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

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Details of 8ANC8/57
Reference: 8ANC8/57
Title: CAPTAIN M. FOSTER to [JOHN PRIDGEON].
Description:

--"Dear friend, If I had been to have redeemed the old man's soule out of the rich man's purgatory, I cannot gett one penny returned." I am confident you will have received your return ere this from Mr. Cokain, and I shall contrive you bills of exchange where you need. "Onely my master desires a plain particuler account how you intend to dispose of yourselves after your slavery, whether you intend to travell, and with whome to associate. . . . I named Mr. Savill; for some reasons not fitt for paper, it were not amisse to know how he directs his course this summer. My master is scarcely satisfied (this to thyselfe) how you could come off with honour when the seconds are the scarecrowes. Pray quarrell lesse or fight more, for you know how much anything of this kinde would trouble my master, if all passages should not be handsome. A fight was neer Nottingham on Wednesday last. Rossiter commaunded one party and Sir Philip Munkton the other, who was most of them (seven hundred) Yorkshire men from Pontefract, but the last routed; five hundred and thirteen taken. Col. Rossiter shott through the buttocks. The designe was to surprise Boston, as tis reported. But adieu, Monsieur. Your dog in a doublett, M.F."

Date: 1648, July 8
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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