By the 'Rev. Canon J. E. Jachson, F.S.A. 21 



XIV. A.D. 1570, June 11th. The Pope's Bull against 

 Queen Elizabeth head in the Pulpit at Sarum Cathedual by 

 Bishop Jewel. 



Henri/ Parry to Sir John Tlynne. 



" xi Jime 1570. 



" Thys daye in the pulpit at Savum my Lord dyd uppon good considerations 

 sliowe fui-the a Bull from Rome,* in the whyche the Pope dyd declare the Queue 

 an heretique and therefore no lawfuU Quene of thys realme. By the same bull 

 all her leage subjects discharged of theyre obedience, and that yt maye be lawful! 

 unto all that do receave the same Bull to burae, robbe, spoyle and kyll the Queue's 

 frynds as the Pope's enemies. Thys day solemly it was shewyd. Uppon 

 Sundaye next my L. will read yt and expounde the same. I would spend a fatt 

 oxe that my L. the Erie t were present at the same : unto whom I praye you do 

 my humble commendations expecting when yt shall please hym to commaunde 

 me into hys crue [crew — company), good reason wolde so, for bycause of hym I 

 am not nombryd of any other crue." 

 "To the Eight worshipful! 



& my very lovinge f rende 



Sire Jhon Thynne Knyght, 



and Shreve of Wiltshire." 



The next Letters, to No. xxvii. inclusive, werefoimd among Papers 

 relating to Robert I)ndlei/, Earl of Leicester. 



XV. Mrs. Asheley to Lord Robert Dudley, complaining of 

 THE Queen's unkind treatment of John Asheley, her Husband. 

 [This letter is neither dated nor signed : but the date must have 



been before September, 1563, when "Lord Robert" became Earl 



of .Leicester. The husband's name being mentioned in it, gives 



that of the writer.] 



" My very good lorde I beseke you now remeber me for I have had suche 

 grefEe to be so ny [nigh] my helper and can not be helped y' I have axsed leve to 

 departe and gonne I am. but I wyssche you dyd se yn what case I am, yu wil! no 

 [know] more than far off, for I can not outter y^ tenth part off my wi-achednes 

 [wretchedness], but yff I continue a lytel thes [thus] I am siu'e I sha! never se 

 you agayne. I we! not wrette but one worde y' -f queues mageste said unto me 

 and y* was sche cowde never f orgeve my husbond nor never love hym ; yff yt be 

 so my good lorde for christes sake let hym never troble hyr presence / better yt 



• This was the celehrated Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth, as an usurper and a " servant of 

 Trickedness." by Pope Pius V., which Camden calls " a vain cracke of words that mi.de a noise only." 

 + The Earl of Hertford, son of Protector Somerset, 



