| Title: | Letter, William Hamilton To Hartlib |
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| Dating: | 4 December 1648 |
| Ref: | 9/11/2A-3B: 3A BLANK |
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Honored freind, & dearely beloved in the trueth
I acknowledge very kyndly, & resent most thankfully, that amidst so great avocations, & so litle leasure, yow have been pleased to prævent me with some lyns for conveyance of our dearest freinds inclosed. When I wrot last to him (being newly come from London, & expecting my Warden home very shortly [therof? MS edge] according to what had passed between him & me at our parting, upon whose coming my setling depended) I made account to have been setled long befor now, and to have wrot both to yow & him oftner then once. But any tyme these 4. or 5. weekes past, expecting him every week, according to his letters to me, made me put off, till he wer come, that so I might write to yow somewhat to a purpos. for yowr papers that I browght with me, at his & my first coming to Oxford thowgh I both gave them him, & he was very much affected with them, yet all the tyme he continwed at Oxford, or that hee & I [after?] our returne to London, wer together, he was so oppressed with other businesses, that I thowght it inexpedient to desire any account of him therabouts. And for Mr [Wilkins?] the Prince Electors chaplaine, & Warden of Waddam, I had no directions from yow to him befor the last tyme I parted with yow; at which tyme, unbenowne to me, he was come to London to the Prince, & so hath continued ever since: & I beleeve will so long continue yet, as yee may meet with him, befor he retwrne, if [yee? altered] have the mynd, & make any applicatione yee think fittest, ether for Dr kinner, or [otherwys?], and [after?] his returne godwilling I shall not be wanting, in what I can serve yow in particular, or our common & publick ends, as I shall have yowr advyce from tyme to tyme. [The? altered] lyke I desire yow understand of Dr Palmer, when he coms to toune, which will be this night (since he lay at Wickhame Saturday at night, [27.?] myles on his way, from whence I had a letter from him) & from Dr Reynolds the Vicechancellor, or any other heere
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of my good freinds & acqwaintance, that I can make familiar with; to which purpos both Mr Rows his example, & yowr papers & letter sent me, shall be made the best use of I can. Concerning yowr paper against the ministrie, & the power of godlinesse now amongst men, And Mr Dury his confuting of the same, so, as to inlarge himself in that, as he may tak in that tract of ad legem et Testimonium, thowgh to our deerly æsteemd associat, I have more then once already, done all that yow desire me to doe heer, coram, Yet at yowr desire, I shall doe the same againe, and take this adyce very well from yowr hands: but withall request yow, to hold him to it yowr self, since both yow & hee may know, that if I had had my desire, he had gone about it befor any of these things, that have since taken him off, as being a thing in my iudgement, of neerer concernment to the Kingdom of Christe, as the tyms stood, & of greater danger, then any other thing he ingaged to, if delayd. And since this paper is nothing ells, but such a brief abstract, as any sharpesighted man, that had red over ad legem et Testimonium, & wer of its authors mynd, might easily fall upon, & that ad legem et testimonium did so farre symboliz with the [Quærees?], it was my desire befor, & is now, that vnâ et eâdem operâ all three might be crushed together, one answer being able enowgh to serve all (for the matter) thowgh for a neat, formall, & home applicatione, they must be somewhat diversified. Therfor, if my earnest desire, & sollicitatione ether to yow, or him, or both, may doe any thing for furthering so good a work, he shall not be wanting to his power, Who is, Sir,
Yowrs & his particularly
oblieged brother
William Hamilton
All sowles Midday
4. of december 1648.
Remember me kyndly to Mr [Wumesick?], yowr wife, & the rest of yowr familie: & particularly to Mr Webbe, the first tyme yee see him, & tell him, that godwilling he shall heare from me againe, or it be long, in a letter to him self. Remember my humblest & best respects to my Lady Reynola, when yow see hir, & hir brother Mr Boyll.
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To his much honored and deare
freind Mr Hartlib in dukes
place for against the trees in
the open Cowrt
These
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