By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, P.S.A. 27 



manes I wol no foi-der press yo'. lordship / but for my selffe I pray yo'. lo : to 

 have a better jugement off me / iff I haydde not knowen his true harte and 

 humble obaydens to har maieste I wolde not have wrytten for him nyther have 

 kepett him me selffe al thes tyme off his mezssere [misery] / w*out wyche help 

 he his wyffe and poore cheldren myght have deyd in the stretts / and that I am 

 suer wold not have plesed har maieste / and on the other seyd I thenk iff any 

 worthe or juste cryme cold have benne proved a genste him / my hovves colde 

 not have saved him from feling the smart off his desserts / and thus me good 

 lord I lyve any forther to trobele you / praing God to send you a prosperos and 

 comfortable joyerny 



" Yo'. lo : poore f rend 

 " to me power 

 " To my vere " K. Suffoulk." 



good lord the 



Erie off Essexe." 



The same to the Earl of Leicester, desiring to be excused 

 FROM Waiting at Court. 



" For so muche as I acounte yo'. 1. me vere speshel f rende I am bold my good 



lorde to troble you / I understond be some off me frendes har majestie lookethe 



for me wayting thys halledays and also when memeranse coumethe / God knowthe 



but for har maiesties plesser a parsson most unfyt for a corte evere ways / and 



yett not mor unsemely / than imably (nowe in me old age to rome up and dowen 



the stretes twyes a day and hathe no plase to rest me in) beseyds me paynes me 



shame is as grette / for nyther they off the citey nor my countrey fi-ends but 



jugethe iff I was not oiiterly out of har maieste's favor I cold not be lyse con- 



sydred off nowe than I have benne in my younger days / and suche dyskredet 



makethe M'. bartey * and me unable ether to serve har maieste in the cort or in 



the countrey / meght it plese har maieste therefor so gratiously to connsedder off 



har poor old subiecte / as ether altogether to pardon me fi-om wayting or eles 



when I shall wayt I may be 'better oused [i.e., used] than so to rome upe and 



dowen lyke a kaste away / my request is but onle at har maieste's standing 



bowses I may have a loging notw"'stonding without har maiestes goodlyking and 



commandment to wayt I myne not to troble it muche, nyther at any tyme to be 



chargeable to har maieste / thus me good lorde for god's sake doo yo'. beste herin 



that you may obtayue ether the on or the other / and so I pray God blesse you in 



aU yo' doings. 



" Yo'. 1. asured frend to me 



" poor power 



Address: "K. Suffoulk." 



" To my vere good 



lorde and vere frend the 



Erie off lesseter." 

 Docketed : " The duchesse o£ 



Suffolke touching 



her waighting." 



I Kicbard Bertie, Esq., her husband. 



