6 May 1736

2. 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

Rever^nd & Dear S^r

Our good Friend M^r [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 M^r 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

M^r Chambers was buryed last Monday & M^r 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 F. Nuttall, Calendar of the Correspondence of Philip Doddridge (1979) but does appear in his Philip Doddridge: Additional Letters (2001). this letter would belong between letters 444 and 445 in Nuttall's Calendar.