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A letter to Dr. E. Hyde in answer to one of his occasioned by the late insurrection at Salisbury.
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Ley, John, 1583-1662.; Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.
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the rule you bring to me would you were your condition such as I have sincerely set down mine à pag. 16. ad 22. of my printed Acquittance be content to pay a fifth part as you would have it to any one who needeth it no more then you do you know you would not Do then but as you would be done by And you would do as I do if you had no higher thoughts of the Parsonage of Br. then I have For though you very much advance the value of the Benefice as you call it the Pastorall charge as I finde it is so little beneficiall to me all receits and disbursments rightly calculated that weighing the benefit and burthen in all kindes together I had just cause to write thus to Mr. Vicechancellor of Oxon. November 22. 1654. I will say thus much and will make my word good by my deed if I be put to the triall that I am so far short of competent contentment in that condition wherein I am at Br. chiefly through what I have suffered by you and your most and worst affected followers that I shall be very willing to do service to any good people elsewhere though with a great deal lesse wages then I am thought to have here but have not if I may have a fair call to another place and a conscionable discharge from this where I am And which may be more to your satisfaction if you want not faith to believe the truth I have made offer of all mine interest in Brightwell without any capitulation at all to a man of as excellent parts and as potent friends as any I know who if he accept it will easily acquit himselfe from your unrighteous and unreasonable exaction Howsoever Sir I had rather according to the conditions promised resolve to leave Brightwell then still to worke under such a rigorous Taske-master as I have found and felt you for four years together The other part of your counsell to me wherewith you close up your Letter is Dr. H. Not to give any occasion of breach or quarrell to him who desireth to expresse himselfe Your affectionate Friend to serve you Ed. Hyde If a breach and quarrel be not yet made by your unjust demand and my just deniall of fifths with reasons for it in print I shall not give you any greater occasion of it then I have done for for that â—â—tter I shall but deny to pay them still and that upon the same grounds But if a breach and quarrel be made already and I believe you take it so your counsell commeth too late and you should rather have proposed some means to make up the breach to take up the quarrel you would seeme to be peaceably disposed when you professe a desire to expresse your selfe mine affectionate friend to serve me But how feeble is your affection if it be true for it is but a desire a desire but to expresse that is so to shew and declare your selfe that you may appear such a friend how false your profession if you act contrary to it And how should I think otherwise when you pretend love and intend Law For having heretofore used to send to me by your friends Mr. H. and Mr. Wh. you sent me this last Letter by a professed Lawyer as though thereby you meant to tell me that if I will not be lead by your Letter to do what you would have me you would compell me by Law to conformity to it and for that Sir you may take your course and when you take up the Sword you shall not God willing finde me unready to betake me to my Buckler And so I subscribe my selfe Yours to serve you at the Bar of any Court of Iustice or Equity when you serve me with Processe to attend you there John Ley. Brightwell April 6. 1655. ERRATA Page 8. line 3. read the same summe p. 10. l. 4. r. for your return thither Postscript SIR YOV have since I wrote this Letter turned my suspicion of your professed friendship into undoubted assurance of your dissembling with me By sending a Bailiffe on Saturday May 12. to attach me or to take Bond for my appearance on Monday May 14. in the Court of Common Pleas Which sodain warning was not by his choice but yours as the date of your Letter of direction to him for serving the Sheriffes Warrant upon 〈◊〉 sheweth Hereby he that hath but halfe an eye may see you meant not like a good Minister to disturbe my preparations for the Sabbath and as unlike a good Christian to distresse me by want of time to take Counsell how to apply my selfe for my just defence in the Suit commenced by you I would not I did not serve you so when I sent you my Book against you by a Messenger of purpose the next day after Ireceived it from London that you might have as timely intelligence of the publishing of it as I could give you Howsoever Sir you may perceive my readiness to perform my promise to you which was To serve you at the bar of any Court of Justice or equity when you serve me with Processe to attend you there for that day viz. Monday forementioned though your summons were so short I came to Westminster where you had put into the Court no Declaration against me So forward were you to shew your teeth before you could bite which may give occasion of caution and that may be also some cause of security to him who sincerely subscribing to the Christian sentence of “ “ Amicos deligere omnium est inimicos solorum Christianorum Tertul. ad Scapul Tom. 2. p. 162. item Tertullian had rather notwithstanding your harsh and hasty dealing with him entitle himselfe your Respondent Christianus nullius cst hostis Ibid. or Defendant then your Adversarie J. Ley. FINIS Colleg. Conimbricens in lib. Aristot. de memoria Reminiscentia c. 10. col 18. §. 13. 1 Cor. 4. 21. “ The copie of this Letter is in the last page of mine Acquittance * Quod valâ—e volumus facile credimus “ Plutarch in his precepts of policie p. 300. of his Morals
A Letter to Dr. E. Hyde in answer to one of his occasioned by the late Insurrection at Salisbury SIR IT was my resolution a good while ago of which I am able to give a good account though I do not to you never to deale with you in a private way of writing under Seal but to maintain a publique contestatiō with you for all the differences betwixt us in a fairer Character then either you or I can write to make all conscientions and rationall Readers judges of the right we claim and of the wrong we charge upon each other And your last Letter of March 29. rather fully confirms me in this course then any way diverts me from it because as I shall prove before I conclude mine exceptions against it it referreth to now publique affairs though a little before secretly carryed in the way of a Plot both for the motive which induced you to it and for the end you aimed at in it Before I come to examination and answer of the parts of it I will premise my generall censure of the whole which is this In the Letter you have shewed such boldnesse in asserting that against me which is untrue such eagernesse in exacting of me that which is unjust that I may well thinke when you wrote it you set aside not only the sincerity of a Divine but the charity of a Christian and the ingenuity of a Scholar Now to the particulars It beginneth thus Dr. H. Sir you may easily remember how much I have receded from my Wives Right of Fifts hitherto Answer Sir Remembrance is of a thing that hath or had a being and easie remembrance of that which by its evidence and importance maketh a strong impression upon the memory Your Wives right of Fifths out of the Rectory of Brightwell as you require them is no such thing but a Non ens a meer nothing I will not say but you may imagine some appearance of a right for if as some do you lodge phantasie and memory both in one bed they may be the parents of such a phantasme But I may rather say Sir You may easily remember that I have proved your wife hath no such right at all to fifths as you claim in her name because I have given you reasons in print against it which I doubt not will be acknowledged valid and sufficient either to satisfie or silence you by all unpartiall Judges who shall read them as by many such they have been already whereas you neither do nor can give any to the contrary which may with any colour of truth be brought both to oppose or over-poise them And this is not my conceit alone but his judgement likewise whose great parts have deservedly advanced him to high prelations of dignity and authority above other men For when about the beginning of March last I told him I had not received a word from you in answer to my Book sent you about the 11th of the last November Nor ever shall do said he intimating as then I understood his meaning that you were convinced by it and therefore made no exceptions against it for then he knew nothing though he be a very knowing eminently learned man of that mystery of iniquity since revealed whereof you are thought to have been both sooner and more confidingly acquainted then a true hearted English Patriot should have been and whereby you might be not only moved but much heartned heightned in your spirit to act by Mr. D. to write to me your selfe as of late you did D. H. And how much you have receded from your severall promises Answer Just so much neither more nor lesse that is never a whit either the one or the other for I have constantly been so punctuall in performance of my promises though to my great disadvantage as those who best know me will testifie for me that I have lost more meerly to keepe my word then somebody I say not Dr. H. would have done to keepe his Oath If you will not believe me believe your selfe and then you will not be so forward to impute unto me the breach of promise with you which hitherto I have not made You are my witnesse that to keepe my word with my Parishioners without any likelihood of benefit or rather with apparent probability of damage to my selfe from which I might have been freed within a few houres I refused an hundred pound in hand for the first payment of a years rent which I thought fully enough for the Rectory of Brightwell And in your Letter of the 17. of November 1653. wherein you acknowledge the receit of moneys from me You say in your next words For which I kindely thank you for really it is now a great courtesie for a man to keepe his word though I cannot say but you have carefully kept yours Since that time what breach of promise can you charge me with I wish you had given me just cause to commend your constancie in the like kinde but instead thereof you put me to complain of your levity and unfaithfulnesse in that you promised you would not expect the payment of Fifths above two years for as you said and I have shewed page 16 of my Book you should not need them any longer and now after four years receit of them you are as if you were distempered with an hydropical thirst of covetousnesse no lesse Pecuniarum petax but rather more then you were at first You say in the same line Dr. H. And now at last you seeke to recede from your agreement Answer An agreement is a promise and somewhat more and therefore to recede from it is worse then to recede from a single promise so worse and worse on your part for this is the third stumble you take at the threshold the four first lines of your Letter contains three untruths and this last is not the least but so much the greater as it is more expresly confuted pag. 24 25 26 of my printed Book That I may not take it too tenderly that you thus accuse me you presently bring in an accusation against your selfe saying Dr. H. It was the sin of my civility because you complained of being raised in the contribution to let Mr. D. offer you but 280 li. but yet in effect to give you as good as 300 li. Answer For your sinne of civility if it were so he that would not pardon you so seldome offending on that hand hath an harder heart towards you then I have But wherein shewed you your civility you say in letting Mr. D. offer but 280 li. in money why Sir was Mr. D. to be directed by you what he should offer and had you the disposall of his tongue and hand to promise so much by word and writing as he did and of his purpose for performance of what he so promised He is surely too wise to take his rate from your direction whose interest was as he and you conceived