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Others what might he done without great prejudice to you 

 whereof at that tyme I had speciall care, and so will still have 

 if I may finde you inclinable to my good conformity Theis 

 shalhe therefore to will you to send unto me against ffriday 

 morninge nexte being the v"^ of July by viij of the clocke to 

 Nottingham about the number of viij or x of yourselfes as is 

 before specified to whome I may imparte Mr. Chauncellors 

 pleasure furder at large and may heare of them in all your 

 behalfes how farr forth the same may any way justly greve you 

 and to debate and conclude what shall seme further reason upon 

 coriferens therof, wherof faile you not for I shall go presentely 

 after that day to York to serve her Majestie there and shall 

 hardly have any other tyme till Michelmas. From Grays Inn the 

 xxvij^'' of June 1588. 



Your loving ffrinde, 



E. Stanhope Supervisor. 



Endd.- — To hi.s loving ffrindes the Queues Majestie's Tenantes of 

 Duffield fifrieth. 



The representative tenants appeared before Mr. Stanhope at 

 Nottingham in the following month, and the following Report 

 was then forwarded to the Chancellor of the Duchy : — * 



By your honors appointment for me to deale with the Tenantes 

 of Duffield to call them before me and heare what they could 

 alledge why your honor for thadvauncement of her Majestie's 

 revenewe might not demise the woods of Duffield ffrieth 

 especiallie in such sorte as was certified upon a former com- 

 mission dated the xxiij'^ day of ffebruary in the xxiij'^ yere of 

 her Majestie's reigne and returned into the Court Or els to heare 

 what they would yeld to those whome her Majestie meant to 

 bestowe it of, if the Tenantes might have it graunted to them- 

 selves to vse and pay as that certificate dothe direct, I did warne 

 them to be with a competent number of the better sorte of them 

 before me at Nottingham the v* of July last past whither came 



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