Worshipfull Sirs, with all recommendacion due hadde, wille ye wete that it is so that I was at Oxonford as uppon Fryday next byfore seint Thomas day for diverse maters by the Kynges commaundement for the seid Towne of Oxonford: and at my commyng thethyr ther was the Shiriffe and also William Marmyon: and ther the Shireff shewyd ij com|yssions of this graunt as well of the lordes as of the comyns, with certeyn ynstruccions conteynyng ij papyr leves. And whan the seid Shiryff hadde shewyd the seid commissions and the ynstruccions to William Marmyon and to me, he wolde not resseyve them ayen, but willyd and desyred that William Marmyon and I shuld send and write on to yow on the Kynges behalf that all the commissioners yn the commissions expressid shuld assemble and mete togeders at Oxonford as uppon Monday next, for to take a dyrection what is to be done yn the pre|misses, at whiche day Richard Croft, Thomas Croft, William Marmyon to be ther the same Monday. And they prayd and desyred me to write unto yow to attende ther the same day, and I graunt them that I so wold doo: that moveth me to write to yow at this tyme, prayng you that ye write to me of youre commynge, yea or nay, that I may sende them worde &c. Writyn yn hast uppon Satirday next befor the seid seint Thomas day.
Your Cosyn and Unkle Rich. Quat'.
To my right trusty and well-beloved Cosyns, Thomas Stoner and Humfrey Forster, and to everych of them first seyng this letter, be this delivered in hast.
