Sir:

Your last letters tould mee that your selfe and your Ladie were goinge towards Cornbury that very day: that made mee delay answearinge your letter that weeke, and since that I have had little or noe leasure. I hope by this tyme you have visited all Frends you intended abroad, and are return’d well and safe to your owne home, which I shall be gladd to heare. And I hope farther that this Journey and styrringe in fresh Ayre hath brought home your Ladie in better health then shee went forth, and falsified all those prognostications which seem’d to threaten Relapse into her former indispositions. I am still of the same mynd I was that her owne sadness and thoughts is the greatest cause of her bodily Infirmity; and that one winter well mastered would doe her more good then her Phisicke.

For the Land marks (as you are pleasd to call them) I have nowe found an opportunity, to make them somewhat perfect, upon an Accident of meetinge with another Booke, and have heere inclos’d sent you a Coppye: soe that nowe you may doe what you please with the former. This is as perfect as I cann make it.

I am sorry to hear that they of whom you have had so much Care, have made you such ill returne: but as I knewe little of that, so I delt truly with you, in relatinge what moov’d mee to adventure that little which I did against my Judgment. Since that tyme I have heard noe more of them, which I am very gladd of.

And nowe whereas you write that you are gladd to see the same hand and a new Name, I must thanke you for it: and I had noe reason but at that tyme to doe as I did, and fasten upon any indifferent thinge to gett out of Wales. But nowe as God hath dispos’d of businesses it is likely to prove my hinderance. For being soe lately preferr’d, I knowe not howe in Modesty to be a present Suiter againe. But upon Munday morninge last my Lord the Bishopp of Winchester died: Et Magnum illud Christiani Orbis Lumen extinctum est.