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Continued from Page 253, No. 92. 
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE of DOC- 
TOR JOHN WALLIS, PROFESSOR of 
GEOMETRY i# the UNIVERSITY of 
OXFORD, MEMBER Of the ROYAL SO- 
CIETY, azd CHAPLAIN in ordinary to 
- KING CHARLES 11. Extraéted from a 
manufcript Volume in the Poffefion of his 
Family, containing a great Number of 
intercepted Letters, decyphered hy the Doc- 
tor for the Britifh Government, and fome 
too for their Ales, and other Letters re- 
lating, for the moft Part, to that Subject. 
The Earl of Nottingham 
_ To Dr. Wallis. 
Whitehall, Fanuary 14, 1691-2. 
Defire you will decypher the enclofed 
A letter, if you can, and fend it to me. 
There is not fnuch of it in cypher, which 
may make it the more difficult to find out 
the meaning ; but if that could be dif- 
covered, I believe it may contain fome- 
thing of importance for their Maj'’s fer- 
vice. Iam your moft humble fervant, 
NOTTINGHAM. 
For Miftrefs Fones. 
MY DEAREST LIFE, 
_ I had yours of the gth of December, 
and the note of the 12th, (which is the 
firft and only one I have as yet received,) 
two days agoe. I was extremely glad to 
hear you got fafe home ; but you fhould 
have writ'en more particularly concerning 
your own condition, which pray do by 
‘next, and our babes. I am not furprized 
y‘my bufinefs goes wrong, but you are to 
be the more careful 5 all Idefire is, y* my ~ 
annual rents may be paid punétually, and 
what is refting to me may be legally fe- 
cured without mtich noife. Pray tak- ad- 
vice of lawyers about this, y' what isaw- 
ing me may not be utterly loft, and let 
the rent of our eftate be managed to the 
beft advantage. I nce fooner received 
yours, but I went immediately to the 
Queen King 
FERRERS the, HHAF*¥ \not Heing yet re- 
Arans 
turned, and {poke fully concerning ***** 
marige 
¥eeeE* > fhe is very well fatisfied, and 
wifhes ali profperity to the defign ; bitls 
me aflure him y‘ he will do fome extra- 
ordinary thing before fhe fhall‘have tne 
leaft ill thought of him, he being one fo 
entirely trufled, and having given fuch 
prcofs of his being intirely concerned in 
affairs ; th's he may relye upon as truth. 
For my_own part, I am extremely glad 
to hear of it, and wifh him all the 
happinefs in the world: he takes the 
wilett courfe, and let him be concerned in 
that affaire folely for fome time, as Iwrote 
formerly ; for here we are at a ftand admir- 
eng what will follow upon new ways and 
managers: little good is expected ; a little 
time will fhew y' we are not yet fully as 
we oughtto be. For my own part, Iam 
not in the leaft concerned ; and if you 
have got my two laft, you will know my 
refolutions : but this oncly to yourlelf; yt 
‘Mrs. Blecklie will fee Mr. Lelfley fconer 
than fhe thought, if matteis do not 
King 
When the ***** returns, I 
Aran | 
fhall {peak about ***#****,° of which 
you fhall have one account ; but I will 
n.t anfwer for managing it as it fhould 
be, others having it alfo in their hands, 
and perhaps more authentickly than I. 
For my own part, I will never alter in 
my hearty duty to him, and will obey 
and anfwer for the manageing of any 
thing folely trufted to me, being more 
concerned in him then in any other whom- 
medleing 
foever. You need not fear my *****¥#*x © 
Melfort 
with *******, for I will ever keep by 
the finkreap, and what is true intercft. 
_ Aran 
Thope #*#*** ###* will doe foe, and not 
give into the defign layd for y* effort ; 
he will find it not his true interef{; and 
change. 
Jet not idle fancies and tories have weight, © 
Arol 
or” takes place with, “Dini. 0.0 ae soem 
is not there, and fees that two and 
three makes five, which fome would 
I 
have \ fo’. be’ otherways, | #¥***4**% 
King 
depend entirely upon ****** and. 
Queen me 
at PEE eS ho arerfalake © no er and 
*; , 
fi Aran 
and will net upon any other but ******* 
as to my principle of trade, which is as 
when I left him; and ‘I only defirehe may 
put me to atriall, and Ihave a quzrrell 
at him for not doing it longe before 
this ; but he may ufe me as he pleafes. 
: Arol 
You may be aflured ****** and 
Largo 
##*E***ES ave very good friends ; Jam 
obliged ta both extreamly, of which pray 
4 take 
