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Through Derby. 

 " Given among the poor of the towne of Derby as my La. passed 

 that way 5. 0. 0. 



To Taylor a caryer met my La : in Derby, and her letters from 

 London 2/0. 



Given a poore woman on the waye betwene Derby and Quarne 0/6." 

 Quarndon House, near Loughborough. 

 [At that time, and still, the seat of the Parnham family. A Mr. 

 Farnham of that day was an old gentleman pensioner of the Court 

 of Queen Elizabeth.] 



" Att M r . Farnhams. 

 Sept. 29 th Among his servannts the night my La: laye there 5. 0. 0. 



Paid for ale my La : dranke in going to Harborow 1. 0. 



„ for my La: and her compaines, one night at Harborow 5. 5. 0." 



Market Harborough 

 " 30 „ Horsmet ther for 26 horses one night 2. 9. 7. 



„ for my Lo. of Shrewsbury es lighter men [litter- 

 men] and their horses, staying by my La. comand 

 2 nights and 1 day at Wellingborow 19. 6. 



Easton Mauduit. 

 [Near Wellingborough : the seat, at that time, of Sir Christopher 

 Yelverton, Kt., one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, 

 who died 1611.] 



" 1609, 2 Oct. Att Mr. Justice Yelverton's. 

 Given to a man of his to guide my La : to my Lord of 



Kent's * 0. 6. 0. 



Among certen poor at Mr. Conquest's Lodge f the day 



my La : dyned there 0. 2. 0." 



"Wrest Park, near Silsoe, Bedfordshire. 

 [Then the seat of Sir Henry Grey, sixth Earl of Kent : one of the 

 peers on the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots: who, says Dugdale, 

 " evinced more zeal for her destruction than befitted a person of 

 honour."] 



" Oct. 4. Paid the lytter men's charge lying 2 nights at the towne at Wrest 

 as may appeare by their bill 13/2. 

 The lytter-men, in reward for their paines in coming 



along with my La. from Wingfield to Wrest 3. 0. 0. 



To the coatchman had his legg broke 2. 0. 0." 



* Wrest: about nine miles south of Bedford 

 h Houghton Park, alias Dame Ellensburj- Park, at Houghton Conquest, near Ampthill, Co. 

 Bedford : at that time occupied by Sir Edmund Conquest. 



