By C. E. Long, Esq. 



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iv.) of the previous Article, addressed to Anthony Hinton; the other 



to his cousin Reginald Scriven. 



*"Yo r Ires make menoon that you understand I beare you displeasure, 

 and that yt hath appeared by sundry attempts of myne of late, groundinge 

 my quarell upon words of Cawley, who doth utterly deny yt, verily I have 

 heard by a longe tyme you have not byn well, but so farr to be distempered, 

 as by yo r Ires appeareth, I knew not That you were the Autho 1 ' of all ill 

 attempts and secreat workings, of all w ch I knewe nothinge before the receipt of 

 those Ires. Yf you had expressed those attempts, the matter would appeare the 

 playner, for sure I am you have uttered as foolishe as that, I have heard saye 

 that you have not byn well a good while, but so farr distempered I knew not. 

 That you had byn run into any suche distemperature and unseasonablenes I 

 would not have thought yt, had not yo r owne Ires expressed yt, That maketh 

 me also to knowe that Cawleys advtisements were not altogether w th out matter 

 and truthe, that shewed me that you were one that envied me, and other watch- 

 inge to do harme, when occasion should rise, That you were the setter on of the 

 tennts of Chilton in all their ptended villanies. This can foure psons witnes, 

 honester men then he. But in the latter pte of yo r Ires, very excellent in yt 

 self, you say very magnifically that you did little looke fo r suche hard dealinge 

 at my hands, you say magnifically that, I pray where dwell you or what pa- 

 rents came you from, that you take yt, or howe cometh yt about, that I have so 

 muche forgotten my self, there is nothinge but hard dealinge in yo r mouthe. 

 Yf you have lent me money at any tyme, as yo 1 ' Ires mencon, w ch hath not byn 

 past wise, once xx u and another x u . Another tyme I remember you would, and 

 in faith I never sent to you for yt, nor neded yt not, w ch lone of yo rs was all- 

 wayes upon good pawne of plate, and not above three monethes or sixe. But 

 nowe you have upbrayed me w th yt, I trust you have yo r peniworthes and are 

 satisfied, yf not send me somuch plate, and I will lend you somuche money as 

 ever you lent me and twise as longe. And then are you double aunswered upon 

 that point, that you say I brake day w th you I cannot forbeare you, for playnly 

 and truly you do lye in yt, And lyinge in a miser is a miserable thinge. But 

 yt is allways proper to base condicon. And further, in yo 1 Ires you say that yf 

 you have honestly and faithfully travelled in my causes, you are ill repayed w th 

 hard dealinge. What cause of myne that you should be so traveled in, and so 

 mightie in remembraunce w th you I cannott gesse. But sure I am that I have 

 in many things borne w th you, And suffred harmes and losses by you; And used 

 you allwayes better then belonged to yo r condicon. But I will mend yt and 

 pcead in truth as T think good, gevinge you w th all to understand that I am not 

 he that is in erro r or hath not what to followe. And this for aunswere to yo r 

 Ires written fo r some devise. 



"He that fo r all yo r secreat envy, 



"and private malice must lyve by you." 



"Cosin, my helth not so well servinge me as it hath downe, whereby I cannot 

 visyte frinds nor follow my bussynes as I have bynn accostomed to do hearto- 

 fore, I am dryven oftner to Letters to acquitt me in the one, and to expresse 



• Gen. Kccord Office, Loudon. " Darcll Correspondence." Misc. 458. 



