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Unnecessary trouble, but to request one favour more of you, to send me, when you send next to Mr Bullivant, 2 payre of ordinary breches Strings. Pray present my love and service to all friends, I remain

Sir Your devoted friend and humble Servant

HENRY CARPENTER fEndorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards

Merchant in Cassumbazar

LETTER XCII.

Edmund Bugden to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3756.)

Hugly 28th February 1672/3 Mr Richard Edwards Respected freind

Yours of the 18th currant received the 21th ditto and am glad all the things of yours are safe arrived that I sent, and now shall send you with Mr Vincents things your 5 peeces of Tinn [5 ps. weighing 3 md. 29s** Mr Peacock cut of 2 s.f] I thanke you heartily for the strings you provided for mee. As yet no Japan shipps arrived, so 1;hat I cannot yet lay out your money I have received. I must desire you to get two pr. of Plush covers for Slippers I now send you fitted to two paire of Slippers, according to the forme of an old Slipper now send you, slippers, to be made for mee, and send mee by first opportunity, in which youle very much oblige mee. Not elce at present. With mine, and Wifes kinde respects to you, 1 remain
 * and desire by it to order 3 or 4 paire plaine

Your assured friend and Servant

EDMD. BUGDEN

Letter accompanying this I received sent [?] Daies since from Ballasore. fEndorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards

Merchant In Cassambazar

LETTER XCIII.

Thomas Pace to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3757.)

Ballasore February [1672/3] Mr Richard Edwards and Loving friend

Yours I received advising the proce dure of a bale of SugarJ and Barly of the Quantities and prices of which together wit]

man weighed about 70 Ib. at this period ; th ser was a fortieth part of the man.
 * 3 man (maund) 29 ser (seer). The Hug!

f The passage within brackets is given as anarginal note in the original.

J " Sugar" here probably means sugar-cane.

our Care in Sending them downe on Wm. ,ux,* you have abundantly obliged me, for ^hich I have only to repeat my .thankf ullness o you, which by it Emptily reiterating is low become as thred bare As your obligations ire big and Swelling by their often Additions. .,et this be my Excuse that I write no more, aecause I would willingly send something, or the Cossid would be gone should I Add more than that I am

Yours truly to Serve you

THO: PACE Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards

Merchant in Cassambazar

R. C. TEMPLE. (To be continued.)

EPITAPHIANA.

LADY NORTON'S EPITAPH. An interesting ascription celebrating this lady appears on a brass in the floor of the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Newington-next-Sittmg- journe : The Lady Norton once she was, whose corpes is

couched here, ,,

John Cobhams late and lovmge wyf ol

County & Kent Esquier ; Who in her lyfe did well deserve to hare a tutu

fame, For that she was unto the poore, a goo

gratius Dame. ,,.

With Charite and Modesty and all the gyft<

Accquanted so she was to good to tarry in this place.

She died ye 9 dale of Septem r 1580. A mural monument in the chancel is erected to John Cobham, otherwise Brooke, 3rd son of George, Lord Cobham. Lady Norton, formerly Anne Cobb, was widow Sir John Norton, and married John Cobham as her second husband. He died Sept. 25, 1595, and is interred near his wife.

PERCY F. HOGG, Lieut. R.Cx.A. Chatham.

EPITAPH TO A SLAVE. It is not often one comes across an epitaph to a slave, but here is one I found in Windermere Churchyard, Westmorland :

In memory of Basselas Bclfleld, a Native of Abyssinia, who departed this life on the

Day of January, 1822, Aged 32 years. A slave' by birth, I left my native land, And found my Freedom on Britannia s Strand. Blest Isle ! Thou glory of the Wise and I Thy Touch alone unbinds the Chains of Slavery. J. W. FAWCETT.

the Hugll river.
 * William Lux, one of the Company's pilots in