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[fol. 34r] I have bin mi right honorable good Lorde, most humbly sorye, as it becomes me, for your L. sicknes, & as glad to here that the payne is mittigated, which your L. I hope will accepte, according to the devotyon I bere unto you as though it proceded from a gretter personaige, for mi pore mite of good will, is nott to make ani ostentacyon therof, butt to praye for yow & serve yow durynge life, with all truste & affection, giveng your L. most humble thancks for the grawnt ye made unto me of the Raglership in Cardiganshire, & now have I gotten furth a Comission to trye the same to be owtt of lease, for non payment of a xi year rent, before mi grawnt may procede, wherwith her majestie shall have som service don to her: for the leasye, who is a very yll man, hath taken money of the Contrey & solde the Q. right to the Contrey, & now her majestie shall have xx ^ti^ nobles by the yere revyved unto her, by this your honorable favor unto me./ Withall I have mi partyclers or notes redy for your L. to se, for the passinge of mi booke, when as your L. helthe may vowchsave to peruse them, wherin you shall so a dooble good torne, for that mi nede presseth me very newe & requires som [ Marginalia (by Herle): spedye] ayde therby, & lest I might have byn deceved in my notes, the same hath byn occasyon that I have examyned things well, before I wolde present them [ deleted: & yett] ^ which hath cawsed mi long staye, butt now^ & yett your L. (as you do in all things) most vowchsave to stand mi good L. that mi notes be ^not^ rejected or prevented by somani bookes as ar abrode./ I send to your L. herewith the modell of a mallte kyble, which I browght with me owtt of holland, & it caryes in this lyttel shewe the purportyon & fasshyon that it sholde have in [ deleted: the whole] , ani gretter & as they use it there ^the same^ , having marked [ deleted: att] uppon the base of it the mesure of the soots, by the which this lytell on is made: And the cheeff effect herof is, that it is withowt all danger of fire, it will dispatche a grett dele qwickly with small fewell & attendance, & lastly seacole is as swete a [ deleted: fell] fewell for it as ani strawe, being redy when your L. shall comande me to declare unto you the further effecte & circumstances therof. & thus humbly I take mi leve. the viij ^th^ . of December. 1573. your L. most humbly William Herlle./