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TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S^R ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT OF THE BATHE.

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3    S^r - Docter Barker has put my sister into a cours of ientell fisek,
4which I hope by God's bllsing will doo her much good. My sister
5giues you thankes for seending him to her. I pray you remember
6that I recken the days you are away; and I hope you are nowe
7well at Heariford, wheare it may be, this letter will put you in minde
8of me, and let you knowe, all your frinds heare are well; and all
9the nwes I can seend you is, that my Lo. Brooke is nowe at Beaethams
10Court. My hope is to see you heare this day senet, or
11to-morrowe senet, and I pray God giue vs a happy meeting, and
12presarfe you safe; which will be the great comfort of
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TO MY DEARE HOUSBAND S^R ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT, IN BLACKFRIERS,
20AT MY LO. LEWSONS HOWES.

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22    Deare S^r - I thanke you for your letter which you sent me from
23Tuddington: which gaue me satisfaction of your being well, so fare
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25I can heare, except that of your comeing home. I ernestly desire
26to heare howe you came to Loundon; and doo thinke your men stay
27longe: but I hope they will bringe me good nwes of you, and then
28I shall be well pleased. Ned, I thanke God, is very well, and you
29will beleeve me, if I say he looses non of his grandfather loue, whoo
30is better than you leeft him. And no more to you at this time; but
31I beceache the Allmighty presarue you, and giue you happy meeting
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TO MY DEARE HOUSBAND S^R ROBART HARLEY, KNIGHT.

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40    S^r - I thanke you for sending me word, I may hope to see you at
41Easter, which time will be much longed for by me. I hope the parlament
42has spent as much time as will satisfy them in dooing nothing:
43so that nowe some good frute of theare meeting will be brought to
44ripnes, which is the effect of our prayers. This day I deleverd the
45£ 100 to my father: which he has payed to Mr. Davis: that mony
46that was wanting of it, was made vp with the £ 50 pounde Mr.
47Lacy payed for wood. The payling of the nwe parke is made an
48end of. Yesterday your company only was at Heariford, to shewe
49what they had lerned, whear Sr. Jhon Skidemore and Mr. Vahan
50weare judges; and so they meane to be of the reest of the companis,
51and they haue apointed teen of your company to learne the vse of
52theiare armes and so to teache the reest. This last night I not being
53very well, made me seend this day for the midwife, which I thinke
54I should haue defered to longe. I asure myself I haue your prayers,
55becaus you haue so great a part of mine: and I blls God that you
56injoy your health, which I beeg of you to take care of. I thanke
57God, Ned is well, and I beeg your bllsing for him: and I pray God
58preserue you well and giue you a happy and speedy meeting with
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TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S^R ROBERT HARLEY.

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69    Deare S^r - Your two leters, on from Hearifort and the other
70from Gloster, weare uery wellcome to me: and if you knwe howe
71gladly I reseaue your leters, I beleeue you would neeuer let any
72opertunity pase. I hope your cloche did you saruis betwne Gloster
73and my brother Brays, for with vs it was a very rainy day, but this
74day has bine very dry and warme, and so I hope it was with you;
75and to-morowe I hope you will be well at your journis end, wheare
76I wisch my self to bide you wellcome home. You see howe my
77thoughts goo with you: and as you haue many of mine, so let me
78haue some of yours. Beleeue me, I thinke I neuer miste you more
79then nowe I doo, or ells I haue forgoot what is past. I thanke
80God, Ned and Robin are well; and Ned askes every day wheare you
81are, and he says you will come to-morowe. My father is well, but
82goos not abrode, becaus of his fiseke. I haue sent you vp a litell
83hamper, in which is the box with the ryteings and boouckes you
84bide me send vp, with the other things, sowed up in a clothe, in the
85botome of the hamper. I haue sent you a partriche pye, which has
86the two pea chikeins in it, and a litell runlet of meathe, that which
87I toold you I made for my father. I thinke within this muthe, it
88will be very good drinke. I sende it vp nowe becaus I thinke carage
89when it is ready to drincke dous it hurt; thearefore, and please you to
90let it rest and then taste it; if it be good, I pray you let my father
91haue it, because he spake to me for such meathe. I will nowe bide
92you god night, for it is past a leauen a cloke. I pray God presarue
93you and giue you good sugsess in all your biusnes, and a speady and
94happy meeting.
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TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S^R ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT.

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105    My deare S^r - I ame glad of this opertuenity to present you
106with the remembranc of my deare loue. I hope you came well to
107Bristo; and I much longe to heare from you, but more a
108thousand times to see you, which I presume you will not beleeue,
109becaus you cannot poscibilly measure my loue. I thanke God your
110father is well, and so are your three soons. Ned presents his humbell
111duty to you, and I beeg you bllsing for them all; and I pray
112God giue you a happy and speady meeting with
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TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S^R ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT.

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126    My deare S^r - I thanke you for your letter, which I reseaued
127this weake by the carrier, and I thanke God for my father's health.
128I trust in our good God, in his owne good time, he will giue a happy
129end to your biusness. I haue rwitten a letter to my father, which
130I send you heare inclosed. If you thinke it will not displeas him,
131and it may any thinge at all seet forward your biusnes, I pray you
132deleuer it to him. If you do deleuer it to my father, I pray you
133seale it first. Allas! my deare S^r, I knowe you doo not to the
134on halfe of my desires, desire to see me, that loues you more then
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136word, when I should hope to see you. Need has bine euer sence
137Sunday trubled with the rume in his fase very much.
138The swelling of his face made him very dull; but nowe, I thanke God,
139he is better, and begins to be merry. He inquires for Jhon Walls
140comeing downe: for he thinkes he will bringe him a letter. I must
141desire you to send me downe a littell Bibell for him. He would not
142let me be in peace, tell I promised him to send for on. He begings nowe
143to delight in reading: and that is the booke I would haue him
144place his delight in. Tom has still a greate coold; but he is not, I
145thanke God, sike with it. Brill and Robin, I thanke God, are well;
146and Brill has two teethe. Ned presents his humble duty to you,
147and I beeg your bllsing for them all: and I beceach the Allmighty
148to prosper you all you doo, and to giue you a happy meeting with
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TO MY DEARE HUSBAND S^R ROBERT HARLEY, KNIGHT, AT HIS HOWES IN
161ALLDERMANBERY.

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163    My dearest S^r - Your men came to Bromton on thursday last.
164I thanke God that you haue your halth. I hope the Lord will
165giue vs bothe faith to waite vpon him; and I trust that in his
166mercy he will give a good end to your biusnes. It pleases God
167that I continue ill with my coold, but it is, as they say, a nwe disceas:
168it trubelles me much, more becaus of my being with childe;
169but I hope the Lord will deale in mercy with me; and, deare S^r,
170let me haue your prayers, for I haue need of them. Docter Barker
171is nowe with me. I thanke God the childeren are all well, and
172Need and Robine are very glad of theire boose, and Ned is much
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174them all, beceaching the Allmighty to presarue you, and to giue
175you a joyefull and happy meeting with your
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