In most humble wyse./ I am in hope always knowinge the iniuries
suffered an the service donne and vpryghtnes of our cause to hope day after
day that our cause shall be hard, yett we are too well acquanted with
th’ infinitt delays this place giues to all sutors: my Lo: Tre: sayth he is
very willinge and desiers to end it. M^r Secritory lykwyse, but they
alleadg my Lo. of Shr: hath authorised noe man to follow his cause and
semeth not to be acquanted with any such thinges; w^ch me thinkes is strange
seap speach to delay us, when the order he hath and that we show the
order to them both wherin the haue full authority to determin w^t
the Consentes of both parties, and thes be all the answers I can procuer
hauvinge spoken divers tymes both to my Lo: Tre: and M^r Secritary
since his comminge to Tibaldes: so that the first tyme my sister went
to Tibaldes hir mag^ty vsinge hir excedyng gratiusly she talked much
about your lap: and promised thes thinges shuld be finisshed and she
woold speake to the Lordes hir self, as my sister will more at
Large sygnify to your Lap: notw^tstandynge a letter shalbe drawn
both to my Lo: Tre: and M^r Secritory to waken ther memories what
the promised notw^tstandynge the sem as though the would be Commanded
by the Q. I see litell effect of M^r wolleys promis but he sayth he hath
spoken to the Q. and she sayth she remembereth it well enough. he
sayth he will continew to perswade hir to the perfitynge of all trobles
so lykwyse all or most of the wemen promis to doe./ The Lordes haue
bin and yett be at London about the subsedey so that yett my Lo: Cham:
letters to the Deane of Lychfyld stays till his retorne, I causes my
brother william to gett on draw because I would not mistake the case,
and now at thes Lo: beinge at London I vnderstand the haue Commission
to examin my Lo. of Buckhurst about his negotiation in the Low
Countries who is Commanded not to come to the Court, for discontentynge
my Lo. of Lec: wich is thought strange, beinge equall w^t him in
Councell and beinge hir mag^ties Imbassodor befor he deliver what he
had don ther: S.^r Ihon norrice is also Commanded to his fathers house
ther to abyd till further of hir mag^ties pleasure be know, and M^r wilkes
committed to the Fleett and all to please my Lo.d of Lec: as is sayd
And for the Releaf of sluce ther be brutes that my lo. of Lec: thinke
it an vnpossible thinge w^ch will as som suppose harme my lo: creditt the towne in respect of the haven beinge of great consequence
the Duek of Parma hath woon a fort neare the Towne wherin weare
ij of my very good frendes Captayn ver and Captayn Baskervill the
most sayth the are putt to the sword, but by som I am putt in
comfort that the be taken, w^tin the towne be also ij good frendes of
myn w^ch if the be not releved be also cast away ^S:^r^ Roger williams
and Captayn Huntley./ The Royters w^ch be viij thousand xij thousand
swirfes and iiij thousand Lanskeygrites be entered france to the ayd of
the kynge of navare who of latt hath receved agreat overthrow
not in the respectt of the number but of the great paus pars=
parsonages lost, the french kyng also hath noe great cause of
trivmpe./ Scotland I heare maketh great showes of ^an^ intention wi^th
to marry w^t spayn insomuch as a scottysh man Comminge latly out
of spayn, the picture of the Kynges daughter was taken from
him w^ch he was carringe to the Kynge, so that Denmark now lyeth
deed, besydes ther is a parlament to be keapt in Scotland in w^ch parliment
is intended to be prepounded liberty of Concience and that noe man
shalbe punisshed for his religion though ther shalbe noe publicke
exercise of any but the protestantes ther be taken heare but for
Inventions w^tout meninge ether of marriage w^t spayn or alteration
of Religion but t' increse fieare heare to the end motions may
be mad to hir mag^ty concerninge divers thinges./

For our Court ther is non in that Heyght as my Lo. of Essex and
suerly he is myghtely grown and can hardly be wantynge half a day
he strenkneth my Lo: of Lec: marvelously S^r walter Rauley is
in wonderfull declenation yett labores t'vnderprope him self by
my Lo: Tre: and his frendes; I see he is curtuusly vsed by my
Lo. and his frendes but I doubt th’ end considerynge w how he hath
handeled him self in ^his^ former pryd, and suerly now groweth so
humble towardes every on as consideringe his former insolency
he committeth over great Basness, and is thought he will never vpress
agayn./ M^r Blutt Henry nowell and all be out of Conceall and
meane presently to seake som other fortune./ Heare was Roland
Eayre w^t my Lo: of Commerland and M^r Clyfford, and in wonderfull
ernest sort intreated that he myght buy the land in the land in the Peake and that he was vndon if your lap:
bought it, that he had redy mony desiered a price to be mad of
it he would pay heare presently at London that he vnderstood
my lo: and w^ch was great and therfor doubted that your La:
shuld haue, they both answered him that they had alredy
passed ther wordes and that your lap: shuld haue it befor
any and that about iij weakes hence M^r Clyfford meneth to
be at Buxstones and will ther speake with with whom you
please to appoynt and after will waytt of your lap: to acquant
you with his price and that part wich is sould to wich is
iiij poynd ayeare your lap: was acquanted w^t it befor els they
would not haue sould it./ I heare nothing from Ihon Holme about
kyrkby, but if he will be deligence I would thinke he myght make
mony of the wood of Stooke presently./ My lady Arbell hath bin
once at Court hir mag^ty spake ij to hir but not longe and examined
hir nothing touchinge hir booke she dined in the presence, but
my lo: Tre: bad hir to supper, and at dinier I dinyng w^t hir and
sittynge over agaynst him he asked me whether I cam w^t my
necec or noe I sayd I cam w^t hir then he spake openly and
direccted his speech to S^r: water Rawley greatly in hir
Commendation as that she had the french th' Italion playd of
Instrmentes dansed wrough and writt very fayre wished she
weare xv: years ould and w^t that rouned my lo: M^r Rawly
in the eayre who answered it would be a happy thinge, At
supper he mad excedynge much of hir so did he the after noun
in his great Chamber publickly and of Mall and Bess George
and sence he hath asked when she shall come agayne to Court
My lo: Tre: hath buyld afayre gallery to his latt great chamber
very fayre I take it to be a hundred and xxvj foot longe, xxj foot
brood; a xvj foot hy, it hath of on syd bay windoes iij differynge all in
bignes and forme on end lyght and thorowlyghtes more then half
the gallery. the rouf w^t a frend lyke the low gallery at Chattesworth
his great chamber I take to be lx foott long xxij brood and xxj hy
wherin he hath mad at the nether end a fayre rock w^t duckes fesantes
w^t divers other birdes w^ch serves for a cubbord, the ould trees be ther
still, he hath a cloth of estatt mad of thin horne of divers colers lykes the bestes and flowers be of Nature, hath in the Rouff a sunne
goinge w^ch truly poynteth the hower and go^eth the lent of the
chamber, by nyght the moune and through the rouff w^ch be bordes
paynted sky holes mad lyghtes sett ther so the appeare stares
In this chamber my Lo. feasted the Q. who was nobly intertayned
and all lordes and ladyes satt at the bord and at the Conclution
of dinner hir mag^ty hartely prayed that god would lend hir his
Lyfe for xxj years for she desiered not to live longer then
she had him. wich prayer was soe kyndly expressed that the
good ould lord could not retorne thankes nor other speach
for teares./ My sister I thanke god is better but not clean
ryd of the Iandes, but can eatt well and walke indiferrent
well, my lady Arbell and the rest doe very well, and it is wonderful
how she profiteth in hir booke, by besydes she will dance w^t an excedyng
good grace, and can bela behaue hir self w^t great preportion
to every on in ther degres; but Alatheia is often wyshed with
your lap: she is so mery and talketive and as prety a chyld as any
is./ My brother william hath bin sick and keapt his bed a day or ij
of the kreck in his neck, but now is well agayne./ My Cosin Slater
I haue putt to S^r Robert Sydney appareled him and gaue him in
his purse for he sayd he was spoyled of his close and mony as
he was at Northamton./ M^r Dyer and I lye in on chamber
we haue ij bedes sett vpe and but he had hasty busines to the
Court he would him self haue recommended his duty in writyng./
Heare was a weake agoe a very great brutt of my Lo of Shr:
death and that his payn of the goutt tooke him a Breevly./
My eldest brother would haue intertayned Haukworth when he was
heare, mad M^r Blackwall ameane to Haukwallorth and M^r
Blackwall spake sayth my Lo brother spake great wordes
concerning blackwall./ Since M^is Shakerley is so vnresonable
it weare good M^r Hackers desi device proceded touching that
cause./ So w^t my bounden and dayly prayer humbly beceching
your lap: dayly blesinge I humbly cease this tuesday./

Cha: Cavendysshe

This messinger is
in such hast as I haue
not tyme to reed over
my letter./