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not to burthen you with extraordinaries, espe- 

 cially since all the retribution I make you is to 

 acknowledge them, and to give you thanks, and 

 pray God to reward you kindness to 



" Your faithful friend, 



'' W. C. 



'* I have now slept ten nights in my new 

 lodgings ; and could gladly say (if so it please 

 God) in nido meo moriar ; but the changes of the 

 world are so many, and the malice of men so 

 great, my lot may be that in the prophet. Arise, 

 and dej)art, for this is not your rest. If so it be, 

 God's will be done ; behold the servant of the 

 Lord ; be it unto me according to his word." 



" Fresingfieldj January 18th, 1692. 



'' My dear Friexd, 



*' On New Year's Day, when your 

 good neighbour and his good friend were so 

 kind as to visit us, the service (you know) is 

 very long, and I officiated myself, as I use to 

 do, in a very cold room too, where there never 

 was a fire, and the day, you may remember, 

 very cold too. So that, by that time the office 

 was performed, I was indeed very cold ; and 

 so, I believe, was the whole company. But 

 that hereupon I got cold, or had then upon me 

 any thing of that, which in England we usually 



