To ye Right worll and his uery good frend Mr Richard Nappar at great Linford in buckingegam shire thes dd
Sr
my best respects remembred time beinge uery short I cannot write at large yet the desire I haue to know of your welfare hath made me to write a few lines to you my speciall frend I thanke god I liue in good health. and hope if my frinds please to supply me to liue gett yt heare yt will maintaine me as longe as I liue. and to doe my frends good hearafter Soe hopinge of yr welfare and prayinge to god \to/ send me home to se you againe I Rest time beinge short
Your Poore seruant till death
Clement forman
frō Sant Christophers. in America y 20 of August 1628
Transcribed text from MS Ashmole 174, p. 494 and p. 479

