s[ay . . .] what, and þerfore I moste beseche your ladyshipe to send me [your avyse [?]] how I shall be demeyned in such thynges as schall belonge unto my Cossen Kateryn, and how I shall provyde ffor them: she must have gyrdilles, iij at the leyst, and how they shalbe made I know nat: and many oþer thynges she muste have, ye know well what they be, in ffeyȝth I know nat: be my trouth I wold it were done, lever thanne more þan it shall cost. I am lothe to displese or to troble eny person, yff I shuld be holpen forwardes in my besynes now, I wold it were done with a corage and with good will, [it] shall make me the gladder a grete dele. Also, madam, þeras your ladishipe desy[reth me] to come to Stonor to make me mery &c.: in good feiȝth, madam, [my besynes is] such now I can nat well come to myn ease: I have grete besynes [with] the ffelishype off the Stapell, and I have mych to do with myn owne mat[ers] . . . so that in good ffeyth I can nat make an end lyghtly. And yet God wote I wold ffull ffayn speke with your ladishipe ffor the matters afforsaid, and as sone as I have made an end off my maters I shall nat longe be ffrom you, with Godes grace. And as ffor the sendynge hedyr off my Cossen Kateryn, your ladyshipe may do þerin as it shall plese you. I wold she knew as mych as you know, ffor soth and than she shuld doo som good and helpe me in many thynges w[han] she come. My lady, your modyr, is in good helthe and ffareth well, and she s[endeth] you Godes blissyng and hirs, and lyke wyse my Cossen Kateryn, and to all. . . . .
[In dorso.] Also my lady, your modyr, recomaundith hir [hartely] to my mayster your husband, and she is very glad of his recovere, and she prayeth God to send hym good helth. Also, madam, as ye wryte me the curtesse delynge off my mayster with my Cossen Kateryn &c., truly I am very glade þeroff, and I pray God hartely thannke hym þerffore: ffor he hath ever ben loffyngly disposed [unto] hir, and so I beseche God ever contenew hym and also my Cossen Kateryn to [de]serve it unto hym by hir goodly demeynour and womanly disposision, as she can do right well yff hir lyst, and so sayth every body þat prayseth hir. Also, madam, maystres Bevesse recomaunds hir unto your ladishipe, and prayeth har[tely ffor] your good helthe. And I [hartely] beseche almyghty Jhesu and his blissid modyr to be your comffort, and to helpe you in all your good workes, Amen. [Wryten at London] the xxiiij day of June
Be your owne Servant Thomas Betson.
To my right worshipful good lady, dame Elisabeth Stonor, this be delivered in hast.
