156 CORRESPONDANCE DU COMTE DE LEYCESTER. 
XLI. 
Richard Topelyffe, serviteur du Comte, au Comte 
de Leycester. 
Nouvelles sur un attentat tramé contre le Comte. 
Levcesrer House, 8 oct. 1586. 
My Good Lord. Leaving all ordenarye devoteys towards Your 
Lord, it is my part to gyve Your Lord advertisment, that very 
laytly one Rodger Walton, a yoinge man, was laytly apprehended 
at his cumminge over frome Cullen, whether he was convighed 
from the Prince of Parma’s camp, beinge by sume means appre- 
hended within this adone (?) and at leingthe sett at lybertie, but 
yett a papist and one, that sume tyme hadd served the Bishop 
of Cullen, the usurper '!). This Walton acquainted to me Jhon 
Digbey (a badd yoinge man but an oulde traveller and papiste 
and I feare woorse) *). Emonghe other tratorous practizes hath he 
reveeled *) that one Gwynn, a yoiunge man, a kynesman of ould 
Gwynns, and one Meryday or Merydythe, that was Francys Frog- 
mortons man and convighed away his caskitt, did bringe an Ita- 
lyan, being a lone thik man with a foule fayce and a yellow 
bearde, who intended to go to My Lord of Lecester and ther to 
kyll hym by sume devize *). I not knowinge, whether they, that 
might have certefyed thus muche to Your Lord, have so done or 
not, cannot omytt my dewty rydinge post towards Fodringay. 
To the end, Your Lord may regard the cause as you think meet. 
It fawllethe out in those confessyons, that one Germein Seyl, borne 
1) Le Due Ernust pn Bavibre, antagoniste de l’archévèque GEBHARD. 
2) A coté la note: „This Digby is seconde sone to ould Evered Digby of 
Rutland, father to Savaidge alias Digby, the lait trator’. Evrrarp Diesy est 
le philosophe et théologue de Cambridge, fellow of Lady Margaret at Oxford, 
qui en 1587 fut définitivement déposé comme tel avec l’aide de LryoEstEr 
(Nat. Biogr, i.v.). 
3) A coté la note: „Theis bee the words confessed written under a good mans 
hande”. 
4) A coté la note: „At Cullen theis men did gett a booke of one Henryck 
cawled Florens, Calvanistice rayllinge of Her Maiesty and Your Lord and other 
protestants”. 
