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CLXXVI. Sir George Yeardley. A Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys
June 27, 1621

Noble Sir

Though your most weyghty and important affayres would not p̱mitt you
to wryght otherwyse then in breife by this Shyp the Abigall, yet to my
great Joy and singular contentment, I have heard both frō the Company

and by some others of my very good Freinds, of the election of my worthy
Sucsesor, wherein I doe both p̱ceave your loving care of me, and how much
I am bound to your selfe, to whome as for all other your most Noble Favors
soe for this last I doe and shall ever acknowlege my selfe, bound and
made yours to doe you service even to the spending my Lyfe, your freindly
advertisement and therein your p̳misse you have most faythfully kept.
I beseech the Allmyghty to give me the grace that I may in all thinges doe
the same to you, and that this gentleman together with your ryght worthy
brother may safely arive here, in dew tyme I shall dayly pray to you, and
shall be alwayes ready to serve them with the best of my service, and shall
never thinke that I have suffitiently requited your great Love at all tymes
shewed me, but [illegible] I using words, being therein not skilfull, but
rather refer my whole tyme to endevor by my actions to testify the affec-
tions of my harte, and after p̢senting of my humble thankes to goe on to
doe. your request concerning Mr Poe and Madame Poe his wyfe shall
be a comand to make me for your sake to doe even what possible I can or
may in affording them my best helpe and furtherance, whereof I doubt
not but you shall shortly to your content understand. Mr Arondell I
have commended to Capt Nuce, and have desired him that he will at all
tymes certify me what pleasure or favor I may doe him for your sake.
Mr Lapworth I trust will deserve your comendations, how he is Disposed
of you shall understand by the Letter to the Generall company, as allso
how Capt Smyth is seated, both whom I will doe my best to further in
what I may. I shall not neede to certifye you of any p̱ticulars at this
tyme since I have writt at Large both to the generall company and to the
Sotiety of Sowthampton hundred as well now by the Margarett and John
as formerly by the other Shyps wch I hope are come to theire hands and
doe now likewise agayne send copies thereof I must therefore beseech you
that I may refer you to those wherein although you doe not receave such
satisfaction as I know you have expected and my owne harte hath desired,
yet I humbly entreat you to consider Favorably and Charitably of all
matters, wherein you shall doe me ryght, and as I know you wil, p̱ceave
the hand of man hath not in many things bine able to p̢vaile but never-
theless I doubt nothing but that god will be mercifull to the remnant, and
give such blessing to the p̳ceed of our labors that we shall in the end reape
yet a Joyfull harvest, wch I beseech him for his gloryes sake to grant. Soe
comending both you and yours with all your vertuous p̳ceedings to him
who is best able to p̢serve you, with the Integrity and Zeale of your harte
wch you exercise to his glory in this Action, I rest