I haue Receyved from you two letters, the last datted the 6th of this present also a small boxe, the gardner hath brought to towne your trees they be put vp in 2 Chestes. I haue byn euer since you wer with me in much perplexety, to obteyne provissions for your father and the rest our freindes2 and now hauing obtyned some quantity my ship is so full that I cannott take in what I would and should; but mr. allertown hath a ship to depart from barnstable very shortly, vnto the which we send away what I cannot take in. I wish with al my heart you were here at present to healp in the Busines I am ouer chardged with, to my leisure. if the lord did not greatly sustayn me I should be ouer whelmed with it. I do now with al my strength endeuor to be gon to sea: the guifte the french ship3 that mr. goffe sett forth after the fleet, is here arrived at Bristoll, the masters name John Brock, who hath letters from your father and other Frendes but hath Brok them oppen. it were good that some Course wer procecuted against him, he will neuer leaue his old macheveolan Course. here are divers passengers that came here with him, will giue you further to vnderstand 318his doinges, thus in hast with much perplexity of mynd I rest etc. Your Louing Freind