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mail hathc brought in the most parlc, 

 who will be ofieiiticd ii' any be brought 

 hi w'^out him. And, to speak the 

 liueth, a!tiioiis,h there be many gciitle- 

 nieu iu Yorheshire, yet very iiaid clioisc 

 of fitt men ibr that purpose. Nam 

 omnes qnerunt qua sua trait, non quce 

 $pectaut ad bonum Reip. And if none 

 should be in c omission but such as are 

 20^ in subsidic, you sliould put out 

 halfe of those that be iu as I suppose. 

 And thus I comend yo"" good Lordsliip 

 to tlic e:ood direction of God's holy 

 tijriiit. Yd"" h. most bounden, 



E.Ebor. 

 Bishopthropei this Q3(l of Septe.mb. 1587. 

 Stiaher, the promoter, tried at tliese 

 assizes at Yorke, and there adjudged 

 to t'.ic pillorye, for composition contrary 

 to tiie slatcitc, affirmed tlierc, iu open 

 court, that he had brought in one sit- 

 tinfi;e to the counselle at York, 80/. and 

 odd mony. If thus mucli by one pro- 

 motor, how much by all the rest; and, 

 if thus nnich at cue sittinge, liow much 

 at all si Hinges. 



Yorkshire {West Riding) Justices of 

 Peace at present in Comission. 

 Robert Lee. — He is a notable ojicn 

 adulterer, one that givclh great oficncc, 

 and will not be reformed. He useth his 

 aulhoriiie as well to worke private dis- 

 pleasure, as to serve other men's tournes; 

 a verie bad man, and one tiiat docth 

 noo good: bctler put out than kept in. 



Peter Stanley. — A man noted to be a 

 great fornicator, of smail wisdome, and 

 lesse skill; one that is little iu subsidie 

 booke, brought iu onelie to serve tournes; 

 he hangeth on the crie at all times and 

 in all tliinges, even at comaundinent ; 

 \v"'out fiuther respect, a man of iiouo 

 aecomptc. 



Thomas Wentwortli. — A verie sense- 

 less blockhead, ever wringing and wrong- 

 itige his pore neiglibourcs. Ecing a 

 great graine man of himself, lie bought 

 in the beginning of the last yerc, in 

 .cveric markctt, so much as he could, 

 and heaped it up in his houses to sell 

 again at the dcai'cst. He depcndeth 

 ■wholly upon him that Iwought him in, 

 and will serve all tournc--. If you loke 

 into the snbsidy-buoke, your L. shall 

 Cud him little tlierc. 



James Hither. — This man is noted to 

 be a soure subtill Papist, and brouglit 

 into comission in respect ilicreof; roadie 

 to hinder auio matter that shall touclie 

 anie Papist. He dcpendeth upon S' 

 Thomas Faiefax to make good his evill 

 causes: a man unprofitable for the 

 •omoawcalib, and lull of contention. 



George Woodrof. — Ilis wife is an ob* 

 stinate recusant, and of longe time iiatlj 

 bene one that doeth verie much hurt; 

 an argument that he is not well afl'ected 

 himself. Such men as have such wifes, 

 are thought verie uufitt to serve in these, 

 our tymes. 



Brian Stapleton. — ^This man is noted 

 to be a great Papist, and so is his eldest 

 soniic: lie raakcth small abode in this 

 contrie. He lietli at London, and keep- 

 eth company with S' Robert Stapleton; 

 he keepetii no house, having no wife. 

 East Riding. 

 Henry Constable. — He is SheriflF of 

 the Shire this ycre, but was in comis- 

 sion before, and looketh for to be ia 

 again: his wife is a raoste obstinat re« 

 cusant, and will not be reformed by any 

 jjcrsuasion, or yet by cocrtion: her ex- 

 ample is very hurtfull. 



Francis AJforde. — This man lieth 

 much at London, and hathe no « ife ; a 

 man of very small living, of lesse skill, 

 of no countenance, and ouc tliat maj 

 be very well spared. 



Nottinghamshire. 

 Brian Lascells. — He is a man full of 

 quarrells and contention, one that mak- 

 ctti division, manteininge evill causes, 

 boulsti ing out evill matters even in lawe, 

 and one tliat onelie secketh to live by 

 other men's losses. 



Such as are fitt to be called into Comi^ 

 sion again. 

 Gervase Nevill, John Lewis, and Wal' 

 tei- Jobsr.n. — All these arc wise, up- 

 right, skillfull, and painfull ill that office. 

 I no just cause why they sliould be re- 

 moved out of the comission of pcace,^ 

 so far as can be here knowiie. 



W. S. — William Sutton, of Aram, ii» 

 Nottinghamshire, as he is a man of good 

 living and of an auncieute house, so he 

 is a verie honest upright gentleman, and 

 verie fitt to be put iu comission of peace. 



Lansduun, 52. 

 LXiii. Letter of Sir John Haryngton to 

 Lady Dowager Riissel, mi his new 

 Book called the 3Ielamorphosis of 

 Ajax; copied from the Original in 

 the Lansdown MS. Vol. 82. 

 Right honorable and my special! good 

 Lady, 

 Having written, not long since, thist 

 fantastical! treatise, and putting yt to 

 the print under a covert name, the first 

 too leaves of it (wherein is almost 

 nothing but all skiirriil and toying mat- 

 ter) was shou'd my Lord Treasurer by 

 my ilihapp as I count it, if his good- 

 nesse and honorable disposition doe not 

 the better interpret yt, which makes me 



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