By the Rev. Canon J. K Jackson, F.8.A. 271 



4. An Estimate of the Eakl of Essex's Expenses in Queen 

 Elizabeth's Service : made out by Sir Gelly Meyrick, his 

 Steward (by whom the Original at Longleat is signed). 



£ 



cli 

 " Parsonages impropryatt iij in f eefearme made clere 8500 



Glybe lands 100 in fee simple ) 12000 



more in feafearme 100 soe in the f 



hole £300 by yeare J 



The exchaunge of Bisshopes lands was 400 by yeare . . 8000 



1 

 Then out of the Eschequer 50 by yeare .... 

 The swet wines 2^ years 



Spent in her ma*'*'' service ; I may well saye soe £ 



for the inabeling of his Lp. to doe her ma*'^'» service 

 Fyrste, his Journey into the lowe contreys cost his lp. att the leste 4000 

 Next, her Ma**' being plesyd to comand my L. attendance att courtt | gQQQ 



afore he had any sh.* his Lo. spentt over & above his revenue ) 

 Then, the Spaniards beinge on the coste his Lp^ preparation for that | ^^qq 



service was 

 Then, my L. Jomey to Portingale, coste him one waye or other att | ^(y^ 



leaste ^ 



The intertaynment of the Vydam f and the f ranch one moneth att^ 



Yorke House, the french geven to understand that her Ma*" ^ 2200 



would paye for it, it cam toe besydes pryvatte gyftes . J 



£ 

 The French Journey cost my L. above 14000, owt of his own purser 



besyde his frynds & followers : as shall appear by the partycular ^ 14000 



recconiuges ^ 



Since my L. of Lester dyed [1588] it hath coste my L. 400^or 500. by 



yeare att leaste intertayninge of strangers. 

 My L. gyftes to pore soldyers & men thatt had noe means and were 



owt o£E intertainment. It is & hath bynne more then I will 



stett [state] ; & shure I am it hath bynne for her Ma*"'= honor 



thatt pore men myght have relife. 



• The word is indistinct. The sense would seem to imply some official salary. It occurs a second 

 time in this paper. 



+ "Vydam." The Vidame (French, from the Latin Vice-dominus) of Chartres, John de Ferriers 

 Governor of Havre (then called New-Haven) was one of the chief noblemen who favoured the 

 rrotestants and the surrender of Havre to the English. Of his narrow escape at the Massacre of St. 

 Bartholomew there is an account in Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker IL, 125. There is a portrait 

 of the Vidame at Longleat. A Vidame, or Vice-dominus, exercised delegate jurisdiction under a 

 bishop, as Vice-comes did under a duke or count, and took his denomination from the bishopnck, as 

 at Rheims, Amiens, Chartres, and the like." (SeWen'i Titles of Honour, part II., p. 331.) 



