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Stv Fohu Statham, of Wigiwell. 
By Joun SLEIGH, J.P. 
4]ROM the sweepings of an old lawyer’s office at Bake- 
well, I have rescued several letters in the handwriting 
See} oof that worthy, though somewhat querulous and over- 
_ weening old knight, Sir John Statham, which seem worthy of 
_ enshrinement in our Journal. The description of Wigwell itself, 
makes one almost long to revert to an age when everything 
_ accommodated itself so charmingly to the comfort and delectation 
of mine host and his guests. I append a short explanatory 
Feast of Pentecost comonly called Whitsunday last past, before 
he date hereof, according to a Composition formerly made with 
us Maiesties’ Commissioners for compounding for Recusants 
Lands and goods, the same being for the Recusancie of him the 
Sayd George Poole—I say receiued by the Right Honourable 
Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth, Lo: President of His 
