MS43.04: Francis Nicholson Papers
Memorandum 27 February
February 27th at night
To go to Major Burwell's in the morning and tell him that the refusing his Excellencys message is
such a peice of inhumanity, barbarity, and ill breeding that no body would have ever offerred the
like to any Gentleman, much less to him who is their Governor: but several of his family have
not refused presents, thô his Excellency doth not value them, and they might have refused to
accept them also, and then they would have done him Justice, and saved him a
great deal of
charge, trouble, and loss of time+. That his
Excellency is resolved to see Madam Lucy
either before or after she is married, and if he cannot at home, he will find an opportunity to see
her somewhere else, and if possible in a publick place (and hopes she has not forget, since she
came hither at a publick time and afterwards too) and perhaps tell her what she will not
be willing to hear. That he finds they have now declared themselves his publick
Enemys as they were before his private ones, and he must look on
them as such. That
his Excellency expects an answer from the Major to what he has sent him, and also from
Madam Lucy under her hand concerning his Letters. That he is sensible there hath
been a great many false, scandalous, and malicious Stories told both to the Major, Madam
Burwell, and especially to Madam Lucy concerning him, and he will have satisfaction of the address of: but he trusts in God that truth will prevail at last, and he also, over his enemys of all sorts
them
as (thank God) he hath hitherto done. Since his Excellency last saw Madam Lucy
he has desired nothing but what he thinks ought to have been granted him:
And neither
the Parson can make Atheism or impiety of it, nor the Lawier make it high or petty
Treason, nor the Collonel cowardice or breach of honour, from all wch he says, Good Lord
deliver him.
of dealing with him.