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whome money is expected shall have payde the same into your hands, whome 

 you shall do well to call upon for the soon payment therof accordingly. And 

 so I byd you hartly well to fare. From the Court the xxiiij th of April, 1570. 



Your assured loving frend 

 W. Cecyl. 



To the ryght worshipfull my very loving frend S r . John Thynne, Knyght 

 Sheriff of Wiltshire and Collector of the Loane there." 



3. " The Council to Sir John Thynne, 31 Oct., 1570. 



After our hartie commendacions. Where heretofore the Queen's Majestie 

 appointed you to have the Collection of oertaine somes of money, which her 

 Highnes by her Letters of Privy Seale requyred to be lent unto her Ma tie . by 

 sondrye of her loving subjects within that county, with assurance of repayment 

 thereof within the space of one yere, prescribing unto you in what sort and to 

 whose hands you sholde make payment therof when you had receaved it. For- 

 asmuch as her Ma tie . fyndeth not the service generally so fullye executed in all 

 places as she looked for, and had been convenient ; and hath therefore willed 

 us generally to understande the state of the same through the realme, and to take 

 order therin, as by her Ma tie . hath bin thought neccessary. We therefore in her 

 Ma tie ' s . name and by her comaundment do requyre you to signefie unto us par- 

 ticulerly in wry ting and with all speede not onely what nombre of previe seales 

 you have receaved, as well at the first sending unto you, as at any tyme synce, 

 and to whome the same were dyrected ; but also what somes of money you have 

 by vertue therof receaved in the whole, of whome and at what tyme you re- 

 ceaved the same, and to whose handes you paid it, and what thereof remayneth 

 yet in y r . handes not delivered, which yf there remayne any with you her 

 Ma tie ' s pleasure and her comaundment is, you shall forthwith delyver and pay 

 in such sort as hath heretofore ben prescribed unto you. And for such per- 

 sonnes as have had previe Seales for this purpose addressed unto them, and have 

 not answered the money thereby required nor had any manner of discharge 

 thereof from hence, Her Ma tie ' s pleasure is, you shall charge them either to 

 make indelayed payment thereof unto you, or if they refuse so to do to eom- 

 aunde them streightlie in her Ma tie ' s name to appeare forthwith before us of her 

 Counsell, to th' ende suche furdre order may be taken with them as shall be 

 convenient, And to gyve us also knowledge whom you have comaunded to ap- 

 peare before us of her Counsell for this purpose. And so fare you well. From 

 Wyndesor the Last of October 1570. 



yo r . loving freends 

 N. Bacon, C.S. W. Northn. R. Leycestee. 



E. Clynton. F. Bedford. 



F. Knollys. James Ceoft. W. Cecyll. 



To our very lovinge 

 frend S r . John Thinne 

 Knight, Collector of 

 the Lone in y e Countie 

 of Wiltshire." 



