Dear Firth, thank you for the News from Portsmouth. Please return to London, draw travel-money from your father (the Anglia Rediviva account) and make your way to Northhampton, where the armies of Parliament are mustering. Please send observations to London (my house, not the Firm). I trust you will avoid temptation and not behave scandalously, that is, enroll in a school of dancing, or  join a troupe of tumblers, or similar behaviors that sadly characterize your past.

Should you see Mr Halpenny, it's likely best you indicate to him you're inspecting an ironworks, or something like that, and that it's your understanding I am in Dover bargaining for currants from the Levant, or a suchlike product.

Mr. Holyfen, at Beacon Manor, Ivinghoe

To: William Firth, the Three Fauns (near the excremental trench), Portsmouth