Publications | Camden Society Volume 105 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...so, wth my best wyshes to you and my other deare kinsmen and kinswomen, your sonnes and daughters, I shall ever be Your lovinge brother and true friend, Arthure Chichester. I thanke you hartely for the frute trees you sent me this wynter. I wyshe to live (if it please God) to eate of the frute of them, and that I maye send you worde of their goodnes, and howe they prosper here. Att my house nerc Dublyn, the 22th of March, 1615. To my very worthy brother John Trevelian, Esq. The Rev. R. Carpenter5 To John Trevelyan. I Loxhore, the 12 May, 1617. Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplyed uppon us, &c. Rightly regarded and worthely beloved.--Opportunity doth not often meete me, otherwise I should speake oftener in this language, See note b, p. 77, where Carpenter is stated to have been made D.D. in 1616, to which should have been added O.S., as he was created Feb. 10, 1617, N.S. of love and duety unto you; and at this tyrae, as occasion is offred (next to my unfayned vowes and wishes for the increase of your health and wellfare), my humble and harty desyre and request to you is this, that it might stand with your good lyking, as I hope it will with your health, to grace my proceedings at Acte next with your good presence. Assuredly I shall account all the cost and chardgs which must then by me be bestowed, to my great contentment well acquytted, yf I may obtayne thus much at your hands, to have you the Mr of my feast at this my second maryadge, as you were to our mutuall comfort, at my first. For the furtheraunce of you in which iourney you may, yf you please, take the benefitt of the Bath by the waye, and so by easy iourneys come at the tyme appoynted to the University; wher I doubt not but you shall have. good occasion to be merry, and withall shall have conf...