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_HAVING_TAKEN_POSSESSION_OF_THE_PRIORY_HOUSE_AT_LEWES>

<P_193>

My bounden dewtie in moste humble and lowly wise rememberyd .
(GCROMW-E1-P2,193.4)

Pleaseth it your Lordeshipp to understonde that I have thus longe tyme
deferred to wright unto you of my state and condition , and how both my
wife and I lyke this Country by cause I wolde nott make reporte unto
you therof before I had more experyence in the same then I colde have
in a daie or $tweyne $s {TEXT:tweynes} proffe . (GCROMW-E1-P2,193.5)

Trustinge that ye woll so take this my longe scilence , and nott as any
slowthfulnes or forgottefulness of my dewtie . Wherfore as concerninge
the Howse , and the situation of the same , it doth undoubtedly right
moche please and content both me and my wife , (GCROMW-E1-P2,193.6)

and is unto hir so comodious that she thinketh hir self to be here
right well settylled . (GCROMW-E1-P2,193.7)

My Lord Dakers and my Lady his wif , Sir John Gage , M=r=. Gainsforth ,
M=r=. Shelley , M=r=. Belinghom , and dyuers other gentylmen of this
contrey and theire wifes hath , both-1 with theire preasences and also
presents , right frendely enterteigned me and <P_194> welcomed me into
thies parties : unto all whome if ye shall have occasion , I moste
humblie requyre yow to render herty thankes for their kynd gentylnesses
unto me shewyd . (GCROMW-E1-P2,194.8)

And thus I desyre our Lorde to have you in his tuition .
(GCROMW-E1-P2,194.9)

At Lewes , (GCROMW-E1-P2,194.10)

the xj=th= daie of Apryll . (GCROMW-E1-P2,194.11)

Your moste obedyent sone , Gregory Crumwell . (GCROMW-E1-P2,194.12)

To the right honorable and his singuler good Lorde and father , my
Lorde Privy Seale . (GCROMW-E1-P2,194.13)

