Nicholas Clark

Letter to Nicholas Clarke from W. Lyngwood

Cosen Clarke: Since I have received your letter in March 1650 with yr letter to your Brother Richard & the testimonial of your being alive under the Governers Seale I have proceeded against your Brother and taken out a Commission in Chancery to examine witnesses which I intended to have executed about Michaelmas last & had apointed the time & place for it & then your Brother was willing to referre the Business to the hearing of the Comissionors that they might end it if they Could agree without sitting upon the Commission & on the 30th September Last the Arbitrators mett at little Waltham where your Brother Richard and my selfe were & read the Bill & answer & treated about agreement but a greate obstacle was that your brother questioned much whetheer you ware Living or nnoe, & many demands & offers ware made on boath sides. As we demanded of our side 60lb 50 lb 40 lb & they offered 10 lb 20 lb 30lb & in the end it came to 35 lb which was aagreed unto by your Brother to be paid at severall times after for which he promised within a fortnight after to give me bond with a suretie to pay, so as I would give him under my hand & seale to repay him 29 lb of the 35 lb againe with three moneths after the 29th of September nex if it should truly appeare to me on or before the 29th of September next that you ware dead without issue before the 30 of September last the other 6 lb of the 35lb I am to keepe for the charges of the Suite & this was the order of the Arbitrators your Brother then agreed to it though after he would very faine to have caviled and falen from it agine if I had not held him close to it & thretned to arest him & since Christmaas Last I have receved of him for you 29 lb and 6 lb for my charges which comes to more but I was glad to get so much which if I had not but had gone on in suite it might well have held a yeare at least before we should have procured a hearinge & that would have cost at least 20lb & perhaps ceath in the mean t ime might have happened to one of the parties and then all the charges & time had been lost & we must have began againse & therefore I thought best to fasten & close with him in this way & to get the money of him. I have reced of him for you for the said 29 lb as I say before, & now I desire only to have a good warrant & order from you testifyed by such of my friends theire with whose hands I know, as my Cosen Loomys Cosen Culliwich John Tailcott John Steele or some of them to whom you would have mee to Pay the mony that I may have a good discharge & you may be sure to have the mony for I should be very sorry after so much tim paines & mony spent that either you should faile of the mmony or my self of a good discharge for the 29 lb. And soe desiring to heare from you As speedily as you can with my love to you, my Cosen Loomis Cosen Cullwicke & the rest of my Cosens & friends there with you I rest Yr very Loving Cosen W. Lyngwood. Braintree the 20th of March 1652.

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