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Longleat Papers, No. 4. 



9. 14th April, 1576, Canon Row. The Same to the Same. 

 Sir Thomas's health beginning to fail. 



" S r . I thank you for the paynes taken with yong M r Barkeley about that mater 

 whereof he was the furst mowver [mover] but as it apereth you gessed right. 

 Yt was but a yong mans talk. I have hard no more of it sithens. This berer 

 Morice Browne my servant & Kynsman hath a mater to do in that contrey wherin 

 he must requier your aide & help. I pray you shew hym the favour that you 

 convenyentley may. The matters of France & Flandres stand in the same un- 

 certayntie as you left them. Nother peax nor war nor good agreament, not one 

 trusting ^there an other. Fare ye well. From Chanon Row whither I am now 

 com to consult with phisicions whom I fyend as uncertayne what to do, as I 

 whom to folow. I pray you to commend me to my lady & my godson. 14 Ap. 

 1576. 



" y r . old assured f reend 

 " To the right Worshipfull " T. Smith." 



my lovinge freend 

 S r . John Thynne Knight." 



Docketed : " S r . Thomas Smyth xiiij 0 Aprilis 1576 " 



10. 31st May, 1576, Monthaule (Hill House, Essex). The 

 Same to the Same. 



[Strype (Life, p. 146) mentions, at some length, the distemper that 

 was fatal to Sir Thomas Smith, " a rheum that fastened itself in 

 his throat and tongue. The physicians having exhausted their 

 experiments and only increased his discomfort, at last all agreed 

 in advising him to give up medicaments, and apply himself to 

 e Kitchen physic/ giving him leave to eat and drink what he 

 would."] 



" Sir I thank you for your letre of the VI th of this moneth which cam to me the 

 last of the same save one / For my helth I fyend small amendement but sith the 

 phisicions gave me over, and I to take my self to myne owne diet & phisick I have 

 a little recovered my self, whom they left, without flesh, without strength, 

 without appetite to meat or drynk, in so weak a case as eny man might almost 

 be. For the rest I thank god I fyend my bodie in reasonable good takyng now 

 without fever or other distrest. My speache is as evill as ever it was, for the which 

 to recover the phisicions had so tormented my bodie & brought it so weak but all 

 in vayne. For as it appeareth to me now by readynge of old authors, yt is a 

 mater to be done with cuer of the hand of a surgean & to be cut away, that doth 

 let my speache. Wherof neither phisicion nor surgean in England that I yet 

 know can eny skill. Now I am about it, & have brought som of them to be of 

 myne opinion, and do hope yet to brynge it to pas. Where you speak of diet, I 

 never yet had cawse to fyend fault with my diet nor now have. For he that is 

 lxiij yeres old & can not tell better then eny phisicion what meate drynke or 



