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To the Reverend and my much honoured frind M^r Napier at Linford magna be these DD

Worthy S^r my humble service vnto yo^w remembred These are to certify yo^w that a good gentlewoman and a very speciall friend of mine M^rs Lane of Hitchindon not farre from Peterley in Buck shire. having but one onely Childe a sonne \he/ hath bene almost these 6 yeres and still is greevously handled w^th fittes of the falling sickenes and convulsions so that his sence and vnderstanding is therew^th taken away. And nowe her desire is to have yo^r Iudgem^t concerning him. whether yo^w thinke he may recover or not And to that end she wrote to me to come to yo^w and desire yo^r Iudgem^t. But now I am not able to take such a Iourney For my right eye w^ch was swelled when I was w^th yo^w vpon my cōming home grewe worse, so that by no meanes neither by purging nor outward applications I could p^rvent an Aegylops. so that vpon friday the 8 of Iune it brake, leaving a great bunche in it w^ch I could not take away till I had laid on 3 severall plaisters of Diasulphur Rulandi one vpon the 10^th of Iune another the 12^th, and another the 14^th w^ch last came out the 16^th day, and now (I thanke God) the flesh is faire and it beginnes to heale But I dare not yet go abroad. I pray yo^w that yo^w would write yo^r Iudgem^t briefly concerning this yong gentleman. I have sent yo^w the figure of his nativity. And this bearer w^ch is the gentlewomans husbands brother can fully enforme yo^w of all things

Thus w^th my prayers for yo^r Long life and good health I rest