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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_X>

To his mother at Plompton be this letter delivered .
(RPLUMPT-E1-H,231.3)

Right worshipful mother , I humbly recommend mee unto you , desiring
you of your dayly blessing , praing <font> Jesu </font> long to
continew your helth to his pleasur . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,231.4)

Mother , I thanke you for the ..... you send mee , (RPLUMPT-E1-H,231.5)

for yf you were not , I were not able to live ; (RPLUMPT-E1-H,231.6)

for this same Christmasse hath cost mee as much as you send mee .
Wherfore , I am afraid I shal not have money to serve mee to Easter .
(RPLUMPT-E1-H,231.7)

Also I wold desire you to send mee word of the letter that I wrote to
my father and you , for to moove my Lady Gascoin to write to <P_232> my
lord , her brother , not to bee only his servant , but of his houshold
and attending unto him ; (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.8)

for els he wold do as other lords do , knowes not half their servants .
Wherfor , I desire you that you wil moove my lady Gascoin to write so
to my lord , that I may bee his houshold servant . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.9)

Also , mother , I wold desire you to mark wel my letter , that I sent
you by Mr. Oughtred ; (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.10)

and here I send you a godly New Testament by this bearer .
(RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.11)

And yf the prologue bee so small that ye $can $not {TEXT:cannot} wel
reade them , ther is my fathers book , (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.12)

and they are bothe one , (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.13)

and my fathers book hath the prologue printed in bigger letters .
(RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.14)

Yf it wil please you to read the introducement , ye shal see marvelous
things hyd in it . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.15)

And as for the understanding of it , dout not ; (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.16)

for God wil give knowledge to whom he will give knowledg of the
Scriptures , as soon to a shepperd as to a priest , yf he ask knowledg
of God faithfully . Wherfor , pray to God , and desire Jesus Christ to
pray for you and with you . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.17)

No more to you at this tyme , (RPLUMPT-E1-H,232.18)

but God fill you <P_233> with al spiritual knowledge , to the glory of
God , the helth of your soule , and the profit of your poor nieghbor .
(RPLUMPT-E1-H,233.19)

Written at the Temple , the 12 day of ianuary . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,233.20)

By your sonn , Robert Plompton . (RPLUMPT-E1-H,233.21)

<heading:edcomment:anno_circa_1536>