The Hartlib Papers

Although some of us, have such engagements of ourselves & our estates as both are set upon the tenters, & none of us (no more then anie christian in such times) can bee without more then ordinarie exercises of charitie; yet in regard of the bleeding estates of our brethren in other reformed Churches (destitute of the crummes of those powerful helpes wee inioy, & for want thereof embruing their ill ordered zeale in the life blood of the honour of religion (which enioyneth all christs followers love & peace) Wee in brotherly love & the tenderest bowells of Christian compassion commiserating their divisions & great distractions for want of those meanes to[altered] soder & unite their spirits, which (by the godly endeavour of some reverend & well affected brethren) is like to bee imparted to them, doe promise to pay in to Dr [deletion] Dr Stoughton mr [deletion]<Burton> or their assignes the summes underwritten to bee imploied in maintaining men to translate or compose such seasonable treatises as their present necessities require, & to print & convey unto them such meanes of their Spiritual good as those mentioned holy men shall direct   To this dutie of Love & pious pietie wee are the rather induced, as not knowing whither the Lord may not of purpose (in part) suspend the perfecting of their restauration, as well for the triall & exercise of our graces, as for the fruite of this labour of our love unto them, in their accepting, & kindly proffiting by the several dispensations of god unto them by these & other meanes (through the gracious blessing of our good God) comunicated unto them.

Mr Knightly - 5^£. per annum for 3 yeares

Mr Slingsby - 2^£.

charles clinton 30^s per annum

Iohn Dauenporte 2^lb - 10^s.

Peter Bulkeley - [xx^s?]^.

Edward Ironside - 2^£ per annum

for 3 yeares

Richard webbe 2[^lb?] per Annum

for 3 yeares/

Maurice: Thomson 2^£ per Anno

for 3 yeares

Richard Saltonstall junior

2^lb per annum for 3 yers:

Iohn [Clotworthy?] 2^lb per annum

Christopher Harte xx.^s

Richard Saltonstall 4^lb. per annum

brampton [Gurdon?] 3^£ per annum for 2

Io: Humfrey 6^£ [deletion]

Robert Crane ij^lb per ano. for 3 yers

Roger Harlakenden 30s per annum

          for 3 yeares

Io: Hollert [xx^s?] per annum for 3 years

Edw Cressett xx^s [deletion]for the same tyme

Nathaniel Bacon 30^s per annum for 3 yeres.

Atherton Haughe xxx^s

Daniell Ballard xx^s per

annum for 3 years.

Iohn Langley twentie shillinges per

  annum for three yeares

  Godfrey Bessevile

  3^lb for 3 yeares

Henry Darley

3 per annum for 3 yeres

[bottom left:] [illeg.word] Mr Oohn Baker - 10^s

Received

of mr humphrie _ _ _ _ _ _ £06-00-00

of mr Crane _ _ _ _ _ _   £02-00-00

of mr davenport _ _ _ _ _ £02-10-00

of mr Gurden _ _ _ _ _ _ _ £03-00-00

of mr Bacon _ _ _ _ _ _ _   £01-10-00

of mr Ballarde _ _ _ _ _ _ £01-00-00

of mr Ironside _ _ _ _ _ _ £02-00-00

of mr Webb _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ £02-00-00

of Sir Iohn Clotworthy _ _ £02-00-00

of mr Thomson _ _ _ _ _ _ _ £02-00-00

of mr Saltonstal _ _ _ _ _ _£02-00-00

of mr Bulkeley _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20s

of mr William Webbe _ _ _ _ £01-00-00

Receaued from Mr Henry

  Darley for the second yeare 3-0-00