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of your pacienoe paoiently And ye are to wise to make of one losse, two. God 

 hath given, God hath taken away. This I am suer is your comfort for all 

 worldly and transitory tliyngs, which if they go not away from us whiles we live 

 we shall go from them when we die. 



" Here is a proper young man of the Middle Temple of myne acquaintaunce 

 who is desirous to be toward you as your Sollicitor here in the La we. I suppose 

 he be not unknowen to you / For ye have of his nere Kynsmen about you. If 

 your sollicitor (who now is welthy and therefore as it is thought will seke his 

 ease), do forsake the travaile & office, he doth offer unto you his service. And 

 thynketh the rather at my comendacion to be accepted unto it. His name is 

 Ninian Burbage. What he can do in the la we & in that service your sollicitor 

 can tell, to whose judgement I thynk you will stand, or els to your owne profe. 

 I have great hope that his diligence shall please you. Thus I bid you most hartely 

 fare well. From London the xij th of June 1567. 



" Yo r . assured Freende 

 u To the right worshipfull and " T. Smith.'* 



my assured Freend Sir John 



Thyn Knight." 



Docketed : " Sir Thomas Smyth. xij°. Junii, 1567. 55 



4. 19th July, 1572, Havering. The Same to the Same. 



[Sir Thomas Smith founded a colony on the coast of Ulster, in a 

 district called " The Ardes " (now " Newton Ards by which he 

 lost a great deal of money : see Strype's Life, p. 131. This letter 

 was written on his departure for Ireland.] 



" Sir John Thinne I have ben despached from Court the xvi th of this present 

 moneth. I meane I have receaved her Maj es letres to the L. Deputy for his 

 direction and for my comendacion unto him. I tarry now but my L ds of Leycester 

 Sussex and Burley's private letres to the sayd deputy which I am to receave this 

 day being already written. And so the xxij th of this moneth from London to 

 take my Jorney to Lyverpoole there presently to imbarke. There I look for your 

 two horsmen to meet me as ye promised me at your owne howse therin.* If 

 they be with me at Lyverpoole the last of this moneth it shall be well and soone 

 enough / This I pray you do / At the least that the men be there furnished / And 

 if they cannot bring the money which willingly as very needfull I wold faine 

 have also Let them bring with them a bill of your hand for the same to be payd 

 at London so sone as conveniently ye can. Hereof I look for an answer by this 

 hearer who commeth to meet me agayn at Lyppoole. In the meane while with 

 my harty comendacions to my good Lady your bedfellow I committe the rest of 

 our matter for the assistauntshippe to my father, and you to Almighty God who 

 graunt you helth and long lief and to me good succes. 



" From Havering this xix th of July 1572 



" yo r . assuredly to my small power 

 "Tho. Smith" 



Docketed : " S r . Thomas Smyth, xix of July 1572." 



* Sir Thomas's friends supplied him with horse-soldiers and others, to join in the adventure. 



