benefit, saving to make use of him for the Public:—for I will most gladly return the value of him to the State. If the Gentleman stand clear in your judgments,—I beg it as a special favour that, if the Gentleman be freely willing to let me have him for my money, let him set his own price: I shall very justly return him the money. Or if he be unwilling to part with him, but keeps him for his own pleasure, be pleased to send me an answer thereof: I shall instantly return him his Horse; and do it with a great deal more satisfaction to myself than keep him.—Therefore I beg it of you to satisfy my desire in this last request; it shall exceedingly oblige me to you. If you do not, I shall rest very unsatisfied, and the Horse will be a burden to me so long as I shall keep him.[1]
The Earl of Manchester, recaptor of Lynn Regis lately, is still besieging and retaking certain minor strengths and Fen garrisons,—sweeping the intrusive Royalists out of those Southern Towns of Lincolnshire. This once done, his Foot once joined to Cromwell’s and Fairfax’s Horse, something may be expected in the Midland parts too.
Lincolnshire, which has now become one of the Associated Seven,[2] and is still much overrun by Newarkers and Northern Papists, shall at last be delivered.
Hull siege still continues, with obstinate sally and onslaught; on the other hand, Lynn siege, which the Earl of Manchester was busy in, has prosperously ended; and the Earl himself, with his foot regiments, is now also here; united, in loose quarters, with Cromwell and Fairfax, in the Boston region, and able probably to undertake somewhat. Cromwell and Fairfax
