This is to sertifie your Honner, as how I am heer at Hamestet, where I
have found out my lady to be in logins at one Mrs. Moore's, near upon
Hamestet-Hethe. And I have so ordered matters, that her ladyship cannot
stur but I must have notice of her goins and comins. As I knowed I durst
not look into your Honner's fase, if I had not found out my lady, thoff
she was gone off the prems's in a quarter of an hour, as a man may say;
so I knowed you would be glad at hart to know I have found her out: and
so I send thiss Petur Patrick, who is to have 5 shillings, it being now
near 12 of the clock at nite; for he would not stur without a hearty
drink too besides: and I was willing all shulde be snug likeways at the
logins before I sent.
I have munny of youre Honner's; but I thought as how, if the man was
payed by me beforend, he mought play trix; so left that to your Honner.
My lady knows nothing of my being hereaway. But I thoute it best not to
leve the plase, because she has taken the logins but for a fue nites.
If your Honner come to the Upper Flax, I will be in site all the day
about the tapp-house or the Hethe. I have borrowed another cote, instead
of your Honner's liferie, and a blacke wigg; so cannot be knoen by my
lady, iff as howe she shuld see me: and have made as if I had the tooth-
ake; so with my hancriffe at my mothe, the teth which your Honner was
pleased to bett out with your Honner's fyste, and my dam'd wide mothe, as
your Honner notifys it to be, cannot be knoen to be mine.
The two inner letters I had from my lady, before she went off the prems's.
One was to be left at Mr. Wilson's for Miss Howe. The next was
to be for your Honner. But I knowed you was not at the plase directed;
and being afear'd of what fell out, so I kept them for your Honner, and
so could not give um to you, until I seed you. Miss How's I only made
belief to her ladyship as I carried it, and sed as how there was nothing
left for hur, as she wished to knoe: so here they be bothe.
I am, may it please your Honner,
Your Honner's must dutiful,
And, wonce more, happy servant,
WM. SUMMERS.
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The two inner letters, as Will. calls them, 'tis plain, were written for
no other purpose, but to send him out of the way with them, and one of
them to amuse me. That directed to Miss Howe is only this:--