northamton September the 7th 1642
Worthy Sir
I present you and my Mistress with my humble service wishinge you and all yours the constant fruition of all hapinesse this is my fifth letter unto you but I question wheither ever you received one of them because you neiver yet honored mee with a peece of paper I have therfore once more sent unto you by this bearer Leiftenant Wade who hath promised to deliver these with his owne hands
our place of randevoues is still at North hampton which for Cituation circuit and statelynese of buildinge exceeds coventry but the walls are miserably ruined though the cuntrey abounds in mindes of stone from hence I have nothinge remarkeable to present you with neither will time permit me to acquaint you with circumstances
this morninge our regiments beinge drawne unto the feild to exercise many of them discovered their base ends in undertakinge this deseigne and demaunded five shillinge a man which they say was promised them monthly by the comitte or they would surrender their armes wherupon Colonell hamden and other commaunders labored to appease them but could not so that if they have not the forenamed supply we feare a very greate fraction amongst us there is also greate desention betweene our Troopers and foote companies for the foote men are much abused and souldiers pillaged and wounded I my selfe have lately experimentally found it for they toke from mee above the worth of three pounds but I am not discorged by any of these but by gods assisstance will undauntedly proceede for god is able to reconcile all our diferences
Sir I humbly intreate you to send mee a small feather white and one tip of black by one Gregory Kent knowne unto mr Molloyne and beinge neare him he will be with mee by Saturday at night I shall be very joyfull at the last to heare of the welfare of you all thus co...inge you into the custody of the most heigh for ... present I rest
Your humble servant Till Death
Nehemiah Wharton
The bearer stayed the writinge therof which is the cause my rustick scriblinge and inditinge
To his much Honored Frend Master George Willingham Marchant at the Golden Anchor Swethins Lane