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Sir , I assure your Grace that ye be moch bounde to our Lorde God ,
that in suche wise hath suffered you so to behave and order your self
in thos partyes to atteyne the good myndes and herts of the people
there , the reporte whereof in the Courte and ells where in these
parties is and hathe ben to the acquyryng and augmentyng the good
oppynyons of many persons towards your Grace ; beseching therfore your
Grace to contynue in the same after suche a sort and fasshyon as ye may
daylye increase , not onlye in the ffavours of the pepull ther , but
also here and ells where , to the pleasure of God and the Prynce .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,185.3)

And notwithstanding your good , vertuous , and charitable demeaning and
using yourself in thos parties , ys not by your enemies interpretyd
after the best fashyon , yet always follow and persever ye
attemperatlye in suche things as your worldly affeccons sett apart ,
shall seme to stand best with the pleasure of God and the Kyng .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,185.4)

Sir , sum $there $be {TEXT:therbe} that doth alledge ye doth kepe to
grete a house and famylie , and that ye are contynually buylding .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,185.5)

For the love of God , therefore , I eftsones as I often tymys have done
, most hertelye beseche your Grace to have respecte to every thing ,
and , consyderyng the tyme , to refraygne your self for a season from
all manner byldinggs more then mere <P_3.2,186> necessite requireth ;
which I assure your Grace shall sease and $put $to {TEXT:put_to}
sylence sum persons that moche spelyth of the same .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,186.6)

For the geldings which your Grace dyd send me , I do most humblie and
hertelie thanke you ; beseching your Grace to gyve ferther credens to
this berer , who shall declare unto your Grace other things not wryttyn
. (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,186.7)

I do rekyn your Grace right happye that ye be now at libertye to serve
God , and lern to experyment how ye shall banyshe and exyle the vayn
desyrys of this unstabyll world ; which undowtydlye doth nothing ells
but allure every person therin , and specyallye such as our Lorde hath
most indewyd with his gyfts , to desyre the affecsyons of theyr mynd to
be satysfyed ; in studying and sekyng wherof , most persons , besyd the
grete tramaylls and afliyccsyons that men suffer daylye , wherof most
persons bene dryvyn to extreme repentance {COM:anacoluth} ; and
serching for plesure and ffelycyte fynd nothing but trowbyll , sorow ,
anxyete , and adversyte . Wherfor , in myn oppynyon , your Grace being
as ye ar , I supposse ye woolde not be as ye werre , to wyn a hundereth
tymys as moche as ye were possessyd off . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,186.8)

The Busshop of Bayon ys daylye lokyd ffor , (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,186.9)

and <P_3.2,187> my Lord of Wyltshyre ys cumyn home .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.10)

The sayng here is that the Emperowr hathe good obbedyence of his
subjects in all thing , saving that they wyll not discent from the
Lutheran sekt . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.11)

It ys also sayd that the Emperowr doth make musters for a gret army to
be preparyd ayenst the Turke , to passe to Hungary for the recovery of
that regyon , and that the second son of the Emperowr ys departyd this
present lyffe . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.12)

The news here ys that the Germayns wyll medlye have a generall
Counsaylle for the reformacyon of many things .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.13)

The Florentynys dothe styll contenew and defende the power of the Pope
, (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.14)

and it ys supposyd that they shall vynce by meane that ther ys a gret
pestylence fallen amongyst them , being in the ffelde of the Popis
partye . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.15)

Ther ys also a gret carystye in Italye of all maner of grayne , in
somoche a quarter of whet ys worth generallye fforty shelinggs .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.16)

They loke daylye for an Ambassadour from the Pope , who at the ferthest
$will $be {TEXT:wilbe} here w=t= xiiij days .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.17)

The Kyngs Highnes is this nyght at Amptell ,
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.18)

and ther wyll contenew thes xiiij dayes . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.19)

It may please your Grace to pardon me that I do not repayre unto yow at
this tyme , (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.20)

for undowtydlye it ys not possyble , as this berer shall fferthr
declare unto your Grace . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.21)

Our Lord knowith my wyll and mynde . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.22)

And I trust verelye that your Grace doth perffytlye thinke that I
woolde bee glade to see yow , (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,187.23)

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and unfaynydlye I woolde have sene your Grace long a this , yf I hadde
not bene lettyd by impertune busynes ; wherfor I eftsones most humblye
besech your Grace of pardon , (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.25)

and though I am not with you in person , yet be ye assuryd I am , and
duryng my lyff $shall $be {TEXT:shalbe} , with yowr Grace , in hert ,
spyryt , prayer , and servyce , to the utterest of my poore and symple
power , as knowyth our Lorde , whom I most hertelye beseche to preserve
your Grace in long lyff , goode helthe , with th'encreace of your
hertys desyre . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.26)

At London , (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.27)

the xviii=th= daye of August . (CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.28)

I beseche your Grace to depeche this berer whom I mygh evyll have
forborne at this tyme , but onlye that I persayvyd by your lettres that
ye moche desyryd to be put in quyetacyon , and that , besyde my selfe ,
I coulde not send any that coulde certefye your Grace of the effects of
such things as ye desire to be inforemyd in , but onlye he : eftsones
beseching your Grace spedelye to send hym home ,
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.29)

for my busynes ys such that I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} lake hym .
(CROMWELL-E1-P2,3.2,188.30)