1642.] LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY. 179 canues. I haue sent your father a note of what plate is in the truncke. I pray God blles you and giue you a comfortabell meeting with Your most affectinat mother, BRILLIANA HARLEY. I pray you tell your father the bay gellding he sent to haue taken vp, is so, and he is in very good case. Remember me to your sister. I haue sent her bibell in the truncke with the plate. I wisch some parlament men might be sent into this cuntry to settell the milica, and that my lord of Essekes would make Mr. Shirborne hoold his peace. Gloues and pattern for me. M. Instrumt9. July 15, 1642. CLXXVI. To her son Edward. My deare Ned-By the enclosed paper to your father, you will knowe how poore Hearifordsheare is affected ; but, deare Ned, I hope you and myself will remember for whous cans your father and we are hated. It is for the taus of our God, and I hope we shall be so fare from being ashamed of it or trubelled, that we beare the reproche of it, that we shall binde it as a crowne upon us ; and I am confident the Lord will rescue His chillderen from reproche. I sent Samuell to Heariford to obsarue theaire ways. He had come home last night, but that he had a fall from his hors and put out his shoulder. He tells me that they all at Heariford cried out against your father, and not one said any thinge for him, but one man, Mr. Phillips of Ledbury said, when he hard them speak so against your father, "well," said he, " tho Sir Robert Harley be lowe heare, yet he is aboue, wheare he is." My deare Ned, I can not thinke I am safeat Brompton, and byno means I would haue you come downe. I
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