<P_176.12>

<heading:edcomment:LXIX_STRYPE_TO_HIS_MOTHER,_FROM_JESUS_COLLEGE,_
CAMBRIDGE,_A._D._1662>

<P_177.6>

Good Mother , Yours of the 24th instant I gladly received , expecting
indeed one a Week before , (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.4)

but I understand both-1 by Waterson and yourself of your
indisposednesse then to write . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.5)

The reason you receive this no sooner is , because I had a mind <paren>
knowing of this honest woman's setting out so suddenly for London from
hence , and her businesse laying so neer to Petticote Lane , </paren>
that she should deliver it into your hands , that so you may the better
, and more fully heare of me , and know how it fareth with me .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.6)

She is my laundresse ; (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.7)

make her welcome , (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.8)

and tell her how you would have my linen washed , as you were saying in
your Letter . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.9)

I am very glad to hear that you and my brother Johnson do agree so well
, that I believe you account an unusual courtesie , that he should have
you out to the Cake-House . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.10)

However , pray Mother , be careful of yourself (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.11)

and do not over-walke yourself , (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.12)

for that is wont to bring you upon a sick bed . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.13)

I hear also my brother Sayer is often a visitor :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.14)

truly I am glad of it . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.15)

I hope your Children may be comforts to yon now you are growing old .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.16)

Remember me back again most kindly to my brother Sayer .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.17)

Concerning the taking up of my Things , $'t $is {TEXT:'tis} true I gave
one shilling too much in the hundred : (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.18)

but why I gave so much , I thought indeed I had given you an account in
that same letter : (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.19)

but it seems I have not . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.20)

The only reason is , because they were a Scholar's goods :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.21)

it is common to make them pay one shilling more than the Town's people
. (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.22)

Dr. Pearson himself payed so , and several other lads in this College :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.23)

and my Tutor told me they would expect so much of me , being a Scholar
: (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.24)

and I found it so . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.25)

Do not wonder so much at our Commons : (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.26)

they are more than many Colleges have . (STRYPE-E3-P1,177.6.27)

Trinity itself <paren> where Herring and Davies <P_178> are </paren>
which is the famousest College in the University , have but three
half-pence . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.28)

We have roast meat , dinner and supper , throughout the weeke ; and
such meate as you know I not use to care for ; (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.29)

and that is Veal : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.30)

but now I have learnt to eat it . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.31)

Sometimes , neverthelesse , we have boiled meat , with pottage ; and
beef and mutton , which I am glad of ; except Fridays and Saturdays ,
and sometimes Wednesdays ; which days we have Fish at dinner , and
tansy or pudding for supper . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.32)

Our parts then are slender enough . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.33)

But there is this remedy ; (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.34)

we may retire unto the Butteries , and there take a half-penny loafe
and butter or cheese ; or else to the Kitchen , and take there what the
Cook hath . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.35)

But , for my part , I am sure , I never visited the Kitchen yet , since
I have been here , and the Butteries but seldom after meals ; unlesse
for a Ciza , that is for a Farthing-worth of Small-Beer : so that lesse
than a Peny in Beer doth serve me a whole Day . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.36)

Neverthelesse sometimes we have Exceedings : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.37)

then we have two or three Dishes (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.38)

<paren> but that is very rare </paren> : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.39)

otherwise never but one : so that a Cake and a Cheese would be very
welcome to me : and a Neat's tongue , or some such thing , if it would
not require too much money . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.40)

If you do intend to send me any thing , do not send it yet , until you
hear further of me : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.41)

for I have many things to send for , which may all I hope be put into
that Box you have at home : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.42)

but what they are , I shall give you an account of hereafter , when I
would have them sent : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.43)

and that is , when I have got me a Chamber : (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.44)

for as yet , I am in a Chamber that doth not at all please me .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,178.45)

I have thoughts of one , which is a very handsome one , and one pair of
stairs high , and that looketh into the Master's garden .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,178.46)

The price is but per annum , ten whereof a Knight's son , and lately
admitted into this College , doth pay : though he did not come till
about Midsummer , so that I shall have but to pay a year : besides my
income , which may be about or thereabouts . (STRYPE-E3-P1,178.47)

Mother , I kindly thank you for your Orange pills you sent me .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,178.48)

If you are not too straight of money , send me some such thing by the
woman , and a pound or two of Almonds and Raisons .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,178.49)

But first ask her if she will carry them , or if they be not too much
trouble <P_179> to her . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.50)

I do much approve of your agreeing with the Carrier quarterly :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.51)

he was indeed telling me of it , that you had agreed with him for it :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.52)

and I think he means both yours and mine . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.53)

Make your bargain sure with him . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.54)

I understand by your Letter that you are very inquisitive to know how
things stand with me here . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.55)

I believe you may be well enough satisfied by the Woman .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.56)

My breakings-out are now all gone . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.57)

Indeed I was afraid at my first coming it would have proved the Itch :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.58)

but I am fairly rid on it : (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.59)

but I fear I shall get it , let me do what I can :
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.60)

for there are many here that have it cruelly . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.61)

Some of them take strong purges that would kill a horse , weeks
together for it , to get it away , (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.62)

and yet are hardly rid of it . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.63)

At my first Coming I laid alone : (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.64)

but since , my Tutor desired me to let a very clear lad lay with me ,
and an Alderman's son of Colchester , which I could not deny , being
newly come : (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.65)

he hath laid with me now for almost a fortnight , (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.66)

and will do till he can provide himself with a Chamber .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.67)

I have been with all my Acquaintance , who have entreated me very
courteously , especially Jonathan Houghton . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.68)

I went to his Chamber the Friday night I first came ,
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.69)

and there he made me stay and sup with him , (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.70)

and would have had me laid with him that night , (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.71)

and was extraordinary kind to me . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.72)

Since , we have been together pretty often . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.73)

He excused himselfe , that he did not come to see me before he went ;
and that he did not write to me since he had been come .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.74)

He hath now , or is about obtaining , more from the College .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.75)

We go twice a day to Chapel ; in the morning about 7 , and in the
Evening about 5 . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.76)

After we come from Chapel in the morning , which is towards 8 , we go
to the Butteries for our breakfast , which usually is five Farthings ;
an halfepenny loaf and butter , and a cize of beer .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.77)

But sometimes I go to an honest House near the College ,
(STRYPE-E3-P1,179.78)

and have a pint of milk boiled for my breakfast . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.79)

Truly I was much troubled to hear that my Letter for Ireland is not yet
gone . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.80)

I wish if Mr. Jones is not yet gone , that it might be sent some other
way . (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.81)

Indeed I wish I could see my cousin James Bonnell here within three or
four years : (STRYPE-E3-P1,179.82)

for I <P_180> believe our University is less strict to observe lads
that do not in every point conforme , than theirs at Dublin : though
ours be bad enough . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.83)

Pray remember me to my Uncle , and all my friends there , when you
write . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.84)

Remember me to my cousin James Knox . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.85)

I am glad he is recovered from his dangerous sickness , whatsoever it
is ; (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.86)

for I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} make any thing of it , as you have
written it . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.87)

And thus , for want of Paper , I end , desiring heartily to be
remembred to all my Friends . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.88)

Excuse me to my Brother and Sister that they have not heard from me yet
. (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.89)

Next week I hope to write to them both . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.90)

Excuse my length , (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.91)

I thought I would answer your Letter to the full .
(STRYPE-E3-P1,180.92)

I remaine your dutiful Son , J. Strijp . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.93)

These for his honoured Mother Mrs. Hester Stryp widdow , dwelling in
Petticoat Lane , right over against the Five Ink-Hornes , without
Bishops-Gate , in London . (STRYPE-E3-P1,180.94)