To the right worshipfull
and my vereye good
ladye my Ladye Sentloo
at Chattesworthe this be delivered
Right wurshipffull. and my vereye good ladye/ after
my hertiest comendacions to your good ladishepe remembred
even so require yow I meye be to good Master Sentloo. with
most entyer thanckes for my wyne yat I haue ben bolde
to take of his lyberalytie/ most hertelye thanckinge yow
ffurthere for your bountiouse goodnes & cost bestowed of
henrye my sonne & of those yat were with him at London
as also for the good will and ffauour that I perceave ye beare
to my said sonne/ which I preye gode he maye deserve/ and
perceaved ffurthere yf ye coulde geat leave ye woulde
come to Chattesworthe this whitsontide/ whethere ye would
be glade to haue me & my wiffe to come. lyke as I
vnderstand the same. by a lettre receaved this morninge
ffrome Master Hardwycke/ wherbye I do not onlye perceave ye
be come to Chattesworthe but would haue me & my wife
to come over to make merrie/ but to procede ffurthere to
the perffytinge of the wrytinges accordinge to our former comunication
trulye madame I woulde as gladlie come as ye woulde be
to haue me/ but I am not abill to goo nor ryde/ but to
my great payne trouble & shame/ and because I woulde ye
shoulde not thincke I doo yt to staye of anyethinge/ which I am
as willinge to haue performed and perfyted as ye arre/ after
the wrytinges be maed & sealled/ yt shull be at your pleasure
to cause the same to be drawen in paper accordinglye as
I thincke ye haue goode remembrance of tharticles of our
agreament/ ye recyted them so fformallye a lytill before
our partinge/ and so send them to me/ or else I to geat them
done/ thoughe learned men be skaunt in the countrye at
this presente/ and so I to sende them to yow. which ones agreede vppon
by vs boothe and our councelles then to ingrose the same readye
to seallinge. which for my parte I shall doo. so ffare as I can
with my helthe/ and after to haue the matrymonye so sone
accomplyshed. as ye shall seame goode & conveynyent at your
pleasure/ and forasmoche as I am even nowe & haue bene
for this fourtnight or iij. weekes. moche troubled. with payne
of my disease I shall require yow to take this rewde
wrytinge in good part. yat wrytes with moche payne/ vntill
I know furthere of your pleasure in the meane season leavinge
to trouble yow anye ffurthere. doo beseche allmightie
gode to haue yow and Master Sentloo euermore in his kepinge. ffrome
holme in hast the xviijth of maij 1562.
in hast & leasureles
by your good ladishipes to his lytill powere/
George. pierponnte K.