tradatur Johanni Past[on] of þe Inner In in the Temple att London.

   Ryth worschipfull brothir, I recomaund me to yow, &c. I preye write to myn modre of your owne hed as for to consell her howh þat sche kepe her preuye and tell no body ryth nowth of her counsell, for sche woll tell persones many of her counsell this day and to-morwe sche woll sey be Goddis faste þat the same men ben false. I haue seen parte of þe euydence and þe maner hathe be purchasid be parcell and certeyn feffementis mad of the auowson and certeyn pecis of lond enterlessant þe maner, and I wote well ye haue on collaterall rellesse wyth a warente of on of þe wyffys of Hauteyn of all þe holl maner. Steward, þe chiffe constable, told me he was enpanellyd vp-on þe assise be-twex yow and Frauncesse. He axyd me counsell what he myth do þer-jnne, for he told me it was take in Ser Thomas Tudham name. He wold fayne be chalengyd. I concellyd him swere the trowthe of the issue þat he schuld be swore to, and þanne he nedyd neuer to drede hym of noon atteynte. I yaue him this counsell and noon othir. He enqueryd me of the rewle of myn master Danyell and myn lord of Suffulke, and askyd wheche I thowte schuld rewle in þis schere, and I seyd bothe, as I trowh,