Letter 4033

Newport pannel [nr?] Bukinghamshir ye 28 [..]: 1727 Dear Sr I found my self ill yesterday morning, before I left home with a violent headache – loathsomeness of stomach, & a great looseness. However thinking the journey would do me good I venturd as far as this place wch is 17 miles from my house but the symptoms are so increasd wch I take to bee ye signs of what they call the new feaver, that I fear I am not able to proceed I am extremely Sorry for ye disapointment wch I hope wch be no prjudice to ye affairs of Sr Hannes Sloane but I dread lying .. upon the .ad, & if I am not better this afternoon, I will return home to be sick. Pray give my obedt service to my good friend Mr {…}, whom I had promisd to [d?] Tea with next Thursday morning, & if it be not too great trouble of you should go towards [grafton?] street near the oratory, I beg you would call at my Lodging there at Mrs du Hamels [to?] [Motteners?] over against the [ballo?] wch and .. who expects me & where I sent my to [do a…s?] [last?] week I desire you to tell her I shall not come I beg pardon for this trouble I would have wrote to her my self but by head akes so I am ….. say [ye.?] I am Dear Sr your most humble Servt C Lamotte [T..d.y p…..?]