<P_71>

<heading:edcomment:LX_JAMES_OXINDEN_TO_HENRY_OXINDEN>

Oxford (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,71.3)

July the 1631 (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,71.4)

Deere Brother , I know the vehement desire and the exceeding greate
care which you have of my welfare listeneth to heare some news of the
schollar's place , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,71.5)

but I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} write any certainty to you concerning it
, by reason that there is soe many that stand for it , to wit 9 , that
I allmost feare of the obtaining it , but still am in hope
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,71.6)

and in the meane time noe way shall be left untried by me .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,71.7)

Mr. Holt did greatly desire to have seene <P_72> you at the
commencement , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.8)

and did tell me that if you your selfe were present it would goe better
with me concerning the schollar's place . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.9)

But I suppose your great busines in other affaires would not suffer you
to come . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.10)

I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} write to you when the Election will be as yet
, (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.11)

for it is at the Presedent's appointing (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.12)

and about a weeke hence he goes a progress into his Contry ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.13)

and then I beleive , if it be not before his going , that it will not
be this 8 weekes , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.14)

and then I think I must retire agane to Cambridg .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.15)

I hope you arre all in good health . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.16)

I desire you to remember my Duty to my Mother , my love to my Sisters .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.17)

I will not at this time troble you with many lines nor hinder my more
carefull study in writing many lines ; (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.18)

leaving noe way untried , and as the proverb omnem movebo lapidem to
the obtaining of it , I rest Your Loving Brother James Oxinden From
C.C.C. in Oxford (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.19)

I pray you , if you can conveniently , that you would not let the
church book be seene , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.20)

but keepe it in the house , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.21)

or else order the Figures according to the writing that was sent up by
Good. Coper . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,72.22)

<P_73>

<heading:edcomment:LXXII_JAMES_OXINDEN_TO_HENRY_OXINDEN>

Dearest Brother , That misfortune of losing the Scholler's place makes
me allmost affraid to write unto you , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.25)

but I hope that you having heard <paren> i doubt not </paren> that it
was not any defect of me , you will have me pardoned soe that my
letters may have free access and accepted as they were before ;
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.26)

having the opertunyty of this carrier and being now allmost as they say
ita pauperior for want of money by reason that I $can $not
{TEXT:cannot} heare from you , I therefor now intreate you to send me
my quarteridge . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.27)

But me thinks I heare you wonder how it should come to pass that I
should want money soe sone , having received some from you soe lately :
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.28)

but I hope the letter which I sent you by my Cosine Pettet will expel
that doubt out of your mind : wherefor I intreate you to be soe loving
as you have always beene , and in this necessity to set to your helping
hand , and this time not to deny . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.29)

And you shal not heare from me againe till next quarter .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.30)

Thus in hope of your favour I goe forward , desiring you all soe that
you would desire my Mother to send me some bands and Cufts and
Hanchechers and 2 or 3 towells , which were promised me the last
returne of the Carrier (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.31)

and now I hope I shall not miss of them , in which hope , being in
greate haste , remembring my love to you , my duty unto my Mother I
rest Your ever loving Brother James Oxinden (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.32)

From St. Johns Colleidg (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.33)

August the 14 1631 (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,73.34)

<P_92>

<heading:edcomment:LXXVII_JAMES_OXINDEN_TO_HENRY_OXINDEN>

Most Loving Brother , I receiving my Mother's letter , though indeede
that needed not for my accusation in writing so peromtorily unto you ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,92.37)

for myself after serious consultation is a sufficient iudg to condemn
mee of my folly , of which I am now <paren> O si praeteritos recovet
mihi Jupiter annos </paren> hartilie <paren> i feare too late </paren>
sorie for it : (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,92.38)

my necessitie I confess was very urgent , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,92.39)

and it was it seemes the carriar's fault to detain it from mee soe long
, which hath <paren> i feare </paren> incurred your more sevearer
displeasure . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,92.40)

<P_93>

But I hope your better iudgment weighing how prowne youth is uppon the
smallest occasion to interpret the worst , you will pardon this crime ,
which if teares can expiat , Perlegis et lachrymas finge videre meas .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.42)

$'T $is {TEXT:T'is} true I have scarse that mask of Impudence <paren>
having so grosslie offended you </paren> as to seeme to excuse my fault
, being soe great , untill I considder the tendernes of your nature ,
which is soe apt to forgive ; (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.43)

I with confidence here unlock myselfe unto you , desiring once more to
bee ingrafted into your favour , which if I shall obtain I shall pose
Arethmatick in giving thanks unto you and shall think you the sole
Brother of humanity . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.44)

My request unto you is that you would send mee my Quarteridge :
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.45)

for I must needes make mee a sute of Clothes before the commencement .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.46)

I think it doth not want above a weeke of a Quarter since I had my last
Quarteridg . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.47)

I received it the 12th of March (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.48)

and now it is the 27th of may . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.49)

I am sure by that time I shall receive it the time will bee full expird
. (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.50)

In the meane time I doubt not of your Brotherly care and your indulgent
affection toward mee , which as it hath allways beene soe , it will now
bee reddy to healp mee in my necessity . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.51)

I know that my Brothers' urgent occasions hath allmost suckt you dry of
money (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.52)

and therefore I would not , were I not forct , trouble you ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.53)

but I hope you will pardon mee at this time , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.54)

desiring to bee remembred both-1 to you and your loving Bedfellow I
reste Your loving Brother James Oxinden (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.55)

<font> From Cam: (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.56)

May the 27th </font> 1634 (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,93.57)

<P_95>

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Loving Brother , I may , and that justly , think humanity to have been
exil'd or have beene devorct from all hearts were shee not lodged in
yours , whom excluding all others I may call the sole borne sonne of
humanity , whose curtisie swift winged time , having lost soe many
feathers , is to poore to furnish me with dayes enough to express my
service unto you and Arethmatick is to poore to multiplie thanks enough
for your former curtesies . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.60)

But to omit the idle heaping up of words which arre to frivilous to
trouble your more serious occasions , as in all things I desire to
satissfie your desires , soe I am desirous to acquaint you with my
acourrants in Cambridg ; (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.61)

my Scholler's place <paren> though with great difficulty </paren> I doe
retain , by reason some envious people , more for envy then any hopes
to obtaine it , would needes attempt it , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.62)

but the master of our Colleidg and some other of my freinds , accepting
my excuses , would not deprive mee of it . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.63)

My Chamber I have lost (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.64)

and can not heare of Mr. Bletchinden , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.65)

and therefore I desire you if possible you can to send mee my
Quarteridg to bee heere the of December because wanting of it I can not
furnish myself , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.66)

but time will not suffer mee to be to long (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.67)

and therefore remembring my self unto you , hoping that you are in good
health I rest your ever loving Brother James Oxinden
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.68)

<font> From Cam. (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.69)

November the 11th </font> 1634 (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,95.70)

<P_113>

<heading:edcomment:XCV_JAMES_OXINDEN_TO_HENRY_OXINDEN>

Dearest Brother , I am verry sorry that I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} soe
much recover my strength as to give you thanks for your most loving
letter . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.73)

I am though feebly , thanks bee to God , somewhat $recovered from the
poison of sickness , which though I am I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} say
freed from , yet so much as to write unto you , which I never $thought
to have had that happines . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.74)

You write unto mee to certifie you whether I bee Master of Arts or noe
, which I was not at the receit of your letter , being then not the
Time of our commensement , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.75)

but now , Thanks bee to God , I have obtained it .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.76)

Good Brother , send mee word if the least preferment may bee had ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.77)

for I am not able nor willing , considring my greate Sicknes , to
remaine heere . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.78)

I would <paren> as the Proverb sayth </paren> play at small game
wrather then give out , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.79)

and my sicknes hath soe disinabled mee that I feare to live in this
infectious ayre . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.80)

You write to mee to send you a note of the receite of monyes ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.81)

but the extraordinary resistance of my occasions and the greeviousness
of my sicknes detaines mee from it . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.82)

I must <paren> Brother </paren> desire you uppon all love to send mee
by the bearer the sum of , which I have impulsive necessity to use .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.83)

I must buy mee a Master of Arts Gowne and a sute ,
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.84)

beesides I am indebted for my commensement and my sicknes .
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.85)

Let not <paren> I pray you </paren> my not forceable writing unto you
make you weake in sending to me , (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,113.86)

for I <P_114> protest I have had soe much bloud taken from mee that I
am scarse able to write at all . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,114.87)

In the meane time <paren> Good Brother </paren> if you either respect
mee or my credit help mee at this time . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,114.88)

Thus desiring you to remember mee to your loving bedfellow , hoping you
are all in health I rest Yours if his owne James Oxinden
(JOXINDEN-E2-P2,114.89)

<font> From Camb. (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,114.90)

3d of Aprill </font> 1636 . (JOXINDEN-E2-P2,114.91)