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<heading:edcomment:IX>

<heading>

To my deare sonne M=r= Edward Harley . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.4)

</heading>

Good Need - I hope thease lines will finde you well at Oxford .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.6)

I longe to reseaue the ashurance of your comeing well to your iournyes
end . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.7)

We haue had faire weather sence you went , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.8)

and I hope it was so with you , which made it more pleaseing to me .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.9)

You are now in a place of more varietyes then when you weare at home ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.10)

thearefore take heede it take not vp your thoughtes so much as to
neglect that constant saruis you owe to your God .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.11)

When I liued abroode , I tasted something of thos willes :
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.12)

thearefore I may the more experimentally giue you warneing .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.13)

Remember me to your tutor , in home I hope you will finde dayly more
and more cause to love and respect . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.14)

I thanke God my coolde is something better then when you left me .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.15)

I pray God blles you , and giue you of those saueing grasess which will
make you happy heare and for ever heareafter . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.16)

Your most affectinat mother , Brilliana Harley . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.17)

<font> Oct. </font> 25 , 1638 . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,7.18)

<P_8>

<heading:edcomment:X>

<heading>

To my deare sonne M=r= Edward Harley . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.22)

</heading>

Good Need - I was dublly glad to reseaue your letter , bothe for the
asshureanc of your comeing weell to Oxford , and that I reseued it by
your fathers hand , whoo , I thanke God , came well home yesterday ,
aboute foore a cloke . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.24)

I am glad you like Oxford ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.25)

it is true it is to be liked , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.26)

and happy are we , when we like both places and condistions that we
must be in . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.27)

If we could be so wise , we should finde much more swetness in our
lifes then we do : (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.28)

for sartainely theare is some good in all condistions <paren> but that
of sinn </paren> , if we had the arte to distract the sweet and leaue
the rest . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.29)

Nowe I ernestly desire you may haue that wisdome , that from all the
flowers of learneing you may drawe the hunny and leaufe the rest .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.30)

I am glad you finde any that are good , wheare you are .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.31)

I belleue that theare are but feawe nobellmens sonne in Oxford ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.32)

for now , for the most part , they send theaire sonnes into France ,
when they are very yonge , theaire to be breed . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.33)

Send me word wheather my brother Bray doo send to you , and wheather
S=r= Robert Tracy did come to see you , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.34)

for he toold your father he would ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.35)

and let me knowe howe sheawes you any kindenes , when you haue a fitte
opertuenity . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.36)

Comend my saruis to Mrs. Willkeson (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.37)

and tell her I thanke her , for her fauor to you .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.38)

I may well say , you are my well-beloved chilld ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.39)

thearefore I cane not but tell you I mise you . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.40)

I thanke God I am somethinge better with my coold then I was ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.41)

your brother Robine has had no fite sence the Munday before you went
away ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.42)

the rest of your sisters and brother , I thanke God , are well .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.43)

Remember me to your tutor . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.44)

If you would haue any thinge , let me knowe it . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.45)

Bee not forgetfull to rwit to me ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.46)

and the Lord in mercy blles you , both-1 with grase in your soule and
the good things of this life . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.47)

Your most affectinat mother till death , Brilliana Harley .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.48)

Be carefull to keepe the Sabath . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.49)

<font> Nov. </font> 2 , 1638 . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,8.50)

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<heading:edcomment:XI>

<heading>

To my deare sonne Mr. Edward Harley , in Magdeline Halle in Oxford .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.54)

</heading>

Good Ned - I beceach the Lord to blles you with those choys bllesings
of his Spirit , which none but his deare ellect are partakers of ; so
that {TEXT:that_so} you may taste that sweetness in Gods saruis which
indeed is in it : (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.56)

but the men of this world can not perseaue it . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.57)

Thinke it not strange , if I tell you , I think it longe sence I hard
from you ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.58)

but my hope is that you are well , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.59)

and my prayers are that you may be so . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.60)

As you say you haue founde your tutor kinde and carefull of you , so I
hope he will be still . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.61)

If you wante any thinge , let me knowe it . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.62)

On Saterday last I hard from your aunte Pelham : (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.63)

shee and all hers are well . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.64)

I beleeue you haue all the inteligence of the Quene mothers arriuall
and entertainement , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.65)

thearefore I will omite it . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.66)

Your father , I thanke God , is well ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.67)

and for meself , I haue not yet shaked off my could .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.68)

Your brother Roberd by Gods mercy to him has bine yet free from his
fitts , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.69)

and goos to scoule carefully ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.70)

and I hope he is now so wise to see his stubborneness was not the way
to gaine any thinge but reproufe . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.71)

I purpos , if pleas God , to send the next weeke to see you .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.72)

Your father prays God to blles you . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.73)

Remember me to your tutor , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.74)

and I beceach the Lord to keepe you from all euil .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.75)

I haue sent you some juce of licorich , which you may keepe to make vse
of , if you should haue a coold . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.76)

So I rest , Your most affectinat mother , Brilliana Harley .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.77)

<font> Bromton , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.78)

Nove. </font> 13 , 1638 . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.79)

<heading:edcomment:XII>

<heading>

To my deare sonne Mr. Edward Harley . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.82)

</heading>

Good Need - This day I reseued a letter from you , in which you rwite
me , that you had rwit to me the weake before ; which letter I haue not
reseued , so that I thought it longe sence I hard from you .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.84)

It is my ioye that you are well , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,9.85)

and I beceach the Lord to continue your health , and aboue all to giue
you that <P_10> grase in your soule which may make you haue a
healthfull soule , sounde without erors , actiue in all that is good ,
industrious in all the ways in which good is to be gained .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.86)

I am glad you finde a wante of that ministry you did inioye :
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.87)

labor to keepe a fresch desire affter the sincere milke of the word ,
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.88)

and then in good time you shall inioye that bllesing againe .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.89)

The Lord has promised to giue his Spirit to his chillderen , which
shall leade them in the truth . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.90)

Begge that bllesed Spirit , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.91)

and then errors will but make the truth more bright , as the foile dous
a dioment . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.92)

My deare Ned , as you haue bine carefull to chuse your company , be so
still , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.93)

for piche will not easely be tuched without leaufeing some spot .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.94)

I had not hard of Duke Roberts and my Lord Crauens being taken .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.95)

I hope the nwes of the Sweeds is not true ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.96)

but in all theas things we must remember the warneing , which our
Sauiour has giuen us , when he had toold his decipels that theare must
be wars and rumers of wars ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.97)

<paren> but he saith , let not your harts be trubled ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.98)

in my aprehention , as if Christ had saide </paren> greate trubells and
wars must be , both to purg his chruch of ipocrits , and that his
enimies at the last may be utterly distroyed , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.99)

but you my saruants be not carefull for your selfs ,
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.100)

you are my jewells , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.101)

and the days of trubbell are the days when I take care of jewells :
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.102)

and , my deare Ned , tho I fermely beleeue theare will be great
trubells , yet I looke with ioy beyond those days of trubell ,
considering the glory that the Lord will bring his chruch to ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.103)

and happy are they that shall liue to see it , which I hope you will
doo . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.104)

I hard that theare was a cardenalls cape brought to the Custome Howes ,
valued at a high rate , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.105)

but none would owne it ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.106)

and , to requete your inteligence , I let you knowe what I heare .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.107)

The Scoch buisness is not yet ended . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.108)

Theare is lately come to the court a frech {COM:sic} duke with two or
three other gentellmen or nobell men , being fleed from the French
king's army , for some vnfiting words they used of the French kinge .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.109)

The Quene mother was so transported with joy , as they say , at the
sight of the quene , that shee was in a trance .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,10.110)

This day I hard it confermed from Lounddoun that the Palsgrave in
besceachgeing a towne in WestPhalia {COM:sic} was <P_11> raised and
most of his army defeated , and his brother taken prisner ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.111)

but this is our comfort , that the rod of the wicked shall not allways
rest on Gods peopell . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.112)

I haue sent Hall purposly to see you ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.113)

for , sence I can not speake with you , nor see you so offten as I
desire , I am willing to make make theas paper mesengers my depuety .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.114)

I hope I shall heare from you by this mesenger ;
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.115)

I thanke God your father is well , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.116)

and your brother Robert has had no fitte sence you went .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.117)

He goos to scoule (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.118)

and eates his meate well ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.119)

and I hope the Lord will spare him . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.120)

You must rwit to him ; (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.121)

you know he is apte to aprehend unkindness . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.122)

When you rwite by the carrier , rwite nothing but what any may see ,
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.123)

for many times the letters miscarry . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.124)

My deare Ned , you may see how willing I am to discourse with you ,
that have spoune out my letter to this lentghe .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.125)

I thanke God my coold is goon . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.126)

I beceach the Lord to blles you , as I desire my owne soule should be
bllesed : (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.127)

Your most affectinat mother , Brilliana Harley .
(HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.128)

I haue sent you a cake , which I hope you will eate in mory {COM:sic}
of Bromton . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.129)

<font> Bromton , (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.130)

Nove. </font> 17 , 1638 . (HARLEYEDW-E2-P1,11.131)