<P_79>

<heading:edcomment:LXVIII_OXINDEN_TO_VALENTINE_PETTIT_THE_YOUNG ER>

Worthy Cozin , Callinge to remembrance your many curtisies which I soe
often times have received from you and I not knowinge how to requite
the lest of them {COM:ms._torn} it makes mee new to greave and lament
for my former follies , and nowe $wish that I were to begin the woorlde
agayne , not that I dooe any wayes dislike this coorse which I have now
taken but that I myth give summe sattisfacktion to my frendes for my
former extravigant coorses ; (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,79.3)

but since it is to late and the time far wasted and I have allredy
thrust myself into the <P_80> handes of Fortune , hoping that it will
deele favorably with mee {COM:ms._torn} I desire that my frendes will
forget and forgive all the thingis that ar past and bee but now my
pilate , and once more steere my course to the banke of good fortune ;
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.4)

and if ever heere after I dooe fale away from that which I have
$promised then let mee bee put soe far oute of mynd that never after to
dooe so much as mension mee , (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.5)

but let mee bee as if I had never bin ; (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.6)

but yow ar only {COM:ms._torn} I dooe invest my hole trust in .
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.7)

Consarning my maintenance heere , for I have all wayes founde you a man
of your woorde , I must confes that I doe live uppone the states menes
but very basly and poorly , (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.8)

and it will not {COM:ms._torn} only a disparrigement to mee but to my
frendes hereby , (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.9)

for my ant sayes that I shall disgrace her , (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.10)

therfor good Cosen doe so much allsoe in my beehalfe ,
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.11)

for I am in want of shirtes and a gray hatt (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.12)

{COM:ms._torn}

as yett I have nether ; (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.14)

pray lett mee intrete you to doe mee that curtisy that if you can
possible to send mee my seles that I have many times spake to you
aboute when I was in London , and if yow plese but to take the paynes
to write to or three lines unto mee and inclose it in your Letter ,
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.15)

and you may give the Letter to my unkle proude ,
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.16)

for hee will bee in London aboute three weekes after Crismas ;
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.17)

thus intretinge you to remember my duty to my mother , my sarvis to my
unkle Oxinden and my Ant and to my Cozen Elizabeth Oxinden , and my
duty and sarvis to my {COM:ms._torn} Barrowe and my best respackted
sarvis to your selfe Your obliged servaunt Richard Oxinden
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.18)

From our garrison at Arnam in gildarland (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.19)

this 14th of December 1631 (ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.20)

My Cozen Sanders dooth Remember his sarvis unto you
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.21)

and dooth intrete you to sende this Letter to his fathar .
(ROXINDEN2-E2-P2,80.22)