SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557. 97 



June 24. ;^2o of Mr. Candish. 



Nov. 27. The Queens Majesty being at Richmond graciously sent 

 for me. I came to her at three quarters of the Clock after noon, and 

 she said she would send me something to keep Christmas with. 



Nov. 28. Mr. Candish on Saturday gave my Wife forty shillings, 

 and on Tuesday after sent ;^'io in Royals and Angels, and before he 

 sent me ;^2o, ;^32 in all. 



Dec. 2. Her Majesty told Mr. Candish that she would send me an 

 hundred Angels to keep my Christmas withall. 



Dec. 4. The Queens Majesty called for me, at my door, circa 3^ a 

 meridie as she passed by, and I met her at East Sheen Gate, where 

 she graciously, putting down her Mask, did say with merry cheer, " I 

 thank thee, Dee; there was never promise made, but it was broken or 

 kept." I understood her Majesty to mean of the hundred Angels she 

 promised to have sent me this day, as she told Mr. Richard Candish 

 yesterday. 



Dec. 6. A Meridie circa 3 recipi a Regina Domina. ;^5o. 



Dec. 14. The Queens Majesty called for me at my door, as she 

 rode by to take the air, and I met her at East Sheen Gate. 



Dec. 16. Mr. Candish received from the Queens Majesty warrant 

 by word of mouth to assure me to do what I would in Philosophy and 

 Alchemy, and none should check, controll or molest me ; and she said 

 that she would ere long send me ;^5o more to make up the hundred 

 pounds. 



Mr. Candish went from Mortlake at four of Clock at night toward 

 London, and so into Suffolk. 



Sir William Cavendish appears to have been fond of 

 hawking. There is the following entry in one of the household 

 books still existing in the muniment room at Hardwick : — 



XVIII. die Novembris. 



Anno. R.E. vj. vto (1551). 



Itm paid to Mr. Richard Starky of litle Saint Bartolimews by Smyth- 

 felde for a Gosse Hawk, by Mrs Comaundment. 

 Ixvij. s. viij. d. 

 (;^3 7^- Sd.) in present value about ;^33. 



by me, Rychard Starkey. 



In August, 1557, Sir William Cavendish was in London, 

 employed doubtless about his official duties at Court. He was 

 Treasurer of the Chamber to Queen Mary, as he had been to 

 Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Lady Cavendish was at Chats- 

 worth; probably in part on account of her young family, and 

 in part to escape from the Court of Queen Mary. It ^\^ll be 

 noticed that the god-parents of their Uvo youngest children are 

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