By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 



XIV. A.D. 1570, June 11th. The Pope's Bull against 

 Queen Elizabeth read in the Pulpit at Sarum Cathedral by 

 Bishop Jewel. 



Henry Parry to Sir John Thynne. 



" xi June 1570. 



" Thys daye in the pulpit at Sarum my Lord dyd uppon good considerations 

 showe furthe a Bull from Rome,* in the whyche the Pope dyd declare the Quene 

 an heretique and therefore no lawfull Quene of thys realme. By the same bull 

 all her leage subjects discharged of theyre obedience, and that yt maye be lawfull 

 unto all that do receave the same Bull to burne, robbe, spoyle and kyll the Quene's 

 frynds as the Pope's enemies. Thys day solemly it was shewyd. Uppon 

 Sundaye next my L. will read yt and expounde the same. I would spend a fatt 

 oxe that my L. the Erie f were present at the same : unto whom I praye you do 

 my humble commendations expecting when yt shall please hym to commaunde 

 me into hys crue [crew — company), good reason wolde so, for by cause of hym I 

 am not nombryd of any other crue." 

 "To the Eight worshipfull 



& my very lovinge frende 



Sire Jhon Thynne Knyght, 



and Shreve of Wiltshire." 



The next Letters, to No. xxvii. inclusive, were found among Papers 

 relating to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 



XV. Mrs. Asheley to Lord Robert Dudley, complaining of 

 the Queen's unkind treatment of John Asheley, her Husband. 



[This letter is neither dated nor signed : but the date must have 

 been before September, 1563, when "Lord Robert" became Earl 

 of Leicester. The husband's name being mentioned in it, gives 

 that of the writer.] 



" My very good lorde I beseke you now remeber me for I have had suche 

 greffe to be so ny [nigh] my helper and can not be helped y l I have axsed leve to 

 departe and gonne I am. but I wyssche you dyd se yn what case I am, yu will no 

 [know] more than far off, for I can not outter y e tenth part off my wrachednes 

 [wretchedness], but yff I continue a lytel thes [thus] I am sure I shal never se 

 you agayne. I wel not wrette but one worde y l y e quenes mageste said unto me 

 and y* was sche cowde never forgeve my husbond nor never love hym ; yff yt be 

 so my good lorde for christes sake let hym never troble hyr presence / better yt 



* This was the celebrated Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth, as an usurper and a " servant of 

 "wickedness," by Pope Pius V., which Camden calls " a vain cracke of words that mi.de a noise only." 

 t The Earl of Hertford, son of Protector Somerset, 



