Hello Hewitt, Enroute (rather preparing to) Bucks with Mr H, that is Col. H, to undertake Recruiting. I hath assigned Paige the procurement of muskets, 300 and powder, shot for same; pikes, 700; coats of Green, using cloths from the Loomworks at Holyfen village, as a contribution to the cause. If you can help the lad with any Legal niceties I would be most grateful, but he is reliable, etc with good head for numbers as you know, so that request for assistance most likely a waste of ink and my time writing and your reading.

I believe this latest Anglia Rediviva, of  July 28 our finest yet; for next I suggest:  Piece on Carolus adventure Spain, attached;  the sketch you did of Col Lunsford and cavalier bully-boys; perhaps a piece on the regiments marching out the London gates to ??? I understand Northampton is muster-point, but some (Holles’ regimnet of Redcoats?) may rendezvous with Col H in Aylesbury? tho I know not yet the date of departure, nor does Col. Hampden; and any other News we may collect in meantime, eg Portsmouth where I may dispatch Firth (those rumors). Recommend also we increase print to 1000 copies, distribute Bristol/Norwich /Lowestoft/York/Newcastle (via Ezekial), 100 copies each; Cambridge/Oxford (50 ea); we can use pedlars and tinkers again, a system of distribution that works most admirably.

Please write me at Beacon Manor, Ivinghoe. My love to my sister; your brother in Christ,

S. Holyfen, Halpenny & Holyfen, Merchant-Adventuers, Bishopsgate Street, London;

(resides at) The Old House, neat St John's Gate, London;

enroute Beacon Manor, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire

To: John Hewitt, Lincoln's Inn, London