Yours at your departure from the waterside I receiued and sent lettres supposing they might haue overtaken you there, but coming short they were safe retorned to me againe. of the hundreth and thirty li you left with me I paid my Awnt Branch 10li for hir last quarteridge; 5li for my Cosen Dudlye to my lord Sayes kinsman of whom he borowed yt to beare his chardges hither, and 15li more I haue laid out for him in Clothes and some other necessaries. what other chardge I shalbe at to furnishe him I yet know not. I wilbee as frugall as I can therein, and soe I perceive himselfe wilbe My brother and sister Paynter were at my howse since your departure. they tell me they are in hope to gett the 100li of the lady Moodam.2 I perceive they 51hope you will stay till yt be recouered there, otherwise you must write earnestly to them.

I pray lett me know what I am growne in debt there that I may cleare reckonings with my brother thus in hast with my love to your selfe and your wife my Cosens Elizabeth and Mary Winthrop I rest your louing vnckle

this morning about 5 a Clock the Queene was delivered of girle which was presently after Baptised because yt cam before the tyme and was verie sick.

the king of Sweaden Mustered his army after he had retorned from the pursuite of his victorie to vnderstand what men he had lost and found his army to be 25000 men, soe he found 7000 more then when he begann the battle; he hath 3 other armyes ioyned to him whereof 20000 are sent to subdew Bavaria, and 20000 into Sileatia and the rest for the setling of the Palsgrave in his Countrye, and himselfe with his 25000 men are gone to Frankford vpon the Meyne which if he takes he is to be king of the Romanes, by the Emperiall law; he was within 5 myles when this newes cam from him, and the generall opinion is that the Citty dares not refuse his first Somons.