since my last letter per mr. Goose I doe vnderstand that you are in good helth and all yours for the which I bless god and desire god to continew it if it be his blessed will but I am verry sorry to heare that your man hath delt so ill with you as I vnderstand per mr. Kerbys letter and Tho: Tinker I haue sent you a small Rondlett of Rise which I wold intreate you part betweene your selfe my Ant Downing and my Cosen Jno. Winthrop and accept of it as a small token From a loving Kinsman I haue also sent 2 Jarrs of oyle which if you doe love oyle I wold intreate you to take torn if not lett my Ante Downing take as her dew for to my Knowledg it is good oyle for I putt it vp my selfe onely for Freinds and this is all at present that I haue to present to you I had other things which I had intended for you but my Long liing at home and my Freinds heere haue deseved me of them and now I praise god I am bownd out speedyly I hope within ten dayes the sooner the Better for the Lord be mercyfull vnto vs and turne the Kings hart or else to this Land in my foolish Iudgment is nothing to be expected but confushion 238and as for the Roote of all this and the prodigious Frute that from it spring will be nedles for me to relate for I Know you Know it all redy in part and the rest will suddenly be related therefore I will be silent onely I speake trewly it greue my hart to thinke of the misery that is approching if god be not the more favorable for he alone must doe it the other mayne hope being now frustrate therfore I beseech you to pray for vs for if euer mother had neede of Dawghters helpe now it hath and I prey god the Dawghter be not burdened by her and thus for present I committ you to the protection of the almighty desiring to be remembred to my Ante Winthrop and to my cosen Jno. and Steven and Adam and Deane and An: and the rest if ther be any and Samm: and my Cosen Elizabeth Fones and all the rest in ienerall all which I shall be gladd to here from: but much more to see I prey excuse the bowldnes of your Affectionate Nephew

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