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[fol. 22r] Right honorable good Lord, I have bynn greviously sicke, by the space of on month and more, escaping withe neare danger, and am yet so lowe, as can scarce walke in my Chaumber. this hath bynn the occation whye I have not soner sent your Lo. the Examinacons of Camiori, prisoner in the Gatehouse: having had nether streinth nor memory to doe any thinge. master Bowes & I have examined him twise, & the first tyme, founde out his haltinge, & weare in good tearmes, to have made him discover, the effecte of his jorney & message hither, to Sebures. but at the second examinacon, there had bynn lodged with him by like for straightnes of rome a kynesman of Sebures, by the space of thre nightes. after which we cold not get any thinge of him, but a maliciows & impudent kynde of denyall, of the whole. but in our knowledge, we finde, that he was sent over by Cussen Bernadyne [ Marginalia (by Unknown hand): Bernadyne] de Mendoza his postte with secrett messages to Sebienre & that lres he broughte to Callis which cam over, under the frenche Ambassadors packett. The man is lewde & verey subtill & yit nothing ^is^ directly to charge him, wherbie your L. shall doe well in my simple judgment, to deliver him, & to banishe him, which is my humble advice, & the whole knowledge, that I have in this cause. Wherewith verry humbly I take my leave the viij ^t^ of July the Strande. 1585. your L. ever most bownden. W Herllli.