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    Serve Mr Neals Congregation, so I congratulate Your new c. P.

    Mission Pray give my Kind service to Mr Hunter, in Yr next

    & let him know I shall not faile, to returne the Favours.

    Yesterday I had a letter from Mr Thorold, of the 12th Mr

    Williams was well as then, & in his Exercise, Mr Thorold will

    be here with us at the Mannor, for 12th day, Mr Darnall is all-

    ways so extreamly obliging to me, that I am ashamed to Come

    to the Wood Yard, Praying Humble Service to him & his

    Lady, Mr Diggs & his Sister, & wish them all in my Name, a

    good Christmass & happy New Year, Command me

      10br 21st 1712  Yor obliged humble Servt

                                    P. Attwood

                                         S. J.

     As for News I know You value it not, being taken up in

    Matters of Greater Moment, & therefore I here advise You

    to lay aside my Letter, and read no further but give it to Mr

    Darnall to whome Perchance it may be acceptable. On Sun

    day Capt Hoxton came hither, and gave us the ffollowing

    Accounts, (but first it may be worth while to advise You, he

    is totally in the Low Church Interest, and somewhat ignorant,

    in Foreign Affairs. He sat Sail from Portsmouth the last of

    Octobr and entered the Capes Yesterday was Sevenight,

    being the thirteenth Inst: He lay beating about the Capes

    3 Weeks, so that had he found a favourable Wind here, his

    Passage had been of nineteen days onely, altho he went to

    the Southward his Ship is new, & a delicate Sayler, they made

    450 Leagues in one Week, and often two hundred and fifty

    miles in one day, and many more are the Wonders he tells of

    Her, her name is the Antelope Pink this is her first Voyage.

    Daniel Watts is arrived, his leg is but Skin & bone and not

    healed, so that he went not on Shoare in England, He went

    to Holland, with part of his owne Freight, and other Tobacco

    and from thence is gone to New Castle to load with Coale,

    great Part of his Tobacco and other is sold, some in England

    from 2 1/2 to 4, some in Holland from 3 to 6 Stivers pll the

    Parliament was not Chosen when he left England, and are

    not to sitt till January, the Members are much the same the

    High Church are put to it, especially in London, where four

    Merchants were designed for Members, by the Low Church

    trading Party, but the high Church, use all Industry to

    strengthen their side, they take all out of Prisons to Vote for

    them, giving them and their Guardians each a Guinea. Mr

    Carlton (who is not Coming hither, but is actually under

    Confinement, & has a Statute of Banckrupt out against him)

    was taken out to Poll: The Emperour is not Come in, nor is

    there any Truce between &c: Landau is taken, and Phriburg