text:  In this caution I know I fulfil the intentions of my honoured friend your esteemed uncle Mr William Snowton which is concerned with too many noble families to desire to get into enmity with any--and therefore be grateful for all the kindness you experience from my honoured lady; but if perchance she brings her grandchild to the Court and wishes to make you of her intimates inform me thereof; and greatly as it would be to be regretted I would break off the custom of your visits to the noble house for even that honour may be too dearly purchased by the enmity of powerful and unscrupulous men--if with sceptres in their hands so much the more to be held in awe