Right Honourable my singuler good Lord. Agaynst this blessed tyme my extreme wants enforce me most humbly to beaseach yow to consider and to commiserate the same. I have had no realeffe a longe tyme. I endure al[1] extremityes rather then to offend with importunitye. At this present I have found that one Robert Walker, a priest, made an escape out of the Counter in Wodstrete above a yeare agoe. He leaft in the custodye of one Stranguis an innekeper dwelling at the Queene’s Armes above Holborne Brigge. The somme of a xi li. yf it might please your Honour to give order by such meanes as yow please that I might reaceve that money agaynst this tyme I should be most bound unto yow. Yf I had (God is my jugg) either meate or apparell agaynst this tyme I wold have forborne to have troubled your Honour with any sute before I had presented your Honour with some of the longe expected Bibles from Dowaye. But the one partye who went over for the bokes uppon purpose hath bin scarred and imprisoned and discharged under coler of service and none done. A second partye is expected every houre. No man can prevent my first presenting of them to your Honour onlye Doctor Taylor expected. In all prostrate manner committing my self and pore estate to your accostomed most honourable consideration, the rather agaynst this blessed tyme, I remayne beaseaching the Almightye to blesse, prosper and preserve yow and all yours in all wished happines in this world and the world to come.