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Tower of London, and he reports to Dudley the conduct of certain 

 persons then in custody for being 1 connected with the plot for 

 marrying Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, to Mary, Queen of 

 Scots. 1 The names in the letter are Powell, Bannister the Duke's 

 counsellor at law, Barker, a secretary, Hyckford (Higford), Sir 

 Henry Percy, Gudyere, Lowder, the Bishop of Rosse (John Lesley 

 the champion of Mary, Queen of Scots), and Lord Lumley. All 

 these names are mentioned in Camden's history of this affair 

 (Camden's Elizabeth, pp. 162, 163, edit. 1675.) 



The sarcasm about " a Horse-keeper becoming Lord Steward of 

 England/' which Powell is here stated to have used, has generally 

 been attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots. Dudley was Master of 

 the Horse ; a title which on his monument in the Beauchamp 

 Chapel, Warwick, is rendered " Hippocomus." 



In this letter, dated 8th May, 1572, Bannister is called "the 

 late Dewk's man." The Duke of Norfolk was not actually be- 

 headed until 2nd June following, but his title would have ceased 

 on his attainder.] 



" Yn most humeble wyse and yt may please yow r honor to pdon my bowldnes 

 yn troblyg yow r Lordshyp w* thys my symple lett r . wh. ys to advetes yow y* 

 Powell layte pencyoner y e ii day of thys istat moth or thereabouts sayd unto 

 Bannyst r y e layte Dewks man, ' How say yow, yow shall se shortly a horse kepper 

 made L d . steward of Ingland, and dyd 'speake y e same w 4 so lowd a voyce, y* 

 those words were herdd of syche as stode w^wt y e Tower apon y e WherfE, and as 

 thay say y* herd yt myght easyly have been herd to y e furth r syde of Terns This 

 ys to be proved by [dyvers persons w h . herd y e sayd words / Hys Lybbertye is 

 syche that he hayth dayllye used conferans of talk to all y e presoners that lyeth 

 both abowt the upper and nether gardyngs. Powell's lodgig ys yn thed of y e 

 gallarye betweyn y e sayd gardygs allso hys mother, hys wyfE, and hys brother 

 hayth corned to se him dyvers and many tymes to the Wherff nere to hys lodgyg, 

 hayth spoken together and thay have used bowld and manyfest toknes and sygnes 

 [signs] and sendyng of messayges to hym and from hym att there pllesewres by 

 hys keypper Mr. Levetenad's servad, and as for Powells brother he hayth corned 

 dyvers tymes bowldly yn to the Tower to y e getleman portter's howse. 



" Forther, y e vi day of thys ystat moth y e sayd Bannester dyd say to Powell 

 yt he was burdened to have resseved letters yn syffers [cyphers], but Bannester 

 sayd y* he cofessed but one letter w h . my L. and Berker and Hyckford had cofessed 



See Wilts Magazine, vol. xiv., p. 196. 



