I pray tell Mrs. Bridge I will save her husband’s things for her, so
much as we saved, it being almost all lost.
The haste of this messenger makes me forget divers things which I should
have wrote to you of; but I hope all things will be for the best, seeing
it can be no better. For be not discouraged at this bad news, but hope
the next year for better, which I do promise, if you hold on the course
begun.
_Vale!_
[Addressed:] To the worthy and my most respected loving, kind friend,
Mr. James Sherley, Treasurer for New Plymouth Adventurers, dwelling on
London Bridge, at the Golden Horseshoe.
New England, the 28th of May [?], 1624.
Pray send these three letters to Mr. Nathaniel [Hawes] at the Three
Cocks in Cheapside.