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iudgement I cease to trouble yo'^ highnes any further. Nouem- 



bris : 6. 1577. 



Yd'- Ma"e3 most faithfull 

 servaunt and subiect 

 [Signature {H. Gylberte) crossed through mzd hardly legible.'] 



[Not addressed.] 

 [A^ot ejtdorsedi] 



[ The jnarginal heading is in the hand of one of Burghlefs 

 secretaries [see endorsement.)] 



APPENDIX B (p. 40 ante) 



{State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth. Vol. clxxvii. No. 58.) 

 [Dt Walsiftgham's hand] 



A plotte for the anoyeng of the K. of Spayne. 



The entrepryce is to svrpryce soche sphanyshe shippes as 

 resorte yerely to the fyshing of the newe fownde lande and the 

 grande baye. 



For the execvtyon whereof yt shall be necessarye to have thre 

 shyppes well furnished of 200 tonnes at the least. 



The charges of the settyng owt of the sayd shyppes wyll 

 amovnt vnto being thorrewghely manned and furnished the 

 somme of 



The tyme of proceading to the execvtyon of the entrepryce 

 wyll bee abowt the ende of Aprell. 



The benefyttes that wyll followe of the entrepryce. 



The greatest shippes belongyng to the K. of Spaynes svbiectes 

 shall be dystressed. 



The nombre of his maryners w^^ can not in many yeares bee 

 svpplyed shall be dystressed. 



They shall be pvt to great extremytye in Spayne for lacke of 

 the svstentatyon of vyctvall that they receyve yerely by the sayd 

 waye. 



The benefyt that may be made of the shyppes tackle ordyn- 

 aunce trayne oyle and fyshe wyll be woorthe at the least 40000*. 

 Necesserye consyderatyons. 



Yt is fyrst to be consydered at whos charges the shippes shall 



