all health and saffety to your habitation. I send you many thanks for the receipt, your sister2 should haue had thanks, had she sent it, she may haue loue, but her charitie was but little; I thanke God I am recouered. doth she nowe thretten me for my kindnes; be it her pleasure, I will not pertake thereof; I pray you with frindly greeting present my vnchainged frindship to her, and acquaint her howe I deliuered your letter to mr. Clarke, whoe saith he had the watch a while, since it was mended, and it went not right, soe the watchmaker hath it againe. he saith I shall haue it next weeke to send it downe, it will cost about 15 or 16 shillings mendinge, send me word whether Mr. Clarke shall lay out the monie, or I; had it bin done tyme enough it should haue binn sent to your brother to southampton. I heare he is not yet gone; there are The Arabella. The Talbott. The The 4* shipps gone on wensday senight (God speede them) you shall receiue here inclosed a lettre from Mr. Hewson with whome I was this morne he tells me the name of the ship is the 297Thomas and William,3 of about 200 tunn she hath some 16 peices. The master William Bunduck of Wapping is a man of very good reporte, she falls downe to graues end about teussday come senight, it willbe about tomorrowe fortnight ere she will leaue the Thames, she hastens awaye the sooner because of diuerse Turkey Marchants companie and assistance, if you knowe of any sturdie youths that will goe seruants for 6 or 7 yeare, they may nowe haue entertainement of Mr. Hewson, or any other that will goe at theire owne charge, there is roome in this ship for 20 and yet they will not carrie aboue 60 passengers, whereas the Talbott carries about 200. conceiue my inferrence. As for hens the ship master will carrie them, if you prouide them, and theire meate and send them aborde; but he will not stand to the Hazard of them. Mr. Hewson tells me he hath a frind in towne whoe nowe goes ouer and whose wife is in N: E. at salem and hath store of hens, he saith you may haue as many as you will there for 2 s. and 6 d. a peice; but Mr. Hewson saith if you will haue any of this man, he will buy them as for himselfe, and he hopes much cheaper, and your father shall haue them, as he payes; he saith it is as troblesome to carrie ouer Turkeys as Goats; but if you will send them or rabbetts with meate for them the master offers to doe his best to deliuer them safe, but not warrant them. Here dyed 11 this weeke of the sicknes there is 6 parishes infected I pray god make vs all alwayes readie for our dissolution. Thus with prayers for you as for my selfe, desiringe you there in to assist me your louinge frinde.

the true loue and hartty affection I bare to you both will not suffer me to let slip this oppertunyty of many­298fasting the sam unto you though I haue not time to writ to you both as I desier yet I trist your loue to be such as you will excepte of this till I shall haue a furder occation of manyfasting the same unto you in the meane time I pray rest assured that though I am now by the prouidence of god remoued fare from you yet is my loue still the same2 and I may truly say that it is rather incrased towards you then any way lessned by this chang and that yours may be still the same towards me I intreat you that you would remember the dere loue that was euer betwne your dere farther and me and that I could willing haue layed downe mine owne life that you might still haue inioyed his if the lord had seene it to haue bine good for us and now my dere daughters I beseech you know the god of your father serue him with a parfit hart and a willing mind which if you doe as I persawead my selfe you doe he will suerly be found of you in all plases and uppon all occations remember I pray you that gratious promise the 43 of Isaiah the 2. and 3 uerse I am much troubled that I am so fare from you now when I might haue bine of sum use unto you but the lord I trist will be all in all unto you and I shall labore to suplye that want by my dayly prayers for you both I thank you both for your louing letters which I tooke most kindly from you but I haue bine so full of compeny that I could not writ before now and now I am much straited of time so that I must leaue all pertuclares of my selfe to my cosson forth to relate unto you your brother is well and I trist you shall haue much comfort of him and this with the remembrance of my true loue to you both my cosson Jhon my cosson mary and all the rest with you I commit you to our good god whom I beseech to bless you with all blessing both spirituall and temperall fare well my dere daughters your uery louing mother till death