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keynge a divide of yeyres, yett he vsed hyme selfe, rather, lyke a mane ; so 

 iyscreatly thatt the Marques dyd muehe couimende hyme, no less then he was 

 worthey. Thys day the Marques, desyrous to make haste to the Quenes Maiestey, 

 entondeth to be att Gyllford att sowpper ; and thys beynge the remouynge day I 

 was desyrous to haue stayed hyme. Yett I hearynge nothynge frome youre 

 honors, thoughtt nott good otherwyse to apoynte hyme ; and therefore haue sentt 

 heroin enclosed the names of them thatt cume w* the Marques. Theyre nomber 

 of sen-antes, woone ande other, are natt aboue fyftey. Ande bycawse that thys 

 day the sayd Marques entendeth to send sume of hys companye the nextt way to 

 London, I cowlde natt therefore sende vnto youre honors the full ceyrteyntey ; 

 butt fyftey ys the moste. Thys berar, my seruant, ys well practysed and knoen 

 emongst them ; wherefore yf hytt may stande w* youre pleasures to apoynte 

 hyme w* the Queenes Maiesteys harbyngar, as well to vnderstand the place where 

 the sayd Marques shallbee, as also to instructe the harbyngars the degrees of 

 them . thatt they may be placed acordyngely . And so hyt may sta,nde w* youre 

 pleasures to retorne my mane w { youre full determynacyon whyther I shall 

 brynge them. So I moste humbly take my leaue. Wrytten att Basynge, my 

 Lorde Tresorar's howse, the xix of Jun. 



" Att the commandementt of youre honors 

 durynge lyfe 



" E. DUDDELEY." 



"I beseche youre honors to pardon me thatt I so rudely wrytt vnto youe, by 

 reason wherof thatt I w* my men hathe as muche to doo as we cane turne vs ; 

 and natt hauyinge my clerke to wrytt, I was the worse fornyshed. Over and 

 besydes they baylyfes here dysapoynted me in sendynge of thys letter, wherof 

 also I humblye beseeche youe to pardon me." 



[Addressed] 



" To the ryght honorable ande 

 my especyall goode Lordes, my 

 Lordes of the Queenes Maiesteys 

 most honorable pryuey councell 

 haste poste haste 

 haste w* all dylygence." 



The route from Shaftesbury to Wilton, at that time, would be 

 over the downs, by what is still known as the old Shaftesbury road, 

 and well adapted for " cowrses att the hare/'' The " lyttle Lorde 

 Harbartt" probably knew the country well; he afterwards established 

 the Salisbury Race over this same district. Aubrey says " This 

 race is of two sorts : the greater, fourteen miles, beginnes at White - 

 sheet and ends on Harnham-hill, which is very seldom runn, not 

 once perhaps in twenty yeares. The shorter begins at a place called 

 the Start, at the end of the edge of the north downe of the farme 

 of Broad Chalke, and ends at the standing at the hare warren, built 



