
pleasent to you:/
but it may be at the first it will seem Laborious to you: but   #
you must
remember. that the sonns of Adam wear borne to digge and        #
delue: euen
in the sweat of our browes:/ Likewis wisdom is not fownd but    #
is as hidden
treasuer. which must be digged for affter much scerch to finde  #
it out:/
this I thought good to put the in minde of. very[{ily{]         #
beleuinge thou wilt doe
this for my sake but more cheefly for thyn owne: that I may     #
receiv[{e{] the
from that plase adorned bothe with devine and humayne           #
Learninge to my
sowls comfort for nothinge in his Liffe can be so cordiall to   #
me as. shallbe
thy vertuous and Ciuill behavi[{or{] and now I thanke the for   #
thy kinde
token sent me in your first letter: and allso I haue received   #
two other
letters this last by Iohnsons. by whom I did not wright,        #
becawse this
mesenger will be with you sooner than he:/ in all which of thy  #
most
louinge letters I haue thy faythefull promises redubled.        #
wherfor I haue no
doupt of the parformanc of them seinge thay be allwas in thy    #
minde:/
Your father comende him to the and doe acsepet kindly of the    #
token you
sent him, he sends you this 10 s for a remembranc of his Love:  #
and ascept
<P 66>
of this other from me till a better com: your brother is very   #
well, and
have sent you a letter of his own indittinge as you may se.     #
but mr brend
was his clarke: he tells you all the newes is sturinge: I will  #
conclude as I
begane with my harty prayers to the allmighty for all true      #
hapines to be
mulltiplied to the bothe now and ever farwell my sweet will:    #
for this time:/
by thy louinge mother
Katherine Pason
remember my good respect to your worthy master:/ Linnicars'     #
watter
worke and his glasinge worke dothe very well: as may be:

<P 77>
[} [\49\] }]
[} [\LADY KATHERINE PASTON TO WILLIAM PASTON\] }]

[\Late February 1625\]

To my most beloued sonne William Paston
these I pray ye at Corpus Christ Colledge Cambridg
 
My good chilld the lord blese the ever:/ I was glad to heer by  #
Phillup
of thy good healthe and allso by mr Roberts letter to           #
vnderstand of thy
wellfare every way: the hope of the continuanc of which, dothe  #
still cheer
me every way:/ thy father haue bine very ill with his owld      #
truble in his
Legge so that he haue kepte his bede with it this 5: or  6:     #
days, but now
god be thanked it is on the mendinge hand but yett he can not   #
indure to
sitt vp:/ your brother and all good frindes heer are well, I    #
hope thow
doest keep good fiers. this cowld wether. for it is bothe       #
comfortable and
howlsum: heer haue bine much lose heerabout with these great    #
windes
and ill wether; diuers botts with wheat which was to be         #
deliuered for the
kinges provision at Yarmouth are sunke in the riuer, which is   #
the owners
lose and not the kings:/ I was sory to heere of tom harstons    #
beinge ill,
but hope well of his recouery: I did wright to the the last     #
satterday when
I had very littel time to say any thinge for hast: Commend me   #
very kindly
to good mr Roberts I doe not know whether he shall need a new   #
supply:
yett before our Lady: I will sende so soon as the wether        #
breake vp to
know how the squars goe in the mean time I pray god blese the   #
farwell
sweet harte to thy owne selfe:/ 
thy most louinge Mother
Katherine Pason
My Neec Knyvett hathe a yonge soone and is very well:/


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<Q E2 XX CORP NFERRAR>
<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A FERRAR NICHOLAS>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X MALE>
<Y 20-40>
<H PROF>
<U X>
<E INT UP>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 243>
[} [\N. F. TO HIS MOTHER\] }]

My most deare mother
   Your good arrivall at Gidding I doubte not, which I
humbly beseech Almighty God may bee continued w=th=
all manner of prosperity this prayer all our freindes heere
meke with mee and remember there best loues respectiuely
unto your selfe and all youre - and this is all y=t= I haue
occasion to write unto you sauing farther to lett you know
y=t= none of the Oundell Waggoners are yet com to towne
not is it certaine when they will being at Beuersly fayre
yett there is some Expectation of thim this present day.
And soe agayne w=th= my most humblest prayers to Almighty
god for y=r= happines I rest

Your most bounden and obedient son
Nicholas Ferrar

<Q E2 XX CORP RFERRAR>
<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A FERRAR RICHARD>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X MALE>
<Y 20-40>
<H OTHER>
<U X>
<E INT UP>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 278>
[} [\RICHARD FERRAR TO HIS MOTHER\] }]

Most Deare Mother,
   beinge In that extremety of missery that I nowe am
falen Into, whether should I fly for succor but to the 
wombe that bare me. I doe desier you for Christ Iesus 
sake not to lett your pore Sonne to goe to a Iayle, there
to ly, dy and Rott:
   Even for my deare fathers sake I alsoe humbly crave
yours and my brothers helpe at this tyme or else I am for
euer lost. truly I am soe possessed w=th= extremity of greife
y=t= I knowe [{not{] what to write. but my missery makes
me capable to desier helpe and Realese, this is the first
tyme that I am vnfortunately falen Into the handes of
a Credittor One Thomas Sampson the debt is about fifty
poundes. and I cannot but hope that hee wilbe Reasonable.
The baylifs swere and damne themselves y=t= yf I cann satisfy
him noe other acction shall come against me but I shall
bee delivered safly at my lodging. I doe beseech you
Deare Mother lett me not bee a Newgate bird and soe for
ever to loose my liberty and fortunes.

Your distresfull pore Sonne
Richard Farrar


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<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A BARRINGTON JOHN>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
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<F X>
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<P 76>
[} [\46\] }]
[} [\JOHN BARRINGTON, 18 JULY, 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HIS MOTHER^] }]

Deare mother I am exceading sorrowfull that I have been
forced by reason of my longe sicknes to be so often             #
importunate to
request your favour in the releafe of my greate necessities,    #
wherby I
know I have beene very chargeable unto yow, without which love  #
of
yours so highlie shewed to mee I could not have imagined what I
should have done for my releafe all this time. I beseach yow    #
not to
esteame your love ill bestowed upon mee hearin; I trust in God  #
I shall
never give yow cause so to doe, but yow shall (God willing)     #
ever finde
mee willing to strive to desearve your love to my uttermost     #
power and
indeavour. I must indeade confess I was more then ordinarie     #
chargeable
unto yow latelie (being constrained therunto which I could not
avoide), in which respect I do understand yow are displeased    #
with
mee (which hath much troubled mee) but I do intreate yow if yow
have conceaved any distast against mee hearin that yow would be
pleased to remitt it, assuring yow I will carefully avoyde any  #
thinge
which I can thinke to be displeasing to yow.
   I do understand it is your pleasure to know of mee what      #
course I do
purpose to take when God shalbe pleased to inable mee with      #
strength
to goe abroode. I beseach you not to harbour any other          #
conceite then
that I am resolved to take such a lawfull course as shall be    #
both
pleasing to God and liking to your sealfe; this my desire, for  #
I delight
not in sullenes. But as yet I must with patience waight God     #
his pleasure
for my former strength, for as yet I have not nore dare beare   #
any
waight upon my hurte legg because the bone is not all come of   #
that is
to scale of. I only as yet goe with cruches now and then about  #
my
<P 77>
chamber. With the remembrance of my humble dutie I commend
yow to God his protection remayning
Your obedient sonn John Barrington

London, 18 July, 1629

[\Endorsed\] : To my honourable mother the lady Johanna
Barrington

<P 79>
[} [\50\] }]
[} [\JOHN BARRINGTON, 13 AUGUST 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HIS MOTHER^] }]

Deare mother May it please yow, since my last letter which I
desired Sir Francis Harris to deliver unto yow my bone which    #
was to
scale is (I thanck God) quite of and the wound allmost dried    #
upp, soe
that I hope I shall now be quickly able to goe abroade. I do    #
hope (God
willing) to gow for Swede and to have a company for that        #
service, but
as yet wee have noe absolute answeare of those condicions are   #
sent to
the king, which are carried thither by a Dutchman who is to be  #
our
collonell (if wee are agreed upon our condicions). I was        #
demanded
by a speciall frind if I would be one of the regiment, to       #
which I have
willingly agreed. As yet wee have no certaintie before wee      #
heare from
thence, which wee earnestlie expect. The chiefe ponts wee       #
stand upon
are for monie to be paid us heare to rayse our men; and for     #
the time
how long they will entertaine us, wee desire to make in our     #
condicions
that the king shalbe bound to keepe us in pay three yeares at   #
least.
They would pay us (as to some before) halfe our monie heare     #
and the
rest a month after our arrivall theare, for raysing our men,    #
but wee
hope to have all our monie heare to rayse and transport our     #
men,
which is 300=li= to each captain. A captain's meanes is good    #
theare
which is twentie five pounds a month, ten to a lieutenant, as   #
much to
an ensigne. I shall be wondrous willing to imbrace this         #
imployment if
wee can agree to have all our monie heare to rayse and          #
transport our
men, else wee cannot rayse them for want of monie. I beseach    #
yow
excuse my tediousness, with my humble duty remembred I commend
yow to the protection of the allmightie who I beseach to        #
prosper all
your affaires, and will ever rest
Your obedient sonn John Barrington

<P 96>
[} [\71\] }]
[} [\JOHN BARRINGTON, 10 OCTOBER 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HIS MOTHER^] }]

Deare mother May it please yow, since I last wroghte yow (I
thancke God) my legg is much stronger and doth daylie increase  #
in 
strength, insomuch that I am able to walke a staff reasonable
<P 97>
well, only my knee is not yet recovred, but I hope as strength  #
doth
come that will mende. As yet wee have receaved no newes of our
bussines in Swede but wee do dayly expect the comming of        #
Collonel
Knephusen from theance or else his sending hither; I hope wee   #
shall
have such contentment that wee may goe over to searve that      #
kinge
next springe, which I doe desire, and shall willingly imbrace   #
any
reasonable condicions for my parte. I doe not heare of any      #
newes
worth the wrighting at this time. Thus with my humble dutie     #
remembred, 
I commend yow to the tuition of the allmightie, resting
Your obedient son John Barrington

Westminster, 13th October, 1629

[\Endorsed\] : To my very good freind Mr Issac Ewer, servant to
the ladie Barrington, at Sir Gilbert Gerrard's in Harrow Hill 

<Q E2 XX CORP MASHAM>
<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A MASHAM ELIZABETH>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
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<P 78>
[} [\49\] }]
[} [\LADY ELIZABETH MASHAM, N. D., JULY? 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HER MOTHER^] }]

Deare mother I humbly thank you for the token you sent me.
The ladis at Lees were such abowt their necks with their        #
peticotes
and wastcotes. I went with my husband to Chelmsford and         #
Langlyes
and so did only supp at Lees. He went in his coatch because     #
Jug has
to goe gett hir a payer of bodis. I am glad my husband sent     #
you some
of your one cheries and that they cam at soe fitt a time to my  #
sister
Robert. My lady of Warwick sends all most evrye day for some,   #
and
this day she charged Jug Altham to goe to Hattfeeld and se a    #
baskettfull
well putt up for hir; and so Jug means to preserv some doble
cheries for my sister Garard. She preserved 2 pownd of single   #
cheries
for my sister before, but I know not whether she will have      #
them or no;
if she will not, I will. I am glad you liked my litle pulletts  #
I sent you,
I will gett some more fatt to send you. I had hoped to have     #
seen you
the next week, but my husband is so importuned by Colchester    #
men
to be there on Monday that it hinders my joyrnye because he     #
goeth in
his coatch, but when he coms back I hope to have liberty after  #
our
haye. I am very glad you have overcom your pashon and will see  #
Mr
Willyams. It will be to your grete honer to pass by ofencis,    #
and if we
consider how much God forgivs us we canot but forgive such as   #
ofend
us, especialy it being the condishon God maks to forgive us if  #
we
forgive others. He took noe unkindnes that I colde perceave     #
for your
not seing him, he did not speak a word of it tell I asked him.  #
He will
<P 79>
be very glad to atend you asoone as he can, but it willbe       #
longe first, by
reson of much busynes which he hath. Both he and we will not    #
sease
to pray daly for hapy being thare and your safe return when     #
the lord
shall se it fitt, to whose protectyon I comit you and ever rest
Your obedent daughter Elizabeth Masham

When I here from my brother Knightly you shall here.

[\Endorsed in hand of Sir William Masham\] : To my much
honoured mother the Lady Barington these

<P 92>
[} [\65\] }]
[} [\LADY ELIZABETH MASHAM, N.D., SUMMER/AUTUMN 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HER MOTHER^] }]

Deare mother I am wonderfull gladd that it pleaseth God to
give you your health soe well at Harrow. Mr Dike asked me when  #
I
woulde goe see my nue mother; I perseave Harow hath made you
younge againe. When you dare give us leave to think we are      #
clear we
shall be glad to se you. I thank God we hav had no more ill,    #
the boye
that had them went a brode againe within 2 or 3 dayes. The      #
measels
have bin in most placis abowte us, but thanks be to God I here  #
of none
that dye of them. It is a wonderfull thing to me to think the   #
lord
should lay his hand soe moderatly upon us in these times        #
wherein we
soe much increse in disobedenc to him, and wherin all sorts of  #
sin soe
much abowndeth; but he is a God of longe suffering, yet he      #
will be a
consuming God allsoe to all such as sett lite by his smaller    #
tryalls and
be not broute neerer to him therby. I hope yet you will not     #
forgett
Hatfeeld; the lord is able longe to continue that strenhth and  #
health
ther which you have got at Harow and I hope he will doe soe. I
shall-be gladd to fetch you. [\TEN LINES ILLEGIBLE\]
   ... that all the distempers of our bodys, which must need    #
be many
while we live here, may be a means of the cureing the great
distempers of our soles, and may make us longe for that home    #
whare
all sorows shall have an end and we shall tryumph in joye and   #
glorye
for ever more. I looke evry day to here from my brother         #
Knightly. Jug
Altham longes much for hir cosin Johane Mewexe's company, if    #
you
please to give hir leave to come hither I will send for hir     #
and bringe
hir againe to you. I have inquired abowt Mr Acher and I         #
perseve he
will have none of hir; I pray if you send to my brother Mewix   #
let him
know so much. Yet his sister is come hether who he puts much
confidenc in; it may be if my neece ware here then she mite     #
win hir
love and she will work with hir brother. I like the gentleman   #
exceeding
well by site and discourse. I feare I may be tedius to you      #
therefore
with my humble duty I comend you to God and rest
Your dutyfull daughter Elizabeth Masham

I desire to be remembred to all my frends with you. Mr          #
Willyams is to
marye Mary Barnerd, Jug Altham's made. My husband remembers
<P 93>
his servic to you and his love to the rest. He is in the heate  #
of his
harvest.

[\Endorsed\] : To my much honoured mother the Lady Barrington
at Harrow Hill give these

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<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A BARRINGTON THOMAS>
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<O 1570-1640>
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<X MALE>
<Y 40-60>
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<U X>
<E INT UP>
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<Z X>

<P 116>
[} [\94\] }]
[} [\SIR THOMAS BARRINGTON, 29 DECEMBER 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HIS MOTHER^] }]

Madame My first knowledg of this bearer's journye towards
you made me differ my intentions of sending purposely to you,   #
and by
him to present you with so much balsom as I could gett in       #
London,
which allthough it be not answarable in quantitye to my         #
desyres and
indevors, yet the qualytie may render som answarable            #
satisfaction,
haveing with som labor obtained it of a freind who hath made    #
greate
tryall of it; that which wants tharefore makes the worthe of    #
the
remaineder the greater. I wish and praye for a merrye new       #
yeear unto
you, and your safe and comfortable being emong us in it, and    #
so many
as God shall see best for us to enjoy such and so greate a      #
blessing. The
children of theire owne ernest desyre have presented you with   #
theire
owne, and that meearly so in matter and forme too, even to
my sonn Oliver who would not so much as have it lookt on till   #
he had
finished. You will please to thinke I would not perswade them   #
so much
to trouble you, but I was unwilling to discorage them in that   #
loveing
indevor which was so meearly spunn oute of theire owne good     #
natures.
My wife offers her dewtie and love to you, humblye desyreing    #
your
excuse for her not wrighting, for that in good truth her        #
present toyle
is verye greate.
   My brother Riche remembers you lovingly, who hath ben heear
theise two dayes oute of his love and upon a busines relateing  #
to my
neice Alltham which you shall know shortly, one Mr St. Johns    #
(but
it must yet not be imparted to anye because the success is
doubtfull). He is religious, honest, of sweetness in nature,    #
discreet, his
estate in land som 300=li= by the yeear, his practise I         #
beleive neear
double, handsom for person, probable to rise, my Lord           #
Bedford's only
favorite, who promises that nothing shall hinder it for         #
joyncture if his
estate will make it good. I thinke it's not to be slighted      #
considering his
present meanes are [{so{] competent by his prefession and       #
[{his{] likelyhood
to rise so greate, considring how he is befreinded. I desyre    #
to be
remembred, and so doe my wife and sisters, to owr brother       #
Gerard
and our sisters, and my neice and uncle, and cosen Brewster,    #
who I
assure me is now with you. And thus I kiss your hands and pray  #
to
God to bless you and us all and am allwayes
Your most dewtyfull and loving sonn
Thomas Barrington

Hatfield Broad Oak, December 29, 1629
<P 117>
[\Endorsed\] : To the honourable and my verie good mother       #
the 
Lady Johan Barrington 

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<A EVERARD JOAN>
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<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
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<Y 40-60>
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<U X>
<E INT UP>
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<P 58>
[} [\31\] }]
[} [\JOAN EVERARD, 24 FEBRUARY 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HER MOTHER^] }]

Most deere mother Your great love and many favors to mee
maks me ashamed of my self that I can express my thankfullness  #
no
more. Good madam, Mr Everarde would have acquainted you with
this new newes when he was att Hatfeild, but knew not the       #
sertainty
of it nor had no letter that any such thinge was before         #
Tuesday with
senight, and then my Lord of Warwicke wright to his father and  #
the
pattent came dowen. My child has bene very ille againe which    #
maks
me fearfull to stir from hir but, and pleas God, if the         #
weather hold
faire, I purpose to come and se you the next weeke, and then    #
nurse
Mitchell shall see that there is littell hope of me as yet.     #
Thus beseching
your ladyship to remember my love to my sisters and brother, I
humbly take my leave and rest
Your most obeydient daughter to commande
Johan Everard

Langleyes, 24 February, 1628
I desire that you would be pleased to send Isac for me, if he   #
may be
spared, about the latter end of next weeke.

[\Endorsed\] : To hir Honourable mother the Lady Barrington     #
give 
these

<P 100>
[} [\76\] }]
[} [\LADY JOAN EVERARD, 10 NOVEMBER 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HER MOTHER^] }]

Most deere mother I thinke Essex to be a very solitarye place
now, beinge bard not only your companye but alsoe of hearinge   #
from
you so oft as I mighte doe when you were at Hattfilde. I        #
should be
very glad to wright offener, but that I know not which way to   #
send a
letter saife. It would much rejoyce me to here of your good     #
health this
winter, which I much disire and praye for. I thank God I and my
children are well. We have no good newes hear, but ill; Mr      #
Beard is
gone from us and we are left in a petifull condition and may    #
well say
with Johoshaphat, we know not what to doe but our eyes are      #
upon the
lord, for the means that we have is very pore and we have       #
litel hope of
any other. Thus desiringe your praers for us I ever remaine
Your most obeydient dauther Johan Everarde

November 10, 1629
My father and mother remember ther service unto you and all     #
your
good companye
<P 101>
[\Endorsed\] : To my honourable mother the Ladye Barrington
give these

<P 115>
[} [\93\] }]
[} [\LADY JOAN EVERARD, 25 DECEMBER 1629\] }]
[} [^TO HER MOTHER^] }]

Most deere mother I am very glade to heere so good newes,
that you have your health so well this winter; I praye God to   #
continue
it longe. I thanke God I and my children are very well now      #
againe,
ther was not any in the house that had the measels but they.    #
Good
mother I give you many thanks for your good counsel, I beseech  #
the
lord to give me a hart so to seeke him that I may be harde and  #
that I
may make a holy and sanctified  use of all his fatherly         #
chastisments,
knowinge that all things shall worke together for good to his   #
children.
I should be glad to hear when my sister Garard looks hir,       #
because of
nursh Michiel. I doe not looke me tell the begining of May.     #
Thus
desiringe you to pardon my rude lynes, I ever remaine
Your obedient daughter Johan Everard

Langleys, December 25, 1629
I desire to be remembred to my brother and sisters.

[\Endorsed\] : To my much honored mother the Ladye Barrington
senior give these


<S SAMPLE 6>

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<N LET TO MOTHER>
<A PROUD MARY>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X FEMALE>
<Y 40-60>
<H HIGH>
<U X>
<E INT UP>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 28>
[} [\XXII\] }]
[} [\MRS. MARY PROUD TO LADY SPRAKELING\] }]

<P 29>
Deare Mother,
   My humbell duty remembred. I have not had anny
Conveniant Ma [\MS. torn\] rell now to have wreten and now
he comes in such hast that I have scarse time to write.
   I have thes day hard from my husban that hee is well but
I have not sen hem this 7 monts nether shall thay come out
of the feld this wentar: my husban hath mad my Cosson
Esde [\Esday\] hes leftennent and hee hath mad on[{e{] M=s=a
brom hes Sarchant, a Canterbery man, heare is not anny
neues to writ of my lady Proud is brath abed of a dathar and
it tes ded and shee har selfe very likly to dy for in har Child
bed shee got the bloddy flexie which brought har very week
but now thanks be to God shee is well recouard. I desire to
be rembred to my sestar Oxenden and to my sestar Pettet
and to both ther husbans. So, weth my daly prayers to
god for your helth I rest
Your obedient darter
Mary Proud
[\Probably Autumn 1626\]

<Q E2 XX CORP PETTIT>
<N LET TO SON>
<A PETTIT VALENTINE>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
<D ENGLISH>
<V PROSE>
<T LET PRIV>
<G X>
<F X>
<W WRITTEN>
<X MALE>
<Y X>
<H X>
<U X>
<E INT DOWN>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 13>
[} [\VIII\] }]
[} [\VALENTINE PETTIT TO HENRY PETTIT\] }]

   Matt Henneker beeing unable and unfitt to serve your
tourne, and my wife beeing unwillinge that shee should com
home, eyther hither or to her fathers, (allthough wishing that
shee had beene fitt for your service, and that shee might have
continued with you for some yeares), hath provided for her
with M=ris= Eppes, who haveing now but one mayede and servant,
and desireth to have her as soone as possible may bee,
to the end that shee should not lose that service and be        #
unprovided,
purposeth to sende for her abowte Satterdaye next,
or Mondaye at the furthest; and beecause shee would not
have my daughter your wife to bee destitute of one to serve
her tourne, shee purposeth to send Matt Samsonn to bee in 
her steade for 3 weekes or a month, if your other mayde com
not in the meane time, which I thought fitt heereby to geive
you notice of, least if you had no knowledge heereof, it might
bee thought to bee over sodden - Thus praying god to bless
you and all yours, and to remember mee and my wife to my
Layde, your brother and Sister Oxenden, your wife and the
rest of our freindes, I commende you to God.
Your loving father
Val: Pettit
(^Daundelion the 26th of Aprill 1624^)

<P 14>
[} [\IX\] }]
[} [\SAME TO SAME\] }]
[^VALENTINE PETTIT TO HENRY PETTIT^]

(^To his loveing Sonne, M=r= Henry Pettit, at Denton, geve      #
theise
wi=th= speede.^)

Sonne,
   I thanke you for your Care and paines abowt enquireing
and provideing Sheepe for mee, I prey you continue your
purpose intended and see the butcher's Sheepe one Tuesdaye
next, and if you and your freinde do like of them and
the Peniworth, then I pray you buy them for mee, and the
money shall bee readye and bee paid for them when and 
wheare you shall appoint, and spare your Journey if I may
be assured how to do it. I wish it might bee at Sandwich
for the more ease, if hee like so of it.
   My daughter Henneker and her husband are now heere
and I thinke will sende for their Daughter tomorrow and so
my wife will sende to Goodenston for her, being somwhat
neere us then Denton, and the rather beecause there is no
neede of sendeing anie other to you from hence to bee in her
stead, as it seemeth. So with my harty salutations remembred
and my wives to your sellfe, your wife and the rest of our
freindes, I commende you to God and rest
Your loveing father
Val: Pettit
(^Daundelion this last
of Aprill 1624^)

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<N LET TO SON>
<A OXINDEN RICHARD>
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<O 1570-1640>
<M X>
<K X>
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<P 26>
[} [\XX\] }]
[} [\RICHARD OXINDEN TO HIS SON HENRY\] }]

 ... [\Six lines at beginning of letter torn\] I have sent      #
v=ll= at
this time unto you which I thinke will be sufficient to         #
discharge
all your expence. You write unto mee that you doe
intende to come downe presently, and that your tutor will
come downe with you, whome I should bee very glad to see
heare, and I will have you to tell him from me that if it       #
please
him to take [{the paynes{] to come to us, he shall be as        #
hartely
wellcome as any frend we have livinge. I had thought to
have written unto him aboute it, but finding myself an ill
scribe I have left it undonne, hopinge that you have soe
carried youre selfe towards him but you can persuade more
with him than my letter could. I shall expect youre comminge
according to youre writinge. You may very easily
come down in too dayes. Youre best way is to come from
London to Gravesend by water, and from Gravesend you
may easily come to my house in halfe a day. Thus wishing
you to remember me unto your tutor and the rest of our
frends, I leave you to the protection of the Almightie,
Your lovinge father
Richard Oxinden
(^From Barham this
14th of June 1626^)

   To my very lovinge sonne, Mr. Henry Oxinden, at Corpus
Christi Collidge in Oxfoord, give this.

<P 29>
[} [\XXIII\] }]
[} [\RICHARD OXINDEN TO HENRY OXINDEN AT OXFORD\] }]

Sonne,
   I am very sorry to heare that you are sicke but I trust
[{God{] that he will restore you [{to{] your former health, how
<P 30>
soe ever I [{most{] earnestly desire that you will take the     #
visitation
patiently, submitting youre will to his that hath sent it.
   I [{do{] assure you that it shall be the greatest comfort    #
unto
me that may be to heare that you doe patiently and cheerefully
undergoe this that God hath layd upone you. Sonne, I
woold with all my heart have come unto you, if I did thinke I
could have donne you any good, but I am well assured that
youre tutor will doe as much for you as I could if I weare
with you. I have sent unto you Goodman Cooper, one
hoome I thinke you will well like of, and when he doth returne,
if that you doe desire that I should then come unto
you, I will doe it with all possible speed. I have sent some
money unto you by him, and your grandmother hath sent
you a token, and your mother hath sent you another, and
wee all do ioyne in prayer to God that it will please him to 
send you youre health agayne. Soe in hast I rest
Youer ever loveinge father
Richard Oxinden
(^From Barham this 7th
of July 1627^)

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<Y 40-60>
<H HIGH>
<U X>
<E INT DOWN>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 92>
[} [\LXXVI\] }]
[} [\MRS. KATHERINE OXINDEN TO HENRY OXINDEN\] }]

Harri,
   I wold have you com too mee too nigth or tomorrow
be times for i heare by your ante proude that James is com
to Lundon too Dick, whether hee mene to go over or no i
know not hee sent to Keate for 30s which hee saide hee will
paie in agust be case hee saies you will send hem none an
becase i knowe not whether he had resented youres or no,
writing pervestly to her for it I bid her send it hem. She
haveng writ her letter an all reddi a letter came from your
ant proude that some spidie cores mith bee taken for which
cores i wold faine speake with you for i wold not have you
goe to Lundon. This in hast not knowing well what i have
writ. But when you com i will tel you, prey do not defer
time. This with my love to yourselfe an my dafter
I rest
Your loveing mother
Kathern Oxinden
(^May 23 1634^)

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<A PEYTON MARY>
<C E2>
<O 1570-1640>
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<T LET PRIV>
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<X FEMALE>
<Y 40-60>
<H HIGH>
<U X>
<E INT DOWN>
<J INTERACTIVE>
<I INFORMAL>
<Z X>

<P 87>
[} [\LXXI\] }]
[} [\MARY, LADY PEYTON TO MRS. ANNE OXINDEN\] }]

Doughter Oxinden,
   Which title I must now give you, your brother hath
so weall satisfied me in your match that I wish you much joy
and hapines, and withall be carful that, whatsoever you doe,
to love honer and obey your housband in all things that is
fitting for a resonable creture. [{I{] will desir nothing that  #
is
unresonable, you know what I have sufferd yet God hath
de[{livered{] mee out of it, though with infinit afliction for
the time. I have had so [{much{] spech with your brother
conserning your father's wille and your portion, which he
would not beleeve till I showed him the will, he is now         #
confirmed
in it and says you shall have your dewe as soune as he
can; be sur of this you shall have it, though you stay som
tim for it, in the meantime let no respect be wanting to your
housband and his mother, with the rest of his frends, in this
you shall gain yourself a good reput and shew yourself a
vertuous wife whoes pris is not to be valued; as for the
bisines you writ to me about, I am ashamed I cannot doe it
for you, my housband siems to give me pour [\power\]
though I have no pour, he hath been so ill a housband of lat
that I never was so put to it to bring the wourld about as
now I am, besids he is to pay a gret deale of mony this next
terme, wher he will have it I know not; only this I am sur
he will suffer; his father delt most unworthylie with us,
which in[{forces{] me to doe what I would not.
   I think to be at London this next terme, wher I shalbe glad
to meete you, if not I desier to see hier. Your brother
houmfery remembers his service to you. So with my
prayers to God to bless you, I rest as ever
Your asured loving mother
Mary Peyton
(^February the 19th 1632^)


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<P 24>
[} [\TO HIS FATHER.\] }]

Sir,
   I receyved a note from you by my cosin Brampton meeting
him by chaunce vppon Wednesdaye at night laste past, when I
vnderstood that yow wold have certeyne trees to be sent downe.
The tyme was very short to have sent any downe by theise        #
carryars,
besides the weather was not apt for removing of trees the frost
falling out to be so great. My skill is small in making choyse  #
of
suche thinges neverthelesse I will vse all the cunning I have   #
to performe
<P 25>
the most dutifull service I maye. My Cosin Bramptyn hathe
directed mee to take the advise one that hathe very great good  #
skill,
besides some other that I do meane to make acquaynted with the
choyse of the best. I do hope to provide and make them ready
in good order agaynst next Thursday. I have allready sent yow
downe your foote clothe, Bourne S=r= Edward Cleres man had
charg of it. I have nowe sent you downe a cocke, ij payre of
gloves, ij dosen of poyntes, ij small bookes for a token, the   #
one of
them was gyven me that day that they rann at tilt. Divers of
them being gyven to most of the lordes, and gentlemen about the
Court, and one especially to the Quene. I was commanded w=th=   #
some
ij or iij more to wayte vnderneathe the Quene to be employed in
messages, wher it pleased her Ma=te= to vse me more gracyously  #
then I
deserved. My oncle told me of it that night comming to him, for
ij or iij of his men stood hard by in a standing. He was        #
wonderfully
well pleased therwith, w=ch= cold not be displeasing to me to   #
se
him any waye contented. It may be you may heare of it by some
other, for it was not private. It was ffriday at night before   #
the Quene
came to my Lo. Admyralles. Vppon Saterday was the running
at the tilt very well performed, thoughe not so full of         #
devises and
so riche as I have seene. My L. of Essex and my L. of           #
Cumberland
wer the cheife that ranne, M=r= Gresham was well commended
for the credit of Norff[{olk{] . Vppon Saterday at night her    #
Ma=ie=
lay at my L. Admiralles, and all Sondaye at his charge. Vppon
Mondaye she went to M=r= Seacreatoryes to dinner when in the
gallory before her going she knighted M=r= Jhon Pagington. That
night she cam to my Lo. Admiralls agayne, and dyned ther vppon
Tuesday. Vppon Tuesday at night she came to my L. Chaunclers
wher she hathe bene ever since. Her entertaynment hathe bene
very great ther bothe for her self and all her trayne, w=ch= a  #
number
of vs hathe very well tasted of. It is thought her Ma=tie=      #
will tarry
<P 26>
ther yet this Sevenight and hearafter at Whitehall. I have bene
very little from the court all this while, yet once a day I do  #
visitt
Chauncery lane wher I report to him according to his request
suche newes as the court affordethe. Amongst the rest of our
talke he knew my writing at this present, and willed me not to
forgett his very harty commendacions to your good self. Many
reasons doth leade me to follow him, and the least favor and
kyndnes dothe encorage me to do him all manner of service.
Ther be no shreifes as yet knowen nor wer not as yesternight
at eleven of the clocke at night, and comming home late was
the cause that my oncle Anthony Gavdy fayled of a letter.
Neither have I as yet found any messinger but the hedgehogg,    #
and
yet I have heard that the hedgehogg overran the hare, and so    #
the
carryar may overrun the post. I know not whether stale Newes
may offend his eares being so long a drawing towardes him. In
the meane tyme I wold have him know this, that his Mrs. is at   #
the
court and sending his commendacions, with yowr self and my
good Brother and his wyfe. She hathe heard nothing from him
she saythe but only touching musters, she dothe not a little
marvell at it. I excused him, and layde all the fault in his
secretary for thoughe he be suer, yet he is very slow. For      #
suche
thinges as my good sister wryteth for she shall receyve them    #
all
together with a letter the next tyme. I have  written to her    #
before
touching Sir Charles, and my Lady, and divers others letters. I
know not how they be delivered. Luke Woolmer hathe sent
downe all her things by Mrs. Tylney, I will send downe her
pipes and the rest as soon as I maye. M=r= Jermy is travelled
into a Damaske gowne, and followeth the courte day and night. I
have forgott what he called my oncle Anthony in Greeke but I
thinke he will harddly prove him shreife in English. I thanke   #
his
worshipp I fynde him very kynde to me, and his [\(sic)\]        #
continually
inquisityve of me what I heare of the pricking of the           #
shreifes. He
travelled to the sea and lyes alltogether at the ankor, if his  #
kable
be suer, he is like to do the better. My Lo. of Leycester is    #
expected
for, and some newes cam out of fflaunders very latly            #
yesternight,
but vnknowen to any but the best. Some letters hathe bene       #
intercepted
<P 27>
of late. The prince of Parma is come to Du[{n{]kerke but
vnknowen for what cause, suspected for no good to vs. As        #
yesterday
the Quene going into the gallery made an old knight, S=r= Lewes
Dyves. And thus with my very humble duty, etc. London this
xxiiij=th= of November. [\1587.\]



