16 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SAXCROFT. 



ready more engagements for Charter-house, 

 than I am like to live to see cancelled. Tantum 

 est. 



" I am, dear Sir, 



*' Your's, 



" W. C. 



" My kindest aifections to my dearest bro- 

 ther, when you shall happen to see him." 



Fresingfield, Nov. 1 1th, 1691. 



** I must confess, dear friend, it was a 

 very friendly care you took of us, to warn us 

 so often not to make too much haste into our 

 new house ; but withal it was a vain one : for 

 alas ! we have yet no new house. Our work 

 without doors was ended with the last month ; 

 which, had it been as severe as October some- 

 times is, we could not have finished in this 

 month, but we have a winter's work still to do 

 within doors, in paving and planchering and 

 daubing, and ceiling, and plastering, and glaz- 

 ing, and wainscotting, making doors, laying 

 hearths, &c. ; so that we find it a very trouble- 

 some thing to bring a new (as well as an old) 

 house over our heads. In the mean time the 

 old tenement is packed as close as it can well 

 be, from end to end, with ourselves, and chil- 

 dren, and servants and workmen : so that, when 



