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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57489	Familiar letters: vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable, John, late Earl of Rochester, to the honourable Henry Savile, esq; and other letters by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Tho. Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Cheek, Thomas.; Philips, Katherine, 1631-1664.; Dennis, John, 1657-1734.	1697 (1697)	Wing R1744A; ESTC R222099	74,413	242

Friendship I profess to you And to shew you I rely upon yours let me beg of you to talk once more with her and desire her to give me the fair hearing she wou'd afford any Footman of hers who had been complain'd of to her by a less-worthy Creature for such a one I assure myself my Accuser is unless it be for her Service to wrong the most faithful of her Servants and then I shall be proud of mine I would not be run down by a Company of Rogues and this looks like an Endeavour towards it Therefore dear Harry send me word how I am with other Folks if you visit my Lord Treasurer name the Calamity of this Matter to him and tell me sincerely how he takes it And if you hear the King mention me do the Office of a Friend to Your humble Servant ROCHESTER TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE Dear SAVILE THE Lowsiness of Affairs in this Place is such forgive the unmannerly Phrase Expressions must descend to the Nature of Things express'd 't is not fit to entertain a private Gentleman much less one of a publick Character with the Retail of them the general Heads under which this whole Island may be consider'd are Spies Beggars and Rebels the Transpositions and Mixtures of these make an agreeable Variety Busie Fools and Cautious Knaves are bred out of 'em and set off wonderfully tho' of this latter sort we have fewer now than ever Hypocrisie being the only Vice in decay amongst us few Men here dissemble their being Rascals and no Woman disowns being a Whore Mr. O was try'd two Days ago for Buggery and clear'd The next Day he brought his Action to the Kings-Bench against his Accuser being attended by the Earl of Shaftsbury and other Peers to the number of Seven for the Honour of the Protestant Cause I have sent you herewith a Libel in which my own share is not the least the King having perus'd it is no ways dissatisfied with his The Author is apparent Mr. his Patron my L having a Panegerick in the midst upon which happen'd a handsom Quarrel between his L and Mrs. B at the Dutchess of P she call'd him The Heroe of the Libel and complimented him upon having made more Cuckolds than any Man alive to which he answer'd She very well knew one he never made nor never car'd to be imploy'd in making Rogue and Bitch ensued till the King taking his grand-Grand-father's Character upon him became the Peace-maker I will not trouble you any longer but beg you still to Love Your faithful humble Servant ROCHESTER TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY YOU are the only Man of England that keep Wit with your Wisdom and I am happy in a Friend that excels in both were your Good Nature the least of your Good Qualities I durst not presume upon it as I have done but I know you are so sincerely concern'd in serving your Friends truly that I need not make an Apology for the Trouble I have given you in this Affair I daily expect more considerable Effects of your Friendship and have the Vanity to think I shall be the better for your growing poorer In the mean time when you please to distinguish from Prosers and Windham and comply with Rosers and Bull not forgetting Iohn Stevens you shall find me Your most Ready and most Obedient Servant ROCHESTER The End of the late Earl of Rochester's Letters THE E. of L 's LETTER To the Honourable Algernoon Sidney DIsuse of Writing hath made it uneasie to me Age makes it hard and the Weakness of Sight and Hand makes it almost impossible This may excuse me to Every-body and particularly to you who have not invited me much unto it but rather have given me cause to think that you were willing to save me the labour of Writing and yourself the trouble of Reading my Letters For after you had left me sick solitary and sad at Penshurst and that you had resolved to undertake the Employment wherein you have lately been you neither came to give me a Farewel nor did so much as send one to me but only writ a wrangling Letter or two concerning Mony and Hoskins and Sir Robert Honywood's Horse and though both before and after your going out of England you writ to divers other Persons the first Letter that I received from you was dated as I remember the 13th of September the second in November wherein you take notice of your Mother's Death and if there were one more that was all until Mr. Sterry came who made such haste from Penshurst that coming very late at Night he would not stay to Dine the next Day nor to give me time to Write It is true that since the Change of Affairs here and of your Condition there your Letters have been more frequent and if I had not thought my Silence better both ●or you and myself I would have written more than once or twice unto you but though for some Reasons I did forb●ar I failed not to desire others to write unto you and with their own to convey the best Advice that my little Intelligence and weak Judgment cou'd af●ord particularly not to expect new Authorities nor Orders from hence not to stay in any of the Places of your Negotiation not to come into England much less to expect a Ship to be sent for you or to think that an Account was or wou'd be expected of you here unless it were of Matters very different from your Transactions there that it wou'd be best for you presently to divest yourself of the Character of a Publick Minister to dismiss all your Train and to retire into some safe place not very near nor very far from England that you might hear from your Friends sometimes And for this I advis'd Hamburgh where I hear you are by your Man Powel or by them that have received Letters from you with Presents of Wine and Fish which I do not reproach nor envy Your last Letter to me had no Date of Time or Place but by another at the same time to Sir Iohn Temple of the 28th of Iuly as I remember sent by Mr. Missonden I guess that mine was of the same Date By those that I have had I perceive that you have been misadvertiz'd for though I meet with no Effects nor Marks of Displeasure yet I find no such Tokens or Fruits of Favour as may give me either Power or Credit for those Under●akings and good Offices which perhaps you expect of me And now I am again upon the Point of retiring to my poor Habitation having for myself no other Design than to pass the small remainder of my Days innocently and quietly and if it please God to be gathered in Peace to my Fathers And concerning you what to resolve in myself or what to advise you truly I know not For you must give me leav● to remember of how little Weig● 〈◊〉 ●pinions and Counsels have bee●●ith you and how unkindly and unfriendly you

have rejected those Exhortations and Admonitions which in much Affection and Kindness I have given you upon many Occasions and in almost every thing from the highest to the lowest that hath concerned you and this you may think sufficient to discourage me from putting my Advices into the like Danger Yet somewhat I will say And First I think it unfit and perhaps as yet unsafe for you to come into England for I believe Powel hath told you that he heard when he was here That you were likely to be excepted out of the General Act of Pardon and Oblivion And though I know not what you have done or said here or there yet I have several ways heard That there is as ill an Opinion of you as of any even of those that condemned the late King And when I thought there was no other Exception to you than your being of the other Party I spoke to the General in your behalf who told me That very ill Offices had been done you but he would assist you as much as justly he could and I intended then also to speak to Some-body else you may guess whom I mean But since that I have heard such things of you that in the doubtfulness only of their being true no Man will open his Mouth for you I will tell you some Passages and you shall do well to clear yourself of them It is said That the University of Copenhagen brought their Album unto you desiring you to write something therein and that you did scribere in Albo these words Manus haec inimica Tyrannis Ense petit placida cum Libertate quietem And put your Name to it This cannot chuse but be publickly known if it be true It is said also That a Minister who hath married a Lady Laurence here of Chelsey but now dwelling at Copenhagen being there in Company with you said I think you were none of the late King's Judges nor guilty of his Death meaning our King Guilty said you Do you call that Guilt Why 't was the justest and bravest Action that ever was done in England or any where else with other words to the same effect It is said also That you having heard of a Design to seize upon you or to cause you to be taken Prisoner you took notice of it to the King of Denmark himself and said I hear there is a Design to seize upon me But who is it that hath that Design Est●e nostre Bandit By which you are understood to mean the King Besides this it is reported That you have been heard to say many scornful and contemptuous things of the King's Person and Family which unless you can justifie yourself will hardly be forgiven or ●orgotten For such Personal Offences make deeper Impressions than Publick Actions either of War or Treaty Here is a Resident as he calls himself of the King of Denmark whose Name as I hear is Pedcombe he hath visited me and offered his readiness to give you any Assistance in his Power or Credit with the Embassadour Mr. Alfield who was then expected and is now arrived here and hath had his first Audience I have not seen Mr. Pedcombe since but within a few Days I will put him in mind of his Profession of Friendship to you and try what he can or will do Sir Robert Honywood is also come hither and as I hear the King is graciously pleased to admit him to his Presence which will be somewhat the better for you because then the Exceptions against your Employment and Negotiation wherein you were Colleague will be removed and you will have no more to answer for than your own particular Behaviour I believe Sir Robert Honywood will be industrious enough to procure Satisfaction to the Merchants in the Business of Mony wherein he will have the Assistance of Sir Iohn Temple to whom I refer you for that and some other things I have little to say to your Complaints of your Sister Strayford's unequal Returns to your Affection and Kindness but that I am sorry for it and that you are well enough serv'd for bestowing so much of your Care where it was not due and neglecting them to whom it was due and I hope you will be wiser hereafter She and her Husband have not yet paid the Thousand Pounds whereof you are to have your part by my Gift for so I think you are to understand it tho' your Mother desired it and if for the Payment thereof your being in England or in some Place not far off be necessary as some pretend for the Sealing of some Writings I think that and other Reasons sufficient to perswade you to stay a while where you are that you may hear frequently from your Friends and they from you I am wholly against your going into Italy as yet till more may be known of your Condition which for the present is hard and I confess that I do not yet see any more than this that either you must live in Exile or very privately here and perhaps not safely for though the Bill of Indemnity be lately passed yet if there be any particular and great Displeasure against you as I fear there is you may feel the Effects thereof from the Higher Powers and receive Affronts from the Inferiour Therefore you were best to stay at Hamburgh which for a Northern Situation is a good place and healthful I will help you as much as I can in discovering and informing you of what concerns you though as I began so I must end with telling you That Writing is now grown troublesome to Your Affectionate Le London Aug. 30. 1660. The Honourable Algernoon Sidney's LETTER AGAINST BRIBERY AND Arbitrary Government Written to his Friends in Answer to Theirs perswading his Return to England SIR I Am sorry I cannot in all things conform myself to the Advices of my Friends if theirs had any joint concernment with mine I would willingly submit my Interest to theirs but when I alone am interested and they only advise me to come over as soon as the Act of Indemnity is pass'd because they think it is best for me I cannot wholly lay aside my own Judgment and Choice I confess we are naturally inclin'd to delight in our own Country and I have a particular Love to mine I hope I have given some Testimony of it I think that being exil'd from it is a great Evil and would redeem myself from it with the loss of a great deal of my Blood But when that Country of mine which us'd to be esteem'd a Paradise is now like to be made a Stage of Injury the Liberty which we hoped to establish oppress'd all manner of Prophaneness Loosness Luxury and Lewdness set up in its heighth instead of the Piety Virtue Sobriety and Modesty which we hoped God by our Hands would have introduc'd the Best of our Nation made a Prey to the Worst the Parliament Court and Army corrupted the People enslav'd all things vendible and no