By the Fcv. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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Lp. with them. All matters within my knowledge at this present are within 

 the ordinary course : and therefore I would not trouble your Lp. with them. I 

 have received letters from my L. of Shrewsbury wherein he thankethe me for 

 . . . all dealeings towards him with most earnest asseveration of faythe to 

 hir Ma tie and cure of his charge* I will not fayle Sir (for suche is your charge) 

 too doo him all the service I can, for suerely I doo beleve he dothe and ever will 

 deserve most soundelie well of hir Ma tie . I humbely beseche you Sir, that you 

 will thanke him for his honorable letter withe suche comendations of my pore 

 good will as it pleasethe you to say for me. My L. Chamberlayne wrott to yo r 

 Lp. by the ... he fearithe you received not his letters because you made 

 no answere by this messinger. This court wantethe your presence. Hir Ma tie 

 is uuaccompanyed and I assure you the chambers are almost emptie. I pray 

 God you may [return] with good helthe and contynew here with most prosperous 

 . . . and best contentment. I most faythefully and . . . acknowledge 

 the . . . my dewtyfull service unto y r . Lp : and soo with my most humble 

 reeommendations of the same I take my leve. God 1 . . . yours, amongst 

 whom I know and pray for my good Lo. of Pembroke who may in trothe comend 

 my service which I trust you have warranted unto him. At Grenewich the 

 Court this xxviij th of June 1578 



'* yo r . most honorable 



"Lps. bound poor frend 

 " I pray Sir pardon this error : " Che : Hatton." 



for many times great hast 

 makethe evell spede : the 

 lower end of this paper had not 

 els byn turned upwards." 



XXV. — 1578, Oct. 23rd. Henry Besbeche, Land-Steward at 

 Kenilworth Castle, to the Earl of Leicester. 



[These letters from Mr. Besbeche have so far a claim to being in- 

 teresting, that they were written from a castle of historical noto- 

 riety, now a mere ruin ; and that they refer to the domestic 

 affairs of its celebrated owner. Such men are generally known 

 to us only in their stage costume and by the parts they are made 

 to play in the great political events of their day. It is sometimes 

 not unpleasant to get a glimpse of what was going on at their 

 own homes.] 



" I had bothe writen and sent rather to yo r L. but that I thought yo u had bene 

 j on yo r Jurney to Wilton : and some staye I had also by meanes of the wekenes 

 and imperfytnes of my hande w ch (I thanke god) I have reasonably recovered yet 

 1 not perfytt hole nor like to be this thre weks but no daunger at all. I came in 

 a luckye owre from London for I fownde lesse offence in traveling then I had 

 ease in a solitary chamber at London. I have sent yo r . L. a brase of does suche 



*Mary, Queen of Scots. 



