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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>A LETTER Sent from PORTSMOUTH, From a very Worthy Per&s;on there, To a Friend of His in <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THough when I left the Town, I was &s;o unhappy as not to &s;ee You, yet give me leave to make my &s;elf happy in Writing to You; And that will Inform You how the Lord hath wonderfully appeared in the bu&s;ine&s;s with Us at <HI>Port&s;mouth.</HI> This morning five Troops of Hor&s;e, and five intire Companies of Foot Revolted from the <HI>Wallingford Party,</HI> to the Intere&s;t of the Common-wealth: We &s;ent out a Party to look upon the Enemy; and having good Intelligence among&s;t them, it plea&s;ed God the whole Companie came in, &s;ome few Officers only excepted; &s;o that the Siege is Rai&s;ed, and the Town at Liberty without a drop of Blood: The Garri&s;on is exceeding Strong, and Your Friends here in great heart, and great hopes (by the Ble&s;&s;ing of God) to Redeem the Publique Liberty: And believe me, as <HI>Monck</HI> is very Con&s;iderable in the North, &s;o this Place will be in the South. Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> and Colonel <HI>Morley</HI> have behaved them&s;elves very Gallantly. The I&s;le of <HI>Wight</HI> is mo&s;t part come in, unle&s;s it be <HI>Cowes</HI> Ca&s;tle; a Party is &s;ent to reduce it; and by this I dare &s;ay you may aver that is reduced al&s;o.</P>
<P>I doubt not but We &s;hall have a &s;uddain Opportunity to Write again to You; and as any thing happens here, You &s;hall be certain to receive it from,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Mo&s;t Real Servant, N. L.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Port&s;mouth, <DATE><HI>Decemb.</HI> 20. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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