44 DERBYSHIRE MUSTERS. 



And lastlie wheras I am required lo disburse, or cause to be 

 disbursed, the mony for the Conducte of the soldiers, I do 

 intreate yo" S' Humfrey fferrars (for that I suppose yo' seruaunt 

 Johe Lavander shall be their Conductor and may after repaire 

 vp heither to receaue the mony) to disburse so much as 

 shall sufifice for that purpose, w"'' I will vndertake shalbe dulie 

 reyayed vnto you, And so referringe theis and all the rest 

 belonginge to this service, according to the Ires, to yo' wonted 

 Care, I Comitt you to the allmightie, ffrom my Lo : of Bedfords 

 house in the strand this viijth of Januarie, 1601. 



Y"^ nephew and assured frend, 



Gilb : Shrewsbury. 



Addressed : — To my very good vnkle Mr. John Manners Esq : 

 & to my very good frends S' Humphrey fferrers 

 Knight & Mr. Greasley Esq. 



{Earl of Shrewsbury to John Manners Esq. or' others.) 



(1601-2, Jan : 20). After my harty commendations, foras- 

 much it hath pleased Almighty God, to grant her Ma'^ a most 

 happy victory in Ireland ouer all the Spaniards within that 

 Realme, who haue rendered vp Kinsale, and all the rest of 

 those places w*^*" they held there, so as they are all to departe 

 and be sent away by the L : Deputy : Her Ma''' vpon this 

 advertisement being (as alwaies she is) most vnvviUing to send 

 any more men out of this kingdome, or to putt her people to 

 any more charge, then of necessity she must is most graciously 

 pleased to make stay of those men, w"*" by her direction are 

 Levied, and by my lis : of the Counsell directed to be at the 

 sea syde by the 26"' of this present January, Wherefore I 

 being comanded by her Ma'*' doe now require you, to make 

 stay of those twenty men w*^"* were to be sent out of Derbyshire, 

 to Bristow, yf already they be not gonn towards the sayd porte, 

 w<:h yf ^.j^gy ijg^ before your receipt hereof, then shall the Con- 

 ductor (yf he be not come away before) receaue Ires from my 



