Three members of a committee [John Norris, David Some, Thomas Cartwright] representing the church at Creaton, Northamptonshire, to Philip Doddridge, Northampton, 6 May 1736.1

Revernd & Dear Sr

        Our good Friend Mr [Abraham] Chambers being dead, we desire you’d use your Interest with the Presbytian [sic] Fund to continue the usual Exhibition to Creaton in favour of Mr Wilkinson who is an ingenious Serious Man, a good Preacher, well approved of by the Ministers, very acceptable to the People & likely to support the Interest there.

        We are your Sincere Friends

                        & affectionate Brethren

                                                                        J. Norris

                                                                         D. Some 

                                                                         Tho. Cartwright 

Daventry May 6 1736

Mr Chambers was buryed last Monday & Mr Floyd ordaind this Day.

[For Doddridge's reply, affixed to this letter, see following letter.]

1 Collection MSG 1215, ALS Collection, Special Collections, McGill University Library, Montreal, Canada. MS and letter not previously known; does not appear in Geoffrey Nuttall's Calendar of the Correspondence of Philip Doddridge (1977) but does appear in Nuttall's Philip Doddridge: Additional Letters (2001). This letter would belong between letters 444 and 445 in Nuttall's Calendar.