[fol. 95r] My R. honorable good L. I have Receved this mornyng erlye, your lre written yesterday, & am sory from mi hart for your Rewme, cawse of your sore eyes, And for the cawse I wrytte to your L. as your L. shall do most wiselye to contempne it & the sowers of these vyle Brutes, so for these discowrses yow shall know more partyclerly by mowthe of theme & of their havyour./ assone as God will gyve me strengthe to repayre to your L./ Assuring yow, that there be men bothe of grave judgements, & [ deleted: assureng] as honest as be yn England, that ar well edeffied of your L. uprightnes, & Trew course that ye take, with the grett & syncer care & travayll ye have, to discharge your sellf as a most honorable Cowncellor, which sort ar nott a few & they do edeffye others./
Master vicechamberlayn is now depraved more than any man, & as Rumors & yll Brutes with us, as ar whirlle wyndes so is there a hepe of this yll muck blowen before his very wyndowe, to charge his credite & ^allegiance^ .
Towching the mocyon of the xm li. monethly to be answerd her majestie she undertakyng their cawse of the Lowe Contreyes, I am glad that your L. hath hard of it first, thowgh it were made to me very secrett, Butt I will move the partye, to speke with your L. sellf, for more satisfactyon, & for your portyon. that was made the hardest parte [ Marginalia (by Herle): how] to breke it, butt they know allredy, that the highe Thresuror of England [ deleted: that] will rather Ad of his owne to the cawse, than be awgmented by theme, havyng bothe dew pittye to do theme good, [ deleted: &] & a will to perfforme the same./
Towching mi sellf with her majestie I bethinck mi sellf better, that it will hardly com, & it may discredite me in gretter things, only I beseke your L. to yntertayne a gratefull remembrance of me with her, wherwith I humbly fynissh./ Your L. most Bownden The Bullshed at Temple Barre. 26. July. 1585. W. Herllely.
