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.

Dear cuz,

Thank you for editing Masque to Mass, I return the proofs. You will see I have excised the references to Plato. Are you twas him who ranted on about ideal forms of nature residing in some cosmological realm? I thought Aristotle. No matter; you are likely correct and I care not; yawned thru the grecians during my term at College; Romans, more practical, my preference, though they are most vicious brutes once the Republic degenerated to Caesarism.  As though they were born English, and became Spaniards. Laughter. Yet, the point be: Charles loves not what IS, but what he desires IS TO BE; and would seek to force the IS to conform with his notion of TO BE; that is the “nut”, and not so much the historical origin of what's truly when one considers it a perhaps pretty but ultimately pointless idea, with little application to the improvement of commerce or the practice of salvation.