Brother Henrie , My love unto you (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,43.3) i have receved your kind and lovinge letter which you sent unto mee (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,43.4) and I am very glad to heere that you ar in good helth as i am at the writing of thes poore weeke lines unto you (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,43.5) and i coold wish that i had saved the paynes of writing them soe that i might have ben soe happy not to tell it yow in Lines but in wordes : (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.6) i coold wish that i were with you at Barham or you with mee at london . (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.7) You profes a greete deele love to mee which i thinke my selfe very much obleged and bound unto you for setting your love upon soe poore a shrimpe as i : (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.8) had i the arabian gould or the ingian pearle it woold not dooe me soe much good as to inioy your long desired and happy cumpany (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.9) i can tell you no neuse but this that there is peese concluded with france : (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.10) i pray remember my duty to my mother and my love to all your naighboures , rembring my murie grant and all the rest of our frendes , (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.11) in hast i rest , committing you to God's protaction Your ever loving Brother till deth Richard Oxinden (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.12) This of May 1629 (ROXINDEN2-E2-P1,1,44.13)