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[fol. 66r] Ytt plesed your L. to signefye unto me by master maynard your Secretory, that mi offer was to mene towching the stallment of the Recognisance att 20li by the yere, & that therfore I sholld Repayre to sir Walter mylldmaye & to amend or better mi sayd offer unto him, wheruppon I sholld have dispatche./ According to the which, I have declared your L. order to sir Wallter, & he is redy to procede with me, so he might understand the same from your L. or from your Secretorye dyrectlye, & nott by the mowthe he sayth, of the partye Interessed in the sute: thowgh he seme to trust me well ynowgh in the Repporte, yett he [a] lledgeth that ytt is nott so conveynent, nor yett accustomable with him to do so: ytt might plese your L. therfore by wryteng or by fitt messaige to clere hym of your menyng, & I will withall amend mi first offer, which is to prove a good servyce & beneffite to her majestie unloked for, assuryng your L. that I have on yn the Towne att mi charges, & hath byn these 4. wekes, that stayes onlye uppon the answer to be made me, & for the Comissyon to be browght down into the contry nott being myne ease (as your L. well knowes) to yntertayne unnecessarye expencs, which I humblye comend to your honorable consyderacion & goodnes, whose I am with the whole service of my bodye & mynde ever & for whose healthe I pray with mi harte my lodging the 26.of february. 1582. your L. most bownden W. Herlleli.