MRP: Letter from Henry Oxinden of Deane to Henry Oxinden of Barham (his cousin): Letter 11

Letter from Henry Oxinden of Deane to Henry Oxinden of Barham (his cousin): Letter 11

(MS. 28,000, f. 99)
Printed as Letter CLXXVI in D.K. Gardiner (1933:202)

COZEN,

Our staying att Sir Thomas Palmer's so late to night and beyond expectation caused our omission of inviting you this afternoone for toomorrow dinner; but I hope you will excuse us, and except of this warning to bee a sufficient preparation to come to so familiar a freind's house to dinner, especially when the intreaties of a whole familly is ioyn'd with an addition of too so noble frends of yours as Sir Thomas Palmer and Sir William Meredith, who will neither eate nor drinke till they have seene you against stomack; pray therefore fayle nott, as you tender the good of these and the rest of your frends, and bee here att Dene about eleven of the clock to-morrow, where you shall bee a companion for a countesse, I ever thought you to bee on for a Prince, and so waiting for the honnour of that companie I rest

Your frend and servant
HENRY OXINDEN

Thursday night
very late. July 1641

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