I did send you a leter by chote for to peruse and to send me it and an answere of it all so I pray and if so be that you haue not sente them yet send them by barer by whom I haue sent you a Greuy hound for to keepe for me for it is a uery Good one and comes of as Good a kind as any that euer I herde of And if sobe you can not keepe it at 333home doe you see and if so be that you can Gitte it keept abroad sume where where it maye be safe I am for to send in to bedford shere tomorrow and as soone as the messenger com backe againe you shall here frome me Thus with my loue remembred to your seellfe and my dutye to father mother and grandmother I reste Your louinge Brother

I received your Lettre and the things which you sent, and doe prayse God for his gratious protection ouer you in your iournye, beseechinge his heavenly maiestie daylye to take care of that soule and life etc, which he hathe pleased to lende you, that himselfe may have glorye and you peace and safetye in the imployment of them. The suddaine newes of this messinger, and my other occasions hinder me from writinge to your 2 vnckles this weeke, you must supplye that defecte by remembringe vs all kindly to them and your aunts and cosins: we are in healthe as you lefte us (I prayse God) Luce and the rest, onely Robert hathe an ague. Mr. Sandes is nowe hastinge to his last period, and not like (in mans Iudgment) to live another week: the good lord in mercye carrye him on with peace into the haven of rest, and teache vs all how to make right vse of suche a losse. your grandmother and mother salute and blesse you and your sister, I comende you bothe to his mercifull protection and holy government, and rest your lovinge father

I received your lettre: and doe blesse God for the continuance of your healthe, and of all our good friends where you are. The Lord longe continue peace and blessinge to you all. We all likewise 334(through his mercye) continue in healthe (onely Robert hathe been sicke this sennight, and Luce hathe had some grutchinge of hir Ague againe, and this daye your grandmother hathe not been well, but she hathe made shifte to goe see Luce) I wrote the last weeke of the great declininge of our Revd. and worthye freinde mr. Sandes, whose ende was then at hande, for he finished his course in happie peace on teusdaye2 last about one of the clocke in the afternoone, and was buried on thursdaye afternoone, mr. Stansby preachinge vpon I Sam: 25. 1. So as we are now very muche destitute, mr. Nicolson beinge allmost blinde etc: so as we must looke out some assistant for him, some single man, that may make shifte with smale meanes, while mr. Nicolson lives. Diverse of our neighbour ministers have comended to me Mr. Simonds of St. Jo: and our parish doe muche affecte and desire him: I praye God guide vs all to a good choyse, for he knowes I looke not at mine owne advantage, but the Churches wellfare. Your grandmother and mother salute and blesse you and your sister. Remember vs all to your Auntes and Cosins. God allmighty blesse you ever Your lovinge father