[...]And least my lettres haue not come to your Honours hands, and that the best freind I had, the young Earl of Desmond (whom yourr Honour had raised) is lately dead (as it is credebly reported) so as nowe I am altogether destitute of any freind there to countenance my honest desart, &.
The late unfortunat young Earle of Desmond hath left here four poore sisters; the Lady Roche best able of them, but of meane estate, to live; and the rest, albeit having some annuity of Her Majesty, yet for the smalenes thereof are much distressed, without any other friend or meanes to help them. You have been a father unto him (as himself often told me) and I think your Honour should add much to your immortall fame, tobe so unto them procuring Hir Majesty's most gracious goodnes towards them for their reasonable matching there, or here.
Cork
Your Honour humble dependant
William POWER.