214 APPENDIX. which I am very desirous, not onely bycause of your neereness to me, which inciteth euery one to wish wele without other reason, but bycause that I thinke your health will not be ill bestowd on you: and it is very rnutch wished to you by, Your most affectionat vnkle to serue you, CONWAY AND KILULLA. Sion, Sep. 28. (1643 ?) The EARL of WESTMORLAND to COL. HARLEY. Cosen-Ther needs noe apollogising wher the inconsiderablenes of your mushrom frends and seruants beer ought and must guiue way to those sub- limer occations wherein you with many more heroes or worthyes are wrap. I wish I were but a hewer of wood or a water tanker in this great work begun of reformation, wherein ye divel and wicked men cause yet soe many rubbs. But the vpper orbes are wise, and know what sphear is sutable to every p'portion of light. I am fixed in resolution, I assure you ; noe roam- ing, wandring plannet ; and therefore it may be, to weak sight may appeer a twinkler, though I was born high and a gentleman, though not altogether Welch; therefore must needs say, I contemn yt monster parety, soe much now seeks to domineer. I am sorry the treaty ends without beginning. The summer will be the hotter if God (who alone can) p'uent not. My wife is yet soe weak she sitts not vp, and therefore I thanke you for and from her, and wish you all happiness whither you goe. Resting euer, Your poor yet truely affectionat kinsman to serve you, WESTMORLAND. My love and seruice to yr good father. Doe not tel him that I am going afoot this morning to Mailing Lecture, least he conclude me a Puritan. Februar: 22.
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