36 - 25 Nov. To Dudley Carleton

Summary

Worthie Sir,

I thanke you for your letters, more for your love. I was willing to do for Vossius not what he deserveth but what i was able. And i may say what i was able then. What i should now be able to do, were it to be done againe, i cannot yet tell. And i account it a part of my happinesse, that i tooke the time, while God lent it me, to do him good.

His sonne is veire welcome to me, and i shall be glad to see him settled in Cambridge so soone as I can. I confesse i hoped he would not have come til the spring, because i supposed the barbarous attempt upon my Lord duke would have made you easely conceave how unfitt i am att this time to be troubled with additions to my businesse. And i much wonder i should receive letters from Vossius and yourselfe, bearing date a full moneth after the Duke's untimely death, and that he should be altogether silent, and you doubtfull. Especially since i have good information that letters of certaintie were with both the King of Bohemia, and Count Henry within fowre days after that horrible fact committed.

For the seale, since it is Vossius his desire it should remayne with me, it shall lye as safe as anie thing that is mine. And if i die, there is a paper upon it to specifie what and whose it is, and you will be able to call to my executors for it in his behalfe.

Concerning your doubts, i can satisfie the one, in part. That is, Vossius must be a free-denizen before he can be Prebend. But whether he must come over for that Denization, i know not, but i will informe myselfe, and then give notice. The like wil i doe concerning his being Deacon. and so much i writt either to him or you before. I am newly recovered of a sharpe sicknesse. Soe in hast i leave you with many thanks for your kind letters to the Grace of God and shall so rest

Your loving friend to serve you

Guil: Londo:

November 25 [1]628