21. George Lea (Birkhead) to Thomas More (15 December 1611) (AAW A X, no. 160, pp. 441–2.)

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my verie Rev good S^r, it is now so longe since I hard from yow, and I have written so often, that I beleve I am now even with yow in your nomber of Letters, yf mine be safely come unto yow. I have had such checkes of late concerninge yowr puttinge fa pers. wordes to be censured, that I feare some false measure, yett yf yow communicated the matter first to our vicepr. as it seameth yow did, it will helpe the matter well. I could wish yow to take heede how farre yow deale with vives, die vicep. meant somethinge when he advised yow to the contrarie, a yonge Carmelite called m^r dowghtie here in London sendeth me word that your monsignour is wholly crossed in his designes, and therfor I feare yow cannot gett any great favour in dealinge widi him though yow fynd some perticular releife. yet this forenamed Carmelite assureth me that his superiors favour yowr monsignour much, and he offereth me to write unto them in our behalfe, for diat vives is now altogether bent (as he saieth) to convert his charitie to the furtherance of our countrie. which Courtesie I could verie well [‘like’ deleted] like of, but that I feare the issue therof.