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To the Honorable, mine eſpeciall good
Lord, Sir Roger Manwood Knight, Lord
cheefe Baron of hir Maiesties Court
of the Eſchequer.
In somvch as I know that your Lordſhip is by nature whollie inclined, and in purpoſe earneſtly bent to releeue the poore, and that not onlie with hoſpitalitie and almes, but by diuerſe other deuiſes and waies tending to their comfort, hauing (as it were) framed and ſet your ſelfe to the helpe and maintenance of their eſtate; as appeareth by your charge and trauell in that behalfe. Whereas alſo you haue a ſpeciall care for the ſupporting of their right, and redreſſing of their wrongs, as neither deſpiſing their calamitie, nor yet forgetting their complaint, ſeeking all meanes for their amendement, and for the reformation of their diſorders, euen as a verie father to the poore. Finallie, for that I am a poore member of that commonwelth, where your Lordſhip is a principall perſon; I thought this my trauell, in the behalfe of the poore, the aged, and the ſimple, might be
