I shall make bold to desire a curtesie of you which I did forget to mention vnto you before your goeing into the countrie, viz that at your leisure when any occasion is offred (being neere vnto you) you would be pleased from the neighbours to informe your selfe concerning the worth and the condition of those houses in Boxford which are in reversion giuen to my wife. I do purpose my selfe god willing, to take some tyme this summer to stepp down into Essex and then shall make bold to vnderstand from you as also if I can my selfe to see those houses:

My mother2 presently after your departure desired my release as I had thought willingly, but when I had sealed that, and shee had sealed that to me which you shewed hir, she was afterward not able to conceale hir vnwillingnes to what shee had donn and so is departed from me this morning homeward. I do hope she will recall hir selfe; if she shall not yet shall I neuer be wanting in what my dutie binds, although I confesse want of a right acceptance wher I desire and indeauour to deserue well, is that which is more readie to transport my passion beyond my iudgment, then any other dislike whateuer from a stranger cold happen.

Thus with my loue to your selfe and yours. I rest Your loueing Kinsman