208 



Longleat Papers, A.B. 1553 — 1588. 



Spared 

 by the 



' To John Danvers Esquier L H 

 To Thomas WroughtonEsquier L u ^ 

 To John Erneley Esquier L l ) j 

 To John Barwyke Esquier L 11 

 To Edwarde Baynarde EsquierL 1 ! 

 To Gyles Escourte gentleman L p 

 To Henrie Clifford Esquire L u 



CounselPs < To Richarde Kyngsmyll esq. L u J 



I > T»„ mi t r n_i„_ T l« 



£ C And their Privy 

 CCCCLy Seales remayn- 

 inge in theire 

 owne handes. 



X! 



order 

 at the first 



To Thomas Longe of Calne L li 



Sir John Zouche K*. 

 Sir John Thynne K*. 

 John St, John, Esquier 

 Christopher Doddington esq. 

 Nicholas Geryshe 



r Other Privy 

 f Seales remayn- 

 / ing in my handes 

 I readie to be re- 

 ^ dely vered. 



All whiche conteyne the full nomber in the twoo 

 former Chatalogs by me receyved from the Counsell. 



JOHN THYNNE." 



Then follow the several receipts of the money by the Treasurer 

 of the Queen's Chamber, ending with 



"xi Novemb. 1571. Rec d . of S r . John Thynne, Knyght, Tenn Privy Seales 

 which by his Certificatt to the Counsell he confessyth to be remayninge in his 

 hands : and his perfitt Certificat for the Lone for the Countie of Wilts in Anno 

 xii° Elizabethe Regine. . Per me, 



Thomas Kerg." 



Whether the Loans under these Privy Seals were or were not 

 repaid does not appear from any document hitherto met with. But 

 the patriotic ladies and gentlemen of Wiltshire, scheduled above, 

 would no doubt have been duly prepared for disappointment by the 

 ominous motto on Her Majesty's seal : — " Pulchrum pro Patria 

 pati ! 33 [" It is noble to suffer for one's country/''] 



V. — A Charge to be given by a Justice of Peace in the 

 Quarter Sessions, A D. 1580 [22 Eliz.] . 



" The Matters followinge to be dely vered in Charge rest briefly in three points. 

 / God be trewly honored : 

 Whether J Her Majestie dewly obeyed : 



( Her Majestie's subjects be in peace. 

 I. — To serve God trewly is to serve him according to his holy word and testa- 

 ment. 



First therefore you shall enquire whether the uniforme and godly order of 

 Common Prayer grounded upon the worde of God, established by the Quene's 

 Majestie that now is, in the first yeare of Her Highness raigne, be observed or 



