Catalogue description CAPTAIN M[ARTIN] FOSTER to JOHN PRIDGEON.

--You speak as if it lay with me to give or obstruct your desires, but as I live I have not received one denier from the country since you left. I have joined you in importuning his Lordship [the Earl of Lindsey], "and I have good words, but the divel a penny." But for all your anger, I have sent you 80l. My service to this family is the greatest honour that ever befell me, but if you conceive that I have not stretched my interest to the utmost to advance your desires, I pray you employ some other.

"The Scots declared a warr and army to be raised; the ground, upon severall breaches of particulers mentioned in the Covenant and the large treaty between the two kingdomes; and propound these redresses, which their commissioners are shortly to presse to the Houses here or their army force, (vizt.): the takeing of the nationall Covenant through this kingdome, the setleing of presbytrey, the suppressing of heresies, the disbanding the independent army, the bringing the King to or neere London for a personall treaty, he takeing the Covenant, the restoreing the expelled members."

On the back is written in another hand:-

"Qui vient est beau, qui apporte encore plus beau, Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin; Qui perd le sien, perd le sens."