You must giue mee leaue to inquire of your welfare agayne and to intreat you still to looke at him that is gone before vs in greatest sorrowe. I did reioyce when I obserud that same Compositum ius fasque animi, sanctosque Recessus Mentis. The lord bee with you still. James Luxford was at Sagust when I came by I haue layd out for him. Mrs. Lake will come speedily and truly (Sir) you haue many frends Thomas Reade would haue hartily come and done your busines, and if there bee cause stands ready.

Wee are all here well, and are yours. let not Mrs. Strattons busines trouble you. I hope you will find wee loued you, and still shall, but alas wee fayle basely when wee come to proofe. Salute our deere sister, and let her not now bee despondent, least the deuill bee gratifyed. My wife is very thankfull for her apples, and desires much the new fashiond shooes.

Good Sir, if there bee any thing wherin I may bee more yours quid mi impera: bee you euer saluted in the Lord by Your

Wm: Browne, Tho: Warner and Peter Pickford did affirme that to morrow 14night about one of the clocke, they were called vp by Seaburne about a great noyse on the water, and comming out they heard a party cry he hath allmost killed a man, and another answered through the Rogue over board, and presently the boat was sculled on shore by the party and they asked him what was the matter, and boye tould them that the 2 men had been fighting and had lost an oare (and one of the men lay along in the boate, and the other sate by but neither of them spake, for they seemed to be drunken) so 166they stayed there till neer Daye and then the boy sculled the boat to Mr. Luxons shipp to which they said they did belong.