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yourselves Parliament !” thundered out the Dictator, ‘‘ You are no 
Parliament! I say you are no Parliament! Some of you are 
drunkards !” and his eye flashed upon Chaloner. ‘Some of you 
are!” and he roared out a more uncomplimentary epithet as he 
glared upon Harry Marten. Some of his Parliamentary addresses 
have been published, but his best known work is “A True and 
Exact Relation of the strange Finding out of Moses his tomb in a 
valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina,” published at London 
in 1657. Antony Wood, who has the most virulent hatred for 
sectaries, says, ‘This book at its first appearance made a great 
noise, and pusled the Presbyterian rabbles for a time; at length 
the author thereof being known, and his story found to be a sheer 
sham, the book became ridiculous.” 
James Chaloner, the next son of Sir Thomas, well maintained 
the reputation of his family as a man of genius and literary 
attainments. Many letters of his are preserved in the Fairfax 
correspondence, for he married Ursula, daughter of Sir William 
Fairfax of Steeton ; and as love letters are a form of literature we 
all shall be, are, or have been interested in, I venture to read you 
one dated from London, November 18th, 1633, nearly two hundred 
and fifty years ago. 
“DEAR MISTRESS, 
Notwithstanding my many employments, which might plead an 
exemption from weekly travail in writing, I cease not to woo you as 
seriously and more affectionately than when I first became your 
petitioner ; and for your part, with as much tacitness, when I 
consider my fire for one, as when I was (as then I was,) no better 
than odious. I would fain, if I knew how, salve the interruption 
of content which this silence of yours hath bred in my mind. I 
frame many causes, but because there is no infallibility depends 
upon conjectural fancies, I remain restless, thoughtful, discontented, 
not that I fear any coldness in thee, having had evident proof of 
thy temper, thy love ; but that which troubles me is chiefly that 
thou thinkest, I suppose, that I should value the frequency of 
letters (as tradesmen do a plentiful commodity,) at a low rate. No, 
