264 Longleat Papers, No. 4. 



6. 4th Notember, 1574, Hampton CorET. The Same to the 

 Same. The Queen unwilling to pakt vcith some Land wanted 

 BY SiE John Thynne. 



" S'. I have received your letter of the xxx"" October. Without your letter I 

 wold have remembred you, but I had no access to the Q. Ma"' for eny sutes 

 sithens the Progres but yesterday, so loth is hir highness to give such audience / 

 When I moved it, She was still in the same answer, ' Whie should not you be 

 contente that she might have som lands emongs yours ? ' I said the mater was 

 not great, xx marks or xx li by yere / And you offrid to pay for it as mich as it 

 was worth and rather more / bicause you wold leave your son in quietnes with 

 that which he had. Hir Ma"^ replied & still concludid that she wold sell no 

 lande. Then cam I to the second degree, that you might have it in fee ferme / 

 To that she semed more enclineable but streight went from it when I should 

 conclude, and said she wold talk with my L. Treasurer / And she saw no cause 

 ■whi hir lands might not lie emongs yours This is the somme of all that I cowld 

 get yesterday. And yet I was earnest with diverst reasons which is supei-fluous 

 to wi-ite, seying it had no better conclusion. Thus I bid you most hartely fare 

 well with my like comendacions to my lady. I send you our last oceurrents & 

 had sent you oftener, but comonly your messangers after they have delivered 

 your letres I never se thens. From Hampton Cowrte the iiij"' of No. 1574. 



" Yo'. old Fi-eende 

 " To the right worshipfull " T. Smith." 



my loving freend, S' 



John Thynne knight." 



Seal : Smith and Chaenock quarterly (as engrailed below the portrait of 

 Sir Thomas in Stry^e's Life of him, Svo, Oxford, 1820.^ 



Docketed : " Sir Thomas Smyth iiij"' of Nov. 1574." 



7. 13th July, 1575, Kenilworth. The Same to the Same. 

 [The Queen still stubborn in refusing the land. Sir Thomas enquires 



veiy particularly and for a special reason, the exact date of the 



christening of his godson. Sir John's eldest son.] 



" Youre lettre of the vij"' of July I received this day and the certificat / Such 

 occun-ents as be here I send you also / TJne thyng I can say more to you / I 

 moved the Queue's Ma"* at Tibalds for the fee ferme or buying of that which you 

 wold have but I cowld obteyne neither. / A lease in reversion at the last hir Ma'" 

 was content to grant to you. I required xl or xxx yeres. She wold grant but 

 XX] & with that she seamed contented & pleased. Yf she do not forget it now at 

 Michaelmas when I tnist you will send it me faier written to get it signed / For 

 it is not to be refused eny thyng that a Piynce will give. These certificats be to 

 take a new order how penall lawes should be better executed & not by such 

 grawntes as be- all redy made to certayne gentilmen nor by premonire but by 

 an other ordinary way as shortly you shall know. I wold gladly know if my 

 godson be maried or toward a wief & whom I wish therin good luck. But you 



