strive to make proof of that thankfulness and love which we owe you for your care of ours. Believe it, Ralph shall not want what lies in our power, and as we shall truly love him with the selfsame kind of affection which we do our own, so CVI. Date. Place. From To benefit and improvement of knowledge in your own profession."] 22 May 1632. Gidding. Mrs. Collett. her daughter Mapletoft: whose lady Bodley: sends balsam for her grandchild. her brother [John] Ferrar : her daughter Mapletoft. shall we endeavour to train him up in the selfsame disposition of mind which we desire to see in ours. Which although at • Daughter of sir John Collett of London, and wife of sir Anth. A. of Bishopsbourne, Kent, where he was buried, July 4, 1637, and she Dec. 4, 1687. See Hasted's Kent, iii. 745, 747, Nichols's Progr. Jas. I. i. 440. beginning they will seem a little harsh, yet by practice they will grow easy, I doubt not, to him, and the end will be full CXXXVII. her cousin Arthur Woodnoth, on her son's return to his service. Do.: a proposal made by him for her son. Susanna Beckwith (Burke's Landed Gentry, ii. 636,638): in answer to the following. Mrs. Collett. Condolence on death of old Mrs. Ferrar. 12 Mar. Mersham, lady Mary Do. ["I am truly sensible of joy and comfort to himself and his friends; which God grant. CXXXIX. June 1635. Gidding. Mrs. Collett. her daughter Kestian: disap CXLII. Do. CXLIII. 16 Nov. Do. Do lady Mary her son Edward: respecting his marrying Mr. Ayloffe's niece. Joseph Ayloffe: "your un- Mrs. Joanna Mrs. Collett: proffering her CXLIV. Jan. 20. 1645-6. Do. CXLV. 23 Sept. Brocas duty as a daughter. her cousin Mrs. Collett. * Daughter of sir William A. of Great Braxted, Essex, knt. and bart., half sister to Jos. A. barrister at law, aunt of Wm. A. of Bassingbourn, Cambr. See Manning and Bray's Surrey, iii. 196, 200, Nichols's Progr. of Jas. I. iii. 565. The impropriation now belongs to Chr. Coll. Camb. My brother hath told us of many new kindnesses (the fruit of your old love) towards my children, besides those to himself, which I esteem the first and chiefest; they be so many and great as passing the ordinary bounds of affection in you, are not with words to be requited on our parts and therefore I say nothing, but that we owe you more in all this than we can pay, save in love. My daughter Mary hath not been well of late, but I hope in God she mends, and though we all hope to see you shortly, yet she prays me to write you, she hath with much joy embraced her uncle Nicholas's proposition, and though she cannot sufficiently answer your expectation touching your niece, yet she will not fail in the truth and highth of affection towards her good, if you think fit. And so with all our best prayers I commit you to God." "To my dearest brother Nicholas, March 2, 1630-1. My most dear brother, Since your first offer to me (of that which in all reason should have been either my suit or my want) that is, to give me your best assistance upon the revealing thereof, to the attaining of my own desires :-I have, I confess, had many conflicts within myself, in what bounds to limit them. But upon a strict examination of what hath passed in all my life hitherto, I have found that those hopes and expectations which I had fancied to myself would in the fruition prove most happy, they have not seldom deceived me. I have therefore now resolved by God's grace not to make any choice |