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[fol. 204r] I hope mi good L that now att lengthe, som tender consyderacion be had of mi poore estate, & of the long pacyens I have endured, having had no releeff these 4. yeres att her majesties hands, butt one bare Cli nottwithstandyng .2. chargeable vyages I have byn employed in abrode, by her majesties owne choyse & comandement. Att ottlands by your L. favor, her majestie bestowed on me by paroll a Cli pencion, the drawght wherof to be signed, I left with yow att Richemond 10. weekes paste, having forborne to troble your L. muche sithens, in respect of the State cawses that have occurred, which modesty I trust may bryng the more favor for my dispatche, And albeit that master Candisshe by your L. goodnes, & his ymportunitye, had a very good gyffte bestowed on him, whose sute hong nott above 13. dayes, yett for me (howsoever I have deserved & that mi neede withall presseth me most neere) I desire nott to prevayll by ymportunity & presumpcion, though I sholld leese all. Wherfore R. honorable L. have me in your favorable remembrance, & now the rather, for that her majestie is uppon som remove, for her [revertion] , I nott being hable to endure ani longer delaye, nor the expences that may succeede./ I humbly presume, that it is far from her Royall disposityon, ether by differryng, to demynisshe the qwality of her gyffte, or by withdrawing from her pryncely woorde [ deleted: ani parte of] the substance [ deleted: therof] , to depryve me of hope & of it together. Knowing that allwayes she observes this maxime, Quod Princeps sit in fidos & sedulos propensior, quam in ceterus & I verey humbly submitt mi sellf to her majesties graciowsnes, who is wont to remember, Che assai domanda, che ben servendum. Tace. protestyng to God, that yf she thought her sellf served therwith, I cowd be content, to be putt in the mowthe of the Canon, to be shott agaynst her enmyes, wherewith mi R. h. good Lord I humbly take mi leve, prayeng to God to gyve her majestie & your L. mani good new yeres together. 1587 your L. most humbly Bownden W Herllely.