Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 33: September 1594

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 33: September 1594', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 370. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p370 [accessed 19 April 2024]

September 1594



Sept. 5. Berwick.	32. Sir Robt. Carey to Sir Robt. Cecil. Since coming down, I have been with Sir John Forster, who, contrary to my expectations, spoke to me touching his wardenry, protesting that he would gladly be rid of it, as his age and weakness were such that he was not able to execute the place; and he knows the country is much weakened, and like to grow worse if not better looked to. When I found him in this humour, I told him that, he having served so long in the place, and so well, it were a pity that he should be altogether displaced, and asked him whether he would have an assistant. What with the one's execution, and the other's advice, the country might be brought into a better state. He answered that he would willingly agree, and protested he desired myself before any man living, and would write to the Council, but that he feared the Queen and Council would think that, being grown rich, he desired to live quiet, and not to serve his country.
	Do you therefore, with my Lord of Essex and your father, write to him that the Queen, hearing of his weakness and the country's decay, would gladly have disorders redressed, and yet be loath to put him out of the office, and that you think it best that he should write to Council, declaring his weakness, and desire of an assistant; assuring him that the Queen will take it well, and that both she and Council will think the better of him for it. If you send him such a letter, let me hear from you, that I may be with him, and doubt not of good success in my cause. You are the man I wholly depend upon, and you shall ever find me faithful and honest to you, or else let vengeance fall upon me. [1½ pages.]