You seem to forget your Engagement to your Father-in-Law, you know the Time is expired concerning your Payment of the Money, which was lent to you, and not to him; wherefore as you love the Truth, I desire you to send me the Money remaining behind speedily, that I may restore it to the right Owner.
Now concerning my own Condition it is thus; on May Day last, I was Senseless two or three times, insomuch, that if a faithful Friend had not been by me to relieve me with a little Cordial, I had immediately died. I still continue very sick and weak, so that of Necessity, I must either mend or end in a little Space. As for Relief now I have most need of it, it hath been very small of late; I wish it may not be a Burthen to the Conscience of some when I am gone; the Widow's Mite will be a Witness against all Carnal Excuses in those that own this Truth. It may be you may think, I have no need of your Charity now, because the Merchant for a little Season allowed me a small Matter Weekly; but if you think so, you are much mistaken, for I have had none from him a pretty while, neither do I know whether I shall have any more from him at all: For when he took Ship for Barbadoes, he had not wherewithal to leave his Wife and Children, through the unjust Dealings of unreasonable Men. Brother Hill, You may remember you sent me Word, that if the London Christians would contribute Weekly or Monthly to my Necessity, you would do the like, you will do well to keep your Covenant.
And so I commit you to the most High, and remain yours in all Righteousness,
John Reeve.
My Dwelling is in Bishopsgate-street near Hog-lane End, with three Sisters that keep a Sempstris Shop.
Direct your Letters to our Brother Muggleton, to be conveyed to me, and the Money to him for me, you know where he dwells; it is in Trinity-lane, over against a Brown-Baker's.
London June 11. 1656.
Another Epistle of John Reeve's to the same Person.
For his Loving Friend Christopher Hill, Heel-maker in Stone-street in Maidstone, in Kent. These
Brother Hill,