<P_422>

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Maystres Alyce , in my moste hartie wyse I recommende me to $you .
(MORELET1-E1-H,422.3)

And where as I am enformed by my sone Heron of the losse of our barns
and our neighbours also with all the corne that was therin , albeit
<paren> savyng Goddis pleasuer </paren> it wer greate pytie of so
$myche good corne loste yet sythe it hathe lyked hym to sende vs suche
a chaunce , we muste and ar bounden not onely to be content but also to
be glade of his visitacion . (MORELET1-E1-H,422.4)

He sent vs all that we haue loste (MORELET1-E1-H,422.5)

and sythe he hathe by syche a chaunce taken yt away ageyne his pleasuer
be fulfylled ; (MORELET1-E1-H,422.6)

let vs never gruge therat but take in good worth and hartely thanke hym
as well for aduersytie as for prosperytie (MORELET1-E1-H,422.7)

and peraduenture <P_423> we haue more cause to thanke hym for our losse
then for our wynnyng , (MORELET1-E1-H,423.8)

for his wysedome better seethe what ys good for vs then we do ourselves
. (MORELET1-E1-H,423.9)

Therfore I pray you be of good chere (MORELET1-E1-H,423.10)

and take all the howshold with you to chyrche (MORELET1-E1-H,423.11)

and ther thanke God bothe for that he hathe geven vs and for that he
hathe taken from vs and for that he hathe lefte vs , which yf yt please
hym he can $increase when he wyll (MORELET1-E1-H,423.12)

and yf it please hym to leve vs yet lesse , at his pleasuer be yt .
(MORELET1-E1-H,423.13)

I pray you to make some good enserche what my poore neyghebors haue
loste and byd them take no thought therfore , (MORELET1-E1-H,423.14)

for and I shuld not leve my selff a spone there shall no poore
neghebore of myne berre no losse by eny chaunce hapned in my howse .
(MORELET1-E1-H,423.15)

I pray you be wyth my children and your howsholde mery in God
(MORELET1-E1-H,423.16)

and devyse somewhat wythe your frendys what way were best to take for
provysyon to $be made for corne for our houshold and for seede thys
yere commyng , $yff $ye thyncke yt good that we kepe the grounde stylle
$in $our $handys , and whether ye thyncke yt good that we so $shall do
or not , (MORELET1-E1-H,423.17)

yet I thyncke it were not best sodenly $thus to leve yt all vp and to
put away our folke of our ferm , $till we haue somewhat aduysed vs
theron , how be it yff we haue more now then ye shall nede and which
can gett them other maysters ye may then dyscharge vs of them
(MORELET1-E1-H,423.18)

but I wolde not that eny man were sodenly sent away he wote nere
whyther . (MORELET1-E1-H,423.19)

At my commyng hether I perceved none other but that I shulde tary styll
with the Kyngis Grace (MORELET1-E1-H,423.20)

but now I shall , I thynke , by cause of thys chaunce gete leve this
next weke to come home and se you , (MORELET1-E1-H,423.21)

an then shall we ferther devyse together vpon all thyngis what order
shall be best to take . (MORELET1-E1-H,423.22)

And thus as hartely fare you well wythe all our chyldren as ye can
wyshe , at Woodestokke the iii=de= daye of September by the hand of
Your lovyng husbond , Thomas More Kg . (MORELET1-E1-H,423.23)