Sr Iames is come of purpose to know sithenc his lawyers doe signify that his state is not fully securd frō his sone & hayre of whose father it was purchased his sone beng bond when he was vndr {yers}. & his father decayed. question is wheathr it were not better to tell it as he thinketh yt he can wth sutch assuranc as he hath & no bettr & to imptey the mony eyther in vsing or els to buye an office
Wheathr he shall live out live his wife & ma{r}y on very ritch |he shall not yet shall ve a good husb:|
Calendared note from MS Ashmole 414, f. 187r (upper left part of page)
