Compliments and "your friendship with the French Ambassador" in Italian. Rest of the letter in English: I have a sister's son, the Duke of Shrewsbury's tenant in Ashen, West Codford, Wiltshire, who "hath made a shift to get him a braw boy lately" and wishes the Duke "to put the child's life into the living." "I have not seen Madam Bo...ey nor Mary Pope since their return"; gossip.

1 page and address (1 sheet), postmark. "At Mr Hyrons house..."