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



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nmendid then she was in London / so that I perceive it mych better for hir to be 

 abrode, & trusted that she would shortlie be through hole [thoroughly whole] 

 exoepl her agew tomyd to some other good sicknes. 



I can not tell whither he had commission to say so mych to me as he did / Yf 

 my wief can do my Ladies grace eny service, she shall wait as hir dutie is. 



Yf hir grace hath enough all redie, as I understand ther is, & my wief shuld be 

 Domberaunee, I had nrych rather she tarrid still with me either here in the court, 

 as mo thy nkes she had leifest be, or in Loudon, or at Eaton, 



This bearer Watson my man still is suter unto you I pray yow ones dispache 

 hym and then he shall troble you & me no lenger / and ye shall do me great 

 pleasure if ye can sped hym. Fare ye most hertely well. From Grenewich 

 xxix th Aprilis 1549. 



"Yo r allwais assured 

 " To myne assured freend Sir " T. Smith." 



John Thyn Knight, Steward of the 

 Household to my lord Protector's grace." 



Docketed : " xxix 0 . Aprilis 1549 M r . Secretary Smyth to my M r . from Grene- 

 wich." 



2. 14th June, 1549, Richmond. The same to the same. 



" Sir I am moved by this bearer William Kelb to be suter unto you for the 

 office of the Custumership * now lately void by the death of one Eaton. He saith 

 he will do as mych as an other will and requyreth this letter but onely to bryng 

 hym to you bycause he hath no acquayntaunce all redy. Thus I bid you right 

 hartely fare well. From Eichemond the xiiij th of June 1549. 



"yor assuredly 



" To the right worshipfull " T. Smith." 



and myn assured Freend 

 S r John Thyn Knight, 

 steward of Household to my 

 Lord Protectors grace." 



Docketed: "xiiij 0 Junii 1549 M r . Secretary Smyth to my MX" 



3. June, 1567, London. 



[This letter supplies the date of Sir Thomas's return from his second 

 embassy to Franco, for which his biographers have been at a loss 

 (Archseol. xxxviii., 111). What the domestic affliction was on 

 which he condoles with Sir John Thynne does not appear. It 

 could not have been Sir J ohn's first wife, for she had died in May, 

 1565, and he had married again in 1566.] 



" Sir I am right sory for your mischaunce wherof I harde for my furst newse 

 comyng out of Fraunce of a servaunt of yours dwellyng at Graveseand / But ye 

 have knowen I trust so much of Christ that ye can take his visitacion and profe 



* The Customs used to be let on lease to individuals who were called " Farmers : " and a very- 

 profitable species of culture they found it. 



