By the Tier. Canon J. E. Jachon, F.S.A. 39 



Lp. with tlieni. All mattei-s witliin my knowledge at this present are within 

 tlu' onlinary course : and therefore I would not trouhle your Lp. with them. I 

 have reeeivid letters from my L. of Slirewshury wherein he thankethe me for 

 . . . all dealeings towards him with most earnest asseveration of fa^'the to 

 hir Ma"" and care of his charge.* I will not fayle Sir (for suche is your charge) 

 too doo him all the service I can, for suerely I doo heleve he dothe and ever will 

 deserve most soundelie well of hir Ma"''. I humhely heseehe you Sir, that you 

 will thankc him for his honorable letter withe suche. comendations of my pore 

 good will as it pleasethe you to say for me. My L. Chamberlayne wi-ott to yo' 

 Lj). by the ... he fearithe you received not his letters because j'ou made 

 no answere bj' this messinger. This court wantethe your presence. Hir Ma''° 

 is unaccompanyed and I assure you the chambei-s are almost emptie. I pray 

 God you may [return] with good helthe and contynew here with most prosperous 

 . . . and best conteiitment. I most faythefully and . . . acknowledge 

 the . . . my dewtyfuU sei-vice unto y'. Lp : and soo with my most humble 

 recommendations of the same I take my leve. God 1 . . . yom-s, amongst 

 whom I know and pray for my good Lo. of Pembroke who may in trothe comend 

 my service which I trust you have warranted unto him. At Grenewich the 

 Court thi.s xxviij''' of June 1578 



" yo^ most honorable 



" Lps. bound poor frend 

 " I pray Sir pardon this en'or : " Chb : Hatton." 



for many times great hast 



makethe evell spede : the 



lower end of this paper had not 



els byn turned upwards." 



XXV. — 1578, Oct. 23rd. Henry Bksbeche, Land-Steward at 

 Kenilworth Castle, to the Earl of Leicester. 



[These letters from Mr. Besbeche have so far a claim to being in- 

 teresting, that they were written from a castle of historical noto- 

 riety, now a mere ruin; and that they refer to the domestic 

 affairs of its celebrated owner. Such men are generally known 

 to us only in their stage costume and by the parts they are made 

 to play in the great political events of their day. It is sometimes 

 not unpleasant to get a glimpse of what was going on at their 

 own homes.] 



" I had bothe writen and sent rather to yo' L. but that I thought yo" had bene 

 on yo"^ Jurney to Wilton : and some staye I had also by meanes of the wekenes 

 and imperfytnes of my hande w"^^ (1 thauke god) I have reasonably recovered yet 

 not perfytt hole nor like to be this thre weks but no daunger at all. I came in 

 a luekye owre from London for I fownde Icsse offence in traveling then I had 

 ease in a solitary chamber at London. I have sent yo^. L. a brase of does suche 



•Mary, Queen of Scots. 



