Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663

5375. Percy⁵⁾. (H.A.)aant.

Since I receaved yours it si soe long that you may have forgott to have written as well as I to have receaved, had not I kept yours by me, the civility of which as well as the esteeme I have of your person obleegeth me to make you this returne, and had done it sooner, had my intention not bin interrupted both by indisposition and absence. The contents of myne was, I remember, to give you some knowledge of the miserable condition of Chateau Renard, and your answer was that, intending sale of it, noething was necessary or could be done for putting of it in a better posture, to which there is noe reply to be made by me, but I am very much concerned to tell you that, what with both the saisies made by Mons. de Bricmau and François Mouche, as well as by the noise Tassin makes, sometimes that he hath sold it to Mons. Bushuratt, sometimes to Mons. Tillier⁶⁾, and at others to Mad. Chatillon⁷⁾, distracts all the tenants soe much that they will pay noething, and keepes both me and

5) Zie No. 5360.

6) Waarschijnlijk Michel le Tellier (1603-1685), secretaris van staat, later kanselier en zegelbewaarder van Frankrijk.

7) Zie No. 5366.

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others from venturing any stock, not knowing what determination will be taken, and without it there can be very little made of the thing; all I desire is that some resolution or other may be taken, that his Higness service may be advanced by sale, or that such courses may be token as may make me capable of paying the rent. Since my last being there in the middle of October there hath happned a very ill accident by the indiscretion or negligence of a servant at the grange, whoe let a candle, as I think - for perticuler relation I have had none - or some fire fall into the strawe of one of the stables and that firing burnt another and that tooke hold of the farmehouse itselfe and burnt it all, with some 40 or 50 loade of hay in some part of it, which could not be put into the barnes; I was not heere when the bailifs letters came to me, which is the cause I did not advertise it the last week. Accidents of this nature falls out soe strangely sometimes as the greatest providence cannott prevent them; had I bin there, I could say noe more to it then I doe now. If the thing be sold, the losse is noething, for those that buy it will not refuse it because of that losse, but if it be not sold, it will put his Higness to an expence, for the farme cannott be managed without a howse.

I send you heere the memorialls of the saisies given me at my being last at Chateau-Renard by the bailiff and procureur of his Higness, the originalls of which proceedings I have sent Mons. Enflett¹⁾ to acquaint the Councell with all, and doe desire you to doe me the favor to acquaint them alsoe with what you think fitt of this letter. Uppon recollection I remember, Mons. Buseroy hath the particulers of one of the saisies already, soe that 't is not necessary to send you this. The one is for 15000 ℔, the other is lesse. Though you are a greater master of my owne language then I am my selfe, I assure you, I will contest with you for the substance, which is that you cannott be more desirous then I am to be in all things ..... Paris, 29^th October 1654.

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