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

not knowing whether in these trublesum times it will please God I shall longe inioye life or liberty to wright vnto you againe I am glad of this my ocasion to truble your Worship with a few lines althoug I hope you will counte it no truble my busines is this my wiues Vnckel Goodman Fuller of Ony2 in Buckingham sheare desired me to wright vnto you concerning a sonne of his John Fuller for whome he hath purchased land in Saugust3 and hath furnished him with cattel and other prouisions out of Ingland to his great cost which hee intendeth hee shall inioye liuing in that obeadience vnto his father which God commandeth and hee hath promised the which obeadience hee hath not obserued in these too thinges first in his intended marradge for whareas hee beinge scarse twenty years of adge will marry a stranger when his father alreddy hath made a worthy choyse for him heare in Ingland secondly in his remouing frome Saugust or Bostone to goe with Mr. Woster4 if hee liketh better to bee at Bostone his father will thare purchase for him if hee will follow his owne will rather then obeadience to his fathers lawfull commandes hee doeth profes hee will take all from him which was intended both of land and cattel etc: and disinherrit him in ould Ingland his fathers intent and mine both is for new Ingland before long if 240God giue life and liberty the party who gaue his father noties of this his name is Henry Person sonne in law to goodman Cooper dwelling at Sawgust it is his fathers desire and mine (who haue beene alreddy to bould with your Worship) that you will be pleased to doe God this good seruis in your place as to exammine the sayd John Fuller concerning these thing and to admonish him vnto submition. thus commiting you and your to the protection of our mercifull God with the remembrance of my humble loue I take my leaue Your Worships in the union of the Lord Jeasus