If they were to be sold, they cannot be sent safely to you in a letter through the hands of many posts, and I have no other way to send to you from hence. It would a great deal better become you, to advise your dau^^hters to cast off all thoughts of such bravery, as would not be fit for them, though their father were worth twenty times as much as he is, all his just claims being reckoned with that which he hath now in his power. This letter will come to Whitehall, about the very begintnng of the parliament, so that Mr. Secretary and those about him, may be so full of business, that they may forget to send you this letter in due time, and then it may miscarry, which is the cause that this tiaie I tell you no more of my mind concerning Ma. an(J the rest, of whom, I cai^not think without much sadness,

God Almighty bless them and direct you.

Zurich, May, 26th. Mr. Pell to Mrs. Pell. Since my last of April 20th, &c. (fcc, I have receiv^ed two of yours. In them you ask advice concerning my son. If he be i>ot fit to get long lessons, by heart, he will never be fit for that school ; but you must take heed that you displease not Mr. B. by taking him away, if our friends can help you to find out a good school for him, you may send him thither in the school vacation ; or else ray uncle may help you to an excuse, by pretending a desire to see him ; and then (as if it were his hiunor in my absence to have him better grounded before he return to such a great school) he may be sent to some other school, where there are fewer boys ; for in large schools, the masters are forced to ease themselves by laying great burdens upon their scholars' memories.