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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'» S. N» 30., July 26. '56. 



Instruccoiis, and in tliy good tynie restore hiin 

 unto his former healthe and gracious favoure of 

 his and our most dreade Soveraigne, to thy glory, 

 the good of this churche and kingedome, and the 

 greeffe and discouragemente of all wicked Edom- 

 jTES that beare evill will to Sign, and sale to the 

 v/alles of JjiRUSALEM, ' There, there, downe with 

 it ; downe with it to the grounde.' " 



(Signed) David Robebtes. 



[In another hand] 

 He is comitted. 



[Endorsed] 



29 Decemb., 1599. 

 Mr. Roberts, parson of St. Andrewes Wardrope, 

 his prayers in his sermons for y*" Earle of Essex. 



III. 



The Erie had authoritye by commission, undre 

 y* great scale of Englande, to dispose of y^ trea- 

 sour secundum sanam discretionem suam. 



His discretion was for his own enterteignment 

 of generall of her Ma"" forces, to take y" same 

 allowaunce that y* Erie of Pembroke, Generall of 

 Q. Mai-yes forces at St. Quinctynes had : viz. for 

 him selfe and sondry oflicers, about 10* 14' by 

 daye, that Erie being of no greater qualitye than 

 he, nor his army of more numbers ; and y' by 

 advise of M"^ Secretary Walsingham, who gave 

 him a draught of y" Erie of Pembrokes allowaunce 

 for president. 



According to this president and rate he was 

 allwayes paide ; the Q. TVeasouro"", Musterm"^ and 

 Audito"^ of y" campe never fynding fault whyles 

 he lyved. 



The Q. Ma"®, after 5 or 6 monethes (as I take 

 it) of his being there, being desirous to be en- 

 formed of y'' estate of her expences, was accord- 

 ingly advertised by her officers, and amongest the 

 rest, of this allowance and rate, and there was not 

 then any fault fownde w"' it. 



Mr. Huddlestone, her Ma"" Treasouro"", after 

 the leaving of his office and before his deathe, 

 joyning w*"* M"^ Audito"^ Hut, Audito"" of y" campe, 

 did make up w*"* y* Erles officers a perfect reacon- 

 ing and accompt for all Lowe Country matters of 

 accompt betwene them, and therein did passe this 

 allowance and rate w"'out contradiction. 



The same M' Huddlestone passed his accompt 

 of Treasouro' w"' Audito" appointed by y" Court 

 of Excheaq"'^ of Englande, and therein passed this 

 allowance and rate w"'out scruple and w"' their 

 allowaunce, and not as a matter of petition but 

 authenticall. 



S"^ Tho. Sherley succeading M'' Huddlestone in 

 y"" office of her Ma"''' Treasouro'', payde allwayes 

 according to this rate and none other w'^out any 

 doubt made thereof, and at the last retourn of y'' 

 Erie to y'^ Lowe Countryes finished bis accompt 

 w*" the Erles pfficers acQordingly. 



The estates of y^ Lowe Countryes, being to re- 

 paye her Ma""' expenses to her Ma"", desired an 

 accompt of y'' whole after one year. Mr. Huddle- 

 stoii, then Treasouro"" to her Ma"", by order from 

 Englande, gave them an accompt of y" whole, and 

 therein namely of this allowance and rate. They, 

 in their censures and apostelles upon y* accompt, 

 mislyking many other pointes, allow this by 

 speciall wordes, and do make allowance of it to 

 her Ma"% so her Ma"" loseth nothing by it. 



The same Estates allowing to the Erie for his 

 enterteignment of Gouverno' Generall (not of her 

 Ma""' forces, but) of their Countryes, 10000' by 

 yeare, saving so mutche to be cut of as her Ma"'' 

 alloweth him for his office of Generall of her 

 forces : when they came to accompt w"' y" Erie, 

 did cut him of 10' 14' by daye after this rate, be- 

 cause they sawe her Ma"" had allowed him so 

 muche. Nowe yf her Ma"" revoke this allowaunce 

 from y* Erie and have taken according to it of y® 

 Estates, her Ma"" for y' parte nowe to be des- 

 allowed, shalbe double gayner, and y" Erie shall 

 lose it utterly ; whereas her Ma"" disallowing it 

 at y" firste, he mought have had it of y" Estates, 

 w"'' nowe, y" accompt beinge passed, he can not. 

 [Endorsed] 



Concerning the Earl of Essex, temp. Qu. FA'iz. 



THOMAS GABNE*, KING "DESIGNATE" OF BU- 

 CHAKIA. 



In Ulachwood's Magazine for the present month 

 TMay), the writer of an article entitled " The Scot 

 A^broad," quotes Sir Thomas Urquhart for the re- 

 markable fact that a gigantic Scottish colonel, by 

 name Thomas Game, in the service of the Mus- 

 covites about the middle of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, had been formally invited to occupy the 

 throne of Bucharia. The circumstance of itself 

 is sufficiently singular; but the Avhole story be- 

 comes doubly curious and interesting when 

 coupled with the old Cromartie Baronet's de- 

 scription of the physical and mental endowments 

 of this model man of war, and I make no apology 

 for presenting it to your readers in extenso. In 

 enumerating the principal officers in General 

 Leslie's Scottish legion in the Russian service, 

 there was. Sir Thomas tells us : 



"Colonel Thomas Game, who for the height and 

 grosseness of his person, being in his stature taller, and 

 greater in his compass of body, then any within six 

 Icingdomes about him, was elected King of Bucharia, the 



* This name furnishes another example of the " uncer- 

 tainty of spelling names ; " it is evidently the modern 

 Garden, and older Gardyne, colloquially Game, Gairn, 

 &c. In Burke's Landed Gentry, allusion is made to 

 " Colonel Gardyne of the Russian service," who was, un- 

 doubtedly, the hero of Sir Thomas's eulogy, and the ob- 

 ject of the BucUamns' affection, 



