A Copy of the pretended Letter, whereupon the Indictment against Hendry Navile-paine is founded.  
The 3d. of December, 1692.  
I Am forced in ill for want of better paper; dearest Aunt, to let you know that I am obliedged to change my bad Lodging for worse; being Relapsed into my old destemper again. My Physicians being resolved not to let any Breathing visit me, till it please GOD to restore me to my perfect Health, They alleging that my keeping too much Company, doth great Mischief. All my Consolation in this miserablc condition is that Mistress friend is just come to the Neighbourhood; And though I fear I shall not be so happy to see her, yet my dearest Cusine, I doubt not, will do it speedily: For so it is contrived ●o be by my dear and diligent friends negotiation, who is the very Life and vigour of all your Brother's affair here, and the prop of his family Running, going, and spending herself to the last penny in his serviee, and but for hers in the first place, and Mistress Mowat in the second; Your poor Nephew might have perished long or this for mere want to no great Credit, no more than advantage of your brother; for though he have many more, able he has not a faithfuller Servant in the World! Oh GOD how can be be so despised amongst his Relations, when there enemies consider him so much; And all other honest acquaintance, that knows him, have some esteem at Least for him, This is all I will, and less I cannot say, for all the strange reguardless usage he has met withal from David, and Let it stand as it doth since M●stris Mowat writes me word she and him begin to understand one another better, and are like to be perfect friends, which for your Brother's sake, I hope will continue real on that side, as I am sure it is on this; she and Little-John has had a meeting to, where all things have been so explained betwixt them, that I hope will produce a lasting Concurrence in diligence for your Brother's service; To which sole End, all my endeavours therein, have tended. And now I assure you, all things here, are in perfect Order, for bringing in the Trial as speedily as your Brother pleases, and the sooner the better (I am sure) for his Adversary is very diligent in seeking out new Agents, that are like to be more able and faithful to him, than these he has hitherto Employed. And I azure you succeeds extreme well in his Designs, and has in a manner united all the Mechanics by this means, to be entirely his; So the Cause may grow worse, but cannot mend by the delay of the Trial, and as for Compositions, and Bargains, with particulars. It is of little or no importance, Since men's several Interests and Designs are so Different, that they are Impossible to be Reconciled before the Cause be ended, & he walk the exchange again. In the mean time▪ care must be had, that his Letters of Attorney be fairly and fully drawn, as me thinks is easy to be done, And I would have sent you a draught as I told you in my last, but that I cannot with all my diligence procure a Copy of the Last, to make a true Judgement why it is so universally cried out upon, by those of the Creditors have seen it; But now I must to bed, and mind no more Business, perhaps while I live, but yet cannot die an honest man, if I do not with earnestness of my Soul recommend to your Brother, Sister, and David, the diligent Gentle woman I mentioned before, as the most useful person beyond all Comparison of any body they have here, This Mrs Mowat, Littlejohn. The sick Minister and Nurse's friend, Nay all other Relations here not only continually allow, but by daily proofs will testify: This makes me beg that since there is the Clerk of the Town she lives in; Newly dead, the place may be procured for her Husband or Son, A line from your Brother doth it; and I am very sure it is impossible for him to employ his pen more deservedly, the m 〈…〉 I assure you comes not in the least from her, She being the most dissinterested Creature breathing, but was of her own accord proposed by Mistress Mowat; Who also said she would write to secure the favour, for fear of some bodies interposing betwixt your Brother and David to prevent, so just a request in her behalf as this is: for GOD's sake propose it earnestly in Mistress Mowat and my Name, to your Brother and David, and Interest therein your excellent Sister; And if ever I was so happy to do or endeavour, any thing was acceptable to her; May her memory thereof plead for me in this request. Dear Aunt, lay all Nice or Timorous Reserves by, and press it home, as an honest Matter, and the most earnest Desire of Your Dutiful Nephew. Adieu, my service to David and Nurse, join her in the Matter, I beseech you for her Friend's sake and mine.