It should seeme that there is a mistake; for I have paid 12li to Mr. Coxwell for the goods I had the last yeare of yow; And I have likewise paid Mr. Mayhew 8li in lue of the 3 goats I should give yow for your watch 334but I conceave that there will be some more money due to yow for the goats more than the 8li; And as for the other house watch which yow value at 30 or 40s I assure yow it is not sold; and I had left it soe farr vpp the Countrey that when I came away I could not fetch it; but and please god yow shall have a returne of it the next Spring; and as for the Cowe and tobacco; the tobacco I had brought for yow but since my comeing our barke sunck and the tobacco tooke wett and was spoyled with much more of myn owne, but the next yeare yf yow please, yow shall have soe much againe; And for the heifore soe it was that I could not bring her by reason I could gett torn; And for the present I cannot sattisfie yow for it by reason of my great losses; but yf yow please (And the lord blesse me) and my endeavours I will sattisfie yow for the heifer and the rest in Corne this next yeare; I doe intend god willing to be with yow ere longe and then I shall better explaine my self vnto yow then now I cann by writeing; I assure I shall and will deale as fairely with yow as with any; Soe being glad to heare of hope of your recovery desireing the lord to continue it with my love and service remembered I shall desire ever to rest Yours truly to power

Note, in the handwriting of Roger Williams: mr. Coxall hath a letter of particulars, but in this Mr. Ludlow acknowledgeth 1st an Heifor which was mine 4 yeares since the increase of her is mine.

2ndly vpwards of 4 score waight of Tobacco.

3rdly consideracion aboue 8li for 3 goats due to me when they were almost

2 yeare since about 4li a goate, as allso their increase.

4thly an house watch.

5thly Another new gowne of my wiues new come forth of England and cost betweene 40 and 50 shillings.

I cannot let so many dayes and nights passe without speaking with you, and now I am at it I haue little to say but that I long to haue your 335ioyes and peace to continue full; and that much of my comfort is wrapt vp in yours. A little newes I had out of a late letter come to hand out of Eng: which you may tell the Gouernour from me to make him laugh viz: that there was a fast in Eng: and at Bristow in one Church whilst they were preaching a great Bull broke into the churchyard and a company of boyes followed him with squibs, the people within were taken vp before with thoughts that the papists that day would rise, and had warding all the Country ouer; the Bull and the squibs so wrought vpon their melancholy braynes that one cryes out if I perish Ile perish here, another swounds away, another they are come they are come Mr. Prichard the preachers wife cryes to her husband in the pulpit, come downe (husband) come downe the tyme is come, and much of this. At Taunton brimstone was smelt in the church and such another Combustion as when Trestrams boy gote into the fryars Cools. In hast I rest Yours and euer so