We have received your counsell's letter, and the counsell heare are very sensible of your condition and will not want desires and endevors to get you monyes. The assignments allready orderd you will, I presume, not make your arreare so great as a 100,000. We shall compare your account sent to collonel Jones with what the treasurers heare comput it at, and if you are not equally concerned and provided for with any of the other forces we shall soone remidy that difficulty, though the complaints from Scotland and the army in England are much to the same purpose, and really our case is so sadde that which way we shall be able to turn ourselves from the difficultyes we are under I know not; but I shall no more at presant trouble you and shall by the next have an exact account, and in the meane time we shall charge the 20,000 formerly assigned out of delinquents' lands upon the new buildings.1 Our fleet and armyes are in a sadde condition. This army never hade such an occation to be tempted as they have now, yet are, and I trust will be, in a very stauch2 and quiet condition. The Lord direct and manage the hearts of the parliment to such a consideration of the case of this nation that the issue may be for further settlement of thes poore nations, upon true and lasting foundations in preserving the libertyes of the people of God, and the civill libertyes allso, both of which we ought to have a due regard unto, though the 1st to have the preference. I think ther is much in the present goverment which conserves both, which that it may be most upon our hearts is the desire of,