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<HEAD>THE <HI>Bi&s;hop of</HI> ELY's LETTERS To the Late K. James &amp; Q. Mary, Sent Under the Di&s;gui&s;ed NAMES of <HI>M^r^. Redding &amp; M^r^s^. Redding.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To Mr. Redding</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR!</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THO' the <HI>Bearer</HI> of this will do us the <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> to a&s;&s;ure you, <HI>We</HI> are as <HI>full of Duty,</HI> as <HI>unfeignedly</HI> and <HI>concernedly Yours,</HI> as your &s;elf could wi&s;h; yet this <HI>Gentleman</HI> has undertaken you will forgive the Pre|&s;umption, If <HI>I</HI> do <HI>my &s;elf</HI> the honour to give you this fre&s;h a&s;&s;urance in a few Words, which <HI>We</HI> do by <HI>our Actions: I</HI> &s;hall omit no <HI>Occa&s;ions,</HI> not neglecting the lea&s;t, and making Zealous Wi&s;hes for the greate&s;t, to &s;hew <HI>our Selves &s;uch as We ought to be.</HI></P>
<P>Sir! <HI>I</HI> &s;peak in the <HI>Plural,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>I write my Elde&s;t Brother's Sentiments,</HI> as well as <HI>My own,</HI> and the <HI>re&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Family;</HI> Tho' le&s;&s;en'd in <HI>Number,</HI> yet, <HI>if We are not mightily out in our Accounts, We</HI> are growing in <HI>our Intere&s;ts, that is,</HI> in <HI>Yours.</HI></P>
<P><HI>He</HI> that delivers this, will, <HI>I</HI> hope (intirely to Your &s;atisfaction) repre&s;ent <HI>Vs,</HI> and <HI>Me</HI> in particular, as, <HI>with all the Devotion imaginable,</HI> and <HI>Vnchangeable Affection.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Yours,</HI> &amp;c. God grant the Happie&s;t <HI>New Year.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>New-Years Eve.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To Mrs. Redding.</HEAD>
<P>AS it is impo&s;&s;ible for <HI>Me</HI> to expre&s;s that extraordinary great &s;atisfaction it gave <HI>Me</HI> this time Twelve-Month, to receive that Mark of your <HI>Favour</HI> and <HI>Goodne&s;s</HI> under your own <HI>Hand:</HI> So <HI>I have liv'd in &s;ome pain for an opportunity to write you</HI> my Humble Acknowledgments, and <HI>True&s;t Duty: From which,</HI> (by the <HI>Grace</HI> of <HI>God</HI>) <HI>I am no more capable of &s;werving, than of Renouncing my &rindx; hopes of Heaven: I &s;ay this in behalf of my Elder Brother, and the Re&s;t of my Neare&s;t Relations,</HI> as well as for <HI>My Self; You may intirely depend upon Vs,</HI> not only for a con&s;tant <HI>Adherence</HI> to &s;o <HI>well cho&s;en</HI> a <HI>Principle;</HI> But for our utmo&s;t <HI>Activity</HI> to <HI>promote your Intere&s;ts, Which are in&s;eperably our Own.</HI></P>
<P>I need come to no <HI>Particulars</HI> by this <HI>Bearer, Who can, and will tell you our whole Hearts;</HI> And I wi&s;h you cold &s;ee them, how <HI>&s;incerely</HI> they <HI>are devoted to your Service. God</HI> grant you a mo&s;t Happy <HI>New Year,</HI> and many, very many, and very happy: <HI>Our Young Ma&s;ter has all our Be&s;t Wi&s;hes; He</HI> daily gains more <HI>Friends,</HI> and <HI>VVe get ground of his Adver&s;aries.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>New-Years Eve</HI> (1694/1)</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><BIBL><HI>Ru&s;hworth's</HI> Collections <HI>1&s;t. Part.</HI></BIBL></NOTE> The Cen&s;ure and Doom of a Pragmatical, Turbulent, and Proud <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Ely,</HI> in the Reign of King <HI>Richard the Fir&s;t,</HI> was this:<LB>
<Q><HI>Per totam In&s;ulam Publice Proclametur; <HI>Pereat qui perdere culicta fe&s;tinat. Opprimatur, ne Omnes opprimat.</HI></HI></Q><LB>
Which may be thus Rendred in <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI><LB>
<Q><HI>Let him be Cut off, who <HI>Plotted</HI> to bring all to Ruine; Let him be Di&s;patch'd, lea&s;t be undoe us All.</HI></Q></P>
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