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Ballasore procure the sanoes and send Per
the first Conveighance.
Despairing of ever procuring Mr Bullivants Common p[r]ayer book, having proffered him soe largely for it, I have Per this Conveigh- ance (made up in waxcloth) sent 1 Common prayer book and 1 Ps. leimon Colour Ribon, which pray accept of in part requitall of the Ps. of silk and severall other tokens Received from you, which doe not lie in my power to retaliate at present but must Remains Debtor till it shall please God to order things better.
In your letters you use the word trouble very much, which indeed is A very great trouble to me to read, and bee assured Dear Brother* that if it lies in my power to serve you in any thing it is rather A pleasure than A trouble to him that affectionately is and , ever will be
Your Real Loving Friend
JOHN VICKEBS
P.S. Pray present my humble service to Mr March and return e him many thanks for his kind proffer. Per the next oportunity shall write to him, having much writing at present and no helpe, likewise Remember me kindly to Mr Smith.
- Idem J : V :
[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant
In Cassumbazar
LETTER XV.
John Smith to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3411.)
Decca, March 9th 69/70 Mr Richard Edwards
Loving Freind My last to you was 26th, to which Refer you. I have now sent
- you by this boat 2 ps. Tanjeebs,| which cost
23 rs. I look upon them to bee a penny worth,! as this market goes, and could not well buy one without the other, for which Reason, I went Contrary to your order. I shall as soone as possible get Redy your
- The two families were probably intimate,
since the Vickerses lived at Fulham and some of the Edwardses at Kingston. Subsequent letters show that they had, at least, friends in common.
t Tanjeebs, Indian pronunciation of Pers.
,
tanzlb, fine muslin.
J A penny worth, i.e., quotations in the ' N.E.D.'
a bargain. See the
Jelolsies* and send you. I rest (with mjr
Respects to your self and Mr Jones)
Your Reall freind to Serve you
JOHN SMITH
[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant
In Cassumbuzar
R. C. TEMPLE.
(To be continued.)
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN
THE BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim ; 12 S. i. 65, 243,406; ii. 45, 168, 263, 345.>>
HEROES AND HEROINES. REV. WM. MOMPESSON. Eyam, Derbyshire. Few stories of heroism are more widely known than that of the Vicar" of Eyam, who remained at his post during a visitation of the plague in 1665-6, when five-sixths of the villagers were swept into eternity. The good Vicar ministered to hi& flock and encouraged them by his noble example during the whole of the time, and eventually escaped unscathed. Not so hi& dear .wife, who remained by his side until' death, claimed her as one of his victims^ Her altar-tomb is still to be seen in Eyam churchyard, and bears the following inscrip- tion, written by her husband :
Catherina uxor Gulielmi Mompesson Hvivs Ecclesiae Rects. Filia Randolph! Carr Nuper de Cocken in Comitate Dvnelmensi
Armigeri
Sepulta vicesimo
Quinto die Mensis Augti.
Anno Dni. 1666.
There are many spots in and around Eyam.' redolent of the memory of Mr. Mompesson r notably " Cucklet Church " in the dell where he used to preach from a natural stone pulpit to his diminishing flock. The present Rector, the Rev. Francis L. Shaw, desires to- erect a statue of his heroic predecessor. At the annual commemoration service held in Cucklet Dell in 1912 he stated that "he proposed, should the public response be good, to have erected on that spot in 1916, which would be the 250th anniversary of the plague out--
- Jelolsies appear to have been fine flowered
muslin. The term may possibly be derived from jdl, netting, or, more probably, from Jalalshahi,. i.e., Jalal Shah's goods, after some native mer- chant of that name in those days who specialized: in that kind of goods, just as we speak ofc " Liberty " silks in the present day.
