170 LETTERS OF THE CLXV. To her son Edward. [1642. My deare Ned -If you beleaue how glad I am to haue this paper discours with you, you will read it as willingly as I rwite it. Since your father thinkes Hearefordsheare as safe as any other country, I will thinke so too ; but when I considered how long I had bine from him, and how this country was affected, my desire to see your father, and my care to he in a place of safety, made me ernestly desire to come vp to Loundoun ; but since it is not your father's will, I will lay aside that desire. But, deare Ned, as you haue promised me, so let me desire you to let me know how thinges goo. This night I hard that my lord Savile was dead. I desire to know wheather it be so or no ; and wheather my lord Paget be goon to York. I heare that on Mr Mason carride a letter from the justices of this country to the king at York, to let him know that they would sarue him with theare lives and estats. I thought it had bine with the petition they made for the bischops, but they say, it was with a letter. When dr Wright was with Mr James, he toold me you had rwite to him aboute Petters bill, and that it was well if some lords weare spoken to : he desires me to make some means to speake to my lord Brooke, which I promised him I would; theare fore, good Ned, eather speake yourselfe to my lord Brooke, or get somebody to speak to him, that when the bill comes into the lords he may further it. This day Mr. Danis came from Heareford, wheare he went to preach, by the intreaty of some in the town, and this befell him : when he had ended his prayer before the sermon, which he was short in, becaus he was loth to tire them, 2 men went out of the chruch and cryed " pray God blles the kinge ; this man dons not pray for the kinge ; " upon which, before he read his text, he toold them that miters had that liberty, to pray before or after the sermon for the chruch and state ; for all that,, they went to the bells and range, and a great many went into the chruch -yard and cryed "roundheads," and some said, "let us cast stones at him 1"
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