By the Rev. Canon J. K Jackson, F.S.A. 271 



4. An Estimate of the Earl of Essex's Expenses in Queen 

 Elizabeth's Seevice : made out by Sir Gelly Meyrick, his 

 Steward (by whom the Original at Longleat is signed). 



£ 



cli 



" Parsonages inipropiyatt iij in feefearme made clere 8500 



l 



Glybe lands 100 in fee simple 

 more in feafearme 100 soe in the 

 hole £300 by yeare 



l 



The exchaunge of Bisshopes lands was 400 by yeare . . 8000 

 l 



Then out of the Eschequer 50 by yeare . 

 The swet wines 2\ years 



12000 



Spent in her ma tie ' s service ; I may well saye soe £ 

 for the inabeling of his Lp. to doe her ma tie ' s service 

 Fyrste, his J ourney into the lowe contreys cost his lp. att the leste 4000 

 Next, her Ma tie being plesyd to comand my L. attendance att courtt *) ^qqq 



afore he had any sh.* his Lo. spentt over & above his revenue ) 

 Then, the Spaniards beinge on the coste his Lp s preparation for that ") 35QQ 



service was ) 



Then, my L. Jorney to Portingale, coste him one waye or other att 7 ^qqq 

 leaste ... . . . . . . ) 



The intertaynment of the Vydam f and the french one moneth att" 



Yorke House, the french geven to understand that her Ma tie 2200 

 would paye for it, it cam toe besydes pryvatte gyftes 



£ 



The French Journey cost my L. above 14000, owt of his own purse' 



besyde his f rynds & followers : as shall appear by the partycular 14000 

 recconinges 



£ 



Since my L. of Lester dyed [1588] it hath coste my L. 400 or 500. by 



yeare att leaste intertayninge of strangers. 

 My L. gyftes to pore soldyers & men thatt had noe means and were 



owt off intertainment. It is & hath bynne more then I will 



stett [state] ; & shure I am it hath bynne for her Ma tie ' s honor 



thatt pore men myght have relife. 



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• The word is indistinct. The sense would seem to imply some official salary. It occurs a second 

 time in this paper. 



+ "Vydam." The Vidame (French, from the Latin Vice-dominus) of Chartres, John de Ferriera 

 Governor of Havre (then called New-Haven) was one of the chief noblemen who favoured the 

 Trotestants and the surrender of Havre to the English. Of his narrow escape at the Massacre of St. 

 Bartholomew there is an account in Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker II., 125. There is a portrait 

 of the Vidame at Longleat. A Vidame, or Vice-dominus, exercised delegate jurisdiction under a 

 bishop, as Vice-comes did under a duke or count, and took his denomination from the bishoprick, as 

 at Rheime, Amiens, ChartreB, and the like." (Selden's Titles of Honour, part II., p. 334.) 



