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 1920 SIB MAURICE EUSTACE 257 you cannot reason him to what may bee for his good, let him stay behinde. and pretend sicknesse &c but for my part I shall never wooe for him againe. I am sorry I have gone soe farr. As for you I hope you will bee wiser for you will by matching this way have as stronge alliance (which is the Idoll your brother seemes to dote vpon) as any in Ireland, and a comly wife not sett forth with blacke patches and other fooleries, but adorned with modesty and comely behaviour, and for the other which he doth sleight before he sees her, which shewes his folly, for 4 or 5 yeares may make a great alteration as it hath done in her, I protest that if I had youthe and might marry her I would as soone marry her as any in Ireland. But let him goe the wild goose chase. I cannot helpe it for I will never fource affecion but I wish that all my friends who are to marry may marry wisely and not vainely or fondly. I am sm'e that I and his friends will never finde the like content by any marriage that he shall make as wee should doe by this, sed fiat voluntas dei, I have received his Mamies Letter which you call a Letter for Eeprizalls about a fortnight since, wherof I hope to make some use. S'" Allen and my selfe are agreed by my Lord Barckleys order soe as I have now noe competitor and to noe more then this whether his highnesse will confirme his Ma^'es Graunt to me paying 201' yearely to his Highnesse, and the Quit Kents to his Ma^ie whereas I was to pay but 20li to his Ma^ie but noe Quitt Rents but twenty pounds onely. Delever 20li of this bill of Exchange to your brother and make what hast you can. I am your very affectionate Vnckle Maw Eustace Cane, 3 Nov. 1662 Take shipping at HoUyhead &c. Bee carefuU to see what my Lord Ranelagh desires done, read his letter then scale and deliver it. If reason prevaile not with your brother let him stay where he is and pretend sicknesse & that his phisitions are against his travelling or coming to sea in wynter, but if that he bee his owne friend he will come &c. For my nephew S'" Mawrice Eustace Knight Studient at Lincolnes Inn. Mawrice Eustace Can. VIII Del. Muniment Book, lib. i, p. 375. 8 November 1662 Sir Maurice Eustace to an Unknown Correspondent Sir I am upon making a plantation in a large territorie or tract of land called Baltinglas distant from Dublin three or foure & twenty miles the town from whence this hath its nomination is called Baltinglas sufficiently replenished with wood for firing & water there being a river which runs through the land & abundance of springs rising out of it I propose to build a free schoole in this towne with a house for the Mo^ & a Parish church & to settle lOO^i by the yeare in present upon an able minister to officiate there for I have purchased of Baltinglass being an impropriation & was worth before the rebellion which broke out here in 1641 360ii by the yeare communibus annis & I doubt not will come here to the value & more & am resolved to make this presentation so as to which shall be settled there shall have it to him & his successors in liberam et perpetuam eleemo- synam but yet charged with 40 poundes yearely for & towards the main- tenance of a schoole M"* to be there to breed the youth of the parish I men- tion this for no other end but to engage you to incom-age some tradesmen VOL. XXXV. — NO. CXXXVIII. S