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| − | WORTHY COZIN,
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| − | Calling to remembrance your many curtsies which I soe often times have received from you and I not knowinge how to requite the lest of them [M.S. 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; but since it is to late and the time far wasted and I have allready thrust myself into the handes of Fortune, hoping that it will deele favorably with mee [M.S. 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; 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, but let mee bee as if I had never bin; but yow ar only [M.S. torn] I dooe invest my hole trust in. Consarning my maintenance heere, for I have all wayes founde you a man of your woorde, I must confes that I doe live uppon the states menes but very basly and poorly, and it will not [M.S. torn] only a disparrigement to mee but to my frendes hereby, for my ant sayes that I shall disgrace her, therfor good Cosen doe so much allsoe in my beehalfe, for I am in want of shirtes and a gray hatt [M.S. torn] as yett I have nether; pray lett mee intreet 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 paynes to write to or three lines unto mee and inclose it in your Letter, and you may give the Letter to my unkle proude, for hee will bee in London aboute three weekes after Chrismas; thus intretinge your to remember my duty to my mother, my sarvis to my unkle Oxinden, and my duty and sarvis to my [M.S. torn] Barrowe and my be respackted sarvis to your selfe
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| − | Your obliged servaunt
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| − | RICHARD OXINDEN
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| − | ''From our garrison at
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| − | Arnam in gildarland this
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| − | 14:th of December 1631''
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| − | My Cozen Sanders dooth Remember his sarvis unto you and dooth intrete you to send this Letter to his fathar.
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Latest revision as of 20:43, January 9, 2012
Assorted letters of Richard Oxinden junior (Various)
Editorial history
15/12/11, CSG: Restructured page
15th December 1631, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Valentine Pettit the younger, Arnam, Gilderland
Notes
