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To the right honourable and
my very good Lady the
untesse of Shrewsbury.
haste
haste
haste
Oct. 13. 1571
Printed in Lodge II. 59.
50
168
It may please your Ladiship, where of late Bryam
and Hersey Lassels hauing bene before my Lordes
of her majestes counsell, it appeerith I dyrectly that by the
lettres both of the Queene of Scottes in and of the duke
of Norffolkes allso, that Hersey (as he confessith
also himselfe) hath bene a dealer so in lynnes with
the Queene there by the meanes of his brother a
being in seruyce there, And yet that his dealing
was nott without knowledge of your Ladiship to the end
(as he sayth) that the same might be allwais
knowen, I haue thought good to aduertyse
your Ladyship therof, And without all to pray you
to lett me vnderstand the trouth of suche matter
as your Ladiship doth know of the said hersey lassels
dealinges from tyme to tyme as particulerly as your ladish.ip
can remember, And so I take my leave of your Ladiship,
from London the xiijth of October
Your Lad.yship's at Com:mand
W. Burghley
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