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Maste^r Secritory lykwyse, but they alleadg my Lo.rd of Shr:ewsbury hath authorised noe man to follow his cause and semeth not to be acquanted with any such thinges; whi^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 wi^th the Consentes of both parties, and thes be all the answers I can procuer hauvinge spoken divers tymes both to my Lo:rd Tre:asurer and Maste^r Secritary since his comminge to Tibaldes: so that the first tyme my sister went to Tibaldes hir mages^ty vsinge hir excedyng gratiusly she talked much about your ladyship: 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 Ladyship: notwi^thstandynge a letter shalbe drawn both to my Lo:rd Tre:asurer and Maste^r Secritory to waken ther memories what the promised notwi^thstandynge the sem as though the would be Commanded by the Q.ueen I see litell effect of Maste^r wolleys promis but he sayth he hath spoken to the Q.ueen 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:rd Cham:berlain’s 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:rds beinge at London I vnderstand the haue Commission to examin my Lo.rd of Buckhurst about his negotiation in the Low Countries who is Commanded not to come to the Court, for discontentynge my Lo.rd of Lec:ester wich is thought strange, beinge equall wi^th him in Councell and beinge hir mages^ties Imbassodor befor he deliver what he had don ther: S.i^r Ihon norrice is also Commanded to his fathers house ther to abyd till further of hir mages^ties pleasure be know, and Maste^r wilkes committed to the Fleett and all to please my Lo.rd of Lec:ester as is sayd And for the Releaf of sluce ther be brutes that my lo.rd of Lec:ester thinke it an vnpossible thinge whi^ch will as som suppose harme my lo:rd's 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, wi^thin the towne be also ij good frendes of myn whi^ch if the be not releved be also cast away S:i^r Roger williams and Captayn Huntley./ The Royters whi^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 wi^th spayn insomuch as a scottysh man Comminge latly out of spayn, the picture of the Kynges daughter was taken from him whi^ch he was carringe to the Kynge, so that Denmark now lyeth deed, besydes ther is a parlament to be keapt in Scotland in whi^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 wi^thout meninge ether of marriage wi^th spayn or alteration of Religion but t' increse fieare heare to the end motions may be mad to hir mages^ty concerninge divers thinges./ For our Court ther is non in that Heyght as my Lo.rd of Essex and suerly he is myghtely grown and can hardly be wantynge half a day he strenkneth my Lo:rd of Lec:ester marvelously Si^r walter Rauley is in wonderfull declenation yett labores t'vnderprope him self by my Lo:rd Tre:asurer and his frendes; I see he is curtuusly vsed by my Lo.rd 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./ Maste^r Blutt Henry nowell and all be out of Conceall and meane presently to seake som other fortune./ Heare was Roland Eayre wi^th my Lo:rd of Commerland and Maste^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 ladyship: 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:rd and whi^ch was great and therfor doubted that your La:dyship shuld haue, they both answered him that they had alredy passed ther wordes and that your ladyship: shuld haue it befor any and that about iij weakes hence Maste^r Clyfford meneth to be at Buxstones and will ther speake with with whom you please to appoynt and after will waytt of your ladyship: to acquant you with his price and that part wich is sould to wich is iiij poynd ayeare your ladyship: was acquanted wi^th 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 mages^ty spake ij to hir but not longe and examined hir nothing touchinge hir booke she dined in the presence, but my lo:rd Tre:asurer bad hir to supper, and at dinier I dinyng wi^th hir and sittynge over agaynst him he asked me whether I cam wi^th my necec or noe I sayd I cam wi^th hir then he spake openly and direccted his speech to Si^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 wi^th that rouned my lo:rd Maste^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:rd Tre:asurer 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 wi^th 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 wi^th duckes fesantes wi^th divers other birdes whi^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 whi^ch truly poynteth the hower and go^eth the lent of the chamber, by nyght the moune and through the rouff whi^ch be bordes paynted sky holes mad lyghtes sett ther so the appeare stares In this chamber my Lo.rd feasted the Q.ueen who was nobly intertayned and all lordes and ladyes satt at the bord and at the Conclution of dinner hir mages^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 wi^th an excedyng good grace, and can bela behaue hir self wi^th great preportion to every on in ther degres; but Alatheia is often wyshed with your ladyship: 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 Si^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./ Maste^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 Lord of Shr:ewsbury’s death and that his payn of the goutt tooke him a Breevly./ My eldest brother would haue intertayned Haukworth when he was heare, mad Maste^r Blackwall ameane to Haukwallorth and Maste^r Blackwall spake sayth my Lo brother spake great wordes concerning blackwall./ Since M^istress Shakerley is so vnresonable it weare good Maste^r Hackers desi device proceded touching that cause./ So wi^th my bounden and dayly prayer humbly beceching your ladyship:'s dayly blesinge I humbly cease this tuesday./ your ladyship:'s most humble and obedient sonne./ Cha: Cavendysshe This messinger is in such hast as I haue not tyme to reed over my letter./ Letter from Charles Cavendish Esqui^re to his Mother the Countess of Shrewsbury Initial version