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ever I sawe / Well my Robert I perseve by M f . Elmes you are wylling to make 

 amende and agaynst amende no man ought to be / wherefore I hartely desyre you 

 to send me a good sure flyte in reeompens of this bolte and bobtayell for I am 

 nowe become a flyngger, thowge I be but a farmer / my lord I most requier yo r 

 lordshipp to dyscharge my dewty w th my most humble comedatyons to the 

 queene's hyghnes whos good helthe (God I cawle to wytnes) I dayly pray for / 

 wysshyng that she wold not to moche presume of her owen strengthe as to be let 

 bludde bothe in the fute and arme all at won tyme, becawes yt was more then 

 ever I heard don to onny / you may be well assured my fayre was the greater / 

 I have chosen this later part as it wer to compel you to wryte unto me a gayne 

 wyehe yf you do not at yo r . parell [peril] be yt. Yt pleased the quenes highnes 

 at my departure to geve me to [2] bouekes [bucks] in Hauf naker * and ij in 

 Goodwood / the warrauntes wer left w* Tome ascheley / yf they be not syned then 

 I pray yo r lordship to get me syned and sent / I wold also requier you to get me 

 a warraunt for a stagge in the forest of Wolmer and send me a good hound that 

 shaull recover him when he ys strycken and I will send you haulfe of him / do I 

 not offer you reason. 



" from Hauf naker the second of July 1559. 

 " by yo r lordshippes asshuredly dowring lyfe 

 Addressed: "John Grey." 



" To the ryght honorable 

 and my very good Lord 

 the L. robert Duddely 



Master of the quenes Seal. Unicorn salient : the 



magesty's horsys geve thees." sun behind. 



Endorsed : " Julii 1559. [Crest of Earl of Stamford.] 



John Grey." 



1560, October 30th. The same to the same. 



" My Lorde i am verye sorey that i have put youre Lordshype to this travell 

 and payne, seying the matter ys lyke to come to no better pas / butt this I wyll 

 saye to yo r Lordeshyppe, that the Queenes Ma tie nether was nor ys lyke to be 

 agayne so muche dessayved in no exchaynge of Lande as she ys lyke to be in 

 this / for I assuer you she shalle gyve for every peney of that exchaynge xij d . 

 whyche in the nolle Iwyll com to an on resonabell som, for i tell you truly the 

 woodes that be appon that Lande that my Lorde of Arrendell f shalle have wyll 

 purches the nolle Land that he geves for exchange butt yff there be no remedy 

 but that he must needds have hyt, I pray you my Lorde, be an erneste suter to 

 hyre magestey, to gyve me leave to pull downe suche old rotten howses as sarves 

 for nothyng, butt puttes me to greate charges, the repayryng of them, and maye 

 cause hym to pycke quarrels to my lese / also too have a good Bande [i-e., bond] 

 of hym, that I maye injoye my yeres queyetley, for he that threteneth me wyth 



* Halnaker Park, near Goodwood ; mentioned by Leland as 11 Halvenaker, a pretty house by 

 Chichester," 



t Henry Fitz-alan, Earl of Arundel, was John Grey's brother-in-law. 



