20 Longleat Papers, No. 3. 



" Now that th' Erie of Pembroke ys become your good Lord I trast there wyll 

 be no lett for you to make your sute to the Quene's Highnesse to eschaunge your 

 Prebend of Thame [Co. Bucks] with hyr Ma'estie ; wherein I hoope you will 

 helpe me awey with my parsonage of Kyveleigh * for some land in these West 

 parties ; as heretofore you have thought j'ou should be well hable to do, yf th 

 erle were no impedyment to your sute. I have no frend that ys hable to helpe 

 me therin but only yow, or some by your meanes. Mary, I wyU shyft yf nede be 

 for a hundrith poundes to bestowe upon such one as you shall thjTike mete to 

 further the matter to efEect : although I sell a quyllet t of land for hyt. Where 

 hyt hath pleased you to graunte me a leasse of your land in Clopton X for terme 

 of my lyff and my sonnes, I beseche you let me intreate you for the fee symple 

 thereof, bycause I woold be gladd to plant myne issue in thys cuntree to lyve 

 with that lyttle that I have provyded quyetly, and not be diyven from post to 

 pyller as I have bene. And I verely trust so to brede mj- chyldren as they shall 

 be both hable and wylling to serve your posteryte, as I have (to the best of my 

 small coTmynge) served you. The profett of the land ys not great : hyt lyeth 

 ferre from you. And although I knowe you may have more money for hyt then 

 hyt ys woorth yet I trust yf you lett me have hj't for reasonhable money you 

 shall not thynke hytt yll bestowed. I wyll with a good wyll gyve you £200 for 

 hytt and thynke myself e muche beholdynge to you hesyds. My tei-me in Warder 

 ys but sjTc yeres in whiche tyme I myght make upp suche a house there as I 

 woold content myself withall, so that when I shulde be dryven to remove yet I 

 myght remove to a plase of myn own, and not after to seke a newe. Also I 

 desyre hyt the rather for that a man shall not in all hys lyff tyme fynde a place 

 voide of leasse. And although I know that th' estate of Jacobb § ys not good, yet 

 the quyett possession wyll not be hadd without some trouble, or yll, or yll speche 

 at the least. Thus leavynge to troble your Mastershj^jpe any further at thys 

 tyme, I end, and commytt you to God, who send you contynuance of helth with 

 increase of muche worshippe. From Warder Castell the xx"" day of Januarys 

 1568. 



" Yours at comaundement 

 " To the Eight woo'shypfull " L. Hutde." || 



S'. John Thynne Knyght 



at hys house, Channon Rowe ^ 



yeve these w' spede." 



\_Seal : Arms of Hyde.'] 



* Keevil, near Trowbridge, Wilts. 



+ A quillet (from quidlibet, Johns. Diet.), when used in speaking of land, meant a small outlying 

 piece. 



i A farm of this name in Co. Som. belonged at that time to the Thynne family, (R. C. H. Heyt. 

 p. 78.) 



? An allusion, perhaps, to the Patriarch's early peregrinations. 



II There are many of his letters at Longleat, and he invariably spelled his own name " Hutdb." 

 He was deputy to Sir John Thynne, who held the office of Queen's Surveyor to the Co. Wilts. 



IT Sir John Thynne's house in London at this time was in Canon Row, at the back of Parlia- 

 ment Street, with a garden down to the river ; and next to the Earl of Hertford's house, The 

 ground belonged to the Dean and Canons of St. Stephen's Chapel. It is sometimes in old plans 

 miscalled " Channel Row." 



