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Longleat Papers, No. 4. 



31. „ 1G36, April 12th. Edward Hyde (afterwards Earl 



op Clarendon) to Bulstrode Whitelocke. 



32. M 1674-8. Antony A. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. 



Letter from R. Ingram to William Ernely 

 about an Assault upon the Earl by Lord 

 Digby. 



33. „ 1679. Guy Carleton, Bishop of Chichester. Two 



Letters from him to Secretary Coventry 

 about the reception of the duke of mon- 

 mouth at Chichester, when he returned 

 from abroad without the king's leave. 



34. Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. 



„ 1686, June 22nd. Sir "Winstone Churchill, Father of the 

 First Duke, to Blue Mantle, about the 

 History of his Family. 

 „ „ 1706, October 11th. The Duke of Marlborough to 

 Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Ox- 

 ford), threatening to break a Printer's 

 bones. 



35. „ 1708-9. Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to Rt. 



Hon. Robert Harley, and another Friend. 

 Four Letters. 



XXVIII. — A.D. 1548-76. Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of 

 State to Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, and Provost of 

 Eton. 



[The life of this very eminent man was written by Strype, the 

 ecclesiastical historian, to which some valuable additions have 

 been recently made by Mr. J. Gr. Nichols, in the Archseologia, 

 vol. xxxviii., p. 99. The letters here printed are a further con- 

 tribution. 



He was a distinguished scholar and linguist at Cambridge. 

 Fuller (Church Hist., vol. ii., 254, 8vo), speaking of the pains 

 taken by Henry VIII. to maintain learned youths in foreign 

 courts, by selecting one or two yearly for that purpose, says that 

 " Sir Thomas Smith was one of the last educated in this manner. 



