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LETTER X.

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5    Right worshipful mother, I humbly recommend mee unto you,
6desiring you of your dayly blessing, praing Jesu long to continew
7your helth to his pleasur. Mother, I thanke you for the ..... you
8send mee, for yf you were not, I were not able to live; for this
9same Christmasse hath cost mee as much as you send mee. Wherfore,
10I am afraid I shal not have money to serve mee to Easter.
11Also I wold desire you to send mee word of the letter that I wrote
12to my father and you, for to moove my Lady Gascoin to write to

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13my lord, her brother, not to bee only his servant, but of his houshold
14and attending unto him; for els he wold do as other lords do,
15knowes not half their servants. Wherfor, I desire you that you
16wil moove my lady Gascoin to write so to my lord, that I may bee
17his houshold servant. Also, mother, I wold desire you to mark
18wel my letter, that I sent you by Mr. Oughtred; and here I send
19you a godly New Testament by this bearer. And yf the prologue
20bee so small that ye cannot wel reade them, ther is my fathers
21book, and they are bothe one, and my fathers book hath the prologue
22printed in bigger letters. Yf it wil please you to read the
23introducement, ye shal see marvelous things hyd in it. And as
24for the understanding of it, dout not; for God wil give knowledge
25to whom he will give knowledg of the Scriptures, as soon to a
26shepperd as to a priest, yf he ask knowledg of God faithfully.
27Wherfor, pray to God, and desire Jesus Christ to pray for you
28and with you. No more to you at this tyme, but God fill you

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29with al spiritual knowledge, to the glory of God, the helth of your
30soule, and the profit of your poor nieghbor. Written at the Temple,
31the 12 day of ianuary.
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36 Anno circa 1536.