A letter from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig. Dated 23 February, 1659.

A letter from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig. Dated 23 February, 1659.

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A LETTER from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig.

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A LETTER from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig.

Sir Henry to Sir Arthur sends greeting.

IF you are diseased in your minde (as thanks to the Devil I am at the writing hereof) I am very glad. These are to give you notice, that I am safely arrived at my House of Bellew, (praised be the Rump) my Daughter is something distempered with such a tedious journey, but more afflicted at the breaking off the match with young Lambert. You would do me a great favour therefore in sending down Dr. Chamberlain, or if he cannot be spared from his Synagogue, to pleasure me with the assistance of Dr. Dun; he's a Man-midwife, and will serve the turn.

But now, good Sir, give me leave to tell you, that I take your la [...]e doings against me very unkindly. Come! had not you better [Page] have been under the mis-rule of a Committee of Safety, that courted your compliance with all the respect imaginable, and had designed you for a Titulado upon that account? You may remember how secure you were during the Tyrannous Arbitrary Reigne of Oliver, and how cautiously he demeaned himself towards you, and that not out of dread of your honesty (for he knew you and I were as arrant Rogues as himself) but because he was sensible the least Division or difference amongst Rebels would be the Ruine of him and his Design: And as the Devil will have it, it hath through your haire-brain'd impudence, just so fallen out.

Neverthelesse, I hope I may, on have occasion to thank you too, for your intended injury to me; for if I were not fit company for you and your Knavish Gang, then I am fit for honester company, and I may return to the discharge of my Trust (with the same minde and willingnesse as Richard Cromwell doth his Fathers Funeral Debt) [Page] upon the Accounts of a Secluded Member: And I know no reason why I may not be re-admitted, for I have deserved well of this Parliament; for had not my extravagant Counsel [...] introduced and quickened these Commotions, they had been out of Doors as well as my self.

I give you warning therefore that I am coming to Towne, and I will sit there in spight of your teeth, and promote a Vote to send you farther than Raby, even to Jamaica; and I believe you will returne me my thanks again, for on my seared conscience you know not whither to run, or where to hide your impudent head.

But what think you Sir of a Volunteer for Dunkirk? get you with a Horse-pox to Portsmouth, and take shipping there, if you can tell how to be let in; do but see, Sir Arthur, with halfe an eye, the Transitory Pomp of this wicked world, I dare warrant you, they would turn Taile to you, and tell you that you are a Rumper, and highly entertain and caresse your Worship with [Page] Turnip tops; and send you going with Troops of Curses to another gheffe Holl than Westminsters.

But yet I have so much respect for you, in my personal reflections upon your Merit, that I could wish your. Portsmouth-acquired Authority had stood: for then I could have opposed my single Head-piece against all the Plots, and the most cunning Devices, the best Wits among you could have contrived against me; now I know not how to deal with these Gamesters, that have stood by so long, and I am afraid have seen so much more than we, that we must mend our sight by the Spectacles of a Grate, and wish we had had eyes in our Arse.

Well Sir Arthur, we must be fellows in Miserie, as well as we have been in Mischief; put in Lambert— and three merry Boyes are we, though questionlesse there are more of us in the same pickle; but we three are not onely dip't, but soused over head and ears in it. Pray remember my best Respects to my Lord Whitlock: You may, [Page] if you please, acquaint Alderman Tichborne, Ireton, and Praise-God Barebone with this. I think Fleetwood and Disbrow not worth remembring, but do what you thinke fit. Pray excuse the trouble I have put you to by the Prolixitie of this; for I could not chuse but open my selfe to You, as the Earth did for Abiram. If these Lines be not strong enough, let all the Hempe in London make one for you. Fare ye well.

Your unlucky Complice, HENRY VANE.

Bellew this 23 of February, 1659.

FINIS.

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A LETTER FROM Sir Henry Vane TO Sir ARTHƲR HASILRIG. Dated 23 February, 1659.

LONDON: Printed for John Frost, 1659.

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Title statement

A letter from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig. Dated 23 February, 1659.

Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.

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1660

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A96019

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Wing V71

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Thomason E1016_8

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99867227

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99867227

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168786

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— A letter from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig. Dated 23 February, 1659., Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662., Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661..

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[2], 5, [1] p.

printed for John Frost,. London :: 1659 [i.e. 1660]. (Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb. 27.".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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