The Hartlib Papers

Good Sir

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My Service to yow presented, I haveing many accations this Sumer, to be in the Cuntry to endeuor health to my selfe and Child, and am to goe into the Cuntry to Ipsum, to morrow, which hath bin, and will be accation of great expence, and haueing had very small. takeing in my shop, hath put me to more then ordinary accations for monye, I mayd bould to writ to yow, that if yow could haue pleasured me with some mony yow would haue don me a fauor. their is neare seaven pounds due to me, mony was neuer lesse in our way then of late, and like to be.   I writ 2. or 3. tymes. to your Sonne in law for the .20^s. he hath owed me long, but hee doth not pay mee. So that I must intreat your fauor. that I may haue it, I layd out my monye for the booke neare 3 yeares agoe, if with Convenience yow can pleasure me I shall thinke it a fauor. I thought further to moue yow, That if yow, or by your meanes, your Sonne could be a meanes, to procure some imployment for mee. about the act of buildinge which some thinke will be of long continuance my Lord protector, doth oppoynt those that are to be imployed in that busines, I shall be really thankfull. and it might much conduce to my health, and a better helpe then my trade is like to bee/ and without some frend imployment is very hard to obtaine/ So desireing to be excused for my bouldnes/ do euer remayne

         yours in what I can serue yow   R. Wodnothe

[left margin, Hartlib:] Paid the 15. of Iuly. 1657. the sume of three pound to the Porter Thomas [Seeton?]/

     To his approued good

      Freind Mr Samuell

       Hartlib Esquire at

        his howse at

         Chayringcrose

           these present

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