ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 



The following are the Articles of Agreement mode between the 

 Officers of the Board of Green Cloth and certain Justices of the 

 County of Hants acting on behalf of the said shire : 



HAMPSHIRE. 



A Coppie of the Articles of Agreement and Composition 

 had and made the x. . . . An xvij Regine Eliza- 

 bethe betwene the . . Honorable S r - ffancis Knollys, 

 knight: * Treasurer to her maties most hon e household 

 and Sir Jeames Crofte t knight, Comptroller of the 

 same and other her officers of her greene clothe on the 

 behalf e of her ma tie: and certeine of the hon e and 

 worpN of Hampshire. 

 The share to be devided so as in that iiij dayes the whole may 



be deliuered with directing how many hundreds shall bring in 



every of the said dayes. 



ffirst that foure hundred quarters of good and sweete 

 wheate shal be delivered at Readinge in the County of 

 Berks for the Queenes ma ties use the xx th day of 

 November or within foure dayes after at the uttermost, 

 at vj viiid the quarter paying allwayes for the owlde 

 when the new cometh in. 



* Sir Francis Knollys, a zealous partisan of the Reformation, a faithful 

 friend and wise counsellor of Qneen Elizabeth. On her accession he was made 

 a privy councillor, and vice-chamberlain and treasnrer of the household. He 

 was also employed in several important matters of state. He was steward of 

 the borough and lordship of Reading, and of the estates formerly belonging to 

 Reading Abbey, and where he entertained Qneen Elizabeth for some nays in 

 the year 1572. He married Catherine, daughter of William Carey, esquire of 

 the body to Henry VIII., by his wife, Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Ann 

 Boleyn. He died in 1596, and was buried at Rotherfield-Greys, the family 

 seat near Henley-on-Thames. 



f Sir James Crofte or Crofts. Lord Deputy of Ireland and Controller of 

 the household. He died in 1591, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. 



