And I trust you will pray for me; for I shall pray for you and, so it may be, none so well.

And Almighty Jesu make you a good woman and send you many good years and long to live in health and virtue to his pleasure.

At great Calais, on this side on the sea, the first day of June, when every man was gone to his dinner, and the clock smote nine, and all your household cried after me and bade me 'Come down, come down to dinner at once!'-- and what answer I gave them, ye know it of old.
[Footnote J: Possibly an inn with that name ( ?).] By your faithful Cousin and lover Thomas Betson.

I send you this ring for a token.
So ending, Thomas Betson smiled, dropped a kiss on the seal and inscribed his letter, 'To my faithful and heartily beloved cousin Katherine Riche at Stonor, this letter be delivered in haste.'[14] Henceforth there begins a charming triangular correspondence between Betson and Stonor and Dame Elizabeth Stonor, in which family news and business negotiations are pleasantly mingled.

Dame Elizabeth and Betson were on the best of terms, for they had been old friends before her second marriage.