my service attend you I desyre your Worship would bee pleased to pardon my boldnes herin. these are to lett your worship vnderstand that I have truly served my master mr. Rawson according to covenant. my time will bee forth on fortnight before midsomer next, therfore I desire your worship to stand my frend (beeing destitute of any other in this land) that I may part from my master without any trouble, because I have a wife and five poore Children in England which will not come to mee, and I desyre to goe to them now because I feare my master will oppose mee in this my purpose, I have thought good to appeal to your Worship whom the lord hath sett in place to iudge the cause of the poore and the rather because I am a poore man and not able to spend mony in sute. I desyre your worship to give mee leave to have access vnto you, if my 239master shall oppose mee which I much feare. I have sent my lettre2 which you have read, which doth express 5 yeares but I am sure I aggreed for noe more then three, nether can I serue any longer by reson of a fall one the yce, and age alsoe, beeing 54 yeare old. my master intended to imploy mee to make powder. I am sorry I could not have materials wherby to improve my skill for the good of the land. thus desyring to pardon my boldnes and to stand my freind, I rest Your poore