my best respets remembred unto you and my son if he be liveing I am very mush trobled that I could never here from my son nor 8from you sense hee left me i should be very glad if i did but know wher my son were liveing or dead my hosband hath ben dead this three eare and there is none of us alive but I and my dafter I have wished myselfes with you many times I have ben here in iarland ever sens you left me but I can get nothing of my land and i have mush adoo to live here you bromised me to send mee word as sune as you ware ouer but i doe mush admire that i colde neuer here from you all this wile I pray if my son be living let him riht me a letter and send word how hee is as sune as he can I hope you have don the part of a kinsman for him as you promised mee I shoold be very glad if pleas god i could see my child again if he were with me againe i should never part with him for he hath put me to mush sorow and greue for him ever sens he left.

this praying to god bles my son and to make him his sarand and so I giveing you many thankes for your last kindnes my dafter and i both remember our serves to you and her love to her brother willum Hoskins and so i rest your ever loving kinswoman