ray remember my service to Mr. Hobbs by the same
token that Sydney Godolphin hath left to him by his
Will, a legacy of L200, and desire him for old
aquaintance sake, and for your intercession, to bestow
one of his books upon me, which I have never seen since
it was printed, and therefore know not how much it is
the same, which I had the favour to read in English. I
thank you for your wishing your self here. I am sure I
would purchase you at any price I could pay or promise,
if it were as fit for the prince, as it would be for me.
In the mean time I pray God he thinks your company as
good as they know it to be who cannot get it. But will
the good Bishop of Salisbury never come to relieve you?
What does he? Where is he? What do you answer to the
other thousand questions I have asked you?

"God send you a good New Year that may yield you a
decent plenty, till it may give you an honest peace, and
me meat enough against hunger, and cloathes enough
against cold.

"And then if the Stationers do not sue out a commission
of Bankruptcy against me for their arrears for paper and
ink, I shall not fear any other creditors, nor the
exception in the first where I will not give my place
for the best amongst the compounders, nor the worst
(that is the greatest) amongst the committee: less the
title of being.

Sir, yours, etc."
"Jersey, the 1st of January."
A Copy of Mr. Edgeman, 1646-1649.

SIR EDWARD HYDE TO DR. JOHN EARLES.

"Well, admit you do spend three hours every day, that
you may spend one with the prince, allow two hours to
your dinner, and two hours in the projecting where to
get one, you have still a fair time to yourself, and one
half hour in a week, without question, to tell me that
you are alive, and that in this dismal time of mutation,
you are so far from change, that you continue even the
same to me.

"I am not willing to tell you, that though you owe me no
letters, you have three or four of mine unanswered, but
I must tell you the last packet from Paris brought me
none from you though I found by some I received, that
mine thither had not miscarried; so you were not without
provocation.

"Indeed you are to blame to trust me so much with myself
in this terrible conflict; with which most men are