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1629-07-03
I shall make bold to desire a curtesie of you which I did forget to mention vnto you before your goeing into the countrie, viz that at your leisure when any occasion is offred (being neere vnto you) you would be pleased from the neighbours to informe your selfe concerning the worth and the condition of those houses in Boxford which are in reversion giuen to my wife. I do purpose my selfe god willing, to take some tyme this summer to stepp down into Essex and then shall make bold to vnderstand from you as also if I can my selfe to see those houses:
My mother2 presently after your departure desired my release as I had thought willingly, but when I had sealed that, and shee had sealed that to me which you shewed hir, she was afterward not able to conceale hir vnwillingnes to what shee had donn and so is departed from me this morning homeward. I do hope she will recall hir selfe; if she shall not yet shall I neuer be wanting in what my dutie binds, although I confesse want of a right acceptance wher I desire and indeauour to deserue well, is that which is more readie to transport my passion beyond my iudgment, then any other dislike whateuer from a stranger cold happen.
Thus with my loue to your selfe and yours. I rest Your loueing Kinsman
W. 1. 51. Vol. I. 413. For Lawrence Wright, see
D. N. B.
and supra, page 85. He writes from the Charterhouse, to which he was elected physician in ordinary in 1643.
His step-mother, “Bennett d. of Lawrence Blesby of London 2 wife” of John Wright. Visitations of Essex, I. 533.
1629-07-08
The tumultuousnes of my owne affayres uppon my cominge downe was such, as I forgatt to send to yow accordinge to my intention, to know when yow were determined for Lincolnshire: that so I might the fittlyer haue disposed myself and my occasions, that I might haue beene, wholly yours. That which then I omitted, I must endeavour to supplye att this Tyme in my entreatyes to yow to send mee word when it will 103bee and where; If yow please to send now or att any other Tyme any lettres to one mr. Churchill a Cuttler neere Holborne Cunditt, they will bee Conveyed to mee; This Carier comes out of London Tuesday morninge. It had beene an excellent Tyme for mr. Winthorpe to haue beene this Commencement att Cambridge,2 where I heare are many reverend Divines, to Consider of mr. Whites call. Lett mee entreat to bee remembred to him, when yow haue occasion to write to him. So expecting yow both heere ere it bee long, with the acknowledgment of much beholdingnes to yow, for many undeserved fauours, I am forced to break off, restinge Your assured frend
W. Au. 40;
Collections
, VI. 29–30.
July 7.