192 Wulfhall and the Seymours. 
2.—Lapy KaTHARINE GREY TO HER HussanD. [Wo date.|* 
**No small joye, my Deare Lorde, is it to me the comfortable understanding of 
your mayntayned helth. I crave of God to let you susteine, as I doute not but 
he wyll; you neyther I havyng any thinge in thys moste lamentabyll tyme so 
much to comforte by pytyfull absense each other wyth, as the hearing, the seak- 
ing and contynuance thereof in us both. Though of late I have not byn well, 
yet now, I thank God, pretely well, and longe to be merry with you as you do 
to be with me. . . . Isay no more but be you merry as I was heavy when 
you the third time came to the door and it waslocked. Do you thynke I forget 
old fore-past matters? No surely I can not, but bear in memory far many 
more than you think for. I have good leisure so to do when I call to mind 
what a husband I have of you and my great hard fate to miss the viewing of so 
good aone. [Then follows some indistinct pleasantry which seems to allude to 
‘‘brats so fast one after another,’’ and ‘‘with the blessed increase of children we 
shall altogether be beggared.”] ‘Now to her Grace, whose letter 1 send you 
here inclosed that you may see how kyndly she wryteth. . . . Thus most 
humbly thanking you, my sweet Lord, for your husbandly sending both to see 
how I do, and also for your money, I most loveingly bid you farewell: not for- 
getting my especyall thanks to you for your book, which is no small jewel to 
me. I can very well read it, for as soon as I had it, I read it over eyen with 
my heart as well as with my eyes; by which token [ once again bid you Vale 
et semper salus my good Ned. 
Your most lovyng and faithful wyfe during lyfe, 
KaTHARINE HARTFORD. 
I pray my Lord be not jealous of a thing I shall desire you to do which is, to 
tell your Poet I think great unkindness in him for that I understand he should 
have come to me, but when he was wished, he groaned . . . . Well, yet 
though he would not come to me, I would have been glad to have seen him ; 
but belike he maketh none account of me as his Mistress which I cannot but 
take unkindly at his hands.” 
No. XIII. 
Account of the Bible used in the Tower by the Earl of Hertford 
and Lady Katharine Grey. Found at Longleat. See page 154. 
The little volume is described in the title-page as ‘‘ La SarnTE BIBLE, en 
Francois, 4 Lyon. Par Sebastien Honoré, 1558.” At the top of the page is 
written the Seymour family motto, ‘‘ Foy Pour pDEvorr,” and at foot ““E, 
HeErtForD,” next to which is a signature ‘‘ W. WINGFIELD.” The Earl had 
also written a Greek sentence, signifying ‘‘ In human affairs nothing is certain.” 
On the first fly-leaf at the end, in the Earl’s writing, are the entries of the 
Births of their two sons in the Tower. 

*This letter, a few sentences of which being of a purely private kind I have witheld, is taken 
from a copy in the handwriting of Margaret Cavendish Harley, the celebrated Duchess of Portland, 
found among her papers at Longleat. The original letter is probably the one described as ‘ private 
and affectionate,” among the ‘‘ Duke of Northumberland’s Papers, vol. iii”? (See Third Report of 
the Historical Commissioners, p. 47, 
