Bess (dowager countess of Shrewsbury) writes to the earl and countess of Shrewsbury (her stepson and son-in-law, Gilbert, and her daughter, Mary), wishing them well in a suit they plan to undertake the following Monday. In a postscript to Mary, she expresses her sympathy that Charles (presumably her son and Mary's brother, Charles Cavendish), is still ill and asks her to write and remind him to 'keep good diet'.