The Ellis Correspondence - 1829 Author:John Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CXLIX. Interest of Philip Ellis at Court.—The Declaration.—Private matters. Norwich, July 12th, 1688. SIR, It hath been so long since I have heard from ... more »you, that I begin to fear I must lose your correspondence. I confess we are now at a great distance; however I should be loth our old friendship should be forgotten. Your brother being now a great man at Court, I have been expecting that by his interest a translation might be procured for you to some place in the English Court, as advantageous to you as that you have in the Irish ; and I hope some time or other it may be done, that I may have my good friend again, where I may sometimes have the happiness of enjoying his conversation. Things look cloudy upon us here, and the matter of the Declaration hath, I fear, put us much under the King's displeasure; however, I thank God, we still live in quiet, and if God continues that, we may be content patiently to bear all things else. At present we are only hurt in imagination, and our greatest torment is our fears of what may after happen; but I hope they will prove to be only fears, and nothing else. I hope, when you come into England, you may think Norwich worth your seeing, when you have a friend here that would so heartily make you welcome. I have now lived here two years in great content, it being the most delightful city of any I have seen in England for a man to live in, especially in our district, which hath all sorts of conveniences to recommend it to our satisfaction. There is still some money due unto you from me, and it hath lain in London for you now near these two years, but it being the last account I am like to make with you, I would gladly have your full discharge when it is paid you, and therefore I hope your occasions may ere long call you to London, and then ...« less