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Longleat Papers, A.JD. 1553 — 1588. 



Spared 

 by the 



Counsell's 

 order 



at the £rst 



'' To John Dan vers Esquier L" 

 To ThomasWroughtonEsquier L" ^ 



To John Erneley Esquier L'j I 



To John Barwyke Esquier L'' I £ 



To Edwarde Baynarde EsquierL"! \CCCCL, 



To Gyles Escourte gentleman L'' f 



To Henrie Clifford Esquire I." I 

 / To Richarde Kyngsmyll esq. 

 To Thomas Longe of Calne 



Sir John Zouche' K'. 

 Sir John Thynne K*. 

 John St. John, Esquier 

 Christopher Doddington esq. L^' 

 Nicholas Geryshe L*' 



And their Privy 

 Seales remayn- 

 inge in theire 

 owne handes. 



Other Privy 

 Seales remayn- 

 ing in my handes 

 readie to be re- 

 delyvered. 



All wbiche conteyne the full nomber in the twoo 

 former Chatalogs by me receyved from tho Counsell. 

 JOHN THYNNE." 



Then follow the several receipts of the money by the Treasurer 

 of the Queens's Chamber, ending with 



" xi Novemb. 157] . ReC*. of S\ John Thynne, Knygbt, Tenn Privy Seales 

 which by his Certificatt to the Counsell he oonfessyth to be remayninge in his 

 hands : and his perfitt Certificat for the Lone for the Countie of Wilts in Anno 

 xii° Elizabethe Regine. . Per me, 



Thomas Kees." 



Whether the Loans under these Privy Seals were or were not 

 repaid does not appear from any document hitherto met with. But 

 the patriotic ladies and gentlemen of Wiltshire, scheduled above, 

 would no doubt have been duly prepared for disappointment by the 

 ominous motto on Her Majesty's seal : — " Pulchrum pro Patrid 

 pati ! " [" It is noble to suffer for one's country."] 



V. — A Charge to be given by a Justice of Peace in the 

 Quarter Sessions, A.D. J 580 [25J Eliz.]. 



" The Matters foUowinge to be delyvered in Charge rest briefly in three points, 

 / God be trewly honored : 

 Whether | Her Majestie dewly obeyed : 



( Her Majestie's subjects be in peace. 

 I. — To serve God trewly is to s«rve him according to his holy word and testa- 

 ment. 



First therefore you shall enquire whether the uniforme and godly order of 

 Common Prayer grounded upon the worde of God, established by the Queue's 

 Majestie that now is, in the first yeare of Her Highness raigne, be observed or 



