Having vsed many meanes and many Atturnies (in my absence) to recover a debt of Mr. George Ludlow, and fayled by all, and now last of all by Richard Collicut2 who vndertooke seriously, but comes of weakly in it: let me humbly beg what helpe in a righteous way may be affoorded (now in his departure) to cause him to deale honestly with me who haue many yeares and in many wants bene patient toward him. The debt was for mine owne and wiues better apparell put of to him at Plymmouth. My bills are lost, but his owne hand which the bearer will deliver is testimony sufficient. He hath vsed so many slights and told so many false hoods that sir, if you believe more then you see, I must patiently giue my debt for desperate: howeuer with my best respects to your kind selfe and Mrs. Wintrop, and sighes to heaven for you, I rest Your Worships vnfaignedly faythfull till death