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5    Having sent over Sir Cyrill Wyche to attend yr Majesties
6service in Parlm^t who being sufficiently instructed to give yr
7Mat^y a full account of all ye affairs in this Kingdom T'will be
8unnecessary by this Letter to trouble yr Mat^y with ye particulars.
9Two things have principally employd my time here since my
10last kissing yr Mat^y's hands; The ascertaining ye Quit rents by
11reducing those wch are upon barren lands, and the settling ye
12province of Conaght, both wch will I doubt not turne to acct for
13your Mat^y's service: For ye first of them will render that Revenue
14for ever after solvent, And ye latter as it is a work of great Justice
15and Charity, and will relieve many poor familys, who have for
16divers years bin kept out of their estate, so will it also in some
17proportion improve yr Mat^ey's Revenue by bringing many Quitt
18Rents into charge, wch could not be done till ye lands were passt
19in patent: In both these as also in all other matters Sir Cyrill Wyche,
20when yr Mat^y shall please to allow him ye opportunity will give yr
21Mat^y a relacon of ye methods of my proceedings, and ye measures
22I take in all, wherein I hope yr Mat^y will receive that satisfaction
23as may bee a further confirmation of ye truth and reallity, wherein
24I desire to appear in all humility Yr Mat^ys, etc., etc.
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30    I doe with all humility acknowledge ye favour yr Mat^y was
31pleased to doe mee in signifying by a letter written with yr owne
32hand yr intention of my returning home, and that yr Mat^ey has
33also therein given mee such an undeniable testimony of yr satisfaction
34in my management of those affairs wch yr Mat^ey hath for
35almost five years committed to my care wth ye assurance yt you
36will be pleased to retain in yr princely memory ye endeavors I
37have used justly and honestly to discharge my Trust wch truly I
38can justify to all ye world I have performed with an upright conscience
39and if any cavills have arisen agnst my proceedings here
40it may bee they have bin founded upon my insisting strictly on
41yr Mat^y's Right and not admitting some persons to take that as
42due wch if allowed they ought to accept as Grace from yr Majestie:
43And as it hath ever bin my practice in these Employments wherewith
44yr Mat^y hath thought fitt to honour mee strenuously to assert
45and maintaine ye prerogative to wch you were borne so I hope yr
46Mat^y will be pleased to believe yt in all capacitys yr Mat^y shall at
47any time place mee I will continue steady and firme to ye same
48cause as being with all devotion, etc., etc.
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