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wolde be soiTie to doo. So he departed moch greved, saying that he thoxight I 

 wolde deale better than I spake. So when he was gone I sent for the constables 

 and willed them to attend upon Yonge and to assist him and further him in 

 Kepinge plaie at all the games named in his Licence savinge the RifEe but that 

 they shulde not in anye wise suffer him to Kepe plaie at that game. They did 

 soo. After dinner tyme Yonge went owt with his drom to call the players to- 

 gither into the felde the Con.stables attended unto him and told him that they 

 had commaundment not to suffer him to play at the Riffe which they wolde 

 execute, so becawse he might not plaie at the Riffe he wolde plaie at nothing, and 

 so passed that daye and the Sondaye following he went over the other syde 

 Enfield Chase neere to Hadley but in Enfeld parishe, and there w^'' sounde of the 

 drom he Kept his playe at the Riffe, that daye which when I herde of, I wrote 

 to the highe Constable to biinge him and the players, with his partners unto me 

 whiche they did the next daye : the players were gone because it was late before 

 the constable had my letter : but having Yonge and one Thomas Carter a 

 shomaker of London (who sayth he is Yonge's partner) before me, I sayd unto 

 them that they had doble offended, being warned and forbidden, yet wold pur- 

 poselie break the lawe to the offence and hurte of the Queue's people. My dutie 

 therefore was to commit them which I wold doo.... They intreated me : I said, I 

 mxist doo the lawe. In the ende I said, if they had seuerties to answer the doinge 

 I wold bayle them. Yonge said he had no seuerties : his partner the shomaker 

 desyred that one of them might be taken to be bounde for an other : I was con- 

 tented (for in deede I was lothe to comytt them) and so the recognizance was 

 writinge [i.e., being written] : then Yonge after a longe pause sayd — He wold 

 be bounde for no man, nor no man shulde be bounde for him : he had rather be 

 comitted, I tolde him it was better to be bayled and used some perswasions hut 

 he wolde not, he wolde rather goo to prison, and so I committedd them bothe : 

 Seure, mye Lorde, I thought it a dangerouse example chefely at this tyme of the 

 yere, to suffer a sorte of lawles persons to caule bie sounde of Drom all the 

 unthrifts in a countrie to gither to do unlawfullie. This is my whole doing in 

 this matter and the causes of it. If I have offended my Lords of the Councell 

 or yo^ Lordship in it, I am verrie sorrie for it. My devotion to her Ma"" and 

 her Lawe, mye-thought bounde me to it. Your Lordship I trust dothe knowe 

 not onelie liowe lothe I am to offende yow but also howe glad I wolde be to 

 honor or pleasure you, which opinion I humblye beseech you to continew : you 

 shall never have cause to the contrarie of my part. And thus wisshing your 

 Lordship Increase of God's good gifts in you I will humblie take mye leave. 

 From my bowse in Enfelde this 12th of Jun. 1572. _ 



" Your Lordships humblie to comaunde 

 " To y* righte honorable my " Thomas Weothe " 



singular good lorde the Earle 



of Leycester, one of her Ma"*' 



most honorable privey conncell 



M''. of y* horsse and Knighte of 



the most hon'ble Order of the 



Gaiier. Del." 



Docketted : "xij Junii. 1572 

 S^ Tho. Wrothe." 



