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| June 1. |
111. Estimate of the account of Richard Huddlestone, treasurer of
the army in the Low Countries, for the charges of the army sent
there for the relief of Antwerp, from 1 Aug. 1585 to 1 June 1586:
receipts, 77,620l.; payments, 74,681l. 6s. 3d. Signed by John
Conyers, auditor. [4 pages.] |
June 9.
Chartley. |
112. Sir Amias Paulet to Sec. Walsingham. A gentlemen of credit
in Normandy, unable from gout to follow the wars, retired to Jersey,
where a French servant robbed him of 60 crowns, which were restored in three hours. The man was to be hanged for it, but the
halter broke, and the French gentleman and others entreat my son
Anthony to save his life, as it was rather a pickery than a robbery.
I beg your direction therein. [¾ page.] |
| June 11. |
113. Report of the charge of Her Majesty in the Low Countries,
from 12 Aug. 1585 to 11 June 1586, and of the sums issued by the
Treasurer at War towards defraying the same, under warrants of
Sir John Norris and the Earl of Leicester; total according to the
estimate of the Council, 68,267l. 4s.; according to the list of the
Lieutenant General, 68,848l. 4s. [3 sheets, pasted together, endorsed
by Burghley.] |
| June 17. |
114. Estimate of the charges of the forces in the Low Countries,
from 12 Nov. 1585 to 11 June 1586, and from 11 June to 12 Nov.
next, being for one year; total, 126,180l. 10s. Signed by John
Conyers, auditor. [1 sheet, endorsed by Burghley.] |
| [June 17.] |
115. Rough calculations on which the preceding estimate is
founded. [1 page, by Burghley.] |
| June 18. |
116. Account of money imprested out of the Exchequer, for causes
connected with the Low Countries: to Hugh Overend, agent for
Sir Wm. Stanley, for the charges of 1,000 soldiers to be transported
thither out of Ireland, 648l. 6s.; to Lady Malby for money advanced
to the Treasurer in Ireland, for the above purpose, 100l.; to Oliver
Rowe of London, merchant, for a similar purpose, 60l.: to Thos.
Lyneall of Chester, for victuals for transporting soldiers, 351l. 14s.;
to Lord Audley, towards the charges of transporting 300 volunteers,
levied in London and Bristol, and cos. Herts, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, 200l.; to Edw. Carey for the like charges of 300 levied in
Suffolk and Norfolk, 300l.; to Simon Digby, for 200 levied in cos.
Warwick, Derby, Bucks, and Stafford, 200l.; to Michael Harcourt,
for 200 levied in cos. Bedford and Bucks, 100l.; to John Raines, for
100 levied in London and Middlesex, 100l.; and to Wm. Bond,
treasurer to the Merchant Adventurers, for money paid to Robt.
Cholmeley, the Earl of Leicester's servant at Middleburgh, 5,000l.
[1 page.] |
| June 18. |
117. Copy of the above. [1 page.] |
June 18.
Paris. |
118. J[ohn Foxley] to [Sec. Walsingham]. Among your sundry
travails for the profit of our country, your concourse with us will
prove equal to the chiefest. The painful paths which our wits must
walk are difficult; with English and strangers, friends and foes, wise
and simple, to plant our own policies, to subvert the opposite, to
justify, condemn, excuse, and commend divers actions, past, present,
and future, that as our nation's peace might be established, Her
Majesty and you might be estacemed the principal pillars of this
magnificent building. We must therefore make the best or meanest
in every place think well of you both, and relinquish your enemies,
for when men's minds are qualified, they are ready to receive any
further impression. That we may win all hearts to love and honour
you, those impediments are to be removed by you which heretofore,
in part of policy, you conceive to be furtherances. I know that you
seek not the death or ruin of any subject, but that all should love
you, which is the inclination of noble natures. I do not desire that
you should deliver some from restraint or disgrace for profit to
myself, but that such favours being shown to those who feared the
contrary, they might account you the author of their lives and
liberties, and other strangers might be informed that you are gracious. |
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I never knew Dr. Bagshaw, now imprisoned with others, yet for
the ability of the man, and many injuries he received of companions,
he may be commodiously employed, and must be removed from the
place where he is altogether. In breaking the ice, many will censure
us, but we will demonstrate none to be true subjects but such as
consent to our reasonable meaning. The speedier manner of writing
will be by the posts, any letters to D. P. or myself to be folded in a
blank, and subscribed to Mr. Wm. Luson, at the sign of the Elephant,
Rue de St. Jaques. [1 page.] |
June 21.
Paris. |
119. John Foxley to Sec. Walsingham. I received yours of the
4th, having been some days in Paris to dispatch some matter which
you insinuated to Gil[bert] to be necessary; he will come to you
presently, and would this day set forward if I had ended, but I will
sit up a whole night to make his journey sooner. I love you above
any other in my country, and see in you matters worthy of admiration, and will serve you and Her Majesty the more, without regard
of sinister censures. I do not require anything for my wants until
I have occasion, and look for no reward but your good will; Gil.
will certify you by word of many endeavours, whose access is
therefore necessary, especially for a little treatise which he will
bring with him. In my last from Paris, I asked you to send to me
to Walter Luson, at the Elephant in St. James's St., Paris; if I
sometimes differ from the former resolution, pardon it; I intend
your advantage and the profit of my country, persuading myself
that in writing to you, I shall please God, and profit myself
effectually against my private enemies. [¾ page.] |
| June. |
120. Thos. Seckford, Ric. Kingsmill, George Goring, and Wm.
Tooke, officers of the Court of Wards, to the sheriffs. The Master
and Council of the Court of Wards and Liveries,—not being
ignorant of the wilful negligence of the sheriffs and their under
sheriffs generally throughout England, in executing precepts out of
such Court, which has greatly hindered the receipt of Her Majesty's
revenues,—have ordered that the sheriffs or under sheriffs of every
shire shall make personal returns of their precepts within four days
of every term, and attend to answer any charge that may be made
against them thereupon, when appointed by two of the said Council,
upon pain of amerciament, or such other punishment as the said
Council think fit. We write this that you may not be ignorant, and
desire you to leave it for the sheriffs that come after you. [½ page.] |
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Endorsed, "Master surveyors and master attorneys and others,
officers in the Court, their letter to the sheriffs touching the Queen's
process in curidâ Wardorum." |
June.
Elvetham. |
121. Frances Countess of Hertford to Dr. Dale. Thanks for your
courtesy to Wm. Mosier, my cook, this last term. Being informed
by him that the suit between him and Richard Moer, plaintiff, is to
be heard in the Court of Requests before you on the 25th, and that
by the plaintiff's unjust dealing, he has sustained no small trouble,
I again request you to hear the controversey yourself, and make an
end according to law and equity, as I much miss his absence. He
has not disobeyed your order to bring in his obligation. I hope you
will deliver it to him again. |
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P.S. [holograph.]—Show him what pleasure you may, and I will
think it done to myself. Commend me to your wife and daughter.
[¾ page.] |
