258 Longleat Papers, No. 4. 



31. „ 1636^ April 12th. Edward Hyde (afterwards Earl 



OF Clarendon) to Bulstrode Whitelocke. 



32. „ 1674-8. Antony A. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. 



Letteh from R. Ingram to William Ernely 

 about an Assault upon the Earl by Lord 



DiGBY. 



S3. „ 1679. Guy Carlbton, Bishop of Chichester. Two 

 Letters from him to Secretary Coventry 

 ABOUT the Reception of the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth AT Chichester, when he returned 

 from abroad without the klng^s leave. 



34. Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. 



„ 1 686, June 22nd. Sir Winstone Churchill, Father op the 

 First Duke, to Blue Mantle^ about the 

 History of his Family. 

 „ „ 1706, October 11th. The Duke of Marlborough to 

 Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Ox- 

 ford), threatening to break a Printer^s 

 , bones. 



35. „ 1708-9. Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to Rt. 



Hon. Robert Harley, and another Friend. 

 Four Letters. 



XXVIII.— A.D. 1548-76. Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary op 

 State to Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, and Provost op 

 Eton. 



[The life of this very eminent man was written by Strype, the 

 ecclesiastical historian, to which some valuable additions have 

 been recently made by Mr. J. G. Nichols, in the ArchfEologia, 

 vol. xxxviii., p. 99. The letters here printed are a further con- 

 tribution. 



He was a distinguished scholar and linguist at Cambridge. 

 Fuller (Church Hist., vol. ii., 254, 8vo), speaking of the pains 

 taken by Henry VIII. to maintain learned youths in foreign 

 courts, by selecting one or two yearly for that purpose, says that 

 " Sir Thomas Smith was one of the last educated in this manner. 



