I haue sent you by this bearer an Instrument vnder the gentlemens hands so many of them as were in towne, with whom authoritie was left to do any act in the name of the rest. my request vnto you is that you would subscribe the inclosed paper and inclose it in a letter sealed vp directed to me, and deliuer it to this bearer Alexander Winchester Mr. Vanes Man, who will retaine it vntill I com or send it by a safe hand. I promised the Gentlemen that there should be somthing to this purpose, therefore I desire it may without fayle be thus dispatched I would haue it inclosed and sealed because it is not fitt that any but those of vs here should take any notice thereof, therefore neither Mr. Vane nor his man nor any with you knoweth any thing of this passage, because it is the Gentlemens desire you might haue all the advantages the busines will afford for your comfortable and creditfull going on in this project, which I hope the lord will bless to whome I leaue you with my rembrance to your wife and rest Yours in Jesus Christ