Long lent Papers, No. 3. 



After the Duke's death in 1545, she married Richard Bertie; and I 

 being a zealous supporter of the Reformation, was compelled with 

 her husband to make their escape abroad. They suffered great 

 privation, travelling on foot, without food or shelter. This is J 

 made the subject of a ballad, printed in Burke's Extinct Peerage 

 (" Duke of Ancaster"). Their story is also told in Fox's Book 

 of Martyrs, in Collins's Peerage (" D. of Ancaster and in Lady 

 G. Bertie's " Five Generations of a Loyal House." On Elizabeth's 

 succeeding to the throne they returned to England. It does not 

 appear for whom, both in this and the following letters, she was 

 applying so earnestly to Dudley. 



" Nowe me good lord evene for gods sake thenke un my poore cossen / and 

 speke for him to the quens majeste, hows [i.e., whose] most honorable charette I 

 troste wol for God's cawse conseder the poor man and his messerable estayt / I I 

 pray you pardon my tho I be so bolde so off en to trobele you mor then any other ;, | 

 yo r . gentlenes towards me is the cawse off it / for others have so moche to do I 

 that the seme [i.e., they seem] always wyre [weary] off me, and truly I do not j 

 blame them tho they be so, for I am even wyre of me selffe in thys mater / never | 

 the lyes I fend master tresserer vere gentel to my, also howe [i.e., who] hathe 1 

 promesed me faythefule to do his beste when so ever it shal plese you to cal un I 

 him : and for the rest of our godfathers for crestes sake speke to them yo r selffe | 

 and help that my poor cossen war but out of the tower, and he she and I, w* al | 

 ther cheledren, shal ferst acording to our dutes pray for the quenes mageste / and j 

 nyxte for you as our ownle helper under her / helpe, kelp, helpe, helpe my good | 

 lord that it war don. 



" yo r poor humble suetter j 

 Docketed : " March 1556 * " K. Suffoulk" 



K. Suffolk." 



The same to Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex. 1 



" I have resayved yo r . lo. corteos letter and thankes you for it, but I am sore | 

 that you shold so understand off me that I shold seeke any meanes to make you ( 

 do any theng to offend har highnes no my good lorde I have benne alwayes I fi 

 troste clear from any suche towche bothe for my nowen doings or procurings off 

 any me frends, and I hope be gods lyve so to countenue / for the takeing off the 



* The date is not given in the hody of the letter, but docketed 1556 on the back by some other 

 hand. It appears to be a clerical error for 1565 : because in 1556 Mary was Queen, the Duchess 

 herself in exile, and Dudley by no means possessed of such influence at Court as he had in the 

 following reign. 



1 There is no date upon this letter. It is similar to the foregoing one, but it is 

 only by conjecture that it is considered to refer to the same subject. It was 

 found, not among Dudley's papers, but among those relating to the Earls of Essex. 



