By the Rev, Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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SO kindly received at the Palace at Richmond, that Leicester began 

 to be very uneasy: "And indeed a little before, when A&tley 

 bad covertly commended Leicester unto her for a husband, she 

 answered in a chafe, ( Dost thou think me so unlike myself and so 

 unmindfull of my Royal Majesty, that I should prefer my servant 

 whom I myself have raised, before the greatest Princes of Christen- 

 dom, in chusing of my husband ? ' "] 



" Wher I have not satysfyed yo r loi*dsliyps advyce in fulfilling 1 my duty to have 

 wayted thys Crystmas, I trust your lordshype wyll never the more accompte me 

 forgetfuU of your good wyll. for neyther lyght regardyng your lordshyps 

 advyce nor want of consyderacion of your wontyd favours was the cause of my 

 slackeness herein, but beyng more then half drownde in dett, thorough mysery 

 in tyme past, and some other charges (as your lordshippe partly knowethe) make 

 me gladd to toyll, to stope the cry of suche as hathe hetherto forborn to call on 

 me : in hoape that my releef (at thys daye) sholde have made me suffycyently 

 able to satysfye theyr fryndly expectations. Whyche be}mge voyd, in seekyng 

 their own, they call on me that (therby) am dryvyn (with toyle of boddy and 

 unrestfull mynde) to keepe my credytt, to save myn honestye : and for that I see 

 my servyce too slender, to deserve any worthynes of reputation, I am the bolder 

 to absent myself, to serve thys needfull turne rehearsyd : but my poor servyce 

 though yt be mean, carry eth as grett good wyll as he that ys best able to serve : 

 yt pleasyd your lordshype to gyve me sume comforte of my sute, wherby I am 

 the more desyrous to hear how you remember me therein. Yff yt maye therefor 

 please your lordshype to bestowe your lettre on me by thys berer. I must a 

 gret dele the more thynk myself bound to you And thus lest I shold too much 

 troble yo r lordshype I humbly take my leave From Melton in Norfolk the 

 xxx day of January 

 " To the Ryght honorable the lord 



Robert Duddeleye, Master of 



the Horse." 

 Endorsed: " January 1559. 



A.y." 



XVI. A.D. 1559, July 2nd. Lord John Grey to Lord 

 Robert Dudley. 



[Lord John Grey was brother of the Marquis of Dorset, and uncle 

 to Lady Jane Grey. He was convicted of high treason in Queen 

 Mary's reign, but restored in blood by Queen Elizabeth.] 



"My good lord robert, I hartely thank you for yo r taulbut " [talbot : a dog for 

 hunting] " wyche thoghe he be not the swyftest, yet wold I be lothe at thys tyme 

 to comende him unto you for the shurest unlest y* be when he hathe the dere yn 

 his mouth, and then assuredly he ys won of the shurest holding houndcs that 



