By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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frendship, &c. I am bolde thus to wyshe you by honest polycie to kepe your- 

 self quyett and yett to have your owne desyre satysfyed. My chief care is to 

 help you to be att quyett (for your owne profytte) with all men. And yet 

 (knowyng the wolfe from the shepe) you may enter into famylyar credite and 

 company with suche as you best knowe approved, &c. Charytie is the virtue 

 which most pleaseth God, who encreas you in all virtues to his pleasure with 

 encreas of comfortable wurship to all your lyfe, aggreying with th' example of 

 the most holy and virtuous men of wurship that hath lived. Wherunto with 

 dayly prayer I comytte you. From the quyett Temple this Monday xiij th of 

 Novembre scribled as may appere — 1553. 



" Y r . most bounden 



HlJMEREY MOLSLEY." 



{Docketed) 11 Reed. 16 November 1553." 



(No, 53.) 1554, January. The same to the same. {Original at Longleat.) 



" Tyme putteth me in mynde of my bounden duety to write unto you even 

 so trustyng that you, my good Lady and all others your friends are in prosper- 

 ouse helth, which God long continewe with muche encreas, &c." * * * 



" This day the Lord Robert Dudley is arraigned in London as some thynke 

 to be made redy to hange and suffer with his brothers, &c. * * * It is also 

 reported that th Erie of Pembroke is in great credyte and restored to all his 

 former authorytie and charge of your countrey and Walys. The Lord Stourton 

 is here lytle talked of. Of his credyte and favour I here none of th'accustomed 

 braggs, &c,. &c. God kepe peace amongst us and honorably turne and appease 

 the sedycyous and rebellous harts of all the lewde persons. And I pray to God 

 to geve us grace to serve and obbey hym in all virtuous lyvyng, dayly prayers, 

 charitie and love. Wherunto with my dayly prayer I comytte you. So leaving 

 further to trowble yonr mastership att this presente I wysshe to the same helth 

 and moche encrease of cowmfortable wurship. From the quyett Mydle Temple 

 this Monday of January. 



" Y r . most bounden 



HUMEREY MOLSLEY." 



" To the right Wurshipfull Sir John Thynne Knyght, 

 geve these att Longleate in Wiltes." 



The next letter is from Mr. Chafyn to Sir John Thynne, written 

 probably during the disturbance created by Sir Thomas Wyatt's 

 rebellion against Queen Mary. 



(No. 54.) 1554 Feb. 7. Thomas Chafyn Esq. to Sir John Thynne. {Original 

 at Longleat.) 



"Mydewtie rembred. Pleaseth it your good mastershipp to be advertysed 

 that these be the certen newse that I can lerne yn Sarum. The Lorde Stourton 

 sent hys letters from Basynge Stoke to Sarum upon Tewarsday last, as he came 

 from London ward, directed to the Mayere and his bretherne there, comaundyng 

 theym by the same letter that the hole Citie sholde be yn a rediness to serve the 

 Q,uene's Majestie under hym with all theyre wepons and artelary : and not to 

 move at none noo otherse comaundment, whatsoever he wer, but only at hys, 



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