By the Rev. Canon J. F. Jackson, F.S.A. 11 



24. „ 1578j June 18tli. Sir Christopher Hatton, to the 



EarLj at Buxton, about a rumour of his 

 [Hatton's] being about to marry Queen 

 Elizabeth. 

 „ „ „ June 28th. The same to the same : dismissing 



THE rumour as " A WomAn's TALE.'" 



25. „ 1578, Oct. 23rd. Henry Besbeche, Land-Steward at 



Kenilworth Castle, to the Earl his Master. 

 „ „ „ Nov. 20th. The Same to the same. 



„ „ 1579, March 22nd. The same to Mr. Beykham, thb 



Earl's Auditor. 

 „ „ 1580, March 28th. The same to the same. 



26. „ 1578, December 12th. Customer Thomas Smythe to 



the Earl ok Leicester. 



27. „ 1580, February ]8th. Lettice Knollys, Countess op 



Leicester. Deposition by Humphry Tindall, 

 the Officiating Chaplain, as to the Secret 

 Marriage of Lettice Knollys, then Countess 

 Dowager of Essex, with Robert Dudley, Earl 

 OF Leicester, at Wanstead House, on 21st 

 September, 1578. 



„ „ 1589, March 7th. Letter from Lettice Knollys, 

 Countess Dowager op Leicester, to Lord 

 Treasurer Burleigh, about the Payment op 

 HER late Husband's Debt to Queen Elizabeth. 



„ „ 1590. Two Letters to the same Countess [his Mother 

 by a former Husband] from Robert Devereux, 

 Second Earl op Essex, Beheaded in the 

 Reign op Queen Elizabeth. 



IX.— A. D. 1438 [26 Hen. VI.] ? Lady Ferrers to hee son 

 Lord Ferrers op Chaetley. 



[This letter having been found among papers of the ancient Roche 

 family, the lady was probably Helen, daughter and co-heiress of 

 Thomas De la Roche, of Castle Bromwich, and widow of Edmund 

 Ferrers, fifth Lord Ferrers, of Chartley, who died 1435. Private 



