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Wulfhall and the Sej/moun 



I now send you Tanfild, both to sec your new building [Longleat] and also 

 with remembrance of your suit for him to your maid, with a letter here inclosed 

 for your bedfellow, iu his commendation. He hath gotten a new schoolmaster 

 Mr. Powell by name, who is but haulf frend to all his old acquaintance, as 

 your brother [i.e., in law'] Tom Wroughton will tell you. Powell far passeth 

 Baynard the Justice. 



Your loving friend 



E. Hertford. 



[On the margin] 



I send you verses writ as it is said by the Q,. Ma tie herself upon this late lewd 

 rebellion. And thus God have us in his keeping. The Irish, praised be God, 

 they say have lately ben overthrowen. 



To my very Loving friend Sir John Thynne, Knight, give these." 



10. 



1573. Aug. 27. " Having begun a Conigree [rabbit-warren] for the necessary 

 provision of my house, I am driven to desyre the ayde of my neighbours and 

 friends towards the storing thereof. And knowing you to have a Game of 

 Conies I have thought good to desire of you as many couples of store conies as 

 you may conveniently yield to me for the storing of the said Conigre. — From 

 Wolf hall." 



11. 



1573. 28th Oct, Asks what news about Henry Sidenham and his company 

 being drowned in the sea waves. 



12. 



1573. 20th Nov. Wants to know if Blagrave will let him have the Par- 

 sonage of Bedwyn, if his offer of good will when the Earl of H. first came to 

 Wulfhall from Sir John Spencer's be not cold. "But if Totnam be summer 

 frends as the Proverb sayeth, & then otherwise he doth determine to sell it, then 

 you know what little cause we have to trust his heretofore pretended offers. . 

 . . I pray you write me also what you know of Seymour Castle in Wales, 

 what tyme my grandfather sold it & to whom and for what pries." 



13. 



Queen Elizabeth has been at Longleat. 



1574. Oct. 11. Thanks be to God Her Majesty is well retourned with good 

 health and greate liking her entertaynment in the West parts, and namely at 

 your howse which twise sithence [since] to myself, and the last Sonday to my 

 lady's Grace she greatly commended. ["My Lady's Grace" was Anne 

 Stanhope, widow of the Protector.] 



14. 



1574-5. 25th Jan. Has had an offer from Mr. Daniel, of Marlborough, " of 

 his house at St. Margaret's, and all the land belonging, as also Patern House,* 

 w h is a great spoil to my wood in the forest — or w d depart with Patern-house 



* Meaning perhaps " Puthall. 



