Peter Beckford letter to William Blathwayt, 1684 September 2

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Ware it not for the Incouragement I have from Maddame
Povey and that the Intent of the trouble now given you is
for your owne Advantage if this Chance to Come to
your hand tyme Enough: I should not have presumed to
have writt this knowing your bussiness and Affaires
too great and too Considerable to regard every Lyttle
Scribbler, but Maddame Poveys Incouragement your owne
Interest & your knowne good temper hath made me
Confident. The Death of ^ ^the Generall I know you will be
Advised off, by too many: by whose Death I Suppose
the provost martialls place of this Island voyd
I am asuered you (if you will) may gett it which if you
Doe if and I Can any ways be Serviceable to you in
it you may at all tymes Command me

I humbley begg you Either Like not what I have
proposed or Cannot obtaine the thing, that you Discover
it not to any belonging to this place or their freinds with
you, that Such a thing was writt you by

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2 September 1684
From Captain Beckford
to myself
Received the 23 November
1684