296 Court and Testamentary Business, 1644.

Liber P. R. By 450. of Robt Miles           00450.

                  By                        417 of John Webb 00417.

                  By                                    1101. wch mr Hill made vse of 01101.

                  By                                    1000. made vse of at Irelands 01000.

                  By               756 being Newmans tobacco 00756.

                  By                                    1100. paid Mose     01100

                  By                                2040 fho. Heaths pvision     02040

                  By               10000 due by him vnto the 10000

                   partable accot

                  By         11989 due to balance asp Contra 11989

                                                         40300.

                           p me Nicho Brooke.

                            Errors excepted.

                    In London the 10th of 7ber 1644.

                    Loving cosin, by this barer my sonne I have recd your ac

                  compt, thereby perceiving both the poore rates you have sold

                  our goods at & your large expences brought to accompt, in so

                  much that the 1 200 l we sent out by you will hardly make vs

                  700 a miserable reckoning the balance of your accompt I pray

                  deliver vnto my sonne Henry in tobacco & debts if any vn

                  recovered for that I vnderstand yor father intends to take his

                  busines from you. he hath written me that I have beene the

                  cause you have sent him so small returnes & have perswaded

                  you to keepe his estate & provide for your selfe, and this

                  he & your mother reports of me, wch you know I am most

                  innocent in, & how in divers of my letters vnto you (wherof

   p. 190    some he hath entercepted) I from time to time putt you in

                  mind to performe your duety towards him in discharging very

                  carefully the trust he reposed in you, he doth not only procure

                  my trouble & disgrace but setts others vpon me as this barer

                  can certify you. I am resolved wth patience to vndergoe what

                  by his meanes & procurement may befall me, beseeching

                  Almighty God to give me grace & courage to persever to the

                  end. & to turne his heart & make him apprehensive of the

                  miserable estate & condition he is in I rest

                                 Your ever loving vncle

                  endorsed              Henry Brooke

                  To mr Nico Brooke marchant

                          Virginia

                     by a frend whom God keepe.

                    This Indenture made the eighteenth day of March 1640

                  And in the sixteenth yeare of the reigne of Or Soveraigne Lord

                  Charles by the grace of God king of England Scotland ffrance