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May 5.
The Groyne. |
12. Thos. Saunders to his father, Rob. Saunders, clothier, Tavistock. I beg your daily blessing, more worth to me than any
wordly treasure. A ship of Fowey was in great trouble at Cork
Avyonne in Spain; the owners could not get discharge, but they
came to me at the Groyne, and by aid of my friends, I freed them
from trouble. I lent John Synde of Saltash 40s.; I send you his
letter. All this war that is in Spain is for England. Come
hither to me, and you shall see the suddenest plague fall upon
England that ever fell upon any country. Come this summer or
autumn, and I will load your ships back with oranges, and pay
your freight. I am well beloved here. |
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P.S.—Tell Robert that if he had made haste here, as I bade him,
he would have gained 100l.; pilchards were worth 35 ryals.
[1 page.] |
May 9.
Hampton. |
13. Denis Rouse to Laurence Tomson, secretary of Sir Fras.
Walsingham, London. I desire your help touching the appeal for
Jersey. I have sent there for a copy of such a commission as I
demanded. Pray procure it, or the poor man who trusts in me will
be deceived, and make the men I named commissioners. The
bearer shall content you for the charges and your pains. |
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P.S.—Please to deliver it and the evidence to the bearer, Miles
Carey. [¾ page.] |
May 19.
York. |
14. Henry Earl of Huntingdon to the Earl of Leicester. I perceive by your letters that what is expected by many here and much
feared by others is not so far concluded as is reported. I wish you
may never have cause to alter your opinion, and your letters make
me hope well. |
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I am going to-day towards Richmond, to see the muster of the
people, as I have heard of a great and sudden declining of many in
those parts, and I purpose to stay all Whitsunday, because most of
the gentlemen there will attend me, of whom I mind to make trial
as to how many will refuse my company at the church: for I hear
that on Whitsunday, the parson there uses always to administer the
communion, and God willing, I have a mind to be a partaker. |
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You know that Richmondshire was a shrewd place at the late
rebellion, for though the beginning was about Ripon, yet most of
the people the Earls had with them were of Richmondshire. I
hope the warning they then had will make them take heed how
they enter again into any disobedient course. Duty binds me to do
what in me lies, and this occasion may be some furtherance, or else
having been 10 days past in physic, I should be loath to take the
journey so soon. |
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I will, as you desired me, impart anything I hear concerning you,
but that matter which causes you thus to write is not worth speaking of, and yet I think you should know it; but I have a mind to
learn all the truth first. |
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P.S—I was glad that Her Majesty stayed your journey to Wilton,
as your stay in Court was never so needful for you as now. No
doubt you will hereafter have time of recreation, with good liking
to Her Majesty. [1 page.] |
| May 20. |
Commission by Sir Ralph Hayward and George Barnes, aldermen, governors of the company of English merchants for the discovery of new trades, to Arthur Pett and Chas. Jackman, for a
voyage by them to be made for the discovery of Cathay. [Dom.
Eliz., Vol. CXC., ff. 123–130. Copy. Printed in Hakluyt, Vol. I.,
pp. 487–490.] |
May 26.
The Court. |
15. Sec. Walsingham to Dr. Dale and Thos. Sackford, masters of
Requests. There is a controversy between Edw. Bowes, master of
the Queen's game in Paris garden, and Diggs and Cape, about a
lease of ground in the garden. It was equitably decided in Council,
but renewed before the King's Bench, and Diggs and Cape, gaining
the cause, disturb Bowes and the quiet of the game; but Bowes
exhibiting a bill in your Court, it was enjoined, if the others
went to law, they should do nothing to disturb Bowes till you had
heard the case at large. They fear your impartiality, so wish to
revert to common law; but I entreat you to have the cause before
you, to prevent such quarrels as have happened, to the hurt and
danger of life of many thereabouts. [1 page.] |
| May ? |
The Queen to the Chapter of Winchester. We recommend you
to elect John Watson, now dean in that church, to the bishopric, in
place of Bishop Horne, deceased. [Warrant Book I., p. 86. Bishop
Watson's election took place 29 June 1580.] |
| May ? |
16. — to Sec. Walsingham, at Court. On my landing six
days ago, I wrote to tell you I had found the man who brought
the news of the arrival of Mr. Drake. I am at your service; having
finished my business, I go to-morrow to Weymouth. I have bound
Robert Giles of Dartmouth, before Mr. John Weston, in 200l. to
appear before the Court of Admiralty, to answer touching a barrel
of cochineal he had of Clinton Atkinson. His surety is Gilbert
Peppet, marshal of the Admiralty here, who, instead of aiding us as
an official to gain our own, has always supported Giles, or we should
have had our cochineal before. I think he will come to defend him,
for he has said I shall never have the cochineal, and that in this
affair we have had more favour than any stranger ever had in this
kingdom. Peppet merits punishment as much as Clinton. He has
taken 20 days for appearance, hoping that meanwhile Clinton may
be implicated, and he may be able to defend Giles, as only having
bought the cochineal in Dartmouth. When Giles appears, pray let
the Admiralty judge detain him till we come. [2 pages, imperfect,
Italian.] |
