24 Longleat Tapers, No. 3. 



ever I sawe / Well my Robert I pei-seve by M'. Elmes yoii are wylHng to make 

 amende and agajmst amende no man ought to be / wherefore I hartel v dcsyre you 

 to send me a good sure flyte in recompens of this bolte and bobtayell for I am 

 nowe become a flyngger, thowge I be but a fanner / my lord I most requier yo' 

 lordshipp to dyscharge my dewty w"" my most humble comedatyons to the 

 queene's hyghnes whos good helthe (God I cawle to wytnes) I dayly pray for / 

 wysshyng that she wold not to moche presume of her owen strengthe as to be let 

 bludde bothe in the fute and arme all at won tyme, becawes j-t was more then 

 ever I heard don to onny / you may be well assured my fayre was the greater / 

 I have chosen this later part as it wer to compel you to wi-yte unto me a gayne 

 wyche yf you do not at yo'. pareU [peril] be yt. Yt pleased the quenes highnes 

 at my departure to geve me to [2] bouckes [bucks] in Haufnaker * and ij in 

 Goodwood / the waiTauntes wer left w' Tome ascheley / yf they be not syned then 

 I pray yo' lordship to get me syned and sent / I wold also requier you to get me 

 a warraunt for a stagge in the forest of Wokner and send me a good hound that 

 shaxill recover him when he ys strycken and I will send you haulfe of him / do I 

 not offer you reason. 



" from Haufnaker the second of July 1559. 

 " by yo' lordshippes asshuredly dowring lyfe 

 Addressed: "John Gbey." 



" To the ryght honorable 



and my very good Lord 



the L. robert Duddely 



Master of the quenes Seal. Unicom salient : the 



magesty's horsys geve thees." sun behind. 



Endorsed : " Julii 1559. [Crest of Earl of Stamford.] 



John Grey." 



1560, October 30th. The same to the same. 



" My Lorde i am verye sorey that i have put youre Lordshype to this travell 

 and payne, seying the matter ys lyke to come to no better pas / butt tliis I wyll 

 saye to yo' Lordeshyjipe, that the Queenes Ma"' nether was nor ys Ij'ke to be 

 agayne so muche dessayved in no exchaynge of Lande as she ys lyke to be in 

 this / for I assuer you she shaUe gyve for eveiy peney of that exchaynge xij"*. 

 whyche in the hoUe |wyll com to an on resonabeU som, for i teU you truly the 

 woodes that be appon that Lande that my Lorde of Arrendellf shalle have wyU 

 purches the hoUe Land that he geves for exchange butt yff there be no remedy 

 but that he must needds have hyt, I pray you my Lorde, be an emeste suter to 

 hyre magestey, to gyve me leave to puU downe suche old rotten bowses as sarves 

 for nothyng, butt puttes me to greate charges, the repayryng of them, and maye 

 cause hym to pycke quarrels to my lese / also too have a good Bande [i-e., bond] 

 of hym, that I maye injoye my yeres queyetley, for he that thi-eteneth me wyth 



• Halnaker Park, near Goodwood ; mentioned by Leland as " Halvenaker, a pretty house by 

 Chichester," 



T Henry Fitz-alan, Earl of Arundel, was John Grey's brother-in-law, 



