Catalogue description HENRY CHADERTON to his cousin, JOHN COTTON.

--I wrote to you lately by Mr. Benbowes, your kinsman, about my little friend, sister Mall's, money, which now I hear is safe come to the merchant's hands, but the bill of exchange hath failed, so a new one must be sent. Meanwhile, being a friend, he has promised to pay a part, "because necessity of building forceth."

"She is well-beloved of all for her virtues, and all her good friends with you have great cause to rejoice in her holy proceedings, as being the first of her family that broke the 'eyece' [? ice] to this religious course of a retired life, from which all the powers on earth or under the earth (her sweet spouse Christ assisting her) cannot withdraw her, so firm and constant she is in her resolute course begun."

You know where the ten cappae [i.e., copes] lie at a good friend's house, in no small danger of rotting. If they were here, they would be exercised often to God's honour, and better preserved for their rightful owners than where they now are; I mean at the place where my little friend Mistress Mall's brother Richard exchanged his mortal life for immortality. You shall have safe security for their return "when Almighty God shall grant of his goodness a good time." There were also a whole set of "vialls" and other instruments in a coffer at Mistress Gyfford's, which her husband said the old clerk of Arundel brought out of Italy, but they belong now, I think, unto my Lady Linnlye, who will pass by this way very shortly towards the Spawe. We will then move her in the matter, and you may speak on the matter with Mrs. Gifford, to whom and to her good daughter, Mrs. Browne, I would be most heartily commended, and especially to the other gentleman, my very good friend, before referred to.

I depart on Monday next, God willing, towards Sichem. As concerning St. Augustine's works and other business, I certified you in my last.