28 A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR 



no mention of them in these or the former. They 

 contained 2 Sheets of Colours, with relations to Mr. 

 Worsley. As bad as they were, I shall be loath to 

 lose them. I must now be the more earnestly trouble- 

 some to my friends for the Hospital be[cause] I hear 

 that other eyes are upon it, and some competitors. If 

 the grant should be from the Parliament] or from the 

 Great Seal I think there should be also a Warrant or 

 Order to the High Sheriffe to give possession. If it 

 must pass by the Great Seal ; or that, otherwise, ready 

 money must be provided, I shall appoint it to be in 

 readiness in the hands of my sister Beale or of Mr. 

 Eichard Shermyne.' 



'•'You will excuse this freedom on the behalf of so 

 worthy a friend. Nor had I sent perhaps these lines 

 but that I read in a printed pamphlet, come forth 

 yesterday, called — 'An Exact account, Wednesday 20 

 June. The House approved of Dr. Nicholas to be 

 Governor of St. Nicholas Hospital in Bristol ; ' for it 

 may be you have not heard of this passage, by 

 which it seems it would be seasonable to move also 

 for Mr. Beale's desired Hospital. Here you have the 

 copy of Mr. Worsley's letter of Colours, which wag 

 sent to Mr. Beale, and which he answered in 2 

 Sheets. It is not yet even to my hands, which I confess 

 doth discompose me not a little. But if I yet receive it, 

 I suppose I shall not forget to impart it as readily as I 

 do now that of Mr. Worsley's. 



