The Hartlib Papers

Title:Letter, Sir Thomas Rowe To [Hartlib]
Dating:13 December 1639
Ref:14/4/71A-72B: 72A-B BLANK
Notes:See G.H. Turnbull, Hartlib Dury and Comenius, 1947, p. 208.
[14/4/71A]

Sir
I haue receiued yours & the enclosed of the 14: Nouember and as I suppose all your former safely. yow say yow haue receiued none of myne in 6: or 7 weekes. but I hope since yow haue had two: one written by a converted Hebrew. & therein a bill of exchange of fiue pounds as a token of my gratitude. if he be not arriued I will supply it by[altered] a new bill. which I pray take in good part, vntill I be out of debt here. another I wrote yow by the post since the former, & that I confess is all which in the tyme by yow mentioned. for I confess besides my Infirmitye we haue little newes, & none but matter of displeasure. Mr Duries silence hath beene Caused by his long absence & continuall remoues. for hauing begun by permission of the king of Denmarke to treate with his Diuines, he hath thought fitt to make one worke of these quarters, & therefore hath presented his grounds to those of this Towne, & lubeck; & since to the ArchBishop of Breame, who willingly embraced the motion, & freely recommended him to his ecclesiasticks & now least [left margin:] others of this Circle should take prejudice by want of enformation, or seeming neglect of them, he is gone to lunenburg, so to Brunswicke, from whence I last heard from him, with purpose to proceed to the vniuersitye of Helmstat, & so the round wilbe finished; In his way he was robbed: but of what I know not. God giue a blessing
[14/4/71B]

to his labours of peace, in my opinion [verry?] vnlike to take effect in these dayes of confusion: from Bannier we heare nothing, all the world is in a murmure. & thus I wish yow a happy Christmas resting
Hamburg 3/13 Dec: 1639.
                           your affectionate friend
                                              Tho: Rowe