A letter sent from Portsmouth, from a very worthy person there, to a friend of his in London. N. L. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88713 of text R211399 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[30]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A88713 Wing L47 Thomason 669.f.22[30] ESTC R211399 99870128 99870128 163613 2248507536

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A88713) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163613) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f22[30]) A letter sent from Portsmouth, from a very worthy person there, to a friend of his in London. N. L. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1659] Signed: N.L. Dated: Portsmouth, Decemb. 20. 1659. Describing the raising of the siege at Portsmouth. Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e., December]. 22". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Portsmouth (England) -- History -- Siege, 1659 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A88713 R211399 (Thomason 669.f.22[30]). civilwar no A letter sent from Portsmouth, from a very worthy person there, to a friend of his in London. N. L 1659 1 299 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER Sent from PORTSMOUTH , From a very Worthy Person there , To a Friend of His in LONDON . SIR ,

THough when I left the Town , I was so unhappy as not to see You , yet give me leave to make my self happy in Writing to You ; And that will Inform You how the Lord hath wonderfully appeared in the business with Us at Portsmouth . This morning five Troops of Horse , and five intire Companies of Foot Revolted from the Wallingford Party , to the Interest of the Common-wealth : We sent out a Party to look upon the Enemy ; and having good Intelligence amongst them , it pleased God the whole Companie came in , some few Officers only excepted ; so that the Siege is Raised , and the Town at Liberty without a drop of Blood : The Garrison is exceeding Strong , and Your Friends here in great heart , and great hopes ( by the Blessing of God ) to Redeem the Publique Liberty : And believe me , as Monck is very Considerable in the North , so this Place will be in the South . Sir Arthur Haslerig and Colonel Morley have behaved themselves very Gallantly . The Isle of Wight is most part come in , unless it be Cowes Castle ; a Party is sent to reduce it ; and by this I dare say you may aver that is reduced also .

I doubt not but We shall have a suddain Opportunity to Write again to You ; and as any thing happens here , You shall be certain to receive it from ,

SIR , Your Most Real Servant , N. L. Portsmouth , Decemb. 20. 1659.