SIR JOHN STATHAM, OF WIGWELL. 39 
‘ ‘otherwise use them as such Miscreants deserve. And for the 
_ *Publick Good, he heartily wishes, The Faction would do the like 
‘in their own Affairs. 
J. STaTHAM. 
N. B. For the Comfort of the Envious, It happens, Sir John 
is so far from having incumbred Estates, that he can on any 
good Occasion, raise out of his Soughs, Mines, and Other Per- 
sonality, and Effects, above Ten Thousand Pounds, without 
loading or incumbring, any of his Real Estates. 
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(Sir Jno. Statham to Charles Stanhope Esg’* Elvaston.) 
DEar SiR, 
in alien Viel 
It was uneasy to leave you, but night at hand, I 
almost overtook Sir N. I did not drive up to him, but went 
straite home. I begun to consider how to engage you to come 
hither. If I cu’d form a delicious place by poetical description I 
wu’d do it to intice you, but I'll give you a plain natural dis- 
cription, & then you'l not be deceived, since youve seen into 
nature as faras any man. ‘This was the cheif seate of the great 
Abbot of Darleigh ; I stand in clear air in the region of Health, 
am not confined, for am above 7 miles in circumference, a Mann* 
‘without one foot of any one’s interfereing. In that district is all 
the convenience of life, Wood, Coal, Corn of all sorts, Park 
‘Venison, a Warren for Rabbits, Fish, Fowl, in the utmost per- 
fection, exempted from all Jurisdiction, no Bishops, Priests, 
Proct™, Apparato™, or any such last mentioned Vermine can 
‘breath here. Our way of life here is, Every one does that wh. 
is right in his own eyes, go to bed, sit up, rise early, lie late, all 
easy, only we are confined to meet at breakfast, and then order 
by agreem' what’s for dinner; the pastures are loaded with good 
partridges, the Canals and Steues with excellent fish, & the 
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