By the Reo. Canoti J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 8 7 



ns out of the paeswage too my Lo. Noithe his howse : my L. Chamherlayne* 

 hathe broughte it well too i^asso, thonghe not in that course your Li) wisshid : in 

 respoct ho made hir Ma"^ prevyo of the impossibilytcy (the time consideiid) his 

 Lp found too furnishe his howso aecoi^dinge too his dewty and honorable good 

 will, delyvcrynge very frendlie the alterraoons of the times with all other eircum- 

 stiimos t'lat might mak.- good for the matter.f .... Before God, Sir, hir 

 M;v"' staudithe mnche grevid with your impayrid state of helthe W^". I delyverid 

 too be worsj then yo'. selfe suspectyd She mucho mislikethe that yo'. L. had 

 not Julio :J: with you in respect of his acquaintance with your bodie and his coa- 

 tiiiuUl judgement uppon the state of the same and much blamithe Mr. Baylyo 

 that \\i wrightith? not how he procedithe with you. I suppose she will send Mr. 

 Julio for in trothe this matter troublythe hir. 



" Since your Lp. departure, the Q. is fount in contynuall great Malencoly : the 

 cause thereof I can but gess3 at, notwithstandinge that I beare and suffer the 

 whole brunt of hir myslike in generallytey. She dremithe of mariago that might 

 seem J injurious to hir : makynge my selfe too be ether the man or A paterne 

 [patron] of the matter. I defend that noo man can tie him selfe or be tyid too 

 suche inconvenyence as not to mary by law of God or man, except by mutuall 

 consents as bothe parties, the man and woman, vowe too mary, eche too other, 

 which I know she hatho not done too any man and therfore by any man's 

 maryage she can receve noo wronge : with many more arguments of the best 

 waythe I could gether : but my L. I am not the man that should thus soddenly 

 mary, for God knowithe I never ment it. By my next I thynke you shall here 

 moore of this matter I fere it wilbe found som3 evell practise : For matters of 

 state I leve them to Mr. Secretary, bnt in them and all the rest T will performe 

 A tlvmkefull dewtie towards yow while I live. And soo my good L. with prayer 

 on the knes of my hart for your good helthe and contynuanoe of prosperous estate 

 I humbelie take my leve, this xviij"" of June 1578. 



" Yo'. good Lp. most bound 

 Addressed : " durynge his liffe 



" To the ryght honorable my " Chb : Hatton." 



singuler good L. th Earle 



of Leycester gcve these." 



1578, June 28th. Sm CiiatSTOPHRR Hatton to the Earl of 



• Thomas Rateliff, Earl of Sussex. 



+ The "passage to his houw " appears to mean, some visit that the Queen intended to make him, 

 and which Lord North was, at the moment, not quile prepared for. The Queen however did visit 

 him at Ms liouse, Kirtling, near Newmarket, and was leceived in a way, says Holinshed, "not la 

 the least behind any of the best." 



X Dr. Julio, an Italian Fhysician (whose surname was Borgarucius), about the Court of Elizabeth. 

 His name, as well as that of Mr. Baylye, mentioned in this letter, appear unfavourably in the 

 malicious book enlitled " Leicester's Commonwealth," where they are described as auxiliaries to 

 Dudley in procuiing the removal of persons who weie supposed to be in his way. There is much 

 about Dr. Julio in Strype's Life of .Archbishop Grindal (8vo., p. 333, Anno 1576). He had -.married 

 one that was wife to .another man," which proceeding gave great offence to the Queen, and was 

 partly the cause of the disijracc into which Archbishop Griadul loll ; alluded to iu a subicqueut note. 



