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THOMAS, FIRST LORD ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR
Eure was afraid of her Rectorie. What do you think would become of ye £1000 bond given to my Lo: Shrewsbury and the like to my Lo: Bal : both free gifts and both given in ye latter end of my Lords sickness after these matters were agitated ? And what could find I in myself stranger so great a willingness not only to hinder but to further their particular interests but think that they no strangers but children most tenderly beloved , sucking from their cradles upwards principles of religion as well as reason , would be forwards to embrace all just conscientious and honourable ways to comply with their noble and religious fathers intentions for the good of his soul sithence that ye way to help himself was concealed from him merely and only for their particular interests and that matters might proceed in a peaceable way. Of these things a strict account will be exacted in ye day of just and equitable judgment . What informations I have here given you I am able to depose every particular upon oath for though many years be past yet I took notes of them upon the place and in ye time when they passed . E. JR .