Sir:

I am very gladd to heare of your health, and that your Lady is return’d soe well from the Bath: yet since I find by your letters that shee is not perfectlye recovered of all infirmitys, I must continewe in the judgment I was, which is, that shee must wash out the dreggs of those passionate and sadd thoughts, which were the first cause of her indisposition, or the Bath without will doe but little good. And soe I praye remember my Service to her.

For the Bishoppricke of Bathe it rest's in the Kings thoughts as private as it did. But when I shall knowe what shalbe done with it you shall heare from my selfe with the soonest. And for your question when you shall see mee againe att Holme Lacy if I leave Wales; it is not very hard to be answear’d out of your owne letter. For you write that Wells is within a dayes Journey; and if it bee, then I hope you will keepe your promise to come and see mee, and it is not impossible, but that I may find a startinge tyme to see you and Holme Lacy. And though I shall not wish that any Sickness may bringe your Ladye to Bathe: yet if that or any other good occasion make you stepp farther to Wells, I shalbe gladd to see you both there; if I gett that place; if not then you shall not need to thinke of moveinge Holme Lacy, but as I pass bye to Wales you shalbe sure to be troubl’d with mee.

For your Brother Mr Barnabie I should have bene willinge to have done the best I could for the disposinge of him in Oxford, if I had not found that his resolutions were otherwise settled for Magdalene Colledge; and I am still of opinion consideringe that proffittinge in learninge doth not depend upon the place, that it will not be ever fitt to wrastle too much with his desiers concerninge it. I am sorry the occasion of your Sisters Sickness hath kept him from you (though I perceave hee sent my letters before him) but when hee comes I doubt not but you will find his inclination settl’d as I have tould you.