Remarks upon Remarques OR A VINDICATION OF THE CONVERSATIONS OF THE TOWN In another LETTER directed to the same Sir T. L. Quare fremuerunt Gentes LONDON Printed by A.C. for William Hensman at the Kings Head in Westminster Hall 1673. To the most vertuos Lady Madam R. C. Who requested this Vindication MADAM I Need not vindicate the Town to you You being here that Office better do The Vertues you possess and All Adore Expiate for the Vice of Town and more I 'd set your Picture on my Book but then It would fore stall the Market of my Pen And none would read or some perhaps would swear Town needs no vindication while she 's there But since some know you not and some forget I le let them know I 've done the Task you set To the Well-bred GENTLEMEN of the TOWN GENTLEMEN I Lately met with a Linsey-woolsey Letter as like what the Common-Lawyers call a Libel as ever it could look I read it over and found a discontented somebody who seems to know nothing of the Town but what is not worth knowing labouring to Travest London into extream deformities by laying the blemishes of some rude Acquaintance of his upon the whole Town like the Country-man who having found some Tares in his Dish swore there was no Wheat in his Frumity Then to shew himself a VVriter to humour some prejudiced Party or for some other ends with open-mouth proclaims to the World that our Age our Nation and its great Metropolis are wholly for his Notions are general degenerate vitious and debauched I thought it a bold Enterprise and pregnant with dangerous Consequences As first It discourages and disswades all Country Gentlemen from educating their Sons in the ways of Arts Arms and Trade It prophanes the most Learned and Glorious City in the Christian World And which is worst of all by defaming that it impeaches the Government thereof and offers violence to the Conduct of our Governours who have always thought fit to make this renowned City the Center of distributive Justice and the seat of the Imperial Diadem On this last score I confess it seemed to my sense to smell hot of a Design against which I have alway had a just indignation and that is by oblique means to possess the heads of the Ignorant unstable Populace with a contempt of Magistracy and personal defects of Governours such Arts have been Comets portending future Evils fore-runners of Rebellion It was well said by the Lord Digby in Parliament in 1640. It is easie to make People believe what they are willing to believe though the Arguments are little inducing that are used to engage that belief As when the Petition in that Year was drawn up and presented to the Commons against Bishops the inconveniences therein supposed were most personal the other ridiculous As because Ovids De Arte Amandi was Translated into English c. Gentlemen though I was moved to what I have done by Arguments of another Nature yet these considerations prompted me to comply with the other desires And since I have done this I send it to you as an Essay only who being equally concerned with me in the Cause will I hope supply on occasion what is omitted and correct what is amiss which will oblige Gentlemen Your affectionate Friend and Townsman To the READER I Intend no reflections on any Country Gentlemen but those of meer Country built void of Education I intend no vindication but of the Sober and Vertuous in the Town SIR I Lately saw a Letter said to be written to you grown into a Book and called Remarques on the Humours and Conversations of the Town I liked the Name and expected much from it But when I found that its business was to perswade you to a meer Country life and to disswade you wholy from London I wondred what a Gods name was in the mans mind and when further I saw his Arguments perswasive to be only some minute Considerations of Country Pastimes and Fools-Bables and the diswasive Arguments some rudenesses and extravagancies in London I wondred more especially while he wishes you to Arrive at the glory of your Ancestors to stick fresh Lawrels in their Garlands to become a Hero and disâ—wades you from the Regular Method of accomplishing the design Sir since he took upon him to be a Tutor to you and advise you to become a Hero he should have let you know the ways to be such to have read you Lectures thereupon to have insinuated the advantages of vertuous Courses the inconveniences of the ills which his long Experience has prompted him to remarque upon to have informed you that in the University of Education London there are of both sorts of the better sort the better part and against the worser to have framed his Cautions to avoid intimacy converse and indeed acquaintance with them But in stead thereof he point-blank tells you you must not go to London And why so Truly Sir he uses you like a child and would scare you from London with the Buggers of the Country and by Country Logick there are naughty People in London therefore you must not come there There is in London Bridewel Newgate Bethlehem Ergo all the People in London are Whores Thieves or Mad. Sir Since the man was furnished with anger enough and some words why did he not take his rise at the Universities to argue you into a Hero And instancing in Cambridge for example he might have held forth and said O dear Sir Remember the Glories that attend the Ghosts of your renowned Ancestors the Excellencies of an Indulgent Mother exceeding the Presidents of any Age who desires you should arrive at heroick atchievements to serve your King and Country and become a Hero Do not go to Cambridgé Sir there are Alehouses in which you will be drunk and there are in those houses notable prinking Wenches that will captivate you into Marriage or somewhat like it There are Tennis-Courts and Bowling-Greens that will heat you to an excess and then you will drink cold small Beer and die There is a River too in which you will be drowned and you will study your self into a Consumption or break your Brain and will you go to such a place Next Sir for London do not go thither and then tell the Book c. And as for Travel Sir never think on 't for there is a great Sea to go over there is in it a great beastly Fish called a Whale which they say turn over Ships and drown the Folks therein there are also Rocks and Shelves and Sands which will Shipwrack you and remember Sir a great Hurricane got away the Lord Willoughby And lastly as to this point there are strange People beyond Seas not only the hateful French whom we over-ape but Black People who look like Devils and will fright you out of your Wits and Wild People too who will tear you in pieces limb from limb and another sort of People called Cannibals
Goods 5000 l. in toto 10000 l. she being afrighted at the Disease which had taken away her Husband removed into Country for a time and happened into this Mr. Richman's Town and growing acquainted with this Family by discourse was discovered that her late Husbands Mother was of the Family of the Scrapes and so a kind of affinity was started between her and them and improved so far as she was desired to reside during her stay in the Country at that House where she had not long been ere the Widow imparted the value of her Estate which took presently with the old Woman who could not rest till she had engaged a Treaty between her and her Son Ezekiel for a Marriage and though the Widow had nothing to commend her to his acceptance but her wealth yet that Argument improved by an indulgent Mothers descants prevailed for a Match which was soon dispatched and the joy that the hopes of this round sum of mony brought occasioned open House-keeping for a moneth and publick Entertainment for all comers which cost at least 1000 l. soon after which Jollities ended the Bride and Bridegroom went to London with purpose to remove the Treasure into the Country but when they came there consulting some wiser than the former Apprisers it was found that the Jewels Plate and other Goods were indeed of the value of 5000 l. but they were pawned but for 1500 l. and the sums mentioned in the Bonds were indeed of the value but by the conditions of those Bonds it appeared that the Bonds were given only for further security for the same Moneys lent on the Goods so she was worth in truth but 1500 l. whereof 1000 l. was spent on the Weddingsolemnities This angered good Ezekiel to the heart and his old Mother too who cursed London Widows and advised the younger Sons to stay in the Country still lest they also should be cheated not considering this Trick was in the Country and lay at their own door through want of Wit and Consideration which the Wit of the Town would have obviated The new married man wanting the Whetstones of his Love Beauty and Money neglected his Wife even to hatred returned to the ways his Brother George had taught him and followed that course till he and his Brothers had almost emptied the Country of Maids His Wife not being in his debt received as good Visits as he made and between them both the Government of the House seemed dissolved a mixt concourse of Visitants constantly filling the Beds emptying the Bottles for they were used also to drive away discontent the Buttery and Treasury so that the name of Rich-man began to seem improper for person and place The younger Sons following the way of their Education notwithstanding grave Supervisors advice became so clear-sighted as to see to the furthest end of their Portions without the help of a Teloscope the Annuities being deeply dipped to Mr. Getmore one of the Supervisors by the procurement of his Partner the trusty Parson on whom and at whose House much of the money was spent and the Portions of money in like manner was three parts spent Whereupon they considered that they were of good extraction having pure and uncommon bloud leaping in their veins that they had been educated in the way of Country Hero's that universal expectation claimed from them things generous and heroick and how to carry on noble Enterprises and to arrive at great and honourable ends with a remnant of Estate in the Desarts of the World for so they now call the Country by the trifling vanities of sports so now they called the Country divertisements must be thought on and without much ado labour or study it was concluded and so soon as one would think it was dictate of Nature to London they must go and try their fortunes and to London they went and not having fortune enough or good enough to purchase the friendship of Court nor Learning enough to join with the Societies of Learning nor money enough left to fall into Commerce nor courage enough to take up Arms they furnish themselves with Peruches and Pantaloons and find out the Wastcoateers formerly sent from the Country for the better shaping of their Bodies who had improved themselves by this time into the exactness of some eminent Vices especially of that which they brought from the Mannor of Richman and now were become able to instruct their Country Gallants and to bring them acquainted with others such as your grave Adviser Sir has by long experience known and has elaborately told you of and so we leave them together and there is an end of the Story Sir As soon as this Story was told me I was thinking that if it were duly considered in all its branches and well weighed it would be an answer to your Advisers Letter without more ado but it coming but now to my hands I here insert it Sir As for a Story where the Sons of Country Gentlemen have by good and proper Education become true Hero's Patriots of their Country and possessing eminent ranks of Authority and Dignity I take it needless referring you to Beloved History either in City or Country from which may be collected Volumes of such Hero's exceeding Fox's Book of Martyrs and truer too And though the obliquities of the late Times have discouraged Learning to a great degree and laid shackles on Gentlemens Parts and Estates yet since our Soveraigns return it 's obvious that greater improvements have been made by the Scyons of Nobility and Gentry in all Arts in 12 Years than in an hundred before But Sir to the Letter again and let us see more of the Town faults and a great one rises next and that is a Language divers from the times of our Ancestors is in London used Language said he Marry till now I took London to speak the best Language of all England and England to speak the best Language except the universal one but I am told otherwise now this Age this Nation is corrupt in its Language A bold charge is it on the wisest Age and wisest Nation and where is the fault in using French words vile French even vile French words unworthy of the manly Language of English to use French words Sure this Man Sir has been stung with a Bee and now loves no Honey He has perhaps suffered under some distemper called French and so will starve rather than eat Fricacie or Ragoo But a serious word Sir Our Language of England is that of those Germans called Saxons who possessed themselves thereof next preceding the Normans and that Language was mostly Monosyllables of which Radixes have since been made Compounds and though it has been thought that from such various Roots might arise Compound-words answerable and so no need of what is Foreign yet in that Age and that People Knowledge was stinted and few words would express few things and so no need was there of enlarging the Lingua or opportunity for
making of a Hero In this sad and doleful posture he laments the state of this present Age in comparison with former Ages and cries out with the Poet Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit Nos nequiores mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem Hor. And every Age may say the same and perhaps truly yet while the Vices of Ages are not recorded and so are unknown to after-times and present Ages have personal view of themselves they judge the present always worst and out of well wishes for amendment it has been wisely designed to commend the former and rebuke the present Age and the same aetas parentum c. will be perhaps used by our Children though we have seen the horrid'st Times that have been since our Saviours It is true the present time in which we now live doth differ from the Times on this side Hen. 8. and yet can compare with all before The reason of the difference may in some sort be that after the Crown of England justified it self Imperial and the affair of Church Government Independent of either the Eastern or Western Patriarchs our Islands dividing from all claims of Foreign Jurisdiction and differing in some points of Religion became estranged from Confederacies with other Nations and so had not the opportunities of training up our Youth in Martial Activities abating what little formal Artillery was in the Netherlands which brought our Nation into some effeminacy and occasioned the losing of much of those magnanimous Improvements which used always to be welcome to English minds And this continued till the late Civil War which most influenced the conquering Rebells made up of Mechanicks of the lowest Ranks and Plebeians The ancient Gentry under Sequestration and Plunder the glory of their loyalty contenting themselves to suffer for that Cause which they could not retrive And now lately opportunities have been ministred for our Soveraign to join with the most Christian King in order to the redeeming of the of the ancient Gallantry which used to attend the Subjects of Monarchy and hath been a long time fettered and almost stifled yet may now Exert it self in the rebukes of the Treacheries of an unsaithful Anarchy And a Liberty like that of our Neighbours being for the present assumed to uncage the mighty English souls and to give them Elbow-room in order to the great popular designs now abroad in the World it may be true that some looseness perhaps may mix with that Liberty and steal insensibly on some of the narrowest and less wary Designers of popular Enterprizers Yet this if so hinders not but the present Age all circumstances considered is in fairer way for improvement in all sorts of honourable Science and heroick purposes than any Age before us some instances whereof may perhaps occurr in our particular notice of the Remarques Sir Methinks your Adviser was somewhat out while he Courts you sometimes with mighty Encomiums and acknowledges you to understand as much of true sense and good breeding as most yet he insinuates the sweet and prudent conduct of your Mother to overcome unpleasant obsequiousness and the love of childish Liberties as arguments to you not to leave the Country life So that notwithstanding what he says well of you sometimes at other times he says as ill or at least would have the World believe worse of you telling what mean Opinion your Mother has of you who would still have you under her Regiment fearing yea perplexed that you will be debauched with the Vices of the Town which is as much as to say Sir you understand as much as any one but yet it is fit your Mother should govern you still for you have not understanding enough to protect you from vicious practises Sir you are beholding to him pray thank him for nothing He and your Mother have consulted well together they are both willing you should pursue noble Enterprizes especially those of serving King and Country but it must not be at London no nor must you go thither to see if you have a King to serve nor to learn how to serve him or your Country These great Undertakings are to be accomplished under the Conduct and Regiment of your Mother and to be taught you by inspiration and so upstart Mushrom Hero in one Moon-light night in the Country But Sir we had best have a care we mistake not honest Country meaning the Man says A life partly of Conversation and partly of leisure and retiredness is most suitable to the affairs and interests of men and well is it said too i. e. Reading Meditation and Converse conduce much to make you a Hero and to serve King and Country Well said in good sooth have at Arts and Arms now Ah but its Country Arts and Country Arms he means Pish then 't is no more but this you are to send to London I say send for come not you here on pain and peril that will fall thereon therefore once again send for the Statute Book and the two famous Books of Daltons and Shepherds Justice of Peace Office especially that of Dalton for there you will have all presidents of Warrants Mittimus's and the whole Artillery of a learned Justice there you will be furnished with so much skill as will make you be counted a Hero Judge to punish Offenders against the Crown and Dignity of our Soveraign Lord the King against the dignity of your Office and Heroship who shall wickedly neglect to say Worshipful at every word and to do what you command right or wrong by which means abating the Regiment and Conduct of your more learned Mother you shall be absolute Commander of all men and things that fall under the swing of the learned part of you You will also strike such awe into the minds of Tenants Neighbours and Dependants that they shall admire to hear you over a Boull of Nogg to tell News like a little News-monger to arraign trie judge and condemn the Consultations Actions and Designs of King Council Parliament and Ministers of State and by the help of your Advisers Letter to quarrel at all things you are to be ignorant of and make them wring their hands and wonder you are not made a Privy Counsellor they not dreaming your Mother and her Secretary will not let you go to London And to conclude this Discourse of Arts for we are to suppose all Arts to be in a Country Justice be sure you get a good and well-grounded Clerk for that makes the Justice and Justice the Hero Next Sir you are to serve your King and Country in way of Arms which is the latter part of your Hero-ship In order to that you are in Country leisure and retiredness to read that excellent and profound Piece called The Soldiers Grammar which Book in short time with your Mothers Annotations will make you as to Arms fit to be in your Advisers opinion a Deputy-Lieutenant then you are to buy a great red Scarff with great gold Fringe get
your Clerk to put it on on the side contrary to your Sword that it may not hide the gilt Handle summons your Company to appear before you on some convenient place on your Mannor bid them stand to their Tackling Face to the right and then to the left which is right against the Ale-house newly licensed by you to advance your rent give them a Barrel of Bear at a penny the Quart receive their thanks by a Volley of shot and go home like a mighty Hero returned from the Conquest of Granada or the Siege of Rhodes All this I fansie Sir your Adviser reserved for another Letter after he had frighted you from London with the Snap-Dragons there and which Crowns all the Converse in the Country with other such like Hero's skilled in Arts and Arms as aforesaid will exceedingly improve your reading and rivet these redoubted accomplishments in your mind and memory whereas in London silly rude villanous London there are no men fit to converse with only some few who are retired live to their own Consciences and are not good Companions And this you may easily believe Sir if you believe what he says next viz. That Philosophy is out of credit in this Age and if he should say otherwise he fears you would despise him for a Pedant Now whether he fears you in that really I know not but to gratifie his fear let him fear me who for so saying do despise him as such for he now speaks like one that brute has the gretest share of and bewrays that ignorance that meer Country Tuscan is condemned to How Philosophy out of credit what That Philosophy which as Seneca says found not Plato Noble but made him so now out of credit That Philosophy out of Credit which made the Great Emperour Aurelius declare That though he had no Reward among the Gods nor honour among men yet he was right glad to be a Philosopher for the love of it self Strange news And where out of Credit In London be sure ah and every where else in the whole Age then Country it seems has no Philosophy neither Well rhym'd Tutor God-a-mercy good Hero-maker He perswades you Sir Philosophy is out of credit no need of that and so you are to be a Hero without it Sir I must tell you if you had so little Wit as to believe this you would never have Wit enough to be a Hero But being otherwise perswaded of you I shall endeavour to undeceive you and inform you and your ignorant Adviser too that the two Notions of Philosophy and Languages comprise all humane Learnng As to the last never were those attainments arrived at as are at this present the Glory of this Age this Nation this great City As for the Western Languages especially the French they are so familiar to us that it's cause of Quarrel to your Man of Language that they get place in our discourses As to the Eastern Languages I shall need to instance in no more than the Polyglot Bible with the Lexicons thereto a performance exceeding all Times to the everlasting honour of those worthy persons whose names add Ornament to the Work and are mentioned before it and in special to that incomparable Linguist who was the first in the Enterprize and has survived the rest the Reverend Dr. CASTLE now Arabick Professor in Cambridge in whom the Age is highly credited by his indefatigable Labours and more highly discredited in that that in slight to his Person and his Pains in discouragement to future learned Attempts no recompence has reached him bearing any proportion with his merit no not with his charge in that single invaluable Atchievement Now Sir As to Philosophy I fear the Man understands neither Name nor Thing Good man he never learned perhaps further than Barbara Celarent and so thought all Philosophy conteined in Seton and because Raudolph calls him unmannerly Jack Seton and Greasie Jack Seton he like a wise Philosopher concludes that Philosophy is out of credit 'T is true Sir The meer notional and disputing part of Philosophy the Mumpsimus of the old Stagerite and his Dogmata are no more in credit then as they contribute to practical knowledge and true Science leading inquiries into the most inward recesses of Learning and thereby enlarging the soul of man answerable to the design of such an immortal being which is the aim and honour of this present Age having found the extream inconveniences which have bewitched the latter Ages disturbed the peace of Church and State and prevented improvements in sound Learning even that disputandi pruritus idolized by men whose only accomplishments were to be acute Disputants dextrous Wranglers and such Philosophy as that and such Philosophers as they I confess are quite out of credit But Sir Had your Adviser spent some of his long Experience at Arundel house Gresham-Colledge or any other of the many Societies of Learning now in London he would not have put off Philosophy with an Out of Credit falsity Nay had he but seen a Book-sellers shop once a Term he might have seen the Catalogue of Books products of the great and insuperable industry and prodigious improvements of the Philosophers that are in Town he might then have learned to tell you of better business for Country divertisements then riding after a Deer that is the improvements of Woods and Orchards of cultivating impregnating and improving of Lands by tillage and planting with a multitude more of inventions and branches of Philosophy found out and enlarged by the Philosophers here in their several ways and Societies who in truth are the most real and generous Benefactors to the Learned World that any Times have produced and they are persons though of honour and renown yet of such free sociable and communicative constitutions as dispose them to distribute that knowledge with unlimited freedom which they acquired with unwearied pains And further Sir though your Friend willingly lays aside the considerations of Religion whether out of ignorance or what else I know not yet I can assure you that our Philosophers here do exceedingly contribute to the better part of Man with reference to the future state And Sir were you at London and would not be frighted from Church with fear of a Pick-pocket you might hear Philosophy from the Pulpit and constant preaching not bettered by any dayes on this side the Apostles And we here have leisure and retiredness enough to read abundance of excellent Philosophy in the sacred Pages though Solomons great Body of Natural Philosophy of Vegetables from the Cedar to the Hysop is not yet come to light Thus far Sir is Philosophy out of credit thus far is your Tutor upon his own challenge to be despised as a Pedant Next Sir He advances to a Home-spun Argument for a Country life and that is you shall have opportunities of reading History Alas poor London hast thou lost all thy History Hue and Cry pray after History Country Hero has robbed London of
in fair to make as many Rogues as he did Whores These Daughters of this mighty Family being thus by the aid of great Portions provided for the good old Gentleman prides himself in the Companies of his goodly number of Sons fancying every one to be a seventh a Conjurer a Fortune-teller Magician Cunning-man or at least no Fool. He kept a House like the Old Courtier of the Queens or the Queens old Courtier He had all his sons set about his Table with their Hats on their heads as they did at all times in Fathers presence though two of them were under 20. years of Age. These Sons could scarce read or write their names well And that hapned thus when the eldest was very young and intended for School a Puritan came to the good old Father and told him of a pious Book called the Confessions of good Austin which he had often read and found that one of the first great offences that Holy man repented of after his Conversion was robbing of an Orchard which he was enticed to by the wicked solicitations of his Fellow-Scholars at a Grammar School therefore worthy Sir quoth he send not your Son to School for he will learn to rob Orchards and then be forced to do Penance in old Age and that before the uncircumcised Formalist of his Parish according to the Idolatrous Rubrick At which discourse there hapned to be present a Paedagogue who took up the Cudgels in defence of School-Education using many Arguments to that purpose and for answer to the Orchard business told of one of great Natural Wit who bewailed his not going to a Free-School for many reasons in particular for that he missed the opportunities of Robbing Orchards whereby he might have learned the Arts of Scaling of Walls besieging of Towns Approaches Retreats c. at which the old Gentleman stopped him saying Hold Sir I like not you nor your Man of Natural Wit neither who seems to me to be a man void of Grace especially in comparison of this Godly man whose directions I will follow who hath informed me from the same Austin that Grace is enough without the prophane Learning of the Heathens And from that time he resolved against Learning and provided for his Sons according to the Country Education a Huntsman with a Kennel of Blood-Hounds Fox-hounds Beagles and Tarriers A Falkoner with Sparrow-hawks Lanners Tassels and Goss-hawks A Warrener with Tumblers and Lurkers besides other implements of his Art Another Servant who attended the Grey-hounds and Setting-Dogs an Archer for the Long-Bow Cross-Bow and had the skill of Gun and Stalking-Horse too and all his Materials and Instrnments of Game were kept always at hand A Fisherman used his time well about the Ponds Dams and Meers in furnishing the Table with most sorts of Fresh-water Fish and made it pleasant in the taking them with Angles Trolls Snares Nets and other Engines There was also a Billiard-Table Shovel-board Chess-board Cards Dice Nine-Pins and they that would might also play at Nine holes or Span Counter There was designed a Tennis Court to be built but one like your Adviser Sir came and told that it was used at London and that naughty people used to come thither and to go from thence to naughty places which spoiled the project So strange a thing is a prejudic'd mind as if a Tennis Court were not less noxious then Cards and Dice yet such is the foolish admiration of persons That Errors are espoused for the Authors sake and some such weighty reason pulled down the Tennis Court at New-market But to our business again Sir i. e. to the Story of the seven Sons who you see were provided for to make Country Hero's far beyond what your Adviser has mentioned to you Sir These young Gentlemen every day made use of some of these divertisements and doubtless became good proficients therein only George one of the youngest often staid at home pretending to break his Fast with Curds and Cream Fresh Butter and New brown Bread Butter-milk or Whey and doing often so the eldest Brother Ezekiel fansied the Dairy afforded something more pleasant than what he knew and so watched George on a time and through a Creviss perceived that George had found out a Recreation not provided for by the Old man and that was to help Tydy the Dairy Maid to Churn which Churning was done after such a manner as made Ezekiels Teeth to water as if Buttermilk or Whey had a Spring in his mouth All this Ezekiel kept to himself and when George was a Hunting then he helped to Churn with Tydy which priviledge he obtained to keep Counsel and on the same score every one of the Brothers had their turns and I think she was well helped to Churn insomuch that by over-labouring or by one thing or another the poor Wench grew sick a mornings and you might see her red Stockings half way up her legs which made her ask leave to go home to her Friends and being granted was conveyed to London at the charge of the Eldest Brother only for he stood on his reputation as heir of the Family and in hopes of preferment courted secrefie but George and the rest as they had no more then younger Brothers expectancies so expected no disparagement by a younger Brothers Frolick And from that time 't is strange such a thing should happen in Innocent Country there was not a Maid-servant could stay in that Family above six Moneths what became of them I know not but it is said that a great many Women Folk went from that house to London Well Sir By this time Age gave the old Gentleman an intimation of removing to t'other World so he sent for the Parson whose name was Lionel Drinkwell who made his Will by which his wife was made Executrix and all his Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments was bequeathed to Ezekiel his eldest Son he gave to his second third and fourth Son 100 l per annum a piece during life and to the other three younger Sons he gave 1000 Marks a piece and made the said Parson and one Mr. Getmore a Neighbour Supervisors desiring them in all love to be aiding and assisting to his said Sons with friendly advice and so he died was buried and forgotten After whose death the heir grew House-keeper the old Gentlewoman doing all the Offices of a Wife excepting what Tydy used to do The Brothers also paying for their Boards continued their former Courses went to Bed early slept quietly by the help of Idaea's had glorious dreams rose before the Sun sported on the beautiful Foot-cloths of Nature and twenty things more besides wasting their Portions Soon after it happened one Thomas Lender of London a Pawn-Broker died of the Plague intestate leaving a Widow of about 35 years of Age after whose death she caused her husbands Goods to be Inventoried and Appraised in which Inventory was mentioned in Bonds 5000 l. in the Shop in Jewels Plate Watches Books and other