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meete by her Ma*y to direct S 1 ' \\ alter Ra\vleghe Knight to set 

 fourth certen shippes to the seas out of the west partes of this 

 realm, for th'intercepting of such of the K: of Spaynes subiectes 

 as should repeire to the fishinge at New found land, \v ch the said 

 shippes haue accordingly executed \v th so good successe as to 

 bringe into this realm a good number of Spanish vessells taken 

 by them at the said fishinge, wherein there are by estimacion 

 about sixe hundreth maryners, and forasmuch as we are credibly 

 aduertised that her ma ties subiectes yet stayd in Spayne, by 

 vertue of the said generall arrest, are nowe of late vsed there in 

 verie hard and vnsufferable sorte, we do therfore thincke meete, 

 that where the said Spanishe maryners are nowe as we vnder- 

 stand dyetid at three shillinges and fewer pence a man by the 

 wecke, their said dyet should hereafter be ratid but at three 

 pence a man by the daye, the chardges whereof are to be allowid 

 out of the third part of the fishe to be by you allotid vnto the 

 vittallers of the said shippes of warre, w th thother two third 

 partes, one to the owners and the other to the maryners of the 

 same. All w ch fishe we thincke meete should be sould ether 

 w h in the realm or in forren countryes that are in league or good 

 amitye w tb her Ma 1 ^, where yt may be vtterid to most proffit. 

 In the doing wherof, we praye you to caule three of the Com- 

 missioners of the Admiralty there to yo r assistaunce, by whos 

 aduice and trauell theis thinges may accordinglye be put the 

 better in execucion. And so we bid you hartelye fare well. At 

 Richmond the X' 1 ' of October 1585. 



Yo v very lovinge frendes 



[Not signed.} 



[At tlie foot of the page is written in the hand of one of 

 fiurghley's secretaries : ] S 1 ' John Gilbert Knighte. 



[Not adtfressed.} 



{Endorsed in the hand of} 1 585. 

 Burghley's secretary : J 10. Oct. 



M: To S v lo: Gilbert. 



