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1569. Sept 19. " Good Sir John. Harty thanks for your seudings. These 

 are to pray you to remember your haste of my platt : that thereafter I may pro- 

 vide for windowes and such things necessary. My tower is down. Easyer it 

 is, you will say as truth, to pull down then set up, but better is it and more 

 safety when the tymber is rotten, to pull down, lest it fall ; as that was alto- 

 gether gou and the very iron of the windowes consumed in the middest. 



Have returned back your rogue with thanks : Also for him and by him a 

 couple of pastyes of red deer according your desyre. Thus harty comendacions 

 to your Lady remembered, I leave you to God. In hast from Wollf haull this 

 19 of Sept. 1569. 



Y r . loving frend 



E. Hertford." 



7. 



1569. Dec. 24. " Emanuel.* 



Sir Jo. Thyn. Harty comendations remembered. I send you your desired 

 case of daggs \_pistols~\ with their furniture. They are good of proof double 

 chardge as your man can tell you. I send you also a book dedicated to the 

 Rebells as well and as pithily penned as I ever red any, wrytten per Thomas 

 Norton my old scolem aster. I know yow will lyke it very well, but the oftener 

 you reade it the better. Our newes, thanked be God, that the Rebells are fled, 

 but the certainty is not yet known. 



The French newes are very good, for the Amirall is growen very strong, & in 

 the night soudenly without noyse of drommes foyled diverse of the Kings power, 

 the King himself hardly escaping by flight. 



Vale and comend me to your Lady. Wollf haull this xxiiij hord decimd 1569. 



Y. lov. fr. 



E. Hertford." 



8. 



1573. 24th June. Invites Sir John to visit him at Wulf hall, and bring his 

 Harper with him. 



9. 



" Emanuel. 



For S r Jo. Thin. These are to challenge you for not visiting me from Sarum. 

 I now stand in need of your healp &, in your absence, of your man's — Lewes — 

 about my middle garden house which whether be best to be in square, round, 

 or cant order, I am doubtfull, therefore do reserve to your judgement, by letter 

 and by him. 



I pray send by him the platt of my house devised by you & Omphrey Lovell. 

 Touching Tottenham Lodge, where you know the buttry was devised behind 

 the kitchin I have altered & will have it under the hawle (the ground being 

 digged 7 foot under for stowadge of my wine and beer). And that which should 

 have been the pastry [i.e., pantry~\ shall be the butcher's office. 



A common heading to letters in those days. 



