It may please your Honour I am very sory that I was driven to troble yor Honour so often, considering yor owne desire to help me; neyther do I now troble yor Honour with intent to stay, or sue any more, for I will away presently as your honour shall think good, with any thing that your Honour can obtaine for me. At my last being with your Honour, I told you how doutfull I was of my wife's resignacion; for she is so froward, and foolish, as she will streight think that it is a device of myne to make away her Inheritance, as I did myn owne, in all my trobles past; which yf she had consented to do (as I protest I am sure she will not) I cannott imagine how to bring her; and I know my Lord will not stay at Dublin untill she com; neyther can a Fine be leauied but there; whereunto Sir Robart Gardner, and those of the councell that are learned (unto whom the Earle of Essex will put it over) will look so narrowly, as I am sure I shall not get a Pattent if therebe any mencion of a Fine, or any thing of my wifes; And yf Her Majestie shold write in generall termes to the Lord Liftenant, to take order with me that Her Highnes be not further trobled with any claime, or chaleng, for those lands, I know it will hinder it, yf his Lordship do not take myne owne assurance, or som reasonable course that lies in me to do; Also it is mencioned that all the Earle's Rents and cheferies shalbe reserved for Her Majestie, and yf Her Highnes have his rents and cheferies that he had out of those lands that is granted me, it cannott be woorth me nothing; therefore it is necessary to specifie there that all the sayd Earl's rents and clieferies may be reserved for Her Highnes but such as is due out of those lands, or countrey of Desmond, that is granted me; out of the which I must pay about vi score £ a yere, as Browne was to pay. The consideracion wherof I referr unto your Honour whom I beseech God long to continue, and prosper.61
I humblie take leaue this xxth day of April 1599.
Your Honours most humble and thankful,