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other score. Yet, in this interim, my disappointments 

 are so great as that I am forced to beg if you could 

 possibly, either to help me with ten pounds to this 

 bearer ; or, to make use of the coach, and to go to Mr. 

 Clerke, and if he could this day help me to fifty pounds, 

 then to pay yourself the five pounds I owe you out of 

 them. Either of these will infinitely oblige me. The 

 alderman has taken three days time to consider of it. 

 Pardon the great troubles I give you, which I doubt 

 not but in time to deserve by really appearing, 

 a Your most thankful friend, 



u WORCESTER. 



&quot; 28th of March, 1656. To my honoured friend, 

 &quot; COLONEL CHRISTOPHER COFPLEY.&quot; 



This epistle the Colonel endorsed, &quot; My Lord of 

 Worcester s letter about my share in his engine.&quot; What 

 was the result of these negociations remains untold ; 

 but eight months later it would seem that, for some 

 reason or other, he entered into a solemn obligation 

 with the Colonel, in the terms following : * 



&quot; I, under written, do confess and acknowledge 

 to have received of Colonel Christopher Copley so great 

 civilities and obligations as that I do take him into so 

 strict bonds of kindness, as that, if at any time the 

 adventure of my life and fortune may bestead him, 

 I do, upon the word of a gentleman, and the faith of a 

 Christian, engage myself not to stick thereat, but cheer 

 fully to run the same fortune with him. And upon the 

 same ties I vow never to deceive or delude him in thought, 

 word, or deed ; and to declare the truth at all times unto 

 him, using neither hyperbole nor equivocation concerning 

 my water-work ; or any promise made or to be made 



From MS. collection of the late Dawson Turner. Esq., of Yarmouth. 



