72 KILIIGREW MANUSCRIPTS. 



Close Eye to your Interest with such Husband : Not forgitting 

 that y® „Col° hath a greater value for you then myselfe if 

 juditiously speaking that can be. 



St. James's, Yours, 



IQ*'' July, 1737. Mart. Killigrew." 



"M^- Ab" Hall. 



Since my last of the 19*^ past * * * * 



Eagland must trim a thin Board, just to the thickness of the 

 Lime in the joynt between the Stones, then two stones put 

 together, with that Board between, the Stone cutter workes his 

 Cavity for the Cramp : then gitts a cramp to fitt it : And by 

 that one Cramp he makes Cavities in all the rest of the Stones, 

 of the same row all round, still the Board between as he cutts, 

 then he gitts the whole number of Cramps, made exactly to that 

 one, the Stone Cutter worked by : By w"** means you have all 

 your Cramps and Cavities ready at once, before you begin to 

 Lay the Row, that is four square ; I pay for the Squareing the 

 Core or inward Stones, And shall be glad you will make me 

 Sensible, that reasonable Close Eye is had thereto, for that 

 otherwise, I shall pay for what I have Not, And moreover be at 

 much more then Necessary Charge, in filling up with Liquid 

 Lime. 



We have Jews here, Imployd by the like Honest Men in 

 Holand, to buy up at Discount, Bank Bills Clandestinly got, and 

 send them over, perhaps to the Same person, who returns them 

 back to the Defrauder here : In the name of his Correspond* the 

 Dutch Merch* He Demands Paym* at the Bank, where he is put 

 to Answer, how he came by the Bill, who Answers, He had it 

 from his Correspond* in Hollond, and Produces his Letter Not 

 knowing more of the Matter : The Stop Continues, And the 

 JVlereh* in Holand, is put to Answer upon his Oath, Who Swears 

 that he took it in Trade, and Paid a Valuable Consid*" for it, 

 but canot remember of whome ; Now how trifleing So ever this 

 Answer is, Yet it must be Accepted, And the Bill Paid, Not only 

 in Holand, but also here amongst our Selves to w"** the Bank 

 readily comes into, for that otherwise, Bank Bills, could not have 



