my humble servyce vnto you Remembered haveing now soe fytt and convenient a messenger as this my freind and Neyghbour the bearer heerof I could not omytt to wryt by him vnto your worship partly to acknowleg my thankfullnes vnto you for your love to me and others of that worthy plantation (which I dayly pray god to prosper) as allsoe concerning some mony due vnto your selffe to the some of Eyght powndes for my passage for my wyff and my selffe wherof fowre powndes I paid to your selffe at your howse at growton and forty shillings to your son at London and soe 40s is yeat remayning behynd yeat notwithstanding my great crosses and losses I sustayned in that voyage god haveing blessed me with a settled estate I thinke my selff in consyence bownd to paye that yff that shall please your worship to requyre yt off me and therfore yff you please to apoynt any man heer to Receiue yt off me and to gyve me a sufficyent discharge for the same I shalbe willing to paye the same vnto you or whome you shall deput for same purpose thus much I thought good to certefye vnto your worship for the discharge of my consyence praying god to blesse you and that whole plantation in whose prosperitye I shall ever much 397reioyce to heer offe comend you and all yours vnto the mercyfull protection of allmyghtye god I doe Rest Your worships in all servyce