362 Longleat Papers, No. 4. 



of your pacience paciently And ye are to wise to make of one losse, two. God 

 hath given, God hath taken away. This I am suer is your comfort for all 

 worldly and transitory thyngs, which if they go not away from us whiles we live 

 we shall go from them when we die. 



" Here is a proper young man of the Middle Temple of myne acquaintaunce 

 who is desirous to be toward you as your Sollicitor here in the La we. I suppose 

 he be not unknowen to you / For ye have of his nere Kynsmen about you. If 

 your sollicitor (who now is welthy and therefore as it is thought will seke his 

 ease), do forsake the travaile & office, he doth offer unto you his service. And 

 thynketh the rather at my comendacion to be accepted unto it. His name is 

 Ninian Burbage. What he can do in the lawe & in that service your sollicitor 

 can tell, to whose judgement I thynk you will stand, or els to your owne profe. 

 I have great hope that his diligence shall please you. Thus I bid you most hai-tely 

 fare well. From London the xij*'' of June 1567. 



" Yo'. assured Freende 

 " To the right worshipfull and " T. Smith." 



my assured Freend Sir John 



Thyn Knight." 



Docketed : " Sir Thomas Smyth, xij". Junii, 1567." 



4. 19th JulYj 1572, Havering. The Same to the Same. 

 [Sir Thomas Smith founded a colony on the coast of Ulster, in a 



district called " The Ardes " (now " Newton Ards "), by which he 



lost a great deal of money : see Strype's Life, p. 131. This letter 



was written on his departure for Ireland.] 



" Sir John Thinne I have ben despached from Court the xvi*"" of this present 

 moneth. I meane I have receaved her Maj" letres to the L. Deputy for his 

 direction and for my comendacion unto him. I tany now but my L''' of Leycester 

 Sussex and Bur ley's private letres to the sayd deputy which I am to receave this 

 day being already written. And so the xxij"' of this moneth from London to 

 take my Jorney to Lyverpoole there presently to imbarke. There I look for your 

 two horsmen to meet me as ye promised me at your owne bowse therin.* If 

 they be with me at Lyverpoole the last of this moneth it shall be well and soone 

 enough / This I pray you do / At the least that the men be there furnished / And 

 if they cannot bring the money which willingly as very needfuU I wold faine 

 have also Let them bring with them a bill of your hand for the same to be payd 

 at London so sone as conveniently ye can. Hereof I look for an answer by this 

 hearer who commeth to meet me agayn at Lyppoole. In the meane while with 

 my harty comendacions to my good Lady your bedfellow I committe the rest of 

 our matter for the assistauntshippe to my father, and you to Almighty God who 

 graunt you helth and long lief and to me good succes. 



" From Haveiing this xix"" of July 1572 



" yo'. assuredly to my small power 

 " Tho. Smith " 



Docketed .- " S'. Thomas Smyth, xix of July 1572." 



• Sir Thomas's friends supplied him with horse-soldiers and others, to join in the adventure. 



