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LXXI

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MARY, LADY PEYTON TO MRS. ANNE OXINDEN

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5    Which title I must now give you, your brother hath
6so weall satisfied me in your match that I wish you much joy
7and hapines, and withall be carful that, whatsoever you doe,
8to love honer and obey your housband in all things that is
9fitting for a resonable creture. I will desir nothing that is
10unresonable, you know what I have sufferd yet God hath
11delivered mee out of it, though with infinit afliction for
12the time. I have had so much spech with your brother
13conserning your father's wille and your portion, which he
14would not beleeve till I showed him the will, he is now confirmed
15in it and says you shall have your dewe as soune as he
16can; be sur of this you shall have it, though you stay som
17tim for it, in the meantime let no respect be wanting to your
18housband and his mother, with the rest of his frends, in this
19you shall gain yourself a good reput and shew yourself a
20vertuous wife whoes pris is not to be valued; as for the
21bisines you writ to me about, I am ashamed I cannot doe it
22for you, my housband siems to give me pour power
23though I have no pour, he hath been so ill a housband of lat
24that I never was so put to it to bring the wourld about as
25now I am, besids he is to pay a gret deale of mony this next
26terme, wher he will have it I know not; only this I am sur
27he will suffer; his father delt most unworthylie with us,
28which inforces me to doe what I would not.
29    I think to be at London this next terme, wher I shalbe glad
30to meete you, if not I desier to see hier. Your brother
31houmfery remembers his service to you. So with my
32prayers to God to bless you, I rest as ever