Nehemiah Wharton's Letters: Clean Transcript

Letters from Nehemiah Wharton, a parliamentarian soldier in the English Civil War, to George Willingham, his former master.

This is a clean transcript which includes silent expansions and corrections for ease of reading. Transcription conventions are documented below.

Transcription conventions

Original line breaks are not represented. Non-original paragraph breaks have been added for ease of reading.
Original page breaks are not represented.
Original spelling is retained except:
- i/j and u/v are silently modernized where used interchangeably.
- ff at the start of a word is silently modernized to F.
- long s is silently modernized to s.
Original capitalization is retained.
All punctuation visible in the microfilm is retained, including commas in SP 16/492/32 which may not be original. No punctuation has been added.
Abbreviations are silently expanded.
Anomalies judged to be scribal errors are silently corrected.
Deletions are silently omitted.
Insertions are silently included in the main text.
Dates are displayed as written in the manuscript but without superscript for ordinals, and are silently corrected if judged wrong. All dates in the text are in the Julian calendar.
Uncertain text is not marked as uncertain.
Gaps in the text because of damage to the manuscript or illegible words are shown by ... and no information is given about the reason for or extent of the gap.
No highlighting is represented.