By flic Ecr. Canon J. W. Jacfoon, F.S.A. 



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■Mies T wol no forder press yo r . lordship / but for my selffe I pray yo r . lo : to 

 haw a better jugemenf off me / iff I haydde not knowen his true harte and 

 kmble obaydens to har maieste I wolde not have wrytten for him nyther have 

 Hpett him me selffe al thes tynie off his mezssere [misery] / w*ont wyche help 

 he his wytVe and poore cheldren myght have deyd in the stretts / and that I am 

 Her wold not have plesed har maieste / and on the other seyd I thenk iff any 

 w ort he or juste eryme cold ha ve bentfe proved a genste him / my howes colde 

 not have saved him from feling the smart off his desserts / and thus me good 

 lord I lyve any forther to trobele you / praing God to send you a prosperos and 

 comfortable j oyerny 



" Yo r . lo : poore frend 

 " to me power 



" To my vere " K. Suffoulk." 



good lord the 

 Erie off Essexe." 



The same to the Earl of Leicester, desiring to be excused 

 from Waiting at Court. 



" For so muche as I acounte yo r . 1. me vere speshel frende I am bold my good 

 lorde to troble you / I understood be some off me frendes har majestie lookethe 

 for me wayting thys halledays and also when memeranse coumethe / God knowthe 

 but for har maiesties plesser a parsson most unfyt for a corte evere ways / and 

 yett not mor unsemely / than unably (nowe in me old age to rome up and dowen 

 the stretes twyes a day and hathe no plase to rest me in) beseyds me paynes me 

 shame is as grette / for nyther they off the citey nor my countrey frends but 

 jugethe iff I was not outerly out of har maieste' s favor I cold not be lyse con- 

 sydred off nowe than I have benne in my younger days / and suche dyskredet 

 makethe M r . bartey * and me unable ether to serve har maieste in the cort or in 

 the countrey / meght it plese har maieste therefor so gratiously to connsedder off 

 har poor old subiecte / as ether altogether to pardon me from wayting or eles 

 when I shall wayt I may be better oused [i.e., used] than so to rome upe and 

 dowen lyke a kaste away / my request is but onle at har maieste's standing 

 howses I may have a loging notw th stonding without har maiestes goodlyking and 

 commandment to wayt I myne not to troble it muche, nyther at any tyme to be 

 chargeable to har maieste / thus me good lorde for god's sake doo yo r . beste herin 

 that you may obtayne ether the on or the other / and so I pray God blesse yon in 

 all yo r doings. 



" Yo r . 1. asured frend to me 

 " poor power 



Address : " K. SUFFOULK." 



P To my vere good 



lorde and vere frend the 



Erie off lesseter." 

 Docketed : " The duchesse of 



Suffolke touching 



her waighting." 



* Richard Bertie, Esq., her husband, 



