Dear Sir, the Earl of Berkshire, remanded to the care of Parliament in London (as described so compellingly in your Story of the 18th instant), wrote to Mr Halpenny, here at the offices.

The Earl demanded of Mr Halpenny an explanation for  you, a named partner at a “purportedly proud and honorable firm, bursting in on the peace of my Estate in the company of that traitor Hampden.”

My lord Berkshire said it was always apparent you were to the gallows born, proved by the “callous and cruel” transactions in the Netherlands (the Tulips, and Meynheer Bogardus), the rumors of Smuggling, your association with the Anabaptists, etc. He had hoped, the Earl said, that association with the firm of Halpenny might dampen your tendency to wickedness but “alas, it has not.”

Mr Halpenny became engorged with wrath, stormed into our chambers, rifled your desk, demanded your whereabouts, and an accounting of the activities of myself and Firth, who is of course on his way to Northampton.

I answered that in truth I know not where you are. Which is why I dispatch copies of this letter to Buckingham, and Northampton, and Ivinghoe, and the Roads between, in the prayer that in one of those places you will Discovered, and this letter read by you, and that you accept my advice, humbly and with the greatest respect offered, that it is perhaps in your Interest to return to London with some sort of explanation for Mr Halpenny.

I remain your servant,

Nathaniel Paige Apprentice

Halpenny & Holyfen, Merchant-Adventuers, Bishopsgate Street, London

To: Mr Sydney Holyfen, at  various Points in England between Ivinghoe and Northampton