Wotton School scholarship for son of William HicksVersion ws3_0.py0.2 | |
Gloucestershire Record Office D8887/13605, Smyth of Nibley Papers Vol. 5, f. 90 | |
| Good Sir beinge solicited in the behalf of my neighbour William Hicks with the consent & good likinge of the widow Garlick (whose sonne it pleased you to place at my brother Stephens request in Wotton schole & to make him partaker of your bounty therein neverthelesse it hath so befallen that he hath fallen away from love of his booke to loiteringe so farre that now there is no hope to make him a scholer although his witt is very good & fitt for learninge but that it is corrupted by his will) I am an ernest suitor unto you that you would bee pleased if the widowes sonne be putt out to putt into his place the sonne of William Hickes who is 14 yeares old & was taught in my house with my sonnes & is a very towardly good boy for his nature & manners & a very studious boy & able for loue of learninge more then ordinarily I have knowne in most others & one that is so farre growne in stature & learninge that I cannot conceive how hee should have any cause to stay aboue two or 3 yeares (if so much) before hee will bee fitt for the university which when he shalbee I shall endevour to helpe to preferre him there by all the meanes I may hee is neere kinsman to the former boy they being brother & sisters children & for his good behaviour I dare give my word that there is not a better in Wotton schole & hope confidently hee shall continew so to bee with such improovement as shall bee to the comfort & credit of his scholemaister benefactours freindes & the schole besides that beinge borne in the parish it may adde some argument to your favour in respectinge him before an other cominge further of. I dare not bee ernest with such a freinde importunity beinge a kinde of morall violence which becomes not a debtor to use to his creditor for so I am to you in some part for what you did for the widow my neighbour though not with that good successe as was hoped & desired but that without any fault but his owne that was unworthy of such bounty Thus prayinge you to pardon my boldnesse & to respect this my suite so farre as well you may without greater inconvenience with renewed thankes for all curtesies & good respects I cease too bee tedious & rest | |
| Aug 4. 1628 | your lovinge freind to his power in all readinesse JGiles |
| Address: | To the worshipful John Smith esquire at his house in North Nibley give this |
| Endorsed by recipient: | Mister Giles for Hickes |
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