10:2 Wulfhall and the Seymours. 



2. — Lady Katharine Grey to her Husband. [No date.'] * 



" No small joye, ray Deare Lorde, is it to me the comfortable understanding of 

 your mayntayned helth. I crave of God to let you susteine, as I doute not but 

 he wyll ; you neyther T havyng any thinge in thys moste lamentabyll tyme so 

 much to comforte by pytyfull absense each other wyth, as the hearing, the seak- 

 ing and contynuance thereof in us both. Though of late I have not byn well, 

 yet now, I thank God, pretely well, and longe to be merry with you as you do 

 to be with me. ... I say no more but be you merry as I was heavy when 

 you the third time came to the door and it was locked. Do you thynke I forget 

 old fore-past matters ? No surely I can not, but bear in memory far many 

 more than you think for. I have good leisure so to do when I call to mind 

 what a husband I have of you and my great hard fate to miss the viewing of so 

 good a one. [Then follows some indistinct pleasantry which seems to allude to 

 "brats so fast one after another," and "with the blessed increase of children we 

 shall altogether be beggared."] "Now to her Grace, whose letter I send you 

 here inclosed that you may see how kyndly she wryteth. . . . Thus most 

 humbly thanking you, my sweet Lord, for your husbandly sending both to see 

 how I do, and also for your money, I most loveingly bid you farewell : not for- 

 getting my espscyall thanks to you for your book, which is no small jewel to 

 me. I can very well read it, for as soon as I had it, I read it over even with 

 my heart as well as with my eyes ; by which token I once again bid you Vale 

 et semper salus my good Ned. 



Your most lovyng and faithful wyfe during lyfe, 



Katharine Hartford. 



I pray my Lord be not jealous of a thing I shall desire you to do which is, to 

 tell your Poet I think great uukindness in him for that I understand he should 

 have come to me, but when he was wished, he groaned .... "Well, yet 

 though he would not come to me, I would have been glad to have seen him ; 

 but belike he maketh none account of me as his Mistress which I cannot but 

 take unkindly at his hands." 



No. XIII. 



Account of the Bible used in the Tower by the Earl of Hertford 

 and Lady Katharine Grey. Found at Longleat. See page 154. 



The little volume is described in the title-page as " La Sainte Bible, en 

 Francois, a Lyon. Par Sebastien Honore, 1558." At the top of the page is 

 written the Seymour family motto, " For pour devoir," and at foot " E. 

 Hertford," next to which is a signature " W. Wingfielb." The Earl had 

 also written a Greek sentence, signifying " In human affairs nothing is certain." 



On the first fly-leaf at the end, in the Earl's writing, are the entries of the 

 Births of their two sons in the Tower. 



* This letter, a few sentences of which being of a purely private kind I have witheld, is taken 

 from a copy in the handwriting of Margaret Cavendish Harley, the celebrated Duchess of Portland, 

 found among her papers at Longleat. The oiiginal letter is probably the one described as " private 

 and affectionate," among the " Duke of Northumberland's Papers, vol. iii." (See Third Report of 

 the Historical Commissioners, p. 47, 



