224 The Hertford Correspondence. 
LETTER III. 
The Bishop of Salisbury in answer to Lord Hertford concerning 
the viewing of the Clergy. 
My Very Goop Lorp, 
With humble thanks for your lordship’s honourable and kind entertain- 
ment of me at my late being with you, I received your lordship’s letters touching 
the shewing of the clergy armour at the next general muster within Wilts. And 
lest my answer might be mistaken (which I gave to your lordship’s servant) by 
report, I thought good in writing to deliver the same, that according to your 
lordship’s letters I will send abroad to my clergy to be ready against those days 
that shall be appointed. And when I have fully settled the manner of their 
armour, and number, I will send your lordship a certificate of the same—There 
shall be nothing done to your lordship’s mislike, but with readiness and willing- 
ness, as appertaineth. And whereas I made mention of my Lord of Canterbury 
to your said servant, it was in no other respect than this, that my lord that last 
was, in all musters of the clergy that were in my time in her Majesty’s reign, 
[Elizabeth’s] did always concur with his letter monitory to the Bishops of his 
province, to provide and be ready accordingly, which I thought also his Grace 
would do the like in short time ; which whether he do or no, according to your 
lordship’s directions I will give them admonition to be provided at the days 
appointed. And even so I do heartily commend your lordship with my special 
good lady to Almighty God. Sarum, this 11th of August, 1608. Your lord- 
ship’s assured loving friend to be commanded in the Lord. 
HENRY SARUM. 
Brought to Amesbury by Mr. Thomas 
Sadler, the 12th of the same. 
LETTER IV. 
Sir Walter Long to his Lordship, excusing his not meeting the rest 
of the Deputy Lieutenants at Amesbury. 
RieHt HoNoURABLE, 
According to your lordship’s commandments I did purpose to haye 
attended you at Amesbury, at your lordship’s house, on Thursday next, and to 
that end I went unto Sir William Eyre! on Monday last, and being there late in 
the evening, I received a message from my lord Chamberlain to come unto his 
lordship’s house at Charlton the next day, being almost twenty miles off. The 
business was to confer with me about some land that his lordship is to purchase 
1 Of Chalfield House, near Bradford. 
