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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A Coppy of the pretended Letter, whereupon the Inditement again&s;t</HI> Hendry Navile-paine <HI>is founded.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>The</HI> 3d. <HI>of</HI> December, <HI>1692.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Am forced in ill for want of better paper; deare&s;t Aunt, to let you know that I am obliedged to change my bad Lodging for wor&s;e; being Relap&s;ed into my old de&s;temper again. My Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;icians being re&s;olved not to let any Breathing vi&s;it me, till it plea&s;e GOD to re&s;tore me to my perfect Health, They alleadging that my keeping too much Company, doth great Mi&s;chief. All my Con&s;olation in this mi&s;erablc condition is that Mi&s;tri&s;s friend is ju&s;t come to the Neighbourhood; And though I fear I &s;hall not be &s;o happy to &s;ee her, yet my deare&s;t Cu&s;ine, I doubt not, will do it &s;peedi|ly: For &s;o it is contrived <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o be by my dear and dilligent friends negotiation, who is the very Life and vi|gor of all your Brothers affair here, and the prop of his family Running, going, and &s;pending her &s;elf to the la&s;t pennie in his &s;erviee, and but for hers in the fir&s;t place, and Mi&s;tri&s;s <HI>Mowat</HI> in the &s;econd; Your poor Nephew might have peri&s;hed long or this for meer want to no great Credit, no more then advantage of your brother; for though he have many more, able he has not a faithfuller Servant in the World! Oh GOD how can be be &s;o de&s;pi&s;ed among&s;t his Relations, when there ene|mies con&s;ider him &s;o much; And all other hone&s;t acquaintance, that knows him, have &s;ome e&s;teem at Lea&s;t for him, This is all I will, and le&s;s I cannot &s;ay, for all the &s;trange reguardle&s;s u&s;age he has met withall from David, and Let it &s;tand as it doth &s;ince M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tris <HI>Mowat</HI> writes me word &s;he and him begin to under&s;tand one another better, and are like to be perfect friends, which for your Brothers &s;ake, I hope will continue real on that &s;ide, as I am &s;ure it is on this; &s;he and <HI>Little-John</HI> has had a meeting to, where all things have been &s;o explained betwixt them, that I hope will produce a la&s;ting Concurrence in diligence for your Brothers &s;ervice; To which &s;ole End, all my en|deavours therein, have tended. And now I a&s;&s;ure you, all things here, are in perfect Order, for bringing in the Tryall as &s;peedily as your Brother plea&s;es, and the &s;ooner the better (I am &s;ure) for his Adver&s;ary is very dilligent in &s;eeking out new Agents, that are like to be more able and faithful to him, than the&s;e he has hitherto Imployed. And I a&s;ure you &s;ucceeds extream well in his De&s;igns, and has in a manner united all the <HI>Mechanicks</HI> by this means, to be intirely his; So the Cau&s;e may grow wor&s;e, but cannot mend by the delay of the Tryal, and as for Compo&s;itions, and Bargains, with particulars. It is of little or no importance, Since Mens &s;everal Intere&s;ts and De&s;igns are &s;o Different, that they are Impo&s;&s;ible to be Reconcil'd before the Cau&s;e be ended, &amp; he walk the exchange again. In the mean time&punc; care mu&s;t be had, that his Letters of Attorny be fairly and fully drawn, as me thinks is ea&s;ie to be done, And I would have &s;ent you a draught as I told you in my la&s;t, but that I cannot with all my diligence procure a Coppy of the La&s;t, to make a true Judgement why it is &s;o univer&s;ally cryed out upon, by tho&s;e of the Creditors have &s;een it; But now I mu&s;t to bed, and mind no more Bu&s;ine&s;s, perhaps while I live, but yet cannot die an hone&s;t man, if I do not with earne&s;t|ne&s;s of my Soul recommend to your Brother, Si&s;ter, and David, the diligent Gentle woman I menti|oned before, as the mo&s;t u&s;efull per&s;on beyond all Compari&s;on of any body they have here, This Mrs <HI>Mowat, Littlejohn.</HI> The &s;ick Mini&s;ter and Nur&s;es friend, Nay all other Relations here not only continually allow, but by daily proofs will te&s;tifie: This makes me beg that &s;ince there is the Clerk of the Town &s;he lives in; Newly dead, the place may be procured for her Husband or Son, A lyne from your Brother doth it; and I am very &s;ure it is impo&s;&s;ible for him to employ his pen more de&s;erv|edly, the m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> I a&s;&s;ure you comes not in the lea&s;t from her, She being the mo&s;t di&s;&s;intere&s;ted Creature breathing, but was of her own accord propo&s;ed by Mi&s;tris Mowat; Who al&s;o &s;aid &s;he would wryte to &s;ecure the favour, for fear of &s;ome bodies interpo&s;ing betwixt your Brother and David to prevent, &s;o ju&s;t a reque&s;t in her behalf as this is: for GOD's &s;ake propo&s;e it earne&s;tly in Mi&s;tris <HI>Mowat</HI> and my Name, to your Brother and David, and Intere&s;t therein your excellent Si&s;ter; And if ever I was &s;o happy to do or endeavour, any thing was acceptable to her; May her memory thereof plead for me in this reque&s;t. Dear Aunt, lay all Nice or Timerous Re&s;erves by, and pre&s;s it home, as an hone&s;t Matter, and the mo&s;t earne&s;t De&s;ire of Your Dutiful Nephew. Adue, my &s;ervice to <HI>Da|vid</HI> and Nur&s;e, joyn her in the Matter, I be&s;eech you for her Friends &s;ake and mine.</P>
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