200 Longleat Papers, A.B. 1553—1588. 



gratifie you wlien the tyme shall give opportunitie. And so I bid you hartelie 

 well to fare. From Norwich the vii of May 1564. 



Tour loving frend 



NOEFOLK. 



To my very Loving frend 



S'. John Thynne, Knight." 

 \_Endorted by Sir John, Jr.] 



" The Duke of Norfolk to my father, For Chydder Hawks {Cheddar)."* 

 3. The same to the tame. 



" S'. John Thyne. I cane but geve you my most hertie thankes for your 

 gentell Remembering me with your Lanneretts, tyll tyme serve that I may 

 have occasion to Requyte you. And whereas you desyre my helpe with a shorte 

 wynked hawk I ame promysed in one or two places to have one, and I shall 

 not 80 soon receyve her but you shall here of me. And so praying you to do 

 my hertie thankes to B'. Herry Nevell for his comendations, I with my hertie 

 comendations byd you fare well. From my house at Norwytch this viijth of 

 July 1565. 



Yo'. Loving Frend, 



NOBFOLK, 



To my verye Frend 



Sir John Thynne Knyghte." 



IV. — April 1570. The Wiltshire Loan to Q. Elizabeth. 

 [The next papers and letters illustrate a process formerly resorted to 

 for raising money for the Puhlic Service^ viz., by Privy Seals. 

 Sir Robert Cotton tells us that King Henry VIII. had sometimes 

 resorted to compulsory loans ; exacting £10 in the hundred on all 

 goods, jewels and utensils, and land, according to the extremest 

 rate revealed by the oath of the possessor. There were loans 

 voluntary of two kinds : — 



1. Under the Great Seal : under which, without paying a fee, 

 the lenders had a patent sealed for repayment of their dues by 

 a day certain. 



2. The Privy Seal. These were most in use at this period. 

 It was the invidious duty of the Sheriff of the county to name 



such persons as he considered either qualified by their position as 

 landed gentry or for other reasons able to lend a certain sum, either 

 £100 or £50, on a kind of Bond or Security from the Crovra. 



• Meanitg Cheddar, near Wells, Co. Somerset, where the stupendous cliffs had obtained, it seems, 

 notoriety for lome breed of hawks. The Manor belonged at the time to 8ir John Thynne, and is 

 ■till th« property of Ma descendant, the Marquis of Bath. 



