184 LETTERS OF THE [1642. I haue had of late in the mending of the leeds of my howes bine inforsed to lay out an extriordary some of money; and Edward Dally with others, oweing me rent, I can not as yet geet it; if you can lend me 401. for halfe or a quarter of a yeare,. I shall take it as a greate kindenes, and I will pay the interest of it with all my hart, and giue you any securety my sonne and I can giue you, which I hope will be enough for a greater some. So recommending you unto the protection of God, I rest, Your most affectinat frinde, BRILLIANA HARLEY. Aegs. 18, 1642. I desire to haue my saruis presented to Mr Wallcote and your sonne. CLXXXI.* For my much honnored frinde Mrs. Wallcote, at Wallcote. My much honnored and deare frinde, -I acknowledg this as a greate fauor, and I shall be ready to expres my thankes with all the * This Letter is accompanied byMr. Walcot's acquittance, endorsed thus in Sir Edward Harley's handwriting :- M3°. That I heard not of ye 2011 within specified but of late : and though I was not by tours of law obliged to ye payment, yet, reckoning myself by ye law of conscience (weh is true honor) bound to pay it, if due, I bless ye Lord who bath enabledmee to pay it. E. H. Also in Mary Walcot's handwriting, on a separate paper : - Whereas I am informed that there is some question between the honble Se Edward Harley and John Walcot Esq. concerning twenty pounds lent by Humphrey Walcot Esq. in the time of the late warms to the Honble the Lady Brilliana Harley, I can testifie that seuerall times since the decease of the said Humphrey, I have heard my mother in law Ann Walcot, his relict, mention the said twenty pounds, as certainly lent and never repaid. Witness my hand this 3183 of Decem. 1667. MARY WALCOT. Acq't'ce fro Me Walcot : - Received this twenty-first day of March 1682 of S' Edward Harley of Bramton Castle in the county of Hereford k3 of the honble order of the Bath by mee John Walcott of Walcott in the county of Salop Esq. the sum of twenty pounds of lawfull English money in full of all moneys debts reckonings and accompts whatsoever due vnto my late ffather Humphrey Walcott, Esq. decd or vnto my late mother Ann Walcott (the relict of the sad
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