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National Library of Wales, MS. 4811D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am sorry you were not chaired. you would have been within reach & I would have gone some distance to have seen the inauguration.
I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of
Literature.
I have now gone thro Blackstone
I have got learnt much military
knowledge from a history of Edward 3rd. by old Joshua
Barnes,th book. with your permission when I return to London, I
will have the proof sheets sent up under cover to your Senatorship: which will
enable me to give it a last revisal, & to insert notes from books to
which I cannot have access here.
A man may read Humec.1525–1580?;
I have something to add about the battle of Azincour.xx must have more of the previous solemnity of th a pitched battle. I wish much to alter the
beginning on account of the miracle, but see no way of doing it. I cannot
discover what name has been improved into Glacidas: it is better than an English
name — but I should like the real one. Gladdisdale is Sir William Glansdale in
Shakespear.
That blockhead Chapelainxxx incident which I had not known
before. he has however set me right right in the
length of march from Chinon to Orleans. I wish I had seen that city. can you
tell me if the Loire be a wide stream there (as I take it to be) & if
there are not islands in the rivers there? there
were six great streets in it, that met in the middle; I find from Chapelain that
Rheims was built in the same manner, & conclude <conceive> it to have been the customary way
of building towns.
The Anglesey militia here have published rather an Irish reason
why all attempts upon their loyalty will be useless — because they do not
understand English. One of the Pagets
God bless you.