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them at suche tyme, as they delte so hardly with Thomson, 
wyche, yf they hade him pessed, the Dunkerkers wold have done 
but small hinder. Now, My Lord, in respecte of the generall cause 
I kepet it from Her Majesty. Yf she had knowe it, it is hard 
to say, what she wold have done. My Good Lord, I have borne 
wonderfull indyngnytes thro the Flussyners hands, only for the 
graet causes sake, and I chan prove, that soum of them hathe 
joyned with the Dunkerkers to take Englyshemen; yf it hade 
not been, as I have wryghten, for the causes sak and for your 
selfe, I wold have maed soum of them had it dyply smarted. 
My Good Lord, ther is a man of Your Lord, named Grysyne, 
that was soumtyms youman of your horse, that rather yoused 
me marvelous ill and I wold Your Lord did know, as Mr. Thomas 
Dudly !) wrothe, how I yoused him for Your Lords sake. It may 
be, that he hethe tolde Your Lord sum false talk. I most hartely 
pray Your Lord, that I may know it, but this muche I dow assur 
Your Lord, that, yf he had not ben Your Lords man, he had ben 
hanked, for he did take Englishe marchants goods of London 
and of them of the best sorte, bound for London with my pase. 
And yf it had not ben for Your Lords sake, they had put up a 
supplycation tho the Queens Majestie in most extreme sorte, but 
now I yoused him with the delivery of his shype, I hope without 
any on penny lose. And else how I yoused him, Mr. Rycherd 
Drake ?) chan chertefy Your Lord. 
My Good Lord, I wyll truble you no longer with this causes, 
that I am sory should hapen, but to pray Your Lord, that no 
base parson may put into Your hed any concet of me other then 
I shall gyve you cause, wyche I wyll never mor then unto my 
most derest frend. And so wyll I rest allwayss Your Lords most 
efectionat at comandment And so I bed Your Lord most hartely 
to far well. The Cour *), the fyrst of October (1586) *). 
Your Lord lovynge frend to comand, 
C. Howarp. 
1) Le Tuomas Dupperey, qui vivait dans la maison de Lrycesrer et avait de 
bonnes relations à la Cour de la Reine (Leycester Corresp., p. 111). 
2) Un cousin de Francıs Drake. 
3) La Cour de la Reine. 
4) Lan est nommé sur le dos de la lettre. 
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