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Intelligences for her Majesty's services in the Province of Leinster in Ireland (Author: Hugh Collier(?))

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ffirst for his vnsoundnes in bodye (whose very breath is able to corrupte the soundest, as his croked witt is able to deceave the wisest) ffor that att his last beinge here a suiter, he gott the frenche disease, (for reverence not to be named) of a marryed woman whome he kepte att Westminster and St Gyles in the feildes, and was for the same laide in dyett, and vnder cure, whome he also carried over with him and kepte in his owne house in Ireland openly with his wiefe like as other women in most shamefull adulterous manner, by whome his body grewe to be the more corrupted.