By the Bet\ Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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ns out of the passw&ge too my Lo. Northe his howse : my L. Chamberlayne* 

 bathe broughte it well too passe, thoughe not in that course your Lp wisshid : in 

 respect he made hir Ma tte prevye of the impossibilytcy (the time considerid) his 

 Lp found too furnishe his howse accordinge too his dewty and honorable good 

 will, delyverynge very frendlie the alterracons of the times with all other circum- 

 stances that might make good for the matter.f .... Before God, Sir, hir 

 Ma ,ie standithe muche grevid with your impayrid state of helthe w ch . I delyverid 

 too be worse then yo r . selfe suspectyd She muche mislikethe that yo r . L. had 

 not Julio % with you in respect of his acquaintance with your bodie and his con- 

 tinuall judgement uppon the state of the same and much blamithe Mr. Baylye 

 that he wrightithe not how he procedithe with you. I suppose she will send Mr. 

 Julio for in trothe this matter troublythe hir. 



" Since your Lp. departure, the Q. is found in contynuall great Malencoly : the 

 cause thereof I can but gesse at, notwithstandinge that I beare and suffer the 

 whole brunt of hir myslike in generallytey. She dremithe of mariage that might 

 seeme injurious to hir : makynge my selfe too bo ether the man or A paterae 

 [patron] of the matter. I defend that noo man can tie him selfe or be tyid too 

 suche inconvenyence as not to mary by law of God or man, except by mutuall 

 consents as bothe parties, the man and woman, vowe too mary, eche too other, 

 which I know she hathe not done too any man and therfore by any man's 

 maryage she can receve noo wronge : with many more arguments of the best 

 waythe I could g ether : but my L. I am not the man that should thus soddenly 

 mary, for God knowithe I never ment it. By my next I thynke you shall here 

 moore of this matter I fere it wilbe found some evell practise : For matters of 

 state I leve them to Mr. Secretary, but in them and all the rest I will perforate 

 A thankefull dewtie towards yow while I live. And soo my good L. with prayer 

 on the knes of my hart for your good helthe and contynuance of prosperous estate 

 I humbelie take my leve, this xviij th of June 1578. 



" Yo r . good Lp. most bound 

 Addressed : "durynge his liffe 



" To the ryght honorable my " Chb : Hatton." 



singuler good L. th Earle 



of Leycester geve these." 



]578, June 28th. Sir Christopher Hatton to the Earl of 



• Thomas Ratcliff, Earl of Sussex. 



+ The "passage to his house " appears to mean, some visit that the Queen intended to make him, 

 and which Lord North was, at the moment, not quite prepared for. The Queen however did visifc 

 him at his house, Kirtling, near Newmarket, and was received in a way, says Holinshed, "not in 

 the least behind any of the best." 



t Dr. Julio, an Italian Physician (whose surname was Borgarucius), about the Court of Elizabeth. 

 His name, as well as that of Mr. Baylye, mentioned in this letter, appear unfavourably in the 

 malicious book entitled " Leicester's Commonwealth," where they are described as auxiliaries to 

 Dudley in procuring tbe removal of persons who were supposed to be in his way. There is much 

 about Dr. Julio in Strype's Life of Archbishop Grindal (8vo.. p. 333, Anno 1570). He had M married 

 one that was wife to another man," which proceeding gave great offence to the Queen, and was 

 partly the cause of the disgrace into which Archbishop Grindal fell ; alluded to in a subsequent note. 



