Vnderstandinge that the Queene's Matie and your honnor haue bene enfourmed that if I had followed the advice of the older soldiours here the rebells had bene overthrowen long er this, I do assure your honor thear was nothing done touching the service against those rebells, or any other of the estate, which was not deliberately consulted of by the whole councell, or as many of theim as I could convenyently call togeither, and put in practyse and execucion accordingly as may appere by the decres allway ready to be shewed vnder their hand wrytinge, which if I proove not when her highnes shall comannd it to be trewe, let me haue no better creadit with her Matie and your honnor then they which dare make these crafty and vntrew surmyzes to her Matie ought to haue. And besides that I dare adventure one whole yeere's close imprysonment (besides the losse of the one half of my lyvinge in England) that if he that made that reaport (what so ever he be) had evyn nowe to deale with the rebells and the repression of theim commytted to his chardge, he woulde in shorter tyme then they haue allready bene in manner vtterly subdewed {MS folio 64r} bring theim to be as many in nomber, and the contrey into as evill an estate, as it was when these late warres were begoonne.