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Rh look't upon them agen. And truly my Lo: I will not deny but that now, by reading them agen, and by the com&#772;ent of yor last Lr&#771;es, I was a little mistaken in yor meaning. And that wch made me mistake are these words in yor L&#771;e: that halfe ye money for the purchase might be raysed by ye lease of Ribchester; or that, if the tenants will not so give, you will borrow, or sell land, to make up 7 or 800li very shortly; wch I did not imagine you should doe for anie other purchase then yor owne. But howsoever, God be thanked, there's noe harme done, nor should there have been if ye title had prooved cleere and we p'ceeded. For whatsoever shift I had made you should noe way have beene damnify'd by itt. My Lo: I thanke you for ye conclusion of yor Lr&#771;e; and I pray you to thinke that I was not unmindfull of my Duty in that p'ticular wch you mention. For I mooved his Matie about itt a weeke or tenn dayes before his goeing; and you know that it is His Authority that must p'clame a Fast, not myne. And his Maties answer was openly in Councill that Hee would not have a Fast; because that in ye greatest extremity that could come, more could not be done. But a Solemne Prayer he would have in all churches throughout ye kingdom, and att all tymes of Publick Prayer therein. And this is done, & if ye Prayer be not come to yor Lp ye King's printer who was commanded, & did undertake, to send them is much to blame. I thanke yor Lp for yor Advertisemt in yor former Letter concerning ye intendment to make Case fellow of Manchester by a mandate, wch you may bee sure I'll p'vent to ye utmost of my power, and doubt not my power in that, so I may have knowledge of itt. As for Boreman, he stays here about a Colledge sute. And if he helpe to second ye Warden's wayes he's a rank dissembler; but I will speak wth him agen more p'ticularly upon ye occasion of what you have written; and then I shall say more to you, and to him too. In ye meane tyme to God's blessed p'tection I leave yor Lp and rest yor Lps very Loving friend and Brother,


 * Lambeth Aprill 7th, 1639.

L. B. Chester." By the following letter, written at midsummer of the same