Right Honble
My most honored Lord I have been already very long and yet I have one thing very important to advise your Lordship with, which is that Virginia, Maryland & Carolina have at length granted to the desires of the people a law for a totall cessation from planting tobacco in the yeare 1667 the whole transactions whereof I shall herewith send your Lordship to be by the King confirmed or disaproved if it be ill or that it bee found prejudiciall to his Maties intrest either in poynt of custome or any way elce we humbly desire to have his determinac̄on soe soon as conveniently we may that the people may know how to employ their labours.