Right Honourable my singuler good Lord. The last tyme that your Honour pleased to admitt me to your presence I acquaynted yow with the Archpriest his apprehension as he was comming fromwarde the Charterhouse. As at that tyme I told your Honour nothinge but what was delivered me by him who apprehended the Archpriest, who acquaynted me with it before any other man before iiii a clock in the morning, so when I returned from your Honour I found the case so altered that I might justly be censured (as matters have bin caried) both an absurd dolt and mischevous informer to so worthy a personage. But at that tyme not knowing howe to discharge my self, being infinitely ashamed, and greved at causes caried with such crossnes and contrarietye I have since endevored to make what discoverye I might to fre my self of those imputations wherewith I might at that tyme be charged. I desire right Honourable rather all extremityes then justly to give yow [or any erased] the least cause of offence and therefore I have bin most curious and carefull in this matter to make proffe, that I neither durst nor wold acquaynt your Honour with any thinge without grounde or prob[ab]ilitye. So that I am right humbly to beaseach yow for God’s cause as ever yow tendred the oppression of a pore man to vowchsafe that Jhon Wragge who apprehended the Archpriest may be examined howe far forth he wished and urged me to chalenge any thinge? Who told or named to him the Archpriest’s comming from the Charterhouse? Who urged him to search Mr. Leake’s house within the Charterhouse for the Archpriest’s thing[s] there kept? What speaches he herd that might concerne your Honour about the Archpriest? And then your Honour shall finde rather motives to pitye my hard fortune then to condemne either grossenes or lewdnes in that report I made to yow. Albeit most Honourable this my so humble sute may seame unfitting your regard yet I dare assure yow that the examination will prove fitting your Honourable consideration. Whilest I live, by God’s grace, I will never deliver the speaches of any man more then in generality to direct to the author, ictus piscator sapit.