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LETTER8: Letter from Clement Forman to Richard Napier, 20 August 1628

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To ye Right worll and his uery good frend Mr Richard Nappar at great Linford in buckingegam shire thes dd

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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

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘LETTER8: Letter from Clement Forman to Richard Napier, 20 August 1628’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/letters/LETTER8, accessed 29 October 2026.