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[fol. 194v] I presume mi right honorable good L. to putt yow in remembrans of that which I wrytt unto your L. att large yesterday, presuming the more that yow will waye & consider the thing according to your wisdom, to help to qwallefye it, & with your good Cowncell & advise to direct these pore men of Holland, how best to behave them selves in it, for that your L. in all your Actions doth favor indifferencye & the cawse of the weker pretending well, before ani other [ deleted: men] respect of the world, which your verey enmyes that have negociated here, ar fayne to confesse, muche more these men, who indede do reverence yow & do comend theme selves wholly to your L. & Pawll Buiz hath suche a special confidence of your wisdom & vertue, as he deppends of non more in the world than of your L. foreseing that the Q. majestie may be somuche alltred with theme & their cawses, for this accident that hath interceded, as it may further their adversaryes in their delyngs, if the matter be nott the soner & the better reconsiled with her majestie. wherunto haply there wilbe Instruments of our owne more redy to sturre up humors, than to appeise theme: Butt uppon this occasion, ij good workes might be wrought, that [ deleted: he] is her majestie to be sett contented by suche mene as bothe might like her, & yett be honorable to theme & for whom they dele, Besyde that the Portingall Ambassador, might have the comendacion to make som surer traffick bettwixt ether partyes to the proffitt of his King, & assurans of his K. subjects the more, which glory may move hym nott a lyttell, wherof the trew prayse is to [turne] to your L. to whom they humble theme selves in all things, therfore it may plese your L. to vowchesave me som answer heruppon, wherwith verey humbly I take mi leve. from Redcrosse strete the vij ^th^ of marche. 1575. Your L. most humblye. W. Herlleli