Letter of 1618 - a few words

[Old Bristolian]

Thanks to all who helped me with the address on this letter. I now have a few words I can't make out in the letter itself. What I can read (I assume) of these two lines is as follows:

for Somrset this yeare, for thother two doe both mak
and …… to kepe them out, by this my … I commend


Steve

[arthurk]

I read the first query as:

....both mak
meanes to kepe them out

Not sure of the second, though.

[Bookbox]

The second is l(ett)re - letter.

[Old Bristolian]

Thanks Arthurk and Bookbox. I misread the word 'meanes' completely - I should have spotted the downstroke for the 'm'. I did wonder about  'letter' as that seemed to be the sense of it, but I didn't read the contraction correctly,

Steve