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Thus wee stande exspecting what God will doe for vs, I 
trust we are yet safe wthin the toune, and that winter cumming 
one w^ee may by God’s blessing recouer ourselues. The toune 
takes much comfortt in our stay heare, and would fall into 
affrights and confusion if wee should leaue them, soe as wee as 
yet hold on our ordinary sitting, and soe dispence of his Ma^es 
accustomed Justice to his people; and in good faithe, I should 
for my partte be very loathe to leaue them in this distressed 
case, seeing they conceaue they are much the better for my stay 
amongst them, and that in truthe I thinke they are now much 
more orderly then they would he vnder the gouernment of the 
Maior alone. 
All the meanes wee can thinke of haue been vsed to preuentt 
the spredding of itt, by inhibiting all the publicke faires hear- 
abouts, well might drawe a concourse of people togeither ; our 
watches are very well and strickly keept in euery place ; all 
passadges betuixt vs and Lincolnshire by water stopped as much 
as may be, to the intent that cumming by lande they may be a 
little better aired before they cum into any partt of this County; 
and the visited persons well prouided not only for the necessities 
of nature, but of all such druggs and other medecins as the 
Phisitions aduise to be good to preuentt and correett the 
malignity of this contagion, soe as the better halfe of thos that 
haue had itt in this toune, is, thanks be to God, escaped. 
I feare I growe troublesum, but I am more particiilare in my 
relation, that knowing the truthe of our case, wee may by your 
LoPs meanes, be bettered by the wisedum of his Maty and the 
Lords, if ther be any other thinge wc^ they shall commaunde 
for our good or greater safety, amidst soe much danger. 
My Lord, the vttermost of the paines I will giue you for the 
presentt, shall be only to write myself 
Your LoPs very humble seruantt, 
Wentw^oiith.” 
York, this 22th of Septemb., 1631.* ” 
^ Cal. St. p. 1631, p. 150. 
[Endorsed] York, 22 7br., 1631. 
The Ld President of the North to the 
Ld Yisconnt Dorchester. 
P[ecr.] the 27 of Septr. 8 at Hampton Court. 
See also Cartwright’s Chapters of Yorkshire History, Svo., "Wakefield, 1872, 
p. 248. 
