Autograph letter signed : Oates [near Harlow, Essex], to Cornelius Lyde, 1697 Mar. 26.

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Autograph letter signed : Oates [near Harlow, Essex], to Cornelius Lyde, 1697 Mar. 26.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664367187

Mentioning a new tax and observing that "notheing [makes] the taxes come with more unwillingnesse and discontent from the people than when they see others doe not bear an equall share in the burthen with them" [sic]; discussing the currency problems; saying that the "businesse of the lease to Francis Carpenter" must wait until he goes to London": "I doe not use to set my hand and seale till I have advised with those who are better skild in those matters than I, by which menas I have all my life avoided suits and controversies" [sic].

1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Lyde, Cornelius, ca. 1640-1717,

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Locke, John, 1632-1704

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