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2  ANNUAL REGISTER For the YEAR 1772.  3

immediately aftar he made a bargayne with me, and touke 500l. of my wife's porsion, for which he gave me sum land in presente, and sum in reuersion, as appears by the dede made presently aftar my marriage; - also my wife and myselfe layed oute and spente in bying of a cotch and horses, and som plate, and apparrell, and our charges living in London the first quartar of a yeare aftar I was married, 600 l. more of her porsion; so that then I came doune into Lincolneshear, and had but 400 l. left of hir porsion, the hole being but 1500 l. and had not in all the world 100 l. a yeare cuming in any waye, only 40 l. a yeare annuety of my mothar, and 20 l. a yeare of my Lord Norreys, my brothar: and had not on foute of land in possetion, but a lease of a house, with the garden and orchard, in Lincoln, that I held of the Dean and Chapter ther, which I bought myselfe; in which house I liued about five years; in which time I employed that little mony I had in bying sum small leases and landes, and gayned much by exchanging and selling of them agayne; so that I liued ther in good fashion, and kepte four or five men besides a hunsboye, and my wife hir woman, and othar mayeds fitting for hir, four or five good hunting and corsing horses, besides hackenies for the hiewaye, and a kennill of fleet houndes, and a cast of toue of haukes and spaniles to them, and serued his Magisty in my place in the priuye chambar on quartar of the yeare dulye; in which time also I bought oute a lease, the on Mr. Conny had, of the parsonage of Yaxly, in the county of Huntington, to which place I went from Lincolne, and found it so commodius a thinge, as I having newly bought a house and land, worth 50l. yearly, of Mr. Edward King, Esquiar, called the Tile House, lately George Latham's, Gentilman, being the only freehould that was held by any man in Cristed *, besides the hole mannar which my fathar held during his life, the remayndar wherof aftar his disease he had assured upon me. Then lived I at Yaxly four years and bettar, euen until the time that my fathar died, and kept the same cumpany of men, horses, haukes, and doges, as at Lincolne; also then had I a greater charg greue upon me by sutes in laue; namely, on sute that I was forced to haue with my fathar, or els I should have lost the most parte of my inherritance; and othar sutes with tounsmen of Yaxly for thayr tithes, - in all which sutes I prevailed.  

Also his Magisty, as I was exsedingly bound unto him for many favours, so he writt this letter unto my fathar, when he was falln out with me without cause, only for getting a decre against him † for land, of which he had gott the conuayance from my mothar. 

*Now written Kirkstead

† He elsewhere says, "I haue a decree exemplefied, which is inrouled in the Chancery, which I had agaynste my fathar, who fauling out with me without cause, and had taken away an evidence from my mothar, that conserned hir joyntar and my inheritance, and could not be gotten to restore it agayne unto us, by no good means, or friends that I could make; and being in despare of recoueringe his fauour, I making the King my master acquainted with it, he commanded me to preferre my bill againste my fathar and my brothar Thomas Lord Clinton: and I, so doing, recouered this decree."

"JAMES


"JAMES REX.
"Right trusty and well beloued Cofen; it seems strang to us, to be forced to write to a fathar for a sonne: but when parents will breake thos bondes of Nature, and leaue that care of thars that they ought to haue, We, that are common parents to all, must putt those affections upon us; which shall serue to discharge us in our places, and teache them the duty of thayrs. Your sonne and my seruant, Sir Henry Fynes, as I am giuen credibly to understand, reseaues dayle hard mesure from you, both in that you kepe from him a great part of his present mantenance, and also make spoyle of sutch wods as he, with his oune mony, hath purtchased from othars; and detain such euidences from him of land giuen to his mothar for a joyntar, and aftar to himselfe in reuersion; and, as if all this wear not enofe, you wage laue with him, as if he wear not your sonne, but sum adversary to be uttarly undon by you. We ar so sensible of the duty of a child to a fathar, as we would not giue any respecte to an undutifull childe against his natural fathar; but since your sonne hath giuen you no juste cause of offence, lett me tell you, if you will forgett you ar his fathar, I will remembar that I am his mastar, and will neathar fee nor suffar you unjustly to oppress him; and doe therefore charge you, ethar to sheue me just cause why you thus deale with him, or else commande you to righte him in thes and sutch like wrongs as ar made knoune to us; whitch if you shall not doe, we will take that corce that in our regale justis we thinke fitt. And so we committ you to God."

My dear and good mothar died at Tattershall, on Whistan Monday, in the yeare 1611, before I went from Lincolne to Yaxly. My fathar died at Sempringham, of Michaelmas day, in the yeare 1615: upon which day, before my fathar was ded, Thomas, then to be Earle of Lincolne, my halfe-brothar, sente on Millington, a suruante of his, poste towards London, to sease of and take possetion of the houses and goods at Channonroe and Chelfy; but I liuing at Yaxly, near the poste toune called Stilton, wher he was to pas, and mistrusting my fathar might die, hearing that he was uerry like, and I not heare of his death, did laye wate at the posthouse, and word cuminge to me of Millington his passing by, I touke a hunting hors oute of my stable toue houars aftar he was passed by, and was at Channonroe that night before him; wher I touke possetion of all of all the houses, and what was ther, and held it euar aftar. At my first cuming up to Channonroe, I was immediatly sent for to his Magisty, by the means of the Lord of Suffolke, the Lord Treasurer, and the Lord of Somersett, the favuoritt, then Lord Chamberlin; both which wear my brothar Thomas, then Earle of Lincolne's great frendes, and then wear in thar full pouar, but shortly aftar fell, about Ouerburie his being poysoned, and othar things; but his Magisty used me uerry grasiusly, only faue my assurances of the fayed houses, and, contrarye to all thair expectations, commanded me to goe backe to my fayed houses in Channonroe, and louke to my possetion of them.

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