7>y tic Ecr. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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£ I . „ 1578, June 18th. Sir Christopher Hatton, to the 

 Earl, at Buxton, about a rumour of his 

 [Hatton's] being about to marry Queen 

 Elizabeth. 



„ „ „ June 2Sth. The same to the same : dismissing 

 the rumour as " a Woman's tale." 



25. „ 1578, Oct. £3rd. Henry Besbeche, Land-Steward at 

 Kenilworth Castle, to the Earl his Master. 



M „ Nov. 20th. The Same to the same. 



„ „ 1570, March 2: 2nd. The same to Mr. Beynham, the 

 Earl's Auditor. 



„ „ 1580, March 28th. The same to the same. 

 2G. „ 1578, December 12th. Customer Thomas Smythe to 



the Earl of Leicester. 

 27. „ 1580, February ISth. Lettice Knollys, Countess op 

 Leicester. Deposition by Humphry Tindall, 

 the Officiating Chaplain, as to the Secret 

 Marriage of Lettice Knollys, then Countess 

 Dowager of Essex, with Robert Dudley, Earl 

 of Leicester, at Wanstead House, on 21st 

 September, 1578. 



„ „ 1589, March 7th. Letter from Lettice Knollys, 

 Countess Dowager of Leicester, to Lord 

 Treasurer Burleigh, about the Payment of 

 her late Husband's Debt to Queen Elizabeth. 



„ „ 1590. Two Letters to the same Countess [his Mother 

 by a former Husband] from Robert Devereux, 

 Second Earl of Essex, Beheaded in the 

 Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



IX. — A.D. 1438 [26 Hen. VI.] ? Lady Ferrers to her son 

 Lord Ferrers of Chartley. 



[This letter having' been found among papers of the ancient Roche 

 family, the lady was probably Helen, daughter and co-heiress of 

 Thomas De la Roche, of Castle Bromwich, and widow of Edmund 

 Ferrers, fifth Lord Ferrers, o£ Chartley, who died 1435. Private 



