1601 Mar 5 Neville to Ralph Winwood
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Mr. winwood. I suppose you will have vnderstood of my misfortune before this letter com vnto your handes. or howsoever, I had rather you should know yt by any boddy then by my self. Though my fortune be vnlikely to afford you that requytall which your paines, faith & love towards me hath deserved, yet I doubt not but the proofe you have made of your work and sufficiency in the charge you have held there, will raise you vp freends that will supply my defect & disabillyty. whereof I shall be as glad as of any good that may happen to my self. your letter by Simons I receaved vpon my way at Rochester. Since that I have bin in trouble & hard nothing. But I am commanded by Mr. Secretary to write vnto you to continue your charge, till her matie. take some other order for the supplying of the place I held there. And for my self I am licenced to dissolve my familie there. which gives me ocasion to be troublesom vnto you and to desire you to take som paines and care for me this once more, & to adde extremam manum to all your former kindnes. first my desire is that you should take account for me both of my steward & richard hauthorne of all such monny as they have receaved & disbursed since their last account made to me at my comming from Paris, wherevnto you shall find my hand at the foote of the account. and with the overplus I pray you see the butcher & rotisseur discharged & any thinge els that is owing there, yf any there be. next I pray you pay vnto Stallin him self 100 crownes for his wages for five quarters of a yeere. for till Christmas was a twelvemoneth I paid him all that was due, before I cam away. This don I pray you call to hauthorne for a letter I wrote vnto him in August or September last, wherein I appointed him to sell away som part of my stuffe, and let the contents of that letter be performed in every point. only I pray you to do me the pleasure to have som oversight of the dooing of yt & to take the monny into your handes that is made of yt. The rest of the stuffe I left there (besides that I appoint to be sold) and likewise all that I sent over last with hammon to be sent for England except there be any thinge that you may have use of for your self, which I am very willing you shall retaine. The provisions likewise wch I either left or sent over, either of spice, sugr grocery ware wine lights or such like may be sold away saving what you will reserve for your self. And ? the howse discharged & my people with the stuffe sent by water to Rouen, & from thence the directest way for England. And because yt may perhaps be long ere there be any good commodyty of passage from rouen by water, yf yt be not to chargeable I would yt were conveyed overland from rouen to deepe & so shipped for dover in som safe passage, because there is matter of charge of the queenes plate & mine owne, among yt I would pray you also to cause the tronke or chest to be opened, wherein the plate is that I left at Paris, and to take out the monny which you find in yt, which is better then thirty pownd, & reserve it for your owne use, & so make vp the chest safe againe & send yt wth the rest of the stuffe.. yf you deliver any monny for the charges of my people & my stuffes bringing home I pray you give yt to Hammon to account for at his returne. now because you may have som certainty to charge my two servaunts vpon their accounts, you shall vnderstand that besides that I left with them, hawthorne by this inclosed note of his owne hand, sent me in october last, confesseth the receit of 63(?) crownes & a franke. Since that Stallin receaved of mr. willaston 50li sterling when he likewise receaved other 50 li for young H Savile. And now since againe mr. Bashe hath delivered me this inclosed reckoning wherein he chargeth vpon them 175li—2s sterling as paid vnto them and disboursed for the fraight of my stuffe which in all coms to — 359li—2s. Besides that I left in Stallins hands & to be receaved by him presently from mr. willaston at my comming aware Stallin allso wrote me that he
was to receave for the impost of my wine, of mine host of Orleans 92 crownes when you have taken their accounts I pray you send them me inclosed in a packet directed to my wife. I am ashamed to put you to this trouble. But where I am so much beholden allready, I will not refuse(?) to be(?) beholden so much more heereafter I pray you direct your letters to Mr. Secretary and not to me. God keepe you, and send you that fortune and good acceptacion that I know you are worthy of. from my lord Admiralls howse at Chelsey, where I am in a very honnorable prison, the 5th. of March 1600
I send you heerewith an Inventary which Hawthorn sent me of the goods that were left there. the rest that cam thither since, Hammon hath a note of But it makes not so much matter for any inventary of that. for that must all come backe, but the provision only.
Your very loving and thankefull freend for all your paines. Henry Neuill
