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[fol. 176r] I do humblye renew mi sute unto your L. for your favor to her majestie that I may travayll abrode for .3. yeres, hoping so to yndevor mi sellf, as it shall be for her majesties service, your contentment, & myne own good, in sparyng on waye, & in gettyng another waye, by mi credyt & yndustrye somwhatt, to satisfye mi creditors att home. I have taken order with Maye the golld smithe, & so to mi power with on or ij more, / I am in hand to provyde for 4. lyttel babes (wherof the elldest is butt v. yere olld) thatt I shall leve behynde me. My mynde is to lyve in order, & to answer mi detts trulye./ Ytt is nott ryott ^now^ that browght me behynde hand, butt the fawtte of mi yowth ^long synce^ beffore I was ware, for the which I have payd derelye, deservyng now rather to be cherysshed, than discowntenanced & threttned uppon every motyon./ I had of her majestie a leasse which was worthe to me vCli & odde, which was well ny spent beffore ytt cam to mi hands, for a man canott lyve of nothing, yett therwith I payd a mli dett, & mayntayned my sellf & in lawe matters. Next her majestie of her own motyon bestowed uppon me a C markes pencyon, which is all that I have to lyve uppon./ I deserve ^the^ rather to be pyttyed, for that I have amended mi state ^more^ than [payed] it, which wyll apere yf I have butt a lyttell leve to brethe./ I am charged to have rydden down into the Contry with viij or ix men, butt it is nott so, for above .3. & somtymes 4 I never had, which was more to gyve mi cawse cowntenance, than of ani lusty mynde, yn dede I was constrayned to deffraye the charges somtymes of 20, & 30, when they being strangers satt in Comissyon for me./ your L. knew when ye grawnted me this privilege to go abrode, that supplycatyons wolld be made agaynst me, wherfore ytt may plese yow to be the more resollved of my syde, the contynuance wherof I desyre only butt till the next Terme, which I humblye refferre to your honorable wisdom./ & so humbly I take my leve ij ^o^ martij london. 1578. your L. sincerlye & humblye W Herrle.