to aduertise his master of his affaires, altering onelie the names
of directions, and the matter as occasion serueth. Neuerthelesse
forsomuch as in causes of other accidents beyond the seas, both
masters haue occasion to write vnto their seruants or factors, and
likewise the seruant or factor to answer them againe, whereof perchance
some examples in this methode might also be sought for. As néere as
my little guesse in those causes will serue me, I wil set you down
some directions. Noting by the way, that the infinit number of all
occurrents are not herein to be satisfied, though to as many as bee
néedfull examples are intended to bee giuen. Onely the learner must
consider, that the true and proper intendment hereof, is but for an
orderly conueiance of euery action to be prescribed, wherout one
direction picked, must and may well serue for a number in that or the
like degrée, vpon other occasions to be suted. Neuerthelesse, that
as well in this, as the former booke, we haue omitted no trauell for
the ease and better instruction of the studious to giue vnto them, of
euery common or néedfull matter, as manie seuerall directions, as that
the leading along of the same herein, may be wel iudged to be most
plentifull. According whereunto, of these two last recited partes, wee
will now sort you out some particular examples, of the first whereof
from the maister to the seruant, you shall expect hereafter vnder
the title Mandatorie, & of the second this example ensuing may be a
president.=
_A Letter from a seruant or factor to his maister._
Sir, my humble dutie remembred vnto you, and my good Mistresse, you may
please to vnderstand that I haue laden for your account in the good
ship called the R of B. according to your remembrance sent vnto me for
the same, by maister S. T. seuen Buts of Secke, which cost the first
pennie seuenteene Duckats the Butte: marked with your accustomed marke
in the margent. Moreouer, fiue Roues of Cochinelie, verie excellent
good, and of fine colour: which cost after Duckats the Kintall. All
which I hope by Gods grace shall safelie come vnto your hands, I send
you also herein inclosed your bill of lading: I wrote formerlie vnto
you for certaine commodities out of England by maister D. L. who came
alongst in the Fleete of L. and is as I vnderstand, safely arriued
from _Lyons_ againe. Here is at this present small newes worth the
writing vnto you, wherefore, praying Almightie God for the health and
prosperitie of you and all yours, I humbly take my leaue. From L. this
of, &c.
_Your faithfull and readie seruant at command._
_Of Epistles Remuneratorie. Chap. 9._
=In the writing of this last Letter, there was shewed mee by the
Printer, a booke called the |Marchants Auiso|, helping, and in mine
opinion most fully & amplie suffizing to this instruction. And for as
much as the conuieance of these letters, bee rather matters priuate to
Merchantes aduenturers, then resting in publique for anie other vsers,
I haue determined herein for that sorte, vnder this |Narratorie| or
|Nunciatorie| title to laie downe my limits, referring the desirous of
further direction, vnto the writer of that Booke, whose labour for
that purpose, not without his speciall desert, cannot be by me or anie
other to such end better furnished or deliuered, his tearmes being most
currant to those kind of dealinges, and his methode also best answering
vnto the true passages thereof. For which in supplement of the residue
of the required examples yet vnfitted to this my |Secretorie|, I will
proceed vnto the next title of these familiar letters, which appeare
to be |Remuneratorie|. This title serueth to a |Remuneration| or
thankfull acknowledgement of benefits receiued, and to such end is by
the examples thereof to be imploied. And in so much as vnto euerie one
well conditioned, or of good and liberall education, it is a thing
pertinent, not to omit the respect of euerie benefit without some
thankefull consideration, it shall behooue that according to the estate
or qualitie of the partie, from whome we receiue the same, we do frame
our letters of thankes, which to our betters, equalles and inferiours
are in sundrie sortes to be deliuered, and according to the dignitie
and worthinesse of euerie one, excelling or going before vs, are euer
to be measured, and with the more or lesse submissiue and humble
acknowledgment is alike to be caried. Neuerthelesse, that according
to the efficacie of speech in each of them deliuered, the greatnesse
and weightie respect of euerie good turne, is by the considerate and
respectiue regarde thereof, the more amplie to be perceiued.=
_An example of an Epistle Remuneratorie
from an inferiour, to one far his better in
reputation and calling._
To recognize (Sir) in multitude of wordes, howe much charged I stande
vnto your bounteous and euer curteous regard towards mee, were vnto
your wisdome I knowe but friuolous, who better respecteth the inwarde
seruice intended of anie one, (whereof I humblie beseech you on my
parte to stande assured) then an outwarde behauiour, the validitie
whereof maie manie waies bee doubted.
Yet neuerthelesse, in that the thoughts of men are only in word or
action to bee deciphered, let it I beseech you stande with your good
fauor that I may by these few lines confesse my selfe bound vnto you.
And for the residue, when it shall seeme good vnto your Worship to
command me, I will not haue life or abilitie that shall not be yours,
in al that it may please you to vse me.
_A Letter remuneratory from a Gentlewo-
man of good sort to a noble man her
kinsman._
My good L. howe much I am bounde vnto your L. for multitude of fauours,
and especially that it pleased you to thinke so well of me, as to
write your fauourable letters in my behalfe: I can by no other waies
expresse, then to continue your L. most humbly affectionate poore
kinswoman, & wil for euer acknowledge it as of your great goodnes,
beyond any merit of mine owne. And as my bounden duty is, no day
shal passe me that I will not pray to God for your L. health and
prosperitie, and the redoubling of your daies. Beseeching your L. to
excuse this my boldnes, and to pardon me that in person I cannot do my
humble duty, but by writing, my Lady making such haste away, as so much
time wil not be permitted me. I most humbly therefore take my leaue of
your L. From S. this eleuenth of Nouember.
_A Letter remuneratory from one
friend to another._
Good M. D. my breach of promise in not hauing visited you with
deserued requitall, sithence my departure, maie breede suspicion and
doubt of ingratefulnesse, but I hope, and by hope presume, that of
your owne good disposition towards all your acquaintance, you will
yeelde vnto an approoued trial before you condemn. For my part, if
I should not owe vnto you all honest minde and fidelitie, I shoulde
much contrary your great curtesie, and deseruedlie incur the shame of
ingratitude. You knowe that hauing swaied, as I haue done, out of the
limits of a comptrolled rule, and displeased so much thereby as my
case hath bewraied vnto you, those whome by nature and duty I ought
to be awed vnto, it is reason that by a more district obseruance I
make amendes for the residue. My father it seemeth though not yet by
me, hath otherwise vnderstoode how much I stand yoked vnto you, and
thinketh himselfe for all his sons vnthriftines somwhat therein to
be tied vnto you. His meaning is one of these daies to intreat your
paines hitherwards. But how euer deserts be noted, or care by nature
doth binde, assure your selfe whilest life leadeth along this earthly
coarse, I am and will bee alwaies most vnfainedlie yours. To whom, and
your good bedfellowe, I most hartily and often commend me. From B. this
of, &c.
_A Letter remuneratorie from a
Better to his inferiour._
T. F. I haue vnderstoode by my seruaunt P. howe much I am beholding
vnto you for your paines taken in my behalfe, about such busines as I
sent him, for which I not onlie thanke you for the present, but will
remaine your willing friende to requite you in anie thing that I maie.
It was tolde mee you had occasion to trauell this way verie shortly, I
pray you if you doe, let mee see you. And looke you faile not to vse
me as your good friende, if at anie time you fortune to haue neede of
me. Wherein doubt you not but you shall finde my readinesse as great as
your forwardnesse hath beene already in my businesse. And so doe bid
you hartily farewell. From T. this of, &c.
Your louing friend, &c.
Of Epistles Iocatorie. Chap. 10:
=Thus haue wee deliuered vnto you of euerie of these sutes their
seuerall examples, wherein you must note, that if you write to your
better a letter |Remuneratorie|, you maie not promise vnto him your
gratefulnes with the verie word of requitall, but rather by the proffer
of seruice or other affectionate meaning in you, to the answering
of such curtesies as haue beene receiued. And next hereunto will we
passe vnto the title |Iocatorie|. The letters of this sute are such
as of some pleasant conceipted vain, do procéed from one familiar
friend or acquaintance to another, rather of some sporting deuise then
of anie important matter. The vse is common among pleasant heades,
and rather suted forth according to their present vaines, then vpon
anie prescribed order. Such whereof is at the end of our Epistles
|Commendatorie|, & one other vnder the title |Consolatorie| mentioned
in the former of these bookes, and likewise a third vnder the title
|Deprecatorie|, written in this last part of letters, & a like whereunto
was once written by my selfe, and three or foure other of a merie
acquaintance, to a parson beeing our familiar, and one of good nature
and disposition in the country, wherein each one wrote a line of a
seueral hand, and as occasion fel out, inserted his sporting deuises,
with many odde quips & meriments, wherwith the good Parson thought
himselfe greatlie wronged, till he knew from whence it came. But in so
much as to an inuention onlie naturallie to be expected, no method can
be well prescribed, I leaue the Epistles of this sort to the discretion
of the writer, as his fantasie serueth to be pursued. And goe to the
next, which are called |Gratulatorie|. For as the one is a pleasant,
merie and sporting vaine, so is this a kind of reioicing, but in a more
modest and curteous maner, ouer the good healths, fortune, or other
good partes or preferments, of our friendes, kindred, or acquaintance,
whose examples to their proper purposes are nowe next to be deliuered.=
_An Epistle Gratulatorie from one friend to another._
Sir, I was verie sorie to vnderstand by the common report of our
neighbours of your great sicknes, as of such a one whom our countrie
should misse, and I promise you as much as anie poore welwiller of
yours, I grieued thereat, but being certainlie againe assured of your
good recouerie, I praise God in my thought for the same, and do reioice
it hath pleased his goodnes to bring you to your former strength.
Whereof hauing no better nor more apparant token at this present, then
my heartie well wishing, I thought it parcell of an honest purpose to
signifie the same vnto you by writing, especiallie hauing therunto so
good and fitte oportunitie, as this bearer, whome entirelie I knowe to
loue and regard you. And euen so with my heartie commendations to your
selfe, and my good Coosen your wife, I heartilie bid you farwell, From
B. this of, &c.
_A Letter Gratulatorie from a wife to her husband._
Good husbande, I am glad that you haue at the last remembred your
selfe by this bearer, to write vnto me, who haue thought it verie long
to heare from you. I doe greatlie reioice of the good and prosperous
successe of your iourney, and chieflie that you haue endured your
trauel so well, being in so good plight and strength of bodie, as I
vnderstand you are by your Letter. We are much beholding vnto our
good friends in the Countrie, that haue giuen you so great and good
entertainment. And I heartilie pray you to commend mee vnto them. Your
businesse heere at London goeth well, thankes bee to God, and wee haue
no want of any thing but your presence, which if you would once hasten
hitherward, it were a comfort vnto vs all to see you, hauing beene as
me seemeth verie long absent. But maister C. and his friendes where
you are, vseth you so kindlie, that I thinke you cannot well tell howe
to winde your selfe out from your good companie. Yet good husbande
remember that at the last you must come home, and the sooner the
better. I referre all to your good discretion, and so commend mee most
heartilie vnto you. From L. this of, &c.
_A Letter Gratulatorie from one to his kinsman seruing in London._
Good Coosen, I am glad to heare of your good preferment in London,
and that, as I heare by your father and mother, you are so wel placed
there, and with so good a Maister. It is no little comfort vnto mee
to vnderstande, that you doe so resolutelie, and with so good a minde
dispose your selfe to your businesse, which I gladlie wish you would
continue. You must nowe remember that your friends with great charge,
care and industrie haue brought you vp, and that their intent and
meaning therein was, that in expectation thereof, they should haue
ioy and comfort of you in your elder yeares. For which, as you haue
now bequeathed your selfe to this place of seruice, so must you for
any feare of hard vsage, bitternesse of speech, or other mislike of
tauntes or rebukes, make account to endure and continue. It may be,
being yet vnacquainted with the customs and vsages of London, you doe
now at the beginning thinke well of that, which hereafter maie turne to
a discontentment: but good Coosen, so be it you haue no want of things
needfull and necessarie, frame your selfe to forbeare all other crosse
matters whatsoeuer, and giue you wholie on Gods name, to the benefite
of your seruice. You shall want therein no helpe, furtherance, or
incouragement on mine and your friends behalfe, who reioycing in that
alreadie to see you so well behaued, doe daylie praie to God to prosper
and blesse you. And thus with my heartie commendations I bid you fare
well. B. this of, &c.
_Your Vnkle carefull of your
well doing, T. B._
_Of Epistles Obiurgatorie. Chap. 11._
=These three examples may bee sufficient to serue to anie matter of
this title: seeing in eyther of them is required but an alteration of
the cause whereupon wee frame our Letter to reioyce vpon: the forme of
conueyance is all one. For which we will hence procéed to the next in
course being |Obiurgatorie|, or a rebuking of the ill vsages, demeanors
or parts of any one. It sauoreth somewhat of the |Monitorie| and
|Reprehensorie| kindes before going, but in a different maner: for that
the efficacy of those Epistles do beare force in matters publike or
notorious, and these in vsages priuate and of lesse importance. The
order whereof by the examples following maie be the better perceiued.=
_A Letter Obiurgatorie from a maister to his seruant._
Among some other causes that latelie haue beene aduertized vnto me
from my good and louing friends, it is made knowne vnto me, that you
in my absence, as well towards your Mistresse, whom in my place I haue
appointed ouer you, as among others your fellowe seruants, doe take
much vpon you. You runne and goe at your pleasure, wade into vnseemelie
courses, and giue your selfe vnto some other matters, neither fitting
the trust on you reposed, nor answering vnto my seruice. The newes
hereof, you must thinke pleaseth me not verie well, neither can I
with patience digest, that a companion of your being, to whom by my
sole fauour I haue giuen place of direction in my house, should be
so imperious ouer my wife and her due command in mine absence. Your
wide wandring & common haunts at your liking, cannot by all coniecture
be vnto mine estate profitable. Wherefore in signification that I am
nothing well pleased with these so lauish demeanors, if by the next
report I hear not that they are better amended, you are shortlie
thereupon likelie inough to find how ill contenting they be vnto
my humours: with which priuate rebuke, if priuatelie so it may bee
considered, being at this present resolued to conclude, I attend the
redresse of these euils: and so giue my selfe to my further trauels.
From B. this of, &c.
_Your maister to requite you as you shall deserue._
_Of Epistles Mandatorie. Chap. 12._
=The force of these Epistles, mingled, as I said before, with the other
Titles in the last Chapter declared, may for further matter or other
occasions therin required, draw yᵉ plenty of their examples from those
|reprehensorie| and |Comminatorie|, kindes alreadie specified, this,
for any other like direction being thereunto for this place sufficient.
And now the last of these familiar titles ensueth, which is called
|Mandatorie|. These Letters haue their titles of such directions,
matters in charge, or other instructions, as by writing from one person
to another are deliuered, and are the most ordinarie in vsage of all
other letters that are amongste vs frequented. The conueyance whereof
in these following Examples shall be tendered.=
_A Letter mandatorie from a maister to his seruant or factor,
being beyond the seas._
My heartie desire of your good sucesse and wel-fare intended, which
I hope God will blesse, I maruell that I haue receyued no Letters
from you since the fourth of March last, I hope you doe neuerthelesse
continue your good care and trust in mine affaires, whereof I nothing
doubt. I wrote by maister N. in the good ship called the P. of London
vnto you, which will shortly by Gods grace arriue at B. and is bound
for L. vnto my coosen T. R. for all your necessities to giue you ayd
as well in counsell as money: howbeit I hope you haue no great want of
either, considering those trusty friends I haue remaining where you
are, and your owne allowed diligence which formerlie I haue proued.
I do now send you by a bill of lading in the good ship called the S.
of D. those commodities you last wrote vnto mee of, viz. one packe of
verie fine broad cloathes, & twentie Tuns of Lead: the broad cloathes
stand me with all charges in sixteene pounde a cloath. I hope you will
haue regarde to the selling of these commodities to my best aduauntage,
wherein I pray you do your best endeuour as the market serueth. And
for the money arising thereof, I would haue you to employ on these
commodities there, which are here most vendible, wherof I principally
wrote vnto you in my last letters, which I doubt not by this time you
haue receiued. Otherwise I would haue you to confer with my coosen T.
R. there abouts. And thus desiring Almighty God to blesse and prosper
you, whom I desire you in all your actions and dealings to remember, I
bid you heartily farewell. L. this last of Maie.
_Your maister willing in all things to requite
your seruices, &c._
_Another Letter mandatory from a maister
to his seruaunt._
Albeit I haue manie occasions to write vnto you by this bearer, which
time will not suffer me to doe: Neuerthelesse such as are most needfull
I will hereby remember you of. At my departure from N. I gaue order for
certaine wares to bee sent vnto you from thence by the carier of C. and
thereof did then write vnto you at large in a Letter, and sent inclosed
in that letter a bill of the parcels. Now hauing sithence considered
with my selfe of the matter, my desire is that you do not transporte
them as I was determined, but let them rest vntill my home comming,
for that there is a shippe shortly going for B. of M. Alderman H. with
whome I am determined to ioine in the whole freight, and meane by Gods
grace therein to passe both those and some other commodities. About
thursday next, there is one T. B. appointed by my coosen L. P. to come
vnto you for fiftie pound, if he do come let him haue the money, and
take his note for the receipt, and this shall be your warrant. I would
haue you to looke to the waters side if the wind continue Southward,
for it is now serueth wel, and I doubt not but to heare from Lisbon,
for gladly would I vnderstand of our shipping, and of such letters as
shall be sent I wish you to take notice, and if I returne not before,
vse circumspection I pray you to prouide for their returne accordingly.
The haste of this bearer wil not suffer me to write more, only looke to
my businesse, haue care of the trust in you reposed, and commend me to
your mistrisse, tel her I will hasten homewards, as fast as I can. And
so to God I commit you. R. this of, &c.
Your louing maister, &c.
_A Letter mandatory from a man to his wife._
Good wife, considering my hasty departure from you and my children,
my hope is that you wil haue that louing and respectiue care towards
them and your familie, that appertaineth. I haue left many things raw
by reason of the suddennes of my iourney, which standeth vpon your
good regard to be ordered, as namely the charge of my seruantes, and
disposition of some other affaires and businesse. You shall nowe shewe
your selfe a carefull and discreete wife, if in mine absence, you will
a little take vpon you to be in my place. Regard and consider with your
selfe, that seruants are negligent and carelesse, and if the maister
forget his owne profit, they are as readie as others to share with
his gaines. Your painfull attendance to ouerlooke them, shal straine
their labours to my vsing, your desire to see into them, shall worke
their vsage to my well seruing. You must now a little while forget
neighbourhood, and walking for company, considering the old prouerbe:
That when the Cat is away the mouse wil go play: If master and dame
haue both continued absence, seruants fall a wasting, and do what they
list. You know good wife, I haue now taken a great charge of late vpon
me, which with some carefull looking to, may turne to good, let it not
be grieuous vnto you, nor thinke it hard, that I thus make you partaker
of my charge, as I do of my profit. For we are yoke fellowes you know,
and the charge is equall betwixt vs to be borne and supported. If as
louing mates and companions wee drawe forth togethers, we doubtlesse
shall by Gods blessed goodnes see the fruits of our labours. Our
children shall participate with vs of our trauels, and God shal prosper
our endeuours. And howbeit good wife, I haue alwaies found you such,
as of whose care to my well doing I neede haue no doubt, yet if by
the importance of my charge I bee driuen thus much to write vnto you,
thinke that in great trust of your modesty, respect of your loue, &
zeale to both our goods I haue done the same. And though no mistrust
remaine of any one about me: yet doe I put you in minde what youth
by too much sufferance and neglegct of libertie may be inclined to.
This is al I would, and so much I hope as you gladly will yeelde vnto.
Commend mee manie times to your selfe and likewise to all our friendes.
From R. this third of Maie, &c.
Your assured louing husband, &c.
_A Letter Mandatory from one friend
to another._
My harty commendations remembred vnto you, good maister R. These are
to certifie you that I haue presumed so much on your friendship, as
to put ouer certaine causes of mine in your name, for so much as for
many respects I find my selfe too far insufficient to deale with the
parties, I must therefore desire you to receiue some instructions
which I haue herwith sent you by this bearer, and therein to vse such
needfull furtherance as in like cases of friendship you may commaund
at my handes. I pray you also that you will take so much more further
paines for me, as at conuenient leisure to walke towards S. and there
to confer with my brother P. and vpon sight and hearing of such
matter as by him shall bee shewed and set forth vnto you, to deale
accordingly. Thus with my earnest desire to see you here at L. where
you shall most hartily finde your selfe welcome, I take leaue this of,
&c.
Your very louing friend, &c.
=Thus haue I led along, as you sée, this promised Methode by varietie
of directions and examples, fitting to euery purpose I hope to the
pleasing and content of all the indifferent readers: and here as a
limit sufficient to that determined labour, doe I laie downe my rest.
If anie faultes happen, as no doubt there will (for what from fault
maie bee frée) let the learned I beseech them winke at it, the curteous
ouerpasse it, and the considerate and well practised in such like
trauels fauour me in it, seeing my endeuour therein was done for the
best. And so doe I conclude my Methode.=
FINIS.
A
DECLARATION
of al such Tropes, Figures or Schemes,
_as for excellencie and ornament in wri-_
ting, are speciallie vsed in this
Methode.
Collected and explaned togithers,
according to their applications,
vsages, and properties.
_By Angell Day:_
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