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[fol. 48r] Yesterday mi right honorable good L. master fanshaw [was] with me towards the evenyng to visite me, he axed me among other things whatt becam of the conselements that I sholld have dellt with, I tolld hym, that the booke was thought very grett, & that therfore I cessed to move it ani more, wherunto he wisshed me to prove by a shire or ij with an ordinary comissyon whatt servyce I cowd do to her majestie & by the last therof more might com, & your L. might be induced to favor the first sute the better. Wheruppon he cawsed these iij warrants to be drawen, ij [ deleted: the on] for conselements & the other for the survey of certayn covent leases, that if I be hable to recover strengthe & hellthe I might follow theme in the end of this vacatyon. I know att lest how to gett her majestie a C markes by the yere, the comissyons ar retornable in michellmas Terme, & the Comissyoners ar the best men in every shire, therfore if your L. do lyke of the motyon & servyce, it may plese yow to signe the warrants & I will att myne owne chargs uppon my recovery, wherof I thanck God, I have now som hope [to] follow theme (& it shalbe som occasyon to occopye me allso) to her majesties proffitt & your contentment & as I deserve in that end so I be consydred of: Allso yf your L. dyd vowchesave to appoint me feodary over the shire in wales as I ones moved your L. I wolld nott only do present ^good servyce^ to her majestie & to the Cowrt of wardes, butt I sholld take away occasyon from busy fellowes from intruding theme sellfs into other menes offyces, so humblye taking mi [fol. 48v] leve, our lord have yow in his holy saffe gard allways. from Redcrosse strete the third of Julye 1575. your L. most humble & faithfull prayer man W. Herllely.