We trust not to gold, but to steel and to our own good cause, yet gold will be welcome none the less.

Should we fall, we fall like men and Christians.
Should we succeed, we shall see how the perjured James, the persecutor of the saints with the heart like a nether millstone, the man who smiled when the thumbs of the faithful were wrenched out of their sockets at Edinburgh--we shall see how manfully he can bear adversity when it falls to his lot.

May the hand of the Almighty be over us! 'I know little of the bearer of this, save that he professes to be of the elect.

Shouldst thou go to Monmouth's camp, see that thou take him with thee, for I hear that he hath had good experience in the German, Swedish, and Otttoman wars .-- Yours in the faith of Christ, Richard Rumbold.
'Present my services to thy spouse.

Let her read Timothy chapter two, ninth to fifteenth verses.' This long letter I read very carefully, and then putting it in my pocket returned indoors to my breakfast.