Catalogue description Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (continued); June, 1571-16 Sept....

Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (continued); June, 1571-16 Sept. 1588. The more important letters are as follows:-

1. Roger Yong to Edmund Dockwra, asking his interest with the Earl of Leicester that Anthony Stephyns may be made schoolmaster of Ewelme; Bastleden [Bassilden, co. Berks], 18 June, 1571(?). f.2.

2. John Butler, on legal and other business; Kenilworth, 17, 25 June, 1571. ff.4,9.

3. Henri de Montmorency, Duc de Montmorency, on the satisfaction of the king of France with the good offices of Leicester in furthering a treaty of alliance between England and France; Gaillon, 19 June, 1571. f.7.

4. J. Barneby, giving an account of an interview with the fugitive Archbishop of Cashel, [Maurice Mac Gibbon], etc.; Rone [Rouen], 26 June, 1571. f.12.

5. John Yonge, (a) applying for the farm of the customs at Bristol; 12 July, 1571. f.17;- (b) on the appearance of a large fleet of ships off Portland; Wilton; 13 Apr. 1572. f.71.

6. Sir "John of Desmond" [brother of Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond] (a) thanking Leicester for his good offices, and (b) praying his aid to obtain his liberty, etc.; St. Leger House, Southwark, 14 July, 3 Aug. 1571. ff.19.46.

7. John [Lesley, Bishop of] Ross, praying Leicester's aid that he may have "her Maiesteis favorable answer with liberte"; Ely House, 16 July, 1571. f. 23.

8. William Gerrarde, on legal matters in Wales, the death of Sir Roger Vaughan, etc.; Presteign, 16 July, 1571. f.25.

9. Edmond Docuwra, protesting against the felling of wood, etc.; Windsor, 17 July, 1571. f.27.

10. H[enry Hastings, Earl of] Huntingdon, (a) commending the bearer; London, 19 July, 1571. f.29; - (b) as Lord President of the North, on the cases of Mr. Townely ("soche choyse men as he ys shulde be offeryd the othe") and Sir H. Percy ("if by the lawe he be an earle, God make hym a better earle then hys brothyr was"), who should be induced to exchange his lands in the north for lands in the south; York, 20 Jan. 1572[3]. f.121;- (c) urging the granting of the "olde castell aamoste ruinated" in Sheriff-Hutton for a residence for the President of the North; York, 8 Feb. 1572[3]. f.123;- (d) asking Leicester to further his suit to the Queen for leave to come to London for 14 days, "heare ys nothynge but quietnes apparante thys waye" [in the north]; York, 12 June, 1588. f.234;- (e) hoping his "weake state" will be repaired, "yf theare bee dowtte of the Enemye hys lookynge thys waye"; Newcastle, 12 Aug. 1588. f.249.

11. Sir W[illiam] Fitzwilliam, Lord Justice in Ireland, (a) praying Leicester to be his "good Lord" to further his suit to the Queen for his discharge from his office, his estate being ruined by its expenses, etc.; Dublin, 21 July, 1571. f.30;-- (b) as Lord Deputy, on "all the accidents that have happened" in Ireland since his last of 19 Feb.; Dublin, 16 Mar. 1572[3]. f.144.

12. Edward [Stanley, Earl of] Derby, (a) on the committal of his "son Thomas to warde" for having "incurred her Magesties displeysour and indignacion by summe unadvised and indyrecte dealyng", and asking Leicester's intercession with the Queen; Knowseley, 30 July, 1571. f.42;- (b) on the readiness of his son Edward "to give his attendaunce and aunswere wher he shall be called", and remarking "how grevose it is to me in thiese my old and unhelthfull yerez to understand that my sonnez have any waye demeryted her Majesties displey sour"; Knowseley, 26 Aug. 1571. f.51.

13. ---- Dupin, on the good will of M. de Montmorency to promote a friendship between England and France; Fontainebleau, 1 Aug. 1571. f.44.

14. W[illiam Cecil, Lord] Burghley, on the expected arrival of M. [Paul] de Foix, as French Ambassador, the case of the Bishop of Ross, the building of his house etc.; 10 Aug. 1571. f.47. Enclosing (f.48) a "Memorie of certane heades to be moved to my L. of Burghly in name of the bishop of Ros", with marginal notes by Burghley.

15. F[rancis Russell, Earl of] Bedford, enquiring as to the Queen's health and saying that he "will attend upon her Majeste this progresse"; "from my house at Garrdon", 12 Aug. 1571. f.49.

16. Lewys Evans, on "some fonde prophecieing bookes" seized in Wales; Denbigh, 28 Aug. [1571]. f.53.

17. [Henry Fitz-Alan, Earl of] Arundel, on the Queen's displeasure with the Duk of Norfolk; Arundel Place, 14 Sept. 1571. f.55.

18. Sir Francis Walsingham, on the negotiations with France; Blois, 15 Sept. 1571, Paris, 5 Mar. 1571. ff. 58, 62. See also below, art. 66.

19. Edmund [Scambler, Bishop of] Peterborough, on the preaching of "Mr Wyborne at Northampton, etc.; Peterborough, 5 Feb. 1571[2]. f.60.

20. [James Douglas, Earl of] Morton, Regent of Scotland, (a) date illegible, f.67;- (b) 25 Apr. 1572. f.69;- (c) Leith, 28 Apr. 1572. f.87.

21. M[ary, wife of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of] Southampton, praying to be allowed to go to her husband in the Tower; 20 Apr. 1572. f.78.

22. Maurice [Mac Gibbon], Archbishop of Cashel, to the Regent of Scotland, complaining that, "familiar servitour as we have bene of lang tyme past to the Kingis maiestie of Spaine" and being also "his graces commissioner to the realme of Ireland", he had been arrested on his passage at Dundee; Dundee, 26 Apr. 1572. f.90. Copy. Enclosed in the Earl of Morton's letter of 28 Apr. (f.87).

23. Sir Thomas Gresham, praying Lord Leicester that, the Queen having "comytted the removing of my ladye Mary Gre [Grey]" to him and Lord Bourchier (Bowreleye, i.e. Burghley(?)) he will "tacke presseant order for the same, wyche wole be no small comfforte and quyeatnes to my powre wiffe and me, whome, as you knowe, hathe bynne allmost a pryssoner in here owen howsse for this thre yeres"; Gresham House, 29 Apr. 1572. f.91.

24. Sir William Pykeryng, against Oswald Metcalf, "the furst and onely seducer of the Earle of Northumberland", etc. [nearly illegible]; London, 4 May 1572. f.95.

25. Sir Valentine Browne, Treasurer of Berwick, promising good will to Roger Marbeck and regretting that on his way from Morpeth to Alnwick he was "violently assaulted by certeyn lewde disposed persons", dispoiled of his goods and stripped to his "dublet and hose"; Berwick, 8 May, 1572. f.98.

26. Richard Farmer, reporting speeches and doings of prisoners in the Tower concerned in the Duke of Norfolk's plot, etc.; "from the Tower of London", 8 May, 1572. f.101. Printed. Wilts Arch. Mag. XVIII. 1879, p.28.

27. Sir T[homas] Smith, Ambassador at Paris, regretting that Leicester is not coming into France, saying that the Duke of Montmorency and M.M. de Foix and de Bataille are going to England, and reporting speeches of the King of France, etc.- "He accompteth the peace making with his subiectes, the mariage of his sister to the prince of Navarre, and this league of streighter amitie and mutuall defence with the Queenes maiestie to be the thre happines which hath com to him for the establishment of his crowne", etc.; Paris, 8 May 1572. f.104;-- (b) on negotiations in France - "I do not dowte but all here shalbe done as hir maiestie wisheth, except that mater of Scotland do hinder, which hitherto, we can not conclude"; Blois, 15 Apr. 1572. f109.

28. Sir Thomas Wrothe, (a) on his committal of John Rawlins al. Yonge, holding a license from Leicester and others, for playing an unlawful game called "Riffe" [ruff]; Enfield, 12 June, 1572. f.106. Printed, op. cit. p.31:-- (b) objecting to "Mr. Astleis" valuation of his offices in Enfield; From my puwre howse in Warwicke Lane", 14 Jan. 1572[3]. f.119.

29. John Bullingham, Prebendary of Worcester, [Bishop of Gloucester, 1581], offering to exchange his benefice of Brington, co. Hunts, for that of Upton-on-Severn, co. Worc.; Worcester, 21 June, [1572]. f.111. Printed, op. cit., p.33.

30. William [West, Lord] De La Warr, protesting his ability to serve Leicester in Hampshire as well as either Mr. Horsey or Mr. Wallop; White Friars, 27 June, [1572]. f.113.

31. Robert Fylles, with particulars as to the manor of Clun [co. Salop]; Kyngslond 18 July, 1572. f.115.

32. Thomas Asheton, on behalf of John Vernon and his wife, sister of the Earl of Essex, engaged, with Vernon's cousin, in a suit against "one Graye" -- "Your Honour workes for Sir Henrye Sydneys sonne, Philippe by name; yf you do so, besydes the wrong you do them, the matche is shamefull, as well for the inequalitye as the basterdrye therof", etc.; Stocton, 8 Feb. 1572[3]. f.125.

33. [Sir Donough] O'Conor Sligo, asking Leicester to inform the Queen of the straits of Ireland, and saying that his brother, unable to pass through the lands of the rebels, has made his way to France and will thence cross over to England to see the Queen; Sligo, 23 Feb. 1573. Latin. f.127.

34. Richard Myller, on the authority of the High Steward of the Honour of Grafton co. Northampton, with a speech of Henry VIII. to Sir John Williams, then Steward, "John Wylliams, thou shalt have here elbowe roome", etc.; Sisham, 2 Mar. 1572[3] f.129.

35. Sir H[enry] Sydney, Lord President of Wales, explaining his dealings with regard to one Shadwell, who pretended to an office under the Council of Wales [cf. art. 47]; Ludlow Castle, 2 Mar. 1572[3]. f.131.

36. Conor [O'Brien, Earl of] Thomond, asking that "I may (by your L. meanes) optayne a pasport to com to England, at which tyme I trust to disclose such matters as may give som direction to the accomplishing of matters concerning this pore state" (sc. Ireland); Limerick, 8 Mar. 1572. f.135.

37. James [Pilkington, Bishop of] Durham, asking for time to make answer as to the case of Mr. Sutton; Awkland, 10 Mar. 1572[3]. f.137.

38. Henry Meverell, praying for letters to "Mr. Chauncelour" for relief, "for savinge your Honours reverence, I have laied my doublett and my hose to gauge alredie"; "From Fraunces Barker his howse in Flete streate", 11 Mar. 1572[3]. f.139.

39. Roger Manwood, Justice of the Common Pleas, on a dispute as to title between Sir John Pollard and Humphrey Walrond, and enclosing a copy of a letter of 2 Mar. from Exeter to Sir John; 13 Mar. 1572[3]. f.140.

40. Arthur Dudley, complaining of the disrespect shown to the Queen's letters in his behalf by the Dean of Lichfield in witholding his "pore lyvyng" from him; Lichfield, 16 Mar. [1572-3]. f.146.

41. Philip Sidney, (a) in favour of the bearer and "the woorkes he dothe cary into Englande"; Francforde, 18 Mar. 1572[3]. f.148:- (b) on an interview with "Counte Lodovik, the Prince of Orenges seconde brother"-"I founde one Shambourg [Schomberg], an Allmaine, withe him, a gentleman whome I knew in the cowtre of Fraunce, allways very affectionnate to the kinges service. I dowte not but that he assaiethe to draw the Counte to serve the kinge, but I hope he laboureth in vaine," etc.; Francfort, 23 Mar. 1572[3]. f.152. Both printed in Wilts Arch. Mag.XVIII.1879.p.34.

42. H[enry Herbert, Earl of] Pembroke, (a) in defence of a servant accused of having "misused" Leicester, and denouncing others as "the auctors of this device"; Ramsbery, 22 Mar. 1572[3] f.150:- (b) sending his "humile duety" to the Queen and desiring to hear of Leicester's health by the bearer; Claringdowne, [Clarendon], 14 Aug. 1578. f.185.

43. William Rowe, saying that "God hayth guided" him to Heidelberg, where he intends to stay the summer "within Dr. Immanuells the Ebrew professor his house", that "the Prince Palatine will not lege [league] with the Frenche murderer" and "himself in personne daylie laboreth reformation of religion", etc., and beseeching Leicester "to buyld with bothe handes the chirche of God in England to the rooting out of all tirannye"; Frankfort, 20 Mar. 1573. f.154.

44. John [Neville, Lord] Latymer, permitting that Jasper Chomley should "have the serche of my evydences towchinge the L. Barkeleys landes, wherof your L. auncesters and myn were coparceners", etc.; Snape, 26 Mar. 1573. f.156.

45. Sir N[icholas] Bacon, Lord Keeper, asking Leicester's favour for the bearer, his servant, "in the obteyninge of his bill to be signed"; "From my house besides Charinge Crosse", 27 Mar. 1573. f.158.

46. Sir Henry Nevell, asking on behalf of Lord and Lady Huntingdon for interest "to gett them.... tenne acurs of Mr. Inglefelds woodes.... for theayr mony", in order to burn bricks for a "little bylding" at Stoke, with other forest business; Pillingbere, 28 Mar. 1573. f.160.

47. Hugh Shadwell, reporting what "favour I have founde with my Lord President [of Wales, Sir H. Sydney, cf. art.35] for your [sc. Leicester's] sake uppon delivery of your honourable letters, and what I may attayn unto by your furder favour"; Ludlow, 28 Mar. [1573]. f.162.

48. Edward [Windsor, Lord] Windsor, giving the character of his man William Femanes, whom Leicester desires to have, if the other can spare him; Hewel, 31 Mar. 1573. f.164.

49. John [Scory, Bishop of] Hereford, reminding Leicester that "the last yere, riding towardes the Parliament house", he was assaulted by "ii of the Pitchars of this contrie" and one of Leicester's servants had been murdered, and praying Leicester to support a prosecution against "one of the said Pitchars", who had now been arrested at Worcester; Whitborne, 14 Apr. 1574. f.168. Printed, Wilts Arch. Mag. XVIII. 1879, p.36.

50. W[illiam] Herlle, (a) sending "a discourse....touching a mene to annoye and divert K. Phillip, therby to loke homewardes", with information as to Mendoza the Spanish ambassador, "Cymie" [?Simier, the French agent], and the probability of a quarrel with Denmark, etc.; London, 14 Aug. 1579. f.170:- (b) "towching the transporting of Pyero hither", who "shalbe browght over without rumour", as to the renewal of "Silvanus Scoryes Lycens", etc.; London, 3 Sept. 1578. f.189:- (c) asking leave to correspond in cipher with one Du Vraye at Paris, "being disposed to advertis me of matter of moment, which he wolld have you understand by me", and enlarging on his own distressed condition; "The Counter", 24 May, 1580. f.216.

51. E[lizabeth Talbot, Countess of] Shrewsbury, [wife of George, 6th Earl], (a) thanking Leicester for his efforts to find a match for her "dowter Lennox" [Elizabeth Cavendish, widow of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, d.1577], as well as for the late preferment of her son Charles; Shefelde, 18 May, [1577-82]. With a postscript by the Earl. f.173;-- (b) in acknowledgment of favours; with her husband's regrets that their "sone Gelberte for want of experyence hathe sofered hys conterey cokes [cocks] to be overmat[c]hed", and a request for "ones erneste laters [letters]" to the Prince of Orange for Harry Cavendish; 27 June, no year f.313.

52. Sir Thomas Heneage, (a) on suits of Justice Manwood and himself to the Queen; 4 June, 1578. f.176:-- (b) on the state of Ostend and "to let your L. knowe that her Maiesty cannot be drawen.... to graunte them pardon etc.; 29 Aug. 1588. f.271.

53. Sir Christopher Hatton, Vice Chamberlain, (a) on the remove of the Queen to Lord North's house and her concern for Leicester's "impayrid state of helthe, which I delyverid too be worse then your selfe suspectyd "---" since your L. departure the Q. is found in continuall and great malencoly; the cause therof I can but gesse at, notwithstandynge that I beare and suffer the whole brunt of hir myslike in generallytey. She dremithe of mariages that might seeme iniuryous to hir [?Leicester's marriage to Lady Essex], makynye my selfe to be ether the man or a paterne of the matter", etc.; 18 June, 1578, f.178:- (b) thanking Leicester for his letters and his "most loiall dispoticion"---"The Q. reioycid muche in the matter and was pleasid too protest that she full well belevid it, whatever the malice of the world wold make of the contrary Twise she hathe red them," etc., with other news of the Queen's frame of mind and of proceedings at Court, 28 June, 1578. f.181. Both printed, Wilts Arch. Mag. XVIII. 1879. p.36.

54. T[homas] Aglionby, concerning certain "dublettes", "Bootchosen" and other clothes for Leicester, with suggestions as to the making of a "rydinge cote", etc.; Harnesey, 30 July, 1578. f.183.

55. M[ary Herbert, Countess of] Pembroke, excusing herself for not writing of her husband's illness; no date. f.187.

56. Francis Hastings, thanking Leicester for a warrant "for a stag in Killingworth", and saying that he has kept watch for "one Owen a Welch man"; Bosworth, 10 Oct. 1578. f.191.

57. Henry Besbeche, Steward to the Earl of Leicester, on business matters at Kenilworth; 23 Oct. 1578-28 Mar. 1580. ff.193, 195, 212, 214. All printed, op.cit. p.39.

58. Thomas Smythe, Farmer of the Customs, as to a purchase by Leicester of 294 pearls for £382.4s; London, 12 Dec. 1578. f.197. Printed, op.cit. p.43.

59. Copies of letters from Sir John Thynne and John Thynne his son, asking for Leicester's aid for the latter in his suit against Lord Stafford; Longe Lette, 12 Dec. [1578], 3 Jan. 1578[9]. ff.199, 201.

60. Gabriel Harvey, the poet, praying Leicester's "favorable and gratious meanes .... for the procuring of Doctor Byddles praebende at Litchfeylde", with protestation that "this little body of myne carrieth a greate mynde towards my good Lord", etc.; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 24 Apr. 1579. f.202.

61. Sir Thomas Wroughton, denying that he had "used any such speache to my brother Thynne or my sister" [Sir John Thynne m. as 2nd wife Dorothy d. of Sir Will. Wroughton], accusing Leicester of being the cause of the Earl of Pembroke's trouble; Wilton, 23 May, 1579. Copy. f.203.

62. Roger Edwardes, a minister, withdrawing a request for letters to the Bishop of Lincoln, praying favour for the bearer Thomas Smyth, and alluding to "the high matters that I wrot unto you and the lordes"; 20 June, 1579. f.204.

63. William Crowmer and twelve others of Canterbury, praying for letters to James Nethersole the Mayor (who had been made an Alderman at Leicester's request) to re-instate William Cooke as gaoler; 1 Nov. 1579. f.208.

64. Jane Stafford, widow, "craving youre [Leicester's] favorable licence to have some free speche with yourself to discharge my conscience towardes your Lo"., etc.; 13 Feb. 1579[80]. f.210

65. Sir E[dward] Stafford, Ambassador to France, on his reception by "Monsieur", [the Duke of Anjou], the preparations for the siege of La Fère, and a commission from the King of Navarre to "Monsieur" to make a peace; Tours, 2 July, 1580. f.218.

66. Sir Francis Walsingham, (a) giving the Queen's leave to Leicester and Lord Hunsdon to return at will, "since your aboade there is to no greater purpose ether to the Duke [of Anjou] himself or for any cause that maye concerne the beneffit of the countrye"; Feversham, 14 Feb. 1581[2]. f.222:- (b) giving an account of the mutiny of the garrison of Ostend, and preferring a suit of "Mr. Comptroller", [Sir James Croft] for interest with the Queen "that in consideration of his yeares, long service and pouuerty that at the least he may obtain so much favour as to be prisonner in his own howse"; St. James, 28 Aug. 1588. f.263; (c) [illegible, from the effects of damp]; Loviers, 25 June, 15[71?] [cf. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, 1569-1571, p.479]. f.326.

67. Alexander Nevile, desiring, with his brother, to be taken into Leicester's service, London, 23 July, 1582. f.224.

68. E[dward Manners, Earl of] Rutland, with news of "the league concluded on betwixt Her Maiestie and the King of Scottes"; Richmond, 7 Aug. 1586. f.226.

69. H[enry Ratcliffe, Earl of] Sussex, saying that he has redeemed "xiii Frizland horses" taken in a prize, and asking whether they shall be sold in England or allowed to depart on repayment of his £60; Portsmouth, 22 Jan. 1587[8]. f.228. (b) announcing the death of Capt. Highfield and asking Leicester's good word for his cousin Edward Radclyffe to succeed him; Portsmouth, 24 Aug. 1588. f.255

70. Sir Richard Bingham, protesting against the delivery, by the Lord Deputy's order, of the castle, town and lands of Sligo, with all lands of which Sir Donnell O'Connor died seised, to Donnoghe Mac Cale oge O'Connor "his supposed heire"; Athlone, 28 May, 1588. f.230.

71. F[rancis] Bacon, praying Leicester to "back and assist" Lord Essex in pressing his "longe depending suite" to the Queen; Gray's Inn, 11 June, 1588. f.232.

72. Henry, King of Navarre, in favour of the Sieur de Clermont d'Amboise his ambassador; La Rochelle, 13 July, [1588]. French. f. 238.

73. [Philippe de Mornay, Seigneur] Duplessis, minister of Henry of Navarre, to the same effect; La Rochelle, 13 July, 1588. French. f.239.

74. C. Persevall to H. Killigrew, sending news of dissensions between the country and the towns in Friesland, of the execution by Count William of 33 persons at Leeuwarden, "there hedes beinge all cut of by one man in 3 howers", and of the "Spagnierts" being at Falmouth with 110 ships, "and that my lord Admerall is by these with 80 shipes and Sir Frances Drake is with an other flete after Ireland", and hoping that God will "overthorowe the grete hore of Babelon"; Leeuwarden, 30 July, [1588]. Enclosed in Killigrew's letter (art.78). f.241.

75. Translation of a placard published in the Netherlands against calumniators of Queen Elizabeth; Utrecht, 3 Aug. 1588. French. f.243.

76. Ambrose Martini, on the condition of parties in the Netherlands; The Hague, 8 Aug. 1588. French. f.244.

77. Thomas Fowler, steward to Lord Leicester, to John Montgomery, with news of Leicester being "with the Quene at Erythe", and that the Duke of Parma had embarked with 50,000 foot and 6000 horse; 11 Aug. [1588], "going to the leger" [sc. camp]. f.246:- (b) on his inability to get in the duties on sweet wines, those who owe the same being "slaker to pay now then when he [Leicester] lyved"; 16 [Sept. 1588]. f.275:- (c) to John Montgomery, on business matters; no date of year. ff.291, 293.

78. Henry Killigrew, ambassador in the Netherlands, thanking Leicester for having so effectually moved the Queen for his recall, and informing him of affairs in Holland: "The two fleetes and the Duke of Parmas preparations hold us in suspense. But all my endevours are to perswade theis men to a mutuall ayde in this extremity and to furnish out what shipping they can, wherein I find them verie willing, and they do daily send more supplie to Dunkercke", etc.; The Hague, 16, 21 Aug. 1588. ff.251, 253. The first letter enclosed art.74.

79. Sir W[illiam] Russell, Govenor of Flushing, praying to be relieved of his command, if "the forces of this garrisson be weakened "on the motion of the States; Wisshing, 25 Aug. 1588. f.257.

80. T[homas Sackville, Lord] Buckhurst, sending Leicester a stag, killed "with mine own hand .... as a pore token of my skillfull cunning"; Buckhurst, 26 Aug. 1588. f.259.

81. Arthur Atye, as to a proposed conveyance by Sir Tho. Cecil to Leicester of the lordships of Westacre, co. Norf., and Strickeston, co. Northton, to be given by the latter to the Queen; 27 Aug. 1588. f.261.

82. R[obert Devereux, Earl of] Essex,-" Since your lordships departure her Majestie hath bene ernest with me to ly in the Court, and this morning she sent to me that I might ly in your lordships lodging, which I will forbeare till I know your lordships pleasure, except the Q. force me to it," etc.; York House, 28 Aug. 1588. Holograph. f.265.

83. Sir James Croft, Comptroller of the Household, beseeching Leicester's favorable assistance in these my grett trobles", being "forced to lye in this lothsome prison", to be "a meane to her Majestie for my enlargemente"; "at the Fleet", 29 Aug. 1588. f.267.

84. A[mbrose Dudley, Earl of] Warwick, in behalf of "Mr. Comptroller" [Sir J. Croft], for help "towardes his enlargement or att the leaste that he may be removed to some sweeter place", etc.; 29 Aug. 1588. f.269.

85. Sir F[rancis] Knollys, giving the opinion of the Lord Treasurer and Secretary that Leicester, as Lord Steward, should not "allowe Mr. Comptroller any chamber messe or lyvesay for his men", and expressing regret for his being "troubled and stayed with an ague at Corneberry", etc.; at the Court at St. James, 2 Sept. 1588. f.273. Leicester died two days later.

Undated Letters.

86. Anne Asku, expressing her goodwill and a hope "that herby I myght styre you sumwhat again to dystribute of your good remembrance among suche as lysten therafter", etc.: Lambeth Marsh, 15 Aug.--. f.277.

87. Petition of Hector Nonez, M.D., to Lords Leicester and Burghley for letters to the judge of the Admiralty to cancel his bond as surety that Capt. Bartholomew Bayon should not sail to any place prohibited by the king of Spain, etc.; no date. f.279.

88. Petition of Richard Betts, minister of Kenilworth, complaining of the seizure of his cattle on ground of Kenilworth church for tenths, subsidies, etc., notwithstanding that by Leicester's means the church "hathe byn discharged of the late interdiction without any money paid therefore". f.283.

89. Sir Robert Chester, concerning his suit to the Queen "for the recovery of thoffice of Recyvourship", with objections to claims of Lord Loughborough; no date. f.285.

90. Thomas Drope, denying charges of having reflected upon Leicester in a sermon; Oxon, - Aug.--. f.287.

91. E[dward Sutton al. Dudley, Lord] Dudley, thanking Leicester for having obtained "my very freend mysteres Haward leave to cume unto me", with protestations of devotion, etc.; no date. He married, after 1569, as his third wife Mary, dau. of Charles Howard, Lord Howard of Effingham. f.289.

92. A Grey [?Arthur Grey, Lord Grey de Wilton], with thanks for favours and complaints of neglect; no date. f.296.

93. Sir Francis Jobson, Lieutenant of the Tower, in favour of Henry Monoux(?); 1-- -- (illegible). f.299.

94. Petition of Richard Lane to Lords Burghley and Leicester, to be allowed to make declaration of his proceedings in his design to draw all the Queen's subjects to "all loialtie"; no date. f.301.

95. Hans von Mansfelden and another in behalf of a claim of "the Counte Dolrado of Mansfeld" for expenses incurred in 1560 in trying to raise a loan for the Queen, for his failure in which he had been deprived of his pension; no date. f.302.

96. R[oger North, Lord] North, enquiring after Leicester's health, etc.; 5 Sept.--. f.304.

97. Dr. Ellis Price, praying Leicester to stay a grant to Sir Robert Constable of the township of Dolgelley, co. Merioneth, surrendered by John Owen into the Queen's hands with intent to obtain a renewal, the said Sir Robert having forestalled him at the instigation of John Salisbury, to whom he is said to have made "half a graunt or promes" of the same; 22 July.--. f.307.

98. Sir Thomas Randolph, Ambassador to Scotland, on the difficulties of "compoundinge the controversis betwene so greate parties as have longe contendid in Scotland", etc.; Berwick, 2 May, 1572(?). Nearly illegible, from the effects of damp. f.310.

99. G[eorge Talbot, Earl of] Shrewsbury, giving a sporting challenge, etc.; no date. f.318.

100. K[atharine Brandon, Duchess of] Suffolk [widow of Charles Brandon], praying that the Queen will "so gratiously connseder off har poor old subiecte as ether altogether to pardon me from wayting or eles when I shall wayt I may be better yoused than so to rone upe and dowen lyke a kaste away", etc.; no date. f.323. Printed in Wilts Arch. Mag. XVIII. 1879. p.27.

Folio: ff.327.