yt hath pleased the Lord to take out of this wreched lyfe my most Christian and loving wyfe2 wherby I am deprived of the chiefest comfort of my Lyfe, and left a most disconsolate and deiectid man at once bereft of a faythfull and trusty yokefellow a trew counsellor a great motiue to all goodnes a stay to my howse and loving companion my sorrowes cannot be expressed nor I relieud with any comfort but from that overflowing fountayne of comfort christ Jesus agaynst which my frayle nature and violent Passiones do strongly fight you may tell me tis selfe loue that governes me, for shee is most happy and enioyes a blessed mansion to which hir actiones and course of lyfe hath bin long directid: but I a wretched weak man both in body and mind that hoped she should haue closed my dying eyes surviue yf this may be called a lyfe seperated from that next mine owne soule I hold in deerest account but I am a shadow and no man and haue drunke a bitter potion of Gods Judgmentes which my sinnes haue long cald for I now send you this Messinger to know yf you please to performe this last duty to your deceased sister in seing hir corpes 239safely disposed till yt shalbe vnited to hir blessed sowle in glory or yf you or hir frendes will advise me in this my weak estate to whom I will chiefly leane to for councell next vnder God and do Intreat you even for godes cawse and your trew christian loue to my distressed self and my deare wyfe if you will giue me leaue to comend to your care my litle ones and their estate for that my weaknes contineweth and I do beleeue my stay here is not longe more I cannot write but sorrowfull remembrances and loue and duty to you my father and Mother and so expect to heare from you.

this present saboath betweene ij and iij my wyfe departid and on wednesday in after noone I purpose to comitt hir body to the earth, yours what I am