He has received another slight from his estranged wife, and mentions an occasion when she and her father turned their backs on him. He is sorry that his wife had got to see his last letter in which he says some kind things about her. He would rather "have given the whole arme wt the hand yt wrote it, & quhile I breath this life and uhile ther is blood in my veins shee shall newer see my hand urite nor have any kindnesse from me for I find it all truth yt is spoken of her, & I suppose the vorst is not yet knowen . . . lette your sister see this letter."