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[fol. 63r] The sodeyn occasyon mi right honorable L. is the cause whye I now troble your L. The matter is that the Patron, Captayn, & others that appertayn to the suspected ship of Marsilia, do dispatche 3. posts of purpose throw Frawnce to marsilia, by whom it is thought (if ye cause them to be mett with) ye shall know the truthe of mani things. Their first poste, though nott the spedyest, is gon this night som pece of the waye towards Rye, butt he caryes with hym a woman & may soner be stayed att Rye or att the sea, whose name is John Blanck, an ordynary messenger. The second & principall is an Italian called venturiero, hired of purpose for this turne, & departs this night at viij of the clock to Gravesend to passe over att Dover: The third is John Wattly the poste of Bulleyn, who allso caryes of their lres, & ether goith away thys nighte, with venturiero, or followes to morowe by the tyde, wherin the distributyon of these matters the persongaigs & the ways that they have concludyd uppon, consydred, makes me thinck that if they were all 3. well stayd thatt ther wold be found som further matter, than this [of] the ship only wherof it may plese your L. to consyder, accordyngly. & so most humbly I Comend your L. to God. In hast the 30. of January at v. of the clocke at night your L. most humblye Wm. Herlle.