<B HUTTON>

[^THE CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. MATTHEW HUTTON, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
WITH A SELECTION FROM THE LETTERS, ETC. OF SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON,
KNT., HIS SON; AND MATTHEW HUTTON, ESQ., HIS GRANDSON. ED. BY
RAINE, JAMES. THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE SURTEES SOCIETY 17.
1843.^]

<Q HUT 1566 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 54>
[} [\LETTER II.\] DR. E. GRINDALL, BISHOP OF LONDON, TO DR.
HUTTON.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\15 Sep. 1566.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) Wheras I appoynted you to preache att
Paules Crosse the 3 off November nexte: becawse the Parlament
dothe holde, and therfore it is lyke that the Bisshops shall
occupie the rowme those Sundays in the myddes off the tearme, I
muste entreate you to prevente your daye, and to preach Dominica
17=a=, which is the 6 off October nexte. The tyme, thowghe it
may be somewhatt shorte, is longe enoughe for you; and I am
destitute. It is the firste Sundaye off the Parlament, and
therfore I labour to have one learned for thatt daye. I praye
you fayle nott, and certiffie me w=th= conveniente spede agayne.
Fare ye well. Frome Fulham, 15 Septemb. 1566.
   Yo=r= in Christe,
   Edm. London.
   To my lovinge frende, M=r=. Doctor Hutton, M=r=. off
Pembrooke Halle in Cambrige.

<Q HUT 1575 KHASTINGS>
<A LADY HUNTINGDON>
<P 56>
[} [\LETTER IV.\] LADY HUNTINGDON TO MR. DEANE OF YORKE.}] [^TO
DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Julie 21, 1575.\]
   After my verye hartie commendacions. Forasmuch as a kinsman
of my lorde and a cosen of myne doe intend, by the grace of God,
to marrye together vppon Sondaye nexte, I am therefore bould to
desyre you, that you would take the paynes to be here againste
that tyme, and to bestowe a shorte sermon vppon vs, suche as for
the short warning you have maye suffise for that audience. The
which ended, or before, att your discretion, I muste further
intreate you to helpe to sollempnize that mariage. And even soe,
being bould to truble you, I doe bidd you hartelye fare well.
Att York, this xxj=th= of Julye, 1575.
   Your frend in the Lord,
   K. Huntingdon.
   Good Mr. Deane, refuse not to take this paines in being heare
against Sondaie; which I shall thinke my sealfe beholdine to you
for the same, and will be redie to pleasure you in any thing I
maie.
   To my very loving frend, M=r= Deane of York.

<Q HUT 1577 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 56>
[} [\LETTER V.\] EDMUND GRINDALL, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, TO
DR. MATTHEW HUTTON, DEAN OF YORK.}] 
[\25 April, 1577.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I hartely thanke ye for your favour
extendett towards this bringer W. Allen. I perswade my selfe
that ye shewed him favour for my sake in the office bestowed
<P 57>
vpon him, and thatt ye had remembrance off my sute made vnto ye
for him heretofore, and therefore I thanke ye accordynglye. Iff
I had hadde anie speciall creditte when Durham and Carl. were
bestowed, some hadde not spedde so well: but blame your selfe
and Sir Tho: Garg: ye 2 comendett him, to be rydde off him: and
nowe Simon is as goodd as Peter. This geare wolde make a man
synge (\"Mei autem pene` moti sunt pedes," &c.\)
   Off myne owne present state I thynke ye can nott be ignorant:
it maye be, that evell reports flye abroade agaynste me; my
meanynge is goode. The ende is in Goddes handes, to whose grace
I hartely commende you; with my salutations to M=r=. Palmer, and
the reste off myne olde Chapleyns Prebendaries off your chirche.
Lambethe, 25 Aprilis, 1577.
   Yours in Christe,
   E. Cant.
   To my lovinge frende M=r=. Doctor Hutton, Deane off Yorke.

<Q HUT 1577 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 57>
[} [\LETTER VI.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MR. DEANE OF YORKE.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\August 12, 1577.\]
   Good Mr. Deane, I most hartely thank [{you{] for your harty
commendations, which this berer M=r=. Ramsden delyveyred me,
with a token in gold, being the monument of the good elect kyng
Edward my master, whom God took seasonably for his soule to be a
kyng in heaven, and onseasonably from this his erthely kyngdom,
therby blessing hym, and scourgyng vs. God favor vs now in the
reigne of our Soverayn with more of his
<P 58>
marcy, though I feare our offences ar gretar ...
From Buxton, the xii=th= of August, 1577.
   Your most assured loving Frend,
   W. Burghley.
   God contynew his graces in you, by which your liff and
actions ar reported very good of all your neighbors; and in
sekyng to reform those that ar ovt of the waye, the ordinary
waye to reduce them which I heare you vse is, by gentle
instruction of them first to se and fele ther palpable errors,
and so to prepare them to se the truth.
   To my very louing ffrend M=r=. Doctor Hutton, Deane of the
Cathedrall Churche at Yorke.

<Q HUT 1577 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 58>
[} [\LETTER VII.\] GRYNDALL, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, TO DR.
HUTTON, DEAN OF YORK.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\2 Dec. 1577.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) This bringer can informe you
somethinge off my state bothe for my healthe off my bodye and
other my trobles. Aboute 6 weeks agoe, and so on further tyll
the 26 off November, I was putt in assured hoape off libertie,
&c. Abowte thatt tyme arose a sudeyn contrarie tempest, which
hadde browghte me to have appeared in the Starre Chamber 29
Novembris last, iff God had nott layed me up 2 dayes before off
myne olde disease the stoane. By thatt occasion my apparence was
respitted, and I now remayne as a man in suspense (\inter spem
metumque\) , butt yett hoape that God wille in the ende turne
all to the beste. I thanke ye for your manifold significations
off your goode wille towarde me and myne. I praye
<P 59>
ye be goode to the bringer in that ye maye lawfullye, commende
me as ye knowe. God kepe you. 2 December, 1577.
   Yours in Christe,
   E. C.
   To my lovinge frende, M=r=. Deane off Yorke.

<Q HUT 1578 HHASTINGS>
<A EARL OF HUNTINGDON>
<P 59>
[} [\LETTER VIII.\] THE EARLE OF HUNTINGDON TO MR. DEANE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Maie 20, 1578.\]
   (\Salutem in Domino, &c.!\) I am sorrye to vnderstand of your
falle and harme you have therbye, but I trust God will shortelye
restore you to your olde good state agayne. Of my Lord of
Canterburie I heare nothyng but thys; I wyll sette downe the
verrye wordes as they bee wrytten to me: - "My Lord of
Canterburie dyd stande now at thys present vpon hys delyuerye by
the good meanes of M=r=. Vycechamberlyne, and now at thys
present the bysshoppes of Durram and Yorke have wryttyn to hyr
Majesty of soche sectes and puritanes that ys in those cuntryes,
that hathe made a staye of hys delyuerance."
   Even nowe the Lord Archebishop was heare, and I tolde hym a
peece of thys matter, but sayde no worde of Canterburie, and I
dyd aske hym what infection he founde in all hys dyoces,
especyallye for puritanisme as they tearme yt. He aunsweryd,
that he founde none to offend that way, neythyr, sayth he, have
I wryttyn any thynge thereof; but in my letters to the Quene,
sayth he, I dyd wryte that a younge man in a sermon at the
assyses dyd sumwhat straye, but he hathe been before me and
hathe promysyd to repayre the faute, etc. Also of one at Hulle
who made sum scruple at sum matters, but now yealdeth and
promysyth conformytee. Of other matters he dyd not wryte, but of
the increasynge of the papystes, etc. By thys I see som sparkes
have floane abrode. Your wrytar hathe desyryd me to sent hym
worde what ys trew touchinge these reaportes. And now by
warrante from my Lord's grace I may saye hys dyoces ys cleare of
thys faulte. For other occuranttes I referre
<P 60>
you to the letter inclosyd, wherof I dyd imparte the laste
parte, as I was desyryd. God make us all pure in hys syghte
thorrowe Chryste, and confounde all poperye and counterfayte
gospellynge, etc. And so I commytte you to the Lord. At Yorke,
thys 26 of May, 1578.
   Your assured frend (\in Domino\) ,
   H. Huntyngdon.
   To the assemblie at Smalcald her Maiestie hath sent certeine
persons to dissuade and stay the proceedings, &c. D. Humfrey of
Oxford, D. Wilson of Worcester, D. Still of Cambridge, and D.
Hamond, a civilian, ar appointed for this purpose; and, if hast
had not required, your Deane Mr. Hutton should have bene the
principall, and so ought he to have bene allowed. Grenewich, xx
Maij, 1578.

<Q HUT 1579 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 60>
[} [\LETTER IX.\] GRYNDALL, ARCHB. CANT. [\TO DOCTOR MATTHEW
HUTTON, DEAN OF YORK.\] }]
[\18 Feb. 1578-9.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) This bringer can enforme you that I
am (thanks be to God!) in reasonable goode healthe. My case
dependeth longe, as ye see, and some repulse off sute latelye
made hathe bene geven; and yett, iff a man maye beleve in courte
promesses, I was att no tyme so neare an ende off my trobles as
att this present. (\Domini voluntas fiat.\) I praye you shew
favor to the bringer for perfitinge off his longe travells.
<P 61>
S. Peter is a goode man, and lendeth freelye; the marchante
allwayes harpeth apon interest. He will engage all to S. Peter
or some off his deputies. Surelye the thinge will proove to an
vndoubted beniffitte bothe publicke and private. Yff I had
remayned with you, I wolde have helped him in this case;
especiallye nowe when the matter is growen rype, etc.
   Howe the worlde goeth here, ye shall heare by other men. I
wolde ye hadde a goode arrande to London, that I mighte see you.
I thanke you for my poore kinsfolkes and servants. God kepe you.
18 Feb., 1578.
   E. C. (\tuus\)
   To my lovinge frende M=r=. Deane off Yorke.

<Q HUT 1582 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 63>
[} [\LETTER XII.\] A LETTER FROM DEAN HUTTON TO THE EARL OF
HUNTINGDON.}] [^TO HENRY HASTINGS^]
[\8 May, 1582.\]
   My most humble duitie remembred to your Honour, &c. M=r=.
Doctor Gibson hath obteined a dispensation to keepe his livinge
in our church, whereof I am verie gladd. But in the same
dispensation he hath obtained another dispensation; that he
beinge absent, and keeping no residence, may have and enjoye all
the commodities due to a residentiarie: for the which I am verie
sorrie; not onelie because it is contrarie to our statutes,
whereunto we are all sworne, and shall be taken out of the
livinge of the residenciaries, some being not well hable to
spare it; but also because it doth open a window, which (if it
be not speedelie shutt) is like utterlie to overthrow the state
of our churche. We think that her Majesty's meaninge was, that
he should enjoie his livinge hereafter quietlie, which now by
the space of fyve or six yeares he hath bene in some feare to be
deprived of; and not to gyve him a new livinge taken furth of
other men's lyvyngs; and for the which they are bound to keepe
residence xxvi. weeks yearlie to their great charge. Yet,
because we love quietness and hate contention, we have neither
joyned nor conferred with his enemies; but have sent M=r=.
Slater, one of our companie, to my Lord his Grace of
Canterburie, Doctor Gibson's good Lord and ours, prayinge him to
make some quiet end betweene him and us, becawse we wold be
lothe to joyne with Doctor Gibson's
<P 64>
adversaries against hym. And my humble suit, in myne owne name
and in the name of the whole Churche, unto your Honour is, to
beseeche you that you wold be a meane to my Lord of Canterburye,
and to join with him to componde the matter, least it grow to
some extremitie of suit; which thinge I have alwaies hated. Ffor
myne owne part, I could be content, and so I know wold the rest,
yt were referred unto yourselfe to heare and determine at your
cominge into the country, yf my Lord his Grace of Canterburie
doe not now end it by your Lordshipp's good meanes, as we hope
he will. We have written to my Lord Treasurar, and to Sir
Francis Walsingham, beseechinge them to have a speciall care,
and to be meanes, that suche like suites be not graunted
hereafter, which tend to the decaye and ruine of the churches of
the old fundation. Yff the matter be not quietlie ended, we make
no doubte but to make good proofe to the Lords of the Counsell,
that so muche of the dispensation as is hurtfull to the churche,
and taketh from other men, and gyveth unto hym which he never
hadd before, did procede upon wronge information. M=r=. Doctor
Gibson is my good frend, and I have alwaies wished him well, and
verie lothe wold I be to joyne with his enemies; which had bene
done before this time yf it could have bene compassed. And
therefore am I so earnest with your Lordship that the matter may
be stayed, now at the begyninge. Thus, beseechinge God to send
your Honour and my good Ladie shortlie into the countrie, I take
my leave. From Yorke, the viij=th= of Maye, 1582.
   Your Honour's in Christ to comaunde,
   Matth. Hutton.
   To the Right Honorable his especiall good Lord, therle of
Huntingdon, Lord praesident of her Majesty's Counsell in the
North parts.

<Q HUT 1582 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 66>
[} [\LETTER XIV.\] GRYNDALL, ARCHBYSHOP OF CANTERBURIE, [\TO
DOCTOR HUTTON, DEAN OF YORK.\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\19 May, 1582.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) Yf I hadd not this daye ben trobled
with muche writinge and some busines of great weight, I wolde
have written to you my particuler letter at more length
concernynge Doctor Gibson's case; but I praie you beare with me
for this tyme, and for a few daies more, till Doctor Gibson come
downe, and at his comyinge I truste to have better leasure and
quyetnes to write my mynde in some thinge more at large unto
you. I have written a generall letter to you and to the Chapter,
which I praie you to accept well of, and not to judge hastelie
before the tyme. So I take my leave, and commendinge you to the
grace of Godd. From Lambeth, this xix=th= of Maye, 1582.
   Yours in Christe,
   E. Cant.
   To my verie lovinge ffrende, Mr. Doctor Hutton, Deane of
Yorke.

<Q HUT 1582 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 67>
[} [\LETTER XV.\] GRYNDALL, ARCHB. CANTERBURY, [\TO THE DEAN AND
CHAPTER OF YORK.\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\19 May, 1582.\]
   After my verie hartie commendacions. Whereas some matter of
difference hath growen of late betwene you and M=r=. Doctor
Gibson concernynge a graunte obtayned by him of her Majestie for
enioyinge the profitts of residence within your churche as well
absente as presente, I doe understande, aswell by your owne
letters to me directed, as by the reporte and commission of
M=r=. Slater and M=r=. Lyndlie your mandatories, that you are
contented to referre the said controversie or difference to my
order, and in suche sorte as the matter shall goe no furder. I
hartelie thanke you for the truste and confidence which you
repose in me, and wolde be sorie to geve you any cause to the
contrarie; for I love your churche well in generalle, and wishe
well unto everie one of your in particuler. And notwithstandinge
the orderinge and determynacion of the matter aforesaid nowe in
question is symplie committed vnto me by consente of bothe
partes, yet I have learned partelie by myne owne experience, and
partelie by the experience of other notable persons which have
ben more experte in suche cases then I have ben, not to sett
downe in suche cases any precise or absolute order withowt the
good likinge and assent of bothe the parties: wherefore, for
your better satisfaccion in this behalf, I will sende downe
Doctor Gibson to you, betwene this and Whitsontyde, to treat
with you in reasonable and frendlie order for a finall ende of
this difference; which if it may be obteyned at the first by
your mutuall consents in suche sorte as shalbe by him moved and
declared unto you, and here thought by divers learned men
agreable to lawe and not unreasonable, I shalbe verie gladd. And
if it shall chaunce that the condicions offered by the said
Doctor Gibson shall not be lyked of you, I will take suche
further order with the said Doctor Gibson when he cometh downe,
that he shall offer you other condicions which ye can not in
reason mislike. And so, praienge you to beare with patience a
little respite
<P 68>
of tyme for a few daies, I promise you, as I have done to your
deputies M=r=. Lyndlye and M=r=. Slater, that I will make a
quyet ende of this controversie. And therefore I have willed
them not to deliver those letters which they hadd from you to
divers honorable personages, because I wolde have the matter to
goe no further, as thinkinge my self to have sufficient
commission from you by vertue of your letters so to doe. So I
take my leave, and hartelie commende you to the grace of Godd.
From Lambeth this xix=th= of Maye, 1582.
   Yours in Christe,
   E. Cant.
   To my verie lovinge ffrends M=r=. Doctor Hutton, Deane of
Yorke, and to the rest of the Chapter of the same churche.

<Q HUT 1582 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 68>
[} [\LETTER XVI.\] THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY TO THE DEAN OF
YORK.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\26 May, 1582.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) Accordinge unto my promise made unto
you and the Chapter, I have sente downe M=r=. Doctor Gibson,
bringer hereof, to make a finall ende of the difference betwene
you and him concernyng the matter of residence. And whatsoever I
write unto you in this letter, I will praye you that it maye be,
as the olde terme is, (\sub sigillo confessionis\) , and not to
be imparted to any creature, unlesse you your self first have a
good lykinge of the motion herein by me made, and be also
assured that your Chapter will have the lyke; ffor I wolde be
sorye that any motion made by me sholde come to your Chapter and
there suffer repulse. Therefore I have chosen privately and
frendlye to deale with you, who is the headd of the Chapter and
knoweth verie well the disposition of the reste. After I hadd
received your letters of commission to arbitrate the matter of
residence aforesaid, I thought it verye requisite first to
understande of what validitie M=r=. Doctor Gibson's graunte was
by lawe, and for that purpose I charged Doctor Drewrye and
Doctor Awbrey that they sholde, withowt respect of persons,
<P 69>
geve me their opynions in writinge; which they dyd under there
hands in a letter, the copie of which letter I sende unto you
enclosed herein. After that, I fell to treatye with M=r=. Slater
and M=r=. Lyndley to understande the determynacion of you and
the Chapter, what you wolde geve M=r=. Gybson in yerely pencion
till suche tyme as he entered actuall residence; nothinge
dowtinge but they hadd sufficient commission and instruccions to
geve answere in that matter. They offered first xx=tie= nobles a
yere, and after that x=li=, and at length with muche adoe they
came to xx=tie= markes a yere, which I thought was to litle, and
Doctor Gibson did utterly myslike of it; and I then thought as
nowe I will utter my mynde frankly unto you, that in suche a
case forty markes a yere, for a yere, two, or three, till he
entered into actuall residence, was litle enough, the particuler
porcions of your commodities of the residensarye (which are to
me reasonably well knowen) beinge considered. But findinge your
deputies not willinge to goe any further than xx=tie= markes,
and peradventure not havinge commission to doe any otherwise, I
dyd not name any summe unto them, but differred the matter till
Doctor Gibson's commynge, as you knowe. Nowe, good M=r=. Deane,
if you can condiscende to this fortye markes for a yere or two
till Doctor Gibson can be better provided and furnished for
residence, and be assured that your Chapter withowt difficultie
will assente unto the same, I praye you move it to your Chapter;
which if you and they doe graunte, I shall take it in verie
thankfull parte, as done the rather at my requeste. But if you
fynde either any scruple in your self, or thinke there wilbe
difficultie in the Chapter in the grauntinge of the same, then I
praye you of all frendshipp that this my letter maye be utterlye
suppressed, and not divulged to any creature. And, that beinge
done, I have taken order with Doctor Gibson that he shall enter
into a new treatye with you particulerlye, which maye afterwarde
be communycated to your Chapter, which also I truste wilbe
thought bothe of you and them verye reasonable. And thus,
takinge my leave for this tyme, I hartely commende you unto the
grace of Godd. From Croydon, this xxvi=th= of Maye, 1582. Yours
in Christe, as of olde,
   E. Cant.
   To my verie lovinge ffrende Mr. Doctor Hutton, Deane of York.

<Q HUT 1582 EGRINDALL>
<A EDMUND GRINDALL>
<P 70>
[} [\LETTER XVII.\] ARCHBISHOP GRINDALL TO THE DEAN OF YORK.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\26 May, 1582.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) M=r=. Deane, I have taken order with
M=r=. Doctor Gibson, that if the request of my former letter, by
him nowe sente and unto you at his first conference with you
delivered, were of you any waye mislyked, or that you dowted any
thinge of the free and willinge assent of your Chapter without
any difficultie thereunto, that then he shall deliver unto you
this my seconde letter; wherein I signifie unto you, that, the
cause of your mislikinge standinge as afore, I have concluded
with Doctor Gibson that he shall offer unto you and your Chapter
to enter into ordinarye residence, and bear all charges for the
same as is requysite, notwithstandinge that the said entrie
into residence at this tyme will be verie muche to his
hinderance. And so I truste bothe all inconvenyances alledged by
your letters and deputies shalbe clearly removed, and the desire
of you and your Chapter declared unto me by your said deputies
shall be fully satisfied, and so all controversies, I truste,
perfectlie ended. And I shall furder praye you that my former
letter at this praesente delyvered by M=r=. Doctor Gibson may be
immediately, upon the receipte of this, toren in pieces and
utterlye destroyed in the sight of the said Doctor Gibson,
because I wolde not have any matter of diversitie in opynion
betwene you, your Chapter, and me, to be extante under my hande;
not onely hartely praienge you, but also as it were adjuringe
you, not to revele the contents of my said letter to any boddye.
So, referringe the rest unto M=r=. Doctor Gibson's owne reporte,
once againe I take my leave, and commende you with all my harte
to the grace of Godd. From Croydon, this xxvi=th= of May, 1582.
   Yours in Christe, as of olde; remayning still blynde, with
ffather Tobyas, and yet hoping assuredlye by the grace of Godd
to recover sight againe, as he dyd in tyme.
   E. Cant.
   To my verie lovinge ffrende, M=r=. Doctor Hutton, Deane of
Yorke.

<Q HUT 1582 KHASTINGS>
<A LADY HUNTINGDON>
<P 71>
[} [\LETTER XVIII.\] LADY HUNTINGDON TO MR. DEANE OF YORKE.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\8=ber= 22, 1582.\]
   Good M=r=. Deane, Allthowgh I have not writen to you since mi
coming from Yorke about the matter I had to speak with mi
brother of Lecester of, because I have bin so often coming doune
mi self, which I have bin ever staied bi one occasion or other;
and nowe that mi Lord will not lett me come doune before
Chrismus, I will not defere any longer to lett you knowe I did
remember that matter presently upon mi comming up, of whom I had
so good an awnswere, with so manie good words, and of his verie
good opinion of you, as in truth I was most glad to here. Of
this matter I wold have writen to you longe before this time,
but that I was in good hope to have bin at Yorke mi self, and so
to have told you what I had done in that same; but that can not
be so sone as in deed I do wish and desire it: and therfore I
thought it good to troble you with this mi bad scribling, though
it hath ben long a cominge, that you maie knowe I was not
forgetfull of you. I am to geve you great thanks for my aunt
Comten, and the rest of mi wemen, whom [{I{] perceive you have
bin trobled with all. And so, good M=r=. Deane, I must hastely
bid you fare well, and wish there were any thing here I might do
you plesure in: you shuld finde me verie redie to do it. From
Stoke, the 22 of October, 1582.
   Your verie frend in the Lorde,
   K. Huntingdon.

<Q HUT 1583 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 71>
[} [\LETTER XIX.\] THE BYSHOP OF WORSTRE, ELECT CANT., TO MR.
DEANE OF YORK.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\17 Sept. 1583.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I hartelie thangk you, good M=r=.
Dene, for your frendlie letters, where in you shoe that assured
good
<P 72>
wyll which I have ever fownd in you towards me. The burden layed
uppon me ys verie heavie and great; yet, bycause yt ys God's
owne doeing who hath wrogght yt in her Majestie's hart, my trust
ys that he wyll also furnish me with gyfts and graces
necessarie, that I may, without faynting, performe that
whereunto he hath so called me; and the rather thorowe your good
prayers, whereof I assuer my self. I have not hard anie thing of
you or M=r=. Cheke touching that matter, nether wyll I beleave
yt yf yt shold be reported, knoweng you bothe so well as I doe.
For your nephew, I wyll be glad to do the best I can, as
occasion shal serve. To stay you there, I wyll do my endevor,
onlesse yt be for some better preforment: but assuer your self
that I wyll not cease to labor you frome thens, yf yt may be to
such a place as wyll countervale that, and wherein you may doe
more good. Towching the last poynt of your letters, nothing
shalbe omytted that lieth in me: yt ys a wonde in dede, God
graunte yt may be healed. Her Majestie ys moste gratiouslie
affected therein, and there ys hope to bring yt to passe: there
are, God be thangked, manie learned and worthie men, so that
there lacketh no choise; I besech God that such respect may be
had to there praeferment as the Church may be furnished with
worthie men, and others thereby encoraged. Thus, with my hartie
commendations, I committ you to the tuition of Almyghtie God.
Frome Lambeth, the 17 of September, 1583.
   Yours as hys owne,
   Jo. Wigorn. Elect. Cant.
   To my assuered and loving frend, Mr. Doctor Hutten, Dene of
York.

<Q HUT 1583 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 73>
[} [\LETTER XX.\] LETTER FROM ABP. WHITGIFT TO DEAN HUTTON.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\23 August, 1586.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I am verie sorie that it is no better
betwixt my Lord of York and you, and that his bitternesse
continueth still against you, which I doe also perceave by his
owne lettres written to my self. I pray you consider, for the
redeeming of peace and quietnesse, and the avoiding of publick
offense, whether it were not better for you and the rest to
yeeld unto him in one or both his patents. (\E duobus malis,
&c.\) But I referre the consideration hereof to yourself. Many
thinges are to be done and suffered for peace sake. His Grace
writeth unto mee, that you and your frendes geve it out howe
well you were used at my handes, howe sure a frende I am unto
you, and what favour you found with Lordes, &c., and many other
thinges. But I knowe theis are but reportes brought unto him by
suche as could bee content to have you at oddes still. For myne
owne parte, I wish you bothe so well, that, to make you frendes
and to reconcile you together, I would bee content, yf it so
pleased her Majesty, to ryde from Croydon to York, yea, to
Barwick, or fyve tymes furder. (\Vale in Christo!\) From my
house at Croydon, this xxiij=th= of August 1586.
   Your assured lovinge frende,
   Jo. Cantuar.
   To the right worshippful my verie loving frende, M=r=. Doctor
Hutton, Dean of York.

<Q HUT 1590 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 77>
[} [\LETTER XXVI.\] LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD OF DURESME.}] [^TO
DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Aug. 21, 1590.\]
   After my vearie hartie commendacions to your Lordship. I have
received your Lordship's lettre, whearebie youe move mee to
graunt to your dawghter, the widowe of M=r=. D. Slater, one
<P 78>
of the Prebendaries of the churche of Yorke, latelie decessed,
the wardshippe of hir child, with the custodie of the land, and
patronage of the rectorie of Bainton, which it semeth he had
purchased, whearein I shall be verie well contented to pleisure
your Lordship; althowgh theire hath been suite made unto mee
both by M=r=. Osborne of the eschecquer for the said personage
for Archdeacon Remington, a man verie well lerned as he
informeth mee, and whoe hath also married another of your
dawghters; and the like suite hath been made to mee heare by the
Deane of Yorke, whoe offreth for the same to resyne a benefice
he hath in this parte in the southe; and yet nevertheles the
same shall be soe disposed as your Lordship shall require. And
so I verye hartelie commend mee to your Lordship. From the Cort,
this xxi=st= of August, 1590.
   Your Lordship's verie lovinge frend,
   W. Burghley.
   To the Reverend Father in God, my vearie good Lord the Bishop
of Durham.

<Q HUT 1600 RCECIL>
<A ROBERT CECIL>
<P 78>
[} [\LETTER XXVII.\] SIR ROB. CECYLL TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\September 1.\] [^1600.^]
   May it please your Grace: Althoughe, when I dyd wryte my
letters unto you in favour of M=r=. Fant, I labored not to
presse your Grace with any ernestnes of wordes, because her
Majestie's letters were so gracyously and effectually wrytten at
that tyme, which seemed to be of strenghte sufficient to
prevayle in so reasonable a matter; yet, uppon your aunsweare,
and viewe of that which hath synce fallen out in the prosecution
of his sute with my cosen Stanhoppe, (by whom I am sorry it was
his happe to be in that sort crossed,) I have bethought me howe
by your Grace's meanes, bothe my cosen may retayne the hold he
hathe already, as you ernestly desyre he should, and the
gentleman lykewyse be otherwyse in some reasonable manner
satisfyed. And
<P 79>
that is, that it would please your Grace to fynde out some other
lease belonging to that sea, wherein you may make him an estate
(\de bene esse\) , (suche as it is knowen your Grace may doe,)
without any other scruple of conscience, or hinderance to your
selfe; so it be a thing that may in some good measure be
answerable to his former expectancy, which nowe he will
thereuppon be content to relinquishe. For your Grace may very
well conceave, that her Majestie, by the great ernestnes and
charge that her lettres caryed, had a most gratyous meaninge
towards hym for the effecting of his desyre; which albeit it may
in the particuler receave some stoppe, (and the rather in that
place where it dyd,) yet would I be loth she should understand
that her lettres dyd ether become frustrate, or not receave such
entertainment at your Grace's hands as they do well deserve, and
the present occasyon requyreth. I doe therefore pray your Grace
to conferre with my cosen, to th' end something may be effected
agreable to that her Majestie intended towards hym; whether it
be by graunt of a lease, or some porcyon of money to be raysed
uppon some tennants that seeke to have their estates renewed,
(in which kynde it seemethe your Grace had a purpose to gyve him
contentment,) so that the sayd somme may recompence in a good
proporcyon the losse of his former hope; which, being of a thing
partly in his owne possessyon, was therefore so well grounded,
as in regarde thereof, and also of the great meanes he hath
used, together with his charge and travayle therein, deserveth
suche good respect and consideracion as may be any wayes
expected from your Grace, who have ever shewed your selfe most
willing to accomplish her Majestie's demaunds when they have ben
nether so ernestly written, nor in a more reasonable cause then
this, wherin her gracyous desposycion should not so lightly be
passed over. And so, hoping to receave your comfortable
aunsweare, which is expected, I commend your Grace to God's
protecion. From the Cort at Oateland's, the first of Sept. 1600.
   Your Grace's very loving and assured friend,
   Ro. Cecyll.
   To the most reverent Father in God, my very good Lorde the
Lord
Archbishop of Yorke's Grace, one of the Counsell established in
the north parte.

<Q HUT 1594 RCECIL>
<A ROBERT CECIL>
<P 86>
[} [\LETTER XXXII.\] SIR ROB. CECYLL TO MY LORD OF DURESME.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\October 13, 1594.\]
   My good Lorde, I have understoode by your lettre with what
willingnes your Lordship hath bestowed on me the righte you have
in the wardeshipp of one Buckle, wherin your Lordship writeth
lykewyse to me to nominate some such personne in whose name I
would have the same to passe. For the first I doe returne your
Lordship my very hartie thankes, assuring you, that in any
occasion offred me I will make requittall therof towards your
Lordship or any or yours; and for the other matter, because
there is some lykelihood that he may be found lykewise a warde
to the Queene by the tenure of some lands hereabout, I have
procured a graunt of her Majesty's tytle if there be any suche
proved. And nowe, to the intent I mought receave from your
Lordship such a graunt as may be of validitie unto me, I am
desirous to have the deed made by the advise of some of my
councell, and therfore doe most hartely pray your Lordship to
send me up a copie of the inquisicion taken in that contrye,
wherby suche particularites may be knowen here as shalbe fytt to
be inserted into the graunt; which course I knowe shalbe to your
Lordship all one (seing you meane to give); that the gifte may
be so framed as may not be subject to questyon hereafter: and
for the more expedicion hereof I pray your Lordship that it may
be sent up by some of the ordynary posts that runne betwene
Duresme and the Court. It is very true that I am fullie
persuaded that there wilbe a title found for the Queene, wherin
(althoughe it so fallinge out) your Lordship's graunt
<P 87>
shall not be needfull; yet shall my thankes be as due unto you,
and my readynes to requytt the same in any thinge wherin I may
have occasion. And so I commend your Lordship to God's
favourable proteccion. From my house in the Strand, the xiij=th=
of Octobre, 1594.
   Your Lordship's very loving and assured friende,
   Ro: Cecyll.
   To the Reverend Father in God, my very good Lorde, the Lorde
Bushopp of Duresme.

<Q HUT 1594 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 87>
[} [\LETTER XXXIII.\] A LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT TO
BISHOP HUTTON.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\4 Nov. 1594.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I dowte not but that your Lordship
understandeth of her Majestie's disposition to remove you to
Yorke. I have signifyed to her Highnesse that you are better, in
respect of living, now where you are placed, and that I thowght
you wold be lothe to remove. She answered that you shal remove,
and that you are well able to bere the charges thereof: so that
you must prepare yourself thereto, if this resolution hold, as I
think it will. I wold not have written to you of this matter
until yt had bene fullie concluded, but for the importunitie of
your man. And so, with my verie hartie commendations, I commit
you to the tuition of Almyghtie God. From Lamb. the 4 of Novemb.
1594.
   Your Lordship's loving brother and frend,
   Jo: Cantuar.
   To the Right Reverend in Christe my verie good Lord and
brother, the Bishop of Durham.

<Q HUT 1594 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 88>
[} [\LETTER XXXIV.\] WHYTGYFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, TO THE
BISHOP OF DURHAM.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\2 Dec. 1594.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) Yesterday, beeng the first of this
monethe, her Majestie in the praesens of all her cousell did
nominate such as are to be placed in the bishoppricks voyde and
to be voyde: as namelie your self to York; D=r=. Matthew to
Durham; the bishop of Wigorn to London; and M=r=. Day, dene of
Windsor, to Wigorne. The bishop of Lincolne to Winton; the
bishop of Chester to Lincolne; the bishop of Bangor to Chester;
and one D=r=. Vaughan, an honest and learned man, to Bangor.
M=r=. Redman, archdeacon of Canterbury, to Norwich; the bishop
of Landafe to Exitor. God be thangked, as good a choyse as can
be desyered. There is order gyvne for the consecration, and
therefore your Lordship shal do well to send upp some to followe
your businesse here. And I am glad that there ys so good a cause
to bring you hether so sone. (\Vale in Christo!\) Frome Lamb.
the 2 of Decemb. 1594.
   Your Lordship's loving frend and brother,
   Jo: Cantuar.
   To the Reverend Father in God, my verie good Lord and
brother, the Bishop of Durham.

<Q HUT 1594 TMATTHEW>
<A TOBIE MATTHEW>
<P 91>
[} [\LETTER XXXVII.\] DR. TOBIE MATTHEW, DEAN OF DURHAM, TO DR.
MATTHEW HUTTON, BISHOP OF DURHAM.}]
[\6 Dec. 1594.\]
   My bounden dutie humbly and heartily remembred to your good
Lordship, with manie lyk thanks for my last and best
intertainment, beyond the expectation of some that would needes
make me beleve otherwise then nowe I see and fynde that there
was cause. But I send your Lordship in liewe thereof (having not
of myne owne to requite your Lordship's great favor therein)
these included from your Lordship's verie good Lord and myne,
the Lord Chamberlaine, and therwithall the predominant prelacie
of this province. God geve your Lordship longe and muche
prosperitie therein, and make me worthie to be your successor
here in tyme, which his Lordship signifieth unto me to be her
Majestie's pleasure also. Wherein if it please God to place me,
your Lordship shall have as obedient and faithfull a successor
as any whatsoever could have been nominated therunto; whiche
tyme, the mother of truth, shall prove. I have hitherto silenced
this present busines both your Lordship's and myne, for that I
knowe not whether your Lordship will have it knowen as yet.
Thus, humbly desyring the continuance of your Lordship's good
opinion and favor, I betake your Lordship to the grace of God,
who reward our most gratious soveraigne and many many yeres
preserve her Majestie! At Duresme, 6 December, 1594. In haste as
is required.
   Your Lordship's humble and assured at commandement,
   Tobie Matthew.
   My humble commendacions to good M=rs=. Hutton.
   To the Right Reverend Father in God, and my verie good Lord,
my Lord Bushopp of Duresme at Awkeland, with spede.

<Q HUT 1594 TMATTHEW>
<A TOBIE MATTHEW>
<P 92>
[} [\LETTER XXXIX.\] DR. TOBIE MATTHEW, DEAN OF DURHAM, TO DR.
MATTHEW HUTTON, BISHOP OF DURHAM.}] 
[\31 Dec. 1594.\]
   My verie honorable good Lord and father, Being glad to heare
that your Lordship is hable so strongly to wreastle with your
coulde, I have presumed to present this booke of figures to your
<P 93>
Lordship, fitt for your eies to passe awaie the tyme, while you
have better healthe to reade greater maters, but yet not of
greater persons. Your Lordship's letters I take in dutifull and
thankefull parte, and according to my bounden dutie doe and will
ever (whether you think good to remove or abyde) wisshe your
Lordship and good M=rs=. Hutton the renewing of many happie
yeares, everie one more happie then other, to the pleasure of
Almightie God, that Ancient of daies, and to the comfort of all
that depend upon you here and elsewhere. Thus humbly for this
present taking leave of your Lordship. At Duresme, (\ult.
Decemb.\) 1594.
   Your reverend Lordship's most humble in Christ,
   Tobie Matthew.
   To the Right Reverend Father in God, and my verie good Lord,
my Lord Bushop of Duresme, at Awkland.

<Q HUT 1595 TMATTHEW>
<A TOBIE MATTHEW>
<P 95>
[} [\LETTER XLI.\] DR. TOBIE MATTHEW TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON,
BISHOP OF DURHAM.}] 
[\29 Jan. 1594-5.\]
   My bounden dutie and thankfulnes remembred to your good
Lordship. I receaved yesterdaie from my Lord Lieutenant these
enclosed from M=r=. Dethick by poste, wherwith I thought meete
to acquaint your Lordship, that yow maie therby partely perceave
how thinges goe and come. My brother D. wanteth good advise in
myne opinion. For myne owne parte, I must and doe referre my
selfe wholely to the divine providence of God, to her Majestie's
gratious favor, still continewed for ought I can learne, and to
your Lordship's good furtherance as tyme and occasion shall
serve, which I humbly desyre and will unfainedly seeke to
deserve alwaies. Your Lordship is godlie wise; you will doe
nothin but what you maie doe with a good conscience and with
honorable credit. What that is no man can judge of better then
your self, having therunto all the helpes that maie be. (\Sed
noli justus esse nimium\) : yet I knowe also what followeth.
Your Lordship, I presume, will geve me leave - 
   (\"Si bene quid facias, facias cito: nam cito factum Gratum
erit, ingratum gratia tarda facit."\)
God loveth, and so doe princes, a cherefull gever. (\Noli
perdere substantiam propter accidens.\) Thinges be not as they
be, but as they be taken. Olde frendes loke to be used after the
olde fasshion. Newe frendes are not like the olde, neither so
well knowen, nor so easily kept, nor so assuredly to be trusted,
if and when a man hath or maie nede them. Sy. Comyn, my man, is
about the churche's affayres to goe toward London upon
<P 96>
Frydaie next. If your Lordship have any letters or busines that
he can doe, I dare undertake he shall doe it carefully and
faithfully. Thus, humbly craving pardon if I have exceeded, and
hoping your Lordship will impute it rather to the plainnesse of
my heart toward you then to any presumption, I wisshe your
Lordship longe to live and prosper, to God's glorie, and comfort
of all this province. At Duresme, 29 Jan. 1594.
   Your Lordship's most humble assured alwaies,
   Tobie Matthew.
   To the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, the
Lord Bushop of Duresme, my verie good Lord, at Awkeland.

<Q HUT 1595 RCECIL>
<A ROBERT CECIL>
<P 101>
[} [\LETTER XLVI.\] SIR ROB. CECYLL TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\16 April, 1595.\]
   May it please your Grace. Becawse I knoe it was and shalbe
her Majestie's honour to grace so reverent a prelate as your
Grace is, especially in such a case as this, I have thoght good
to use my best oportunity to remember to her Majesty the pardon
for the Lady Nevyll, by whose example as others I hope may be
induced to shew the like conformity, so will this her Majestie's
lenity stopp the liing tongs of them that wold insinuate by
lybells and raylings that her Majestie's mercy is to seldome
shewed; whereof, God be thanked, no kingdome hath under any of
God's ministers ever tasted so many good fruicts: and therfore,
seing I knew it wold be expected that you shold bring it with
you as God's instrument of this woork, I was glad to finish it
so as you might be assured to affirme that it was don, and
therfore have I thoght it not amiss by these presents to assure
your Grace that this very houre her Majesty hath signed it unto
me; and, but that I do knoe it must pass the seales, I wold have
sent it after you with this. I have therfore sent it to M=r=.
Roger Manners, who I think wyll cawse it to be followed. If you
wyll have it otherwise, your Grace may wryte back; and to whom
you wyll have it comitted over, it shalbe. Her Majesty hath also
promised a pension of 40=li= a-yeare, which I will also see
finished. And thus, in hast, I wish your Grace a good journey,
and remaine your loving poor freend assuredly,
   Ro. Cecyll.
   I have receaved a lettre from your Grace concerning my
brother Brook.
   For her Majesty's affaires. To the most Reverend ffather in
God, my very good Lord, the Lord Archbushop of Yorke, his Grace
Metrapolitane of England.
   Hast, post hast, hast, hast, hast!
   At Whitehall, 16 April, at past 7 at night. 
   Ro. Cecyll.

<Q HUT 1595 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 104>
[} [\LETTER XLVIII.\] A LETTER FROM THE ARCHBYSHOP OF CANTERBURY
TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\19 Aug. 1595.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) My very good Lord, I must become an
earnest suiter to you in the behalf of M=r=. Edwyn Sandys for
the continuance and increase of your Grace's good favor towards
him. I doubt not but that you doe hold him in that accompt which
hee very well deserves. Notwithstanding, for the great care
which I have that he may doe well and bee incouraged by all
meanes in his good and studiouse endevours, I praye you most
hartelye that he may both have your good countenance and
comforte in those partes, and cheeflye that for such leases as
hee holdes of your Grace (being the chiefe stay of his lyving)
hee may renue them at your handes for his reasonable ffine with
favoure. I doubte not but my request will seme to your
reasonable, and the gentleman so worthie to be cherished and
encouraged, that I shall not need to use with you anie further
perswasion. And so, with my hartie commendacions, I committ yow
to the tuicion of Allmightie God. From Croydon, the xix=th= of
August, 1595.
   Your Grace's loving brother in Christe,
   Jo. Cantuar.
   I pray you send me youre resolution (together with youre
opinion of the recantation) of these poyntes: (\An sola Dei
voluntas, absque respectu aliquo ad peccatum, sit causa
reprobationis?\)
   And whether yt be ether hereticall or popisch to say, (\quod
electi debent esse certi de salute, sed non securi\) . And
likewise:
<P 105>
(\quod electi possunt cadere totaliter a fide ad tempus, sed non
finaliter\) .
   (\Tuus\) , Jo. Cantuar.
   To the moste Reverend ffather in God, my verie good Lord and
brother, the Archbishopp of Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1596 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 105>
[} [\LETTER XLIX.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\March 6, 1595-6.\]
   May it please your Grace. Yesterdaye by my letters I
advertised my expectation to have hard from you of the receipt
of the Quene's commission; which I am now gladd to parceave, by
a letter syned by your Grace and the rest of the Quene's learned
Counsell there the first of this moneth, that the same
commission came to you the daye before: wherein I do note some
negligence of the poste, for I did entend it should have come
there some dayes before; but I am gladd that it served to hold
your sessions the first. By a private letter of your Grace, as
I thynk written at the same tyme (though the daye be not dated
by the negligence of your Secretary), I parceave you have made
sute for the comission ecclesiasticall 3 quarters of a yeare,
and that it nowe remayneth in Doctor Caesar's hand unsyned, whom
I will dyrect to procure it to be syned. Of other matters, which
I did impart unto you by my letter dated yesterday, I require
some answer. And so I bid your Grace verie hartie farewell. From
the Court at Richmond, the vi=th= of Marche, 1595.
   Your Grace's at com[{mand{] , 
   W. Burghley.
   I doubt not but the Receyvor of Yorkshire hath geven order
for the payment of money for the dyette, for that he had his
warrant both for that which was done in the Erl's tyme, and from
thence forward. But I take it that hir Majestie meaneth not to
be at charge with the Erl's howshold servauntes from the
<P 106>
tyme of this your commission, and so it is reason you should
give them warninge; and yett I pitty their estate, considering I
can fynd nobody to take care for the buryall of their master, as
yesterday I did write unto you, and yett I am desirous to hear
from you how the body of the nobleman is ordered, and where it
resteth, and what nomber they are, and of what condicion, that
attend the same.
   To the moste Reverend ffather in God, my varie good Lord, the
Archbishopp of York his Grace.

<Q HUT 1596 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 106>
[} [\LETTER L.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\April, 1596.\]
   After my verie commendacions to your Grace [\SIC\] , and to
the rest. I have received a letter of the xxiij=th= of this
monethe, signed by your Grace and some others of the Counsell,
wherebie yow certifie unto me that my Lord of Huntingdon hath
signified unto yow hir Majestie's pleisure towching the buryell
of the late Erl of Huntingdon's body at Ashbie in
Leicestershire, which I knowe to be true, and to be donne with
hir Majestie's verie good liking of the now Erl of Huntingdon,
for that he hath undertaken to performe the same; and for myne
owne parte, as I do thinke that it is verie honorablie donne of
my Lord, and the place verie fitt for the buryall, so I do
thinke it verie well donne of yow, M=r=. Puresye, and Mr.
Stanhopp, if yow take the paynes to repaire to Ashbie with such
of the late Erl's servaunts as may convenientlie traveil thither
to performe the last dutie of your love towards him. And whereas
I fynd by your letter that by reason of the greate nomber of the
late Erl's houshold servaunts, and longer contynuance of them
together then was thought, the expences have growen farr greater
then that which hath bene received from hir Majestie's Receyvour
by the warrant dyrected unto him, of the which yow require to
have allowance, and to
<P 107>
have order given for the payment thereof, that remboursement may
be made to the late Erl's steward, who hath disbursed a good
some of money for their dyett; I can make no other answer
hereunto but that I can not help the same otherwise then uppon
the ordinarye, and therfore do wishe that good husbandrie may be
used hereafter to repayre and recover the former expences. And,
as towching the place where the dyett shalbe provided for that
Counsell at their sitting, (which hitherto hath bene, as yow
write, in the minster garthe,) I am of opynion that it is more
convenient to be kept within hir Majestie's howse, the late
Erl's good being safelye lockd upp in some private place, as
your Grace writes; and therfore I do require your Grace that
order may be taken accordinglie. And, lastlie, towching your
Grace's private letter to me, wherein your Grace doth earnestlie
wishe and desire (for the reasons therein sett downe) that there
may be some fitt nobleman appointed by hir Majestie and sent
downe to be President and Liuetenant there, your Grace shall
understand that I do as earnestlie desire it as your Grace doth,
and will further it the best I can; but, by reason of my want of
healthe, can neither do it nor write unto your Grace as
frequentlie as otherwise I would do, wherein I pray your Grace
to hold me excused. And so I bidd your Grace verie hartely
farewell. From the Courte at Grenewiche, the [^BLANK IN
EDITION^] of April, 1596.
   Your Grace's verie lovinge frend,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend ffather in God, my verie good Lord, the
Archbishop of Yorke his Grace, and to the Counsell established
in the northe parts.

<Q HUT 1596 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 108>
[} [\LETTER LI.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Maie 15, 1596.\]
   After my verie hartie commendacions to your Grace. As it hath
bene thought good and expedient that nowe, uppon the departure
of hir Majestie's royall navie at sea, under the conduct of the
Erl of Essex and H. Admirale, that some declaration should be
published in prynt to the world of the causes moving hir
Majestie thereunto, for the manifestation of the justnes of hir
procedinge; so I have thought good to send unto your Grace 3 of
them, 2 in Englishe and one in Latyn, both for your Grace's owne
satisfaction and for the better notifying the same unto that
countrie, who wilbe gladd to heare of it, and by your Grace's
report will quicklie and easilye be divulged thereaboute. And
so, not doubting but that our armye shall have your Grace's good
prayers to God for their good successe in this expedition
againste his professed ennemyse and ours, I bidd your Grace
verie hartely farewell. From the Court at Grenewich, the xv=th=
of Maye, 1596.
   Your Grace's verie assured lovinge frend,
   W. Burghley.
   (^For hir Majestie's spetiall affayres.^)
   To the moste Reverend Father in God, my verye good Lord, the
Archbishopp of Yorke his Grace.
   (^W. Burghley.^)
   15 May, '96, 8 at nighte.
   Hast, hast, post hast!

<Q HUT 1596 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 109>
[} [\LETTER LII.\] LORD BURGLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF YORKE.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Maie 20, 1596.\]
   After my verie hartie commendacions to your Grace. I have
received your Grace's letter of the xv=th= of this monethe,
together with the coppie of Sir Chr. Hylliard's letter to yow
and that Counsell, inferinge that a certein Scottishman (as was
suspected), by the meanes of one Richard Beningham, a bad
fellowe, had taken into his shipp, lying nere the Spurne within
Humber, a C. quarters of beanes, which he meant to have stayd,
supposing he had no lycence to transport them; wherein what is
the trothe I knowe not. But this I thought good to lett your
Grace understand, that I have of late graunted severall warrants
for transportacion of a good round quantitie beanes and pease
into Scotland, whereof the greatest part was by hir Majestie's
lycence, graunted at the suite of the Scottishe Ambasseder now
residing here; a part also was graunted to one Hunter, a
Scottishman, in lieu of a lycence graunted to him above a yeare
past for the transportacion of v=c=. quarters of wheate, whereof
he never took any benefitt; and another part unto 2 merchaunts
of Hull, uppon good and reasonable cause, being recommended to
me from the Maior and Aldermen of that towne. Nevertheles your
Grace shall understand that I had not assented to any
transportacion at all, if I had not formerlie received letters
from the Maior, Aldermen, and Officers of the towne of Hull,
that there was not onlie greate plentie of that grayne there in
these parts, which might well be spared, and the prises at so
lowe a rate as it might be transported without any hurt to the
countrie, but also that there were many Scotts there that had
browght in good comodities, and had no other comoditie to
imploye their money in but in beanes and pease. I received also,
synce that time, a letter from diverse Justics of peace, both of
that countie, and Yorke, and Lincoln, as namelie, M=r=. Pellham,
M=r=. Hotham, M=r=. Skippwithe, M=r=. Gats, and M=r=. Alred,
agreing in report with the others towching the plentie of that
grayne and the lowe prises thereof, and that it would be a
benefitt to the
<P 110>
countrie and to the poore husbandmen thereaboute to have lycence
to transport the same; and this was the cause that moved me to
graunt the said warrants. Nevertheles I added a proviso, that,
uppon informacion that the prises of the said grayne should be
enhansed by reason of the said lycences, I would take order for
the staye of them. From my howse at Westminster, the xx=th= of
Maye, 1596.
   Your Grace's verie lovinge frend,
   W. Burghley.
   Postcript. - Towching the defects of beacons, pouder, piks,
etc., mencioned in the end of Sir Ch. Hylliard's letter, I
thinke the towne of Hull either are bound, or in reason ought,
to supplie them, in respect of the benefitt they receyve from
hir Majestie; I therfore pray your Grace send for some of them
(which yow shall think fitt) and deale with them to that end, or
otherwise lett me understand from yow your opynion by whom it is
fitt they should be supplied.
   To the moste Reverend Father in God, my verie good Lord, the
Archbishopp of Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1596 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 111>
[} [\LETTER LIV.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\Aug. 2, 1596.\]
   Maie it please your Grace. By your late lettres I perceave
what a good Christian act yow have done in reducing of the
Popish priest Dawson from his errors, who, lewdlie denying the
authorities by your Grace alledged against him, in the end was
justlie convinced. And bycause no mention is made in your
lettres of his blind reasons for his defence, nor of your
assertions of authorities to disprove him, I am desirous to have
a report of them; both for my better informacion, wherein I pray
your Grace to satisfy me by your next writings; and likewise of
his manner of acknowledging his error, and profession of
amendement under his hand writing. I desire also to heare from
your Grace the particular aunswers made to such articles of
complaints as I did send unto yow, conteyning the greevances of
the country, against many proceedings of that Counsell; wherein
if yow have satisfyed the justices of assise, I am verie glad,
for I assure your Grace some of them made the like complaint to
mee. The good newes that are commonlie reported of the great
victorie of hir Majestie's army and navy in Spayne is so
certainlie confirmed by the generalls as it is ment that both in
the province of Canterbury and of yours at York there should be
publick prayer and thankesgiving
<P 112>
for the same, whereof your Grace shall shortlie heare. And so I
comend mee verie hartelie to your Grace. From the Court, the 2
of August, 1596.
   Your Grace's assured loving frend,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my veary good Lord, the
Archbishop's Grace of York.

<Q HUT 1597 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 112>
[} [\LETTER LV.\] CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\30 Jan. 1596-7.\]
   May it please your Grace. I have by M=r=. Ferne recyved your
Grace's lettres of the 8=th= of this monethe, wherby you do
advertise me of lettres you have recyved from the Lord Keper of
the greate seale, whereby he sheweth a dislike that your Grace
and the Counsell should dyrect proces to staye suites commenced
in the Chauncerye; wherein you have written to his Lordship for
your defence that it hath bene so used by the Court in former
tymes. And hearein I have had some speache with M=r=. Ferne, and
have shewed my opynion that I thinke it against good reason,
that where a suite is begonne in the Chauncery by any plantife,
that he should be restrayned from following his suite at the
request of the defendant; which my conceipt hath moved me to
forbeare herein to deale with my Lord Keper. But if M=r=. Ferne
shall, as he saith he will, shewe me some presidente of the
yelding of the Chauncery to such request, I will theruppon deale
with my Lord Keper, having some coulour therby to presse the
same; otherwise I shalbe loath to deale, contrary to myne owne
opynion. I wish hir Majestie would provide you of some noble man
sufficient for authoritie and wisdome to be the president there
of that Counsell; but hir Majestie in this and like causes
delayeth her resolution for want, as is supposed, of mete
persons for such offices, wherof I am sory to see such
scarsitie, as is over apparant: yett I will not fayle to
<P 113>
sollicite hir Majestie to determyne hereuppon. And so, referring
the report of suche good newes as M=r=. Ferne can bring you of
an overthrow given by Count Morrice and other Englishe forces
comanded by Sir Robert Sidney and Sir Frauncis Vere of a nomber
of the King of Spayn's auncient soldiars, as the like hath not
happened with such successe to the states synce the begyning of
their warrs, I bidd your Grace verie hartely farewell. From the
Court at Whitehall, the xxx=th= of Jan. 1596.
   Your Grace's assuredly at command,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my verye good Lord, the
Archbishopp of Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1597 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 113>
[} [\LETTER LVI.\] LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP HUTTON TO LORD
BURGHLEY.}] [^TO WILLIAM CECIL^]
[\11 March, 1596-7.\]
   My most honorable good Lord, I have beene often times bold to
pray your good Lordship to move her Majestie for a Lord
President here. In your last letters you shewe as the cheffe
cause that her Highnes doth not resolve to be the great want off
fitt men for that place. I am right sorie to know so much
myself, (\sed in eo non sunt omnia\) ; but rather this is the
chefe cause, that, the ranke of nobilitie beinge taken away whom
her Majestie founde at the beginninge off her reigne, the
nobilitie that now is growinge up under her shee by her great
wisdome and experience doth know them (\intus et in cute\) ,
themselfes, their families, ther defects and informities
whatsoever: but, under reservation, this oght not to cause her
Majestie to be so irresolute; for, as Solomon saith, (\qui
observat ventum non seminabit, et qui considerat nubes non
metet\) . For I make no doubt but yf it please her Highnes to
resolve, her Majestie's commission, the instructions, the
ordinarie proceedings in this court knowen to
<P 114>
the learned Counsell here, will sufficientlie inhable him. My
Lord of Huntingdon when he came downe here was verie raw, but
havinge a resolute wit to serve God and her Majestie, he grewe
to great experience; so, no dowte, yf her Majestie resolve off
anie that feareth God and loveth the present state, God will
inhable him. Thus, beseeching God to blesse her Majestie and the
whole realme with your Lordship's long life and good health, I
humblie take my leave. March 11, 1596.
   Post Script. - I pray you to be a mean that there be no
amovation in the office of the examiners here, and vouchsafe
this bearer, M=r=. Cole, your Lordship's favour.

<Q HUT 1597 RCECIL>
<A ROBERT CECIL>
<P 114>
[} [\LETTER LVII.\] SIR ROB. CECYLL TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\March 18, 1596-7.\]
   My good Lorde, I have made knowen to her Majestie with what
willingnes you have performed to my brother-in-lawe what
formerly you had promised to her Majestie, and howe in every
circumstance you have shewed bothe regarde to her pleasure and
affection to the persone recommended. I am commanded for this to
be the messenger of her Majestie's gratious acceptation, as a
thinge exceedinglie pleasinge her, the rather for that by your
voluntarie and speedie performance her Majestie had present
opportunitie, thoughe in a trifle, to give comfort to the younge
gentleman in the instant of his great losses of his best and
dearest frendes; wherin as I confesse my spirit and body dothe
participate with a feelinge ( (\secundum naturam\) )
insupportable, so do I confesse myself interessed in an
exceeding obligation of gratefulnes to you, as being done to him
whom for his neernes in bloodd and vertue to my deare wief I can
but hold in principall accoumpt; the requittall wherof I shall
make good to you whensoever opportunitie shall afforde me
occasion. And so for this tyme
<P 115>
I take my leave. From the Court, this xviij=th= of Marche, 1596.
   Your Grace's poore frende at command, 
   Ro. Cecyll.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my very good Lorde, the
Lorde Archbushoppe of Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1597 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 115>
[} [\LETTER LVIII.\] LORD BURGHLEY TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF YORKE
AND THE COUNCILL THERE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\March 19, 1596-7.\]
   After my vearie hartie commendacions to your Grace and the
rest. I have received your letters written the xi=th= of this
monethe, mentioninge the apprehencion of one Joseph Constable, a
brother of Sir Henry Constable's, with some others with him,
beinge, as it semeth, common receivers of seminaries and such
like bad persons; movinge mee by the same your letter to direct
youe mine opinion in what corse and with what speed yow should
proceade against the said Constable; whearein I cannot direct
youe aniethinge, but must leave the same to your selves: onelie
I have thowght good to lett youe understand, that uppon the
dowbt conceived by you, Mr. Ferne, of the validitie of his
inditement, I have, in the absence of the judges, required the
opinion of hir Majestie's attorney-generall; whose awnsweare yow
shall perceive by his letter to mee, which I doe send heare
inclosed to yow, with the copie of his inditement, by which yow
will finde the same to be erronious. And wheare yowe require to
understand mine opinion for his sendinge upp, I see noe such
cawse to have him to be sent hither. And so
<P 116>
I bid your Grace and the rest hartelie farewell. From my howse
in the Strand, this xix=th= of Marche, 1596.
   Your Grace's assured lovinge frend,
   W. Burghley.
   Your Grace's letter to me, shewyng your desyre and opinion
for a President, hath bene greatly lyked by hir Majesty for your
syncere advice.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my verie good Lord, the
Archbishop of Yorke, and the rest of the Counsell there.

<Q HUT 1597 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 117>
[} [\LETTER LX.\] WHYTGYFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, [\TO THE
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\2 May, 1597.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) It hath pleased her Majesty to
bestowe the bishoprick of London upon D=r=. Bancroft; the
bishoprick of Winchester upon D=r=. Bilson, Bishop of Worcester;
and the bishoprick of Chester upon D=r=. Vaughan, now Bishop of
Bangor. And, forasmuch as it would be verye great trouble and
charges to him to come or send downe for his confirmation there,
he hath intreated mee to move you to be content to direct your
commission to some here for the perfourming of the same; which
you may very well doe to some of the doctors of the Arches,
suche as you shall best lyke of. The bishoprick is but small,
and your Lordship knoweth that after his confirmation he must
doe his homage here in person, and take care for his
restitution; and therefore I hartelye praye yow to showe unto
him what favor you may.
   The last lettres written from your selfe and the Councell
there, touching certeyn papists and recusants, are very well
taken, and you are lyke to receave thancks for the same,
especiallie for your paynes in conference with some of them to
so good an effect. In one of the lettres there was putt
Christes-tyde for Christen-mass, which because of the noveltie
thereof (being latelye used onely by some nice persons more
curiouse in termes then in deeds) was by some of your best
frends mislyked; and I marvell how it escaped you, being so
farre from allowing suche novelties. Our brother, your
successor, hath scarcelye delt brotherlie with mee in some
lettres latelye written concerning Tempest's wiffe and Hedleyes
of Newcastle; but of suche dealings I make small accompte. I
have no especiall newes to write unto you. Rumors and reportes
varie
<P 118>
daylie. (\Vale in Christo!\) At Lambeth, the second of May,
1597.
   Your Grace's assured loving frend and brother,
   Jo. Cantuar.
   To the moste Reverend Father in God, my very good Lord and
brother, the Archbishoppe of Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1598 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 120>
[} [\LETTER LXIII.\] LORD TREASURER [\BURGHLEY TO THE ARCHBISHOP
OF YORK).\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\21 Feb. 1597-8.\]
   After my vearie hartie commendacions to your Grace. The same
shall understand that at the present theare is, by order of the
King of Scottes, the person of Sir Robert Carre, otherwise
<P 121>
called the Lord of Sesford, Warden of the Est Marches of
Scotland, delivered to the Warden of the Est Marches of England,
for aunswearinge of divers attempts and wrongs done by the part
of Scotland; whoe is to remaine in England untill a nomber of
pledges maie be delivered into England for satisfaccion of the
wronges done to England in that wardenrie. This man is of great
accompt both by his birthe and by office, and one hable to be
either a good or a bad neighbour to England: for which purpose
hir Majestie hath thowght it necessarie that he should be
browght and staid in som remote part in England from the Border;
and for that purpose hir Majestie hath recommended me to
signifie to your Grace hir pleisance and command that he should
be browght unto you; and that he should be committed to the
charge of sum trustie persons, to see him forthcominge at your
howse of Busshopsthrope, or sum othir place owt of the citie of
York, so as he showld not have anie accesse of strangers to him.
And, accordinge to this hir Majestie's commandment, I have at
this present signified hir Majestie's pleasance to Sir Robert
Careie, Warden of the Estmarche, whoe hath him in his custodie
at this time, and will send him to your Grace. And so I take my
leave. From the Cort, this xxi of Februarye, 1597.
   Your Grace's assured lovinge frende,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my very good Lord, the
Archbishop of York.

<Q HUT 1598 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 121>
[} [\LETTER LXIV.\] LORD TREASORER [\BURGHLEY TO THE ARCHBISHOP
OF YORK).\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\1 Mar. 1597-8.\]
   After my vearie hartie commendacions to your Grace. I have
received your letter, dated the xxv=th= daie of the last moneth,
<P 122>
signifieng thereby the receipt of mine of the xxj=th=, whearebie
I gave your Grace to understand of hir Majestie's purpose to
have the Lord of Sesford to be sent unto yowe, to be safelie
kept at Busshopsthorp, or some other place without the citie.
And wheare by this you lettre yowe move three questions, I will
in one word awnswere them all, which is, that hir Majestie's
express pleisure and commaundment is that he shall not be
browght at all to Yorke, or kept at hir Majestie's howse theare;
but that he showld be kept at Bishopsthrop, and theare to be
kept as a close prisoner, without resort to him, or walking
abroade, otherwise then privately neare the howse; and
thearefore I doe not dowbt but, nowe your Grace understandeth
hir Majestie's pleisure therein, yowe will be carefull to tak
order with him accordingly, and that he maie be safelie garded
and kept. And so I commend mee hartelie to your Grace. From
Cort, this first of Marche, 1597.
   Your Grace's assured loving frend,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my veary good Lord, the
Archbishop's Grace of Yorke.

<Q HUT 1598 PBERTIE>
<A PEREGRINE BERTIE>
<P 128>
[} [\LETTER LXX.\] LORD WILLUGHBIE [\TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF
YORK).\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\4 May, 1598.\]
   My very goode Lord, I receaved the Queene's Majestie's
packett and your Grace's letter this fourth of May about six in
the morning, and by her Highnes' letters had the very like
directions as it seemed by your Grace's to me you had concerning
the delivery of Sir Robert Kerr Lord Sesforde, and upon the same
conditions. But, before the coming of these letters, there was
nother man nor mention of any thing touching the same, more then
a secretary of his came to me to have pasport to ryde to your
Grace and informe his master that his pledges were ready; which
when I had graunted him, he left the same behynde him, and so
departed. It seemeth that her Majestie's plesure is, before
Sesford should be inlarged, there should be putt into my handes
the brother of the said Sesford, with two persons of kynn to
him, to remayne prisoners in some suche place as shalbe
appoynted thereunto, untill these pledges that ar to be given in
by the indent of the late Commissioners on both sydes for the
border causes shalbe accordingly entered; and with this caution
also before he be dismissed from your Lordship, that he gyve in
writing under his hand and seale, that if, after his brother and
kinsfolkes shalbe delivered into my handes, he doe not within
one moneth next after following recover and deliver in those
pledges which by the said Commissioners' indent ought on his
part to be entered, he shall then return to Barwick and yeald
himself prisoner into my handes, to be kept in such places of
these north partes as to her Majestie shalbe thought fitt,
untill he shall have performed on his part that which by the
sayd indent was agreed should be done. Wherfore it may please
your Grace to deale effectually with Sir R. Kerr Lord Sesford,
to take order to proceade herin according to her Majestye's
pleasure; and, assone as ever his brother and kinsfolkes
<P 129>
apoynted shalbe delivered into my handes, I shall send your
Grace present word, and thinck it very convenient that then you
send him to Duresme by such gentlemen of your choyse of that
country (myself being altogether unacquaynted in those partes)
as you shall thinke meete, acording to your Grace's owne project
in your postscript. And I would willingly entreat you to give me
your opinion what manner of persons were fitt to be sent from me
for his receaving there, whether martiall men for a guard, or
civill politique men for entring into his counsell; whether
many, or fewe; with great countenance, or with ordinary
complement; for in these things I would be glad nether to doe
too much nor too little, but, as I have direction by mutuall
correspondency with your Lordship, that which might be most
acceptable service. And so I humbly take my leave. From Barwick,
the 4=th= of May, 1598.
   Your Grace's assured,
   P. Wyllughby.
   To the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Archbishop of
Yorke his Grace.

<Q HUT 1598 PBERTIE>
<A PEREGRINE BERTIE>
<P 129>
[} [\LETTER LXXI.\] LORD WILLUGHBIE [\TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF
YORK).\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\8 May, 1598.\]
   My honorable good Lord, I receaved your Grace's letter this
day at noone, in conveyance whereof the postes have used great
negligence, it coming to Duresme at eight in the morning, and to
Newcastle not till foure in the evening: to punish this slacknes
(least it be committed in more important services), I must
desyre your Lordship to concurr with me. I am of your Grace's
opinion that Sir Robert Kerr will not make any escape, yet much
water passeth the mill that the
<P 130>
miller knoweth not, and there may be secretes herin unknown to
your Lordship and me; so that, till his pledges be delivered, it
wilbe good to have a heedefull eye to him. And wishing your
Lordship much hapines, I rest
   Your Grace's assured,
   P. Wyllughby.
   Barwick, the viij=th= of May, 1598.
   Since my letter written, Sir R. Kerr's pledges arrived here
at foure afternoone. I must desyre your Grace to advertise me
two dayes before he comes to Duresme, that I may take order with
those who I shall apoynt to meete him.
   To the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Archbishop's
Grace of Yorke.

<Q HUT 1598 PBERTIE>
<A PEREGRINE BERTIE>
<P 130>
[} [\LETTER LXXII.\] LORD WILLOUGHBY TO THE LORD OF SESFORDE.}]
[^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\8 May, 1598.\]
   Sir, I would have bene glad to have seene you in your retorn
in this towne; but, her Majestye havinge otherwyse appoynted
your jurney, I wyll, yf I cann, mete you at M=r=. Graye's, and
purpose to send some gentleman to convey you from Durham
thether. I am sory I shall not intertaigne your brother and
hostages, beinge unfurnished as a stranger yet my selfe, but
what I may shalbe afforded them; hopinge you wyll hasten to
deliver the pledges accordinge to the indent for ther
releivinge. Thus, wishinge you well in any thinge becomes me, I
rest accordingly,
   Your lovinge freind to my uttermoste,
   P. Wyllughby.
   Barwick, this 8=th= of May.
   To the Honorable Knight, Sir Robert Carre, Lord Warden of the
Easte Marshes of Scottlande.

<Q HUT 1598 PBERTIE>
<A PEREGRINE BERTIE>
<P 131>
[} [\LETTER LXXIII.\] LORD WILUGHBIE [\TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF
YORK).\] }] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\13 May, 1598.\]
   I am sure, howsoever I measurd by the cold clime Aprill for
a late May, or missed to signe my name, I omitted it not for
want of grace, but for hast; which shall be at layzure mended.
The hand as I take it was, as this, my owne, and therefore my
owne, and not my secretarie's fault; and I confesse I love to
write no dobles of letters, but will affirm my hand and it
whansoever your Grace shall nede to call uppon it. In the meane
season, as the French pronouncing Latin shorten it mutch, and
with their quickness excuse the cadence of sillables, so
excusing my selfe, and leaving it to your gratious construction,
I rest in better things at your Grace's commawnd,
   P. Wyllughby.
   Barwick, the 13 of May.
   The poste-masters have in this pacquet of your Grace's
slacked their duty mutch; I complayne, but I shall be better
hard when the witnes is (\ex ore duorum\) . If your Grace send
me the letter as it is, I will set to my hand: I can hardly
beleave but that I signed the letter; but, if it be not signed,
at any time I will subscribe it for you. My people shall attend
at Durham according to your Grace's appoint.
   To the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Archbishop's
Grace of Yorke.

<Q HUT 1598 WCECIL>
<A WILLIAM CECIL>
<P 133>
[} [\LETTER LXXV.\] LORD TREASORER [\BURGHLEY TO THE ARCHBISHOP
OF YORK\] .}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\23 May, 1598.\]
   After my vearie hartie commendacions to your Grace. Wheare by
your letter dated the xv=th= daie of this moneth, derected to
myself and my Lord Marshall, yowe require to understand what
yowe shall doe with the bond which yowe have taken of the Lord
of Sessford, (whereof yowe sent hither a copie,) as either to
send it hither, or to the Lord Willowghbie; your Grace shall
understaund that it is ment that your Grace should send it to
the Lord Willowghbie, so as it maie be delivered back uppon the
performance of the condicion thereof; and thearefore I praie
your Grace forthwith to send it to his Lordship. And so I
recommend mee heartelie to your Grace. From the Cort, this xxiii
of Maye, 1598.
   Your Grace's assured loving frend,
   W. Burghley.
   To the most Reverend Father in God, my very good Lord, the
Archbishop's Grace of Yorke.

<Q HUT 1598 TMATTHEW>
<A TOBIE MATTHEW>
<P 136>
[} [\LETTER LXXIX.\] MY LORD OF DURESME [\DR. MATTHEW\] .}] [^TO
DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\17 June, 1598.\]
   May it please your Grace and the rest. Finding by letters
from the Lords and others of her Majestie's most honorable Prevy
Counsell that the pledges lately delivered by Sir Robert
<P 137>
Kerr to the Lord Governor of Barwick are thence to be conveyed
and guarded to York; and by a letter from M=r=. William Fenwick,
the Deputie Warden of the Middle Marshes, that he is to recceave
them upon Mondaie next about noone at Alnewick; at whose hand
the Sherif of this countie is to receave them at Gatesheade on
Tuesdaie next about the same houre, and purposeth to deliver
them to the Sherif of Yorkshire at Croftbridge upon Wednesdaie
next by one of the clock in the afternoone, being the usuall
place betwene that countie and this to deliver and receave all
maner of prisoners (\hinc inde\) : These may be to certifie your
Grace of the premisses, to the end that the said tyme and place
may forthwith be signified to the Sherif of Yorkshire, whereby
he may addresse himself for the more certayne execution, with
expedition, of this her Majestie's extraordinary service of
great importaunce; wherewith I perceave your Grace and your
associats have been made acquainted already from above. And so I
humbly betake your Grace and the rest of that honorable Counsell
to the tuition of the Almightie. At B. Awkland, this xvij=th= of
June, 1598.
   Your Grace's humblie at commaundment,
   Tobie Duresm.
   To the most Reverende ffather in God, and my very good Lord,
the Archebusshop's Grace of York, and the rest of her Majestie's
Counsell established there.

<Q HUT 1598 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 143>
[} [\LETTER LXXXV.\] THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK TO TIMOTHY HUTTON,
HIS SON.}] 
[\16 Aug. 1598.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I am glad to heare that you and your
wife bend and buckle your selves so well towards thryvinge. God
blesse you bothe, and yours, and geve yow much comfort of them.
Yow are put in the commission of peace within the Northridinge,
and I referr it unto your choice, whether you will come to take
th' oath before the judges at th' assises, or afterwardes. There
are so few justices in that part of the countrie that I feare
there will be some resorte unto yow, which in this tyme of th'
infection may be daingerous. Commend me to my daughter, and move
hir to continue as she hath well begunne to hir comforte and
commendation. And so I commend yow bothe to the blessed
direction of the best Director. At Yorke, the xvj=th= of August,
1598.
   Your loving father,
   Matth. Ebor.
   [\POSTSCRIPT.\] More safetie not to coome, but more present
credit to come, and be sworne openlie: (\utere tuo juditio\) .
Yf you coome, you shalbe welcome; yf you come not, I will not
take it in evill part. (\Vale in Domino!\)
   (\Tuus ut suus,\)
   Matth. Ebor.
   To my lovinge sonne, Timithie Hutton, at Marske.

<Q HUT 1599 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 145>
[} [\LETTER LXXXVII.\] THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORKE TO TIMOTHY
HUTTON.}] 
[\25 Feb. 1598-9.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I thank yow for your letter, and I
pray yow thanke M=r=. Lawson hartely, and tell him I am not
hable to deale with all these thinges; notwithstanding, if the
milnes be fitt for your house, I would be glad to serve my
frends. It is not like they be of that worth which he settes
downe, because there be other milnes in the towne; yet if yow
understand certainely the worth, the value, the tenure, the
reparations, and the price, I will tell you more. Thus,
beseachinge God to blesse yow and youres with his manifold
graces, I bid yow hartelie farewell. From Yorke, in haste,
Februar. 25, 1598.
   Your loving father,
   Matth. Ebor.
   To my lovinge sonne, Timothie Hutton, at Marske, with speede.

<Q HUT 1599 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 147>
[} [\LETTER LXXXIX.\] LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT TO
ARCHBISHOP HUTTON.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\27 Aug. 1599.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) Wee here have the like writts frome
the Exchequer to certifie, as wee are also bownde to doe by the
commission ytself. The bonds wee take wee dulie certifie into
the Exchequer, when they are forfayted; nether can wee otherwise
bestowe or imploy them. Owte of the fines wee defray necessarie
charges, which are nott greate; the rest we return also into the
Exchequer; but owre fines are nott greate nor manie. Towching
your self, I have not at anie time hard her Majestie to have
apprehended anie complaintes against you, or to have conceaved
otherwise then well of you; but here hathe bene informations
gyven that recusants are of late increased in that province, and
that you are to milde with them. Some of your ministers doe also
affirme the same to be trewe. My advice therefore ys, that your
Lordship make a true declaration in writing how that province
standeth in that poynte and this tyme; for it may be some men's
pollicie to make things worse then they are, to effect there
desyers and to winn the commendation to themselfes. Assuer
yourself that I will do my best to satisfye all objections, yf
anie shalbe, especiallie so far as I knowe and shalbe
instructed. I can testifie, with manie others, how desirious you
were to leave that troublesome place of government, whereof in
my opinion you are happilie rydd. You cannot but here what
alarams we have had, and yet have, of the Spanyerds approching.
It hath bene, and ys, a greate charges to the clergie of this
province: you and your clergie are not trowbled therewith. And
so, with my verie hartie commendations, I committ you to the
tuition of Allmightie God. Frome Croidon, the 27 of Aug. 1599.
   Your Grace's assuered loving frend and brother,
   Jo. Cantuar.
   To the most Reverend in Christe, my verie good Lord and
brother, the Lord Archbishopp of York his Grace.

<Q HUT 1599 RCECIL>
<A ROBERT CECIL>
<P 149>
[} [\LETTER XCI.\] SIR ROB. CECYLL TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF
YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\December 26, 1599.\]
   After my very harty commendacions to your Grace. Where her
Majestie hath ben informed of the deathe of M=r=. Do. Binge, who
in his liefe tyme enioyed a prebend in this churche, which nowe
is become voyde by that accydent; fforsomuch as it pleased her
Majestie to use her recommendacion unto your Grace for a lease
to be made to my brother-in-lawe M=r=. George Brooke, whereunto
you dyd not assent, but in lieu thereof you made hym a graunt of
the next prebend that should fall voyd and be in your Grace's
dysposycion, I have thought good to let you knowe that her
Majestie (uppon this occasion) dothe expect from you a
confyrmacion of that which you have begonne and intended towerds
the gentleman, being one of whom her Majestie maketh
extraordynary estymacion, bothe in regard of the affeccion which
she hathe heretofore borne to his parents, and the partyculer
quallities and good partes wherwith himself is quallyfyed. Thes
being all I have to wryte unto your Grace for the present, I
take my leave. From the Cort at Richmond, the xxvj=th= of
Decem., 1599.
   Your Grace's very loving and assured freind,
   Ro. Cecyll.
   To the most Reverent ffather in God, my very good Lord, the
Lord Archbishopp of York's Grace.

<Q HUT 1600 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 153>
[} [\LETTER XCVI.\] A LETTER FROM THE LORD ARCHBYSHOP OF YORKE
TO THE LORD ARCHBYSHOP OF CANTERBURIE.}] [^TO JOHN WHITGIFT^]
[\Maie 20, 1600.\]
   (\Salutem in Aucthore salutis!\) I am verie sorie that, after
so manie yeres of moste wise and happie government, manifest
displeasures appear among so worthie Counsellors. God grant it 
<P 154>
be not a prognostication of some great storme to this noble
kingdome.
   Three thinges there be which threaten daingers, if not ruine,
to Commonweals, (\privatum commodum, latens odium, juvenile
consilium\) .
   The first perverteth justice and upright dealing.
   The second seeketh revenge, though it be with dainger: (\Haec
ipsa pollens inclyti Pelopis domus ruat vel in me, dummodo in
fratrem ruat.\)
   The third, by not forecasting future events, hathe through
temerity turned manie States, - (\Cedo, qui` vestram rempublicam
tantam amisistis tam cito? respondentur alia, e`t haec in
primis, Proveniebant oratores novi, &c. stulti adolescentuli,\)
- especially when these three doe concurr together, and that in
the fullness of time when God hath appointed to alter states,
and when the sinne of the people is ripe. The palme of the hand
that writt on the wall (^Mene^) and (^Tekel^) , added also
(^Phares^) ; because, whensoever the fulnes of time and repenes
of sinne doe meete together, then doeth God exequute his
judgement upon kingdomes, as he did then, &c. The two first of
these are knowne onelie to God. The third, when it cometh, is
like to be knowne, seene, and felt to manie. We loke to the
second causes, and by them guess (\de futuris contingentibus\) ,
as, (\concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae
dilabuntur\) . I praie God the jarring at home doe not incorage
the rebelles in Ireland and elsewhere. I take it to be against
good policy for a great prince to keepe a longe and lingeringe
warr with a subject nation, though the people be never so base;
for it teacheth them to be skilfull, stout, and resolute, as
appeareth by the Low Countries. God graunt it may not appeare by
Ireland! The people there are growne verie valiant and
desperate, and, being hable to abide all kind of hardines, take
the benefite of the contrie, of woods and bogges, and are like
to hould out a long time, without the losse of more noblemen and
captaines then may be well spared in England. Besides that,
manie of our English nation ( (\nescio quomodo\) ) are verie
unwilling to go thither; and many tall men at home, when they
come there, prove cowards, and the verie contry consumeth them.
Therefore (in myne opinion) it were not amisse for yow of hir
Majestie's Counsell to thinke rather of an honorable peace, than
<P 155>
to indainger so manie noblemen, valiant captaines, and dutifull
subjects, and perhaps (in time) the losse of that kingdome. Yow
and I are men of peace, and therefore I am bould to write unto
yow, being nere to hir Majestie, &c. It would comfort a verie
great nombre of hir Majestie's best subjects if shee would be
pleased to stretch forthe the goulden scepter to that noble
gentleman now abiding the frownes of fortune, and to cause a
sure and hartie reconciliation. The parties are verie wise and
most worthie Counsellors. They are raised almoste wholly by hir
Majestie, therefore (no doubt) wilbe ruled willingly; and shee
hathe bene moste gratious unto bothe parties, therefore may and
should rule and overrule bothe parties. Hir Majestie, by long
experience, hathe gotten the verie (\habitum\) of deepe and
sound wisdome, and all heroicall vertues; so that I make no
doubt but that shee will, of hir owne inclynation, shew
clemencie and mercy, &c. The Lord for his mercies' sake blesse
this land with hir Majestie's long and prosperous reigne, and
yow also, that yow may long serve hir, to the good of his
Church. From Cawood, the xx=th= of Maie, 1600.
   Your Grace's in Christe most assured,
   Matth. Ebor.

<Q HUT 1600 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 155>
[} [\LETTER XCVII.\] THE LORD OF CANTERBURY'S LETTER TO MY
LORD'S GRACE OF YORK.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\7=o= Junii 1600.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I have receaved both your letters;
that by your sonne-in-lawe M=r=. Bowes, and the other of the
xxv=th= of May. I would to God your Grace's advise and desier in
the first might take place, as I hope it will, there appearing
no evident token to the contrary. I have perused the copie of
the letter which you writt to the noble man, and his answere;
wherein I note the spirite of suche humours as those are
possessed witheall to whom (as it is thought) hee doeth too 
<P 156>
muche inclyne. (\Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem.\)
A man had better take upon him to perswade xx=ty= learned men
that are not (\propositi defensores\) , then one suche. I have
receaved the copie of a sermon preached there in the defense (as
it seemeth) of the haling of your recusantes to sermons; but his
name I knowe not. Hee alleageth both scriptures and doctors; but
nothing to the purpose in myne opinion. You knowe that Christe's
(\compelle intrare\) , and suche like phrases in the Newe
Testament, are farre from meaning of any suche violence. And so
is St. Augustine's (\si terrerentur et non docerentur\) , and
the rest of the places of his and others the doctors alleaged in
that sermon. True it is (as you knowe) that St. Augustine and
others doo allowe, in suche cases, ponishment and compulsion;
but not in that sorte. Neither did I ever reade that any
Christian prince or magistrate drewe any ethnickes or heretikes
either to preaching or praying; nor to my remembraunce was it
used in Queen Marie's tyme to the professors of the Gospell: but
I reade that heathenish princes have in that maner drawen
Christians to their sacrifices. But everie man aboundes in his
owne sense. Yf good come of it, it is well, and they have to
glorie in their dooinge; yf otherwise, then experience, which is
(\stultorum magistra\) , will teach them to see their owne
error. In the meane tyme I would not wish your Lordship to
contend with them in that matter, least they say that zeale is
quenched in you, and that you doate in your old age, as it
pleaseth some here to say of mee; and yet, peradventure, when
wee are gone, they will wish us alyve agayne. I am here verie
much troubled with the appeasing of newe controversies about
praedestination, justification, (\liberum arbitrium\) , the
state of the Fathers before the coming of Christe, inhaerent
justice, and suche like matters, never doubted of by any
professor of the Gospell during all the tyme of your aboade and
myne in the universitie. But suche is the malice of the devil,
and pryde of men glorieng in their owne wittes. My Lord of
London is not yet retourned from Embden, neither have I heard
from him but once since their arryval there. Upon Thurseday last
the Earle of Essex was called before the Lords of the Counsile,
and diverse others appointed by her Majesty to sitt with us, for
the hearing of the cause; as, the
<P 157>
Erles of Shrewesburie, Worcestre, Comberland, and Huntington;
the Lordes Zouche and Darcie; the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, Justice Gawdie, and Justice
Walmesley: the totall number of Counsellors and others were
xviij. The place of sitting was at the Lord Keeper's in York
house, where wee sate from viij of the clock in the morning till
it was almost ix at night, without ether eating, drinking, or
rysing. The Earle was charged by the Queene's learned Counseile,
who objected against him and urged v thinges especially, viz.:
the placing of the Earle of Southampton lieutenant of the
horsse, against her Majestie's commaundement; the making of so
many knightes, contrarie to her pleasure likewise; the not going
into the North partes against the rebell while our forces were
strong, according to the direction geven him here before hee
went and his owne consent, and contrarie to directions sent him
from hence after his arryvall in Ireland, &c.; his parleeing
with the rebell, &c.; and his coming over from thense, against
the Queene's expresse commaundement. The Earle aunswered with
great submission, and, after a vehement protestation of his
loyaltie and true harte to the Queene and the State, hee
confessed his error in all theis poyntes, and did forbeare to
make any qualifieng of them, or to contest with her Majesty
touching the same; saving in some particulars, wherein the Lords
were desierouse to bee satisfied. Hereupon wee proceeded to
judgement, every man gevinge his censure particularly from the
first to the last; and all agreed in this sentence, that my Lord
should retourne to his owne house, from whence he came, and
there remayne as he did beefore, during her Majestie's pleasure;
that hee should deale no more in matters of Counseile, nor take
himself to bee a Counseiler; that hee should not meddle himself
in causes belonging to the Earle Marshall, nor in the office of
Master of the Ordinaunce. And this was the end of that action.
You may think yourself beholden unto mee for writing so long a
letter, having so litle leasure; but I thought you were
desierouse to have myne opinion in the first, and to knowe the
trueth in the latter. My Lorde's frendes doo hope that this her
Majestie's mylde and mercifull proceeding with him will in
shorte tyme work his further good, according to her accustomed
clemencie, wh[{erein{]
<P 158>
she doeth excell. (\Vale in Christo!\) From Lambehith, the
vij=th= of June, 1600.
   (\Tuus in Christo,\)
   Jo. Cantuar.
   To [{...{] rend in Ch[{...{] he good Lorde [{...{] brother,
the Archebishopp of York his Grace.

<Q HUT 1600 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 160>
[} [\LETTER XCIX.\] MY LORD'S GRACE HYS LETTER [\TO TIMOTHY
HUTTON, HIS SON.\] }] 
[\Octob. 2, 1600\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I like your letter, but I doe feare
your brother will prove a carelesse unthrefft. My Lord Latimer
claimeth the milnes at Richmonde. I pray you talke with old
M=r=. Pepper, whose father boght the milnes off M=r=. John
Philips, and learne off him off whom M=r=. Philips did buie
them, and off whom that man did buie them, and so upward as
longe before as you can; and also what title my Lord Latimer
maketh unto them an the others milnes there, and he reporteth
the M=r=. Lawson hath compounded with him, and did offer unto me
to compounde, &c., for the land in Wensdale ... and Marske
latelie purchased. I thinke the Quene's auditor wilbe desyrous
to see your purchase, &c.; they cost me vij=c= and lx=li=. I
must have xx wethers everie Easter, untill I can make better
provision. Your sonne is well, God be thanked, and this day in
the minster garthe off his owne accord did aske Jackson howe his
grandsier did. Commend me to my doghter and to yours also.
Yorke, the 2 off October, 1600.
   Your lovinge father,
   Matth. Ebor.

<Q HUT 1602 JWHITGIFT>
<A JOHN WHITGIFT>
<P 162>
[} [\LETTER CII.\] MY LORD OF CANTERBURIE'S LETTER TO MY LORD'S
GRACE OF YORKE.}] [^TO DR. MATTHEW HUTTON^]
[\17 May, 1602.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I had speach of late with the Lord
Burghley towching your self. His Lordship did gyve verie good
<P 163>
testimonie of you, onelie he fownde hymself discontented that
you seme to estrange your self frome hym by absenting your self
from York when he is there, saying that your praesens sometymes
there wold do much good; he wished also that you wold take
paynes now and then to here causes your self, and not to committ
them wholie to your other officers. Your Grace knoweth how
althings prosper where there is concorde, and what effects the
same dothe work bothe in Church and civill government; and
therefore I do wisch and assuer my self that you will have an
especiall care thereof. (\Vis unita fortior.\) My Lord semethe
to be of a good nature, and I know that you were never delited
with separation; and therefore, in my pore opinion, you shal do
well to conferr with hym and to be reconciled. I know that he
for hys parte will willinglie embrace yt, and yt can not be but
a great comforth to you; besides, that both God and her Majestie
shal by that meanes be better served. This I write of my self
unto you, bycause I wold lett you understand in what state
things are. As for hearing of matters your self with others in
commission with you, I shal not nede to write of; I am suer you
do so, and thingk yt to be necessarie for you so to doe. Her
Majestie hath bestowed the denerie of Powle's upon D=r=.
Overall, reader of the divinitie lecter in Chambridge and M=r=.
of Kateren-hall; and the denerie of Chester upon D=r=. Barloe.
The bishopprick of Hereford hangeth as yet in suspence betwixt
the Bishop of Chester and D=r=. Bennet, Dene of Windsor. (\Vale
in Christo!\) Frome Lamb. the 17 of May, 1602.
   Your Grace's loving frend and brother,
   Jo. Cantuar.
   To the most Reverend in Christ, my verie good Lord and
brother, the Archbishop of Yorke.

<Q HUT 1602 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 164>
[} [\LETTER CIII.\] MY LORD'S GRACE HYS APOLOGIE TO THE LORDS
CONCERNING PRECEDENCIE.}]
[\Maie 30, 1602.\]
   Right Honorable, It may please you to understand that the
xx=th= of this moneth I received a letter from your Honors of
the ix=th= of the same, which I did reade with griefe, that you
should conceive so hard an opinion of me as to censure me that I
have neglected your Honors' directions in my certificate
concerning place of the Vice-President at the Assizes, &c.; and
it would have greeved me more, but that I have the testimony of
a good conscience. I beseach yow therefore to heare my answere
with favorable construction.
   (\Objectio 1.\) - First, it is misliked that I did certifie
alone apart, without Sir Thomas Fairfax, Sir Edward Stanhope,
and M=r=. Atturney of the Wards; which three, or two of them,
should have joined with me.
   (\Respons. a.\) - I answere, (^ffirst^) , that (under
reformation) there is no such direction in your letters that I
should joyne them in my certificate. I appeall to your Honors
better informed, and referr my self to your later letter,
wherein brefely and most truely is recited the effect and
meaning of the former letter, viz., that I should use the
assistance and advise of Sir Thomas Fairfax, Sir Edward
Stanhope, and M=r=. Atturney of the Wardes, or any two of them,
and all convenient means, to informe my self what place the
Vice-President had by the space of 25 or 30 yeres, &c., and to
advertise your Honors; and, if my health did not serve me, then
to put it over to those three gentlemen or two of them, and they
to advertise yow, &c. Here is, that I should use their advise
and assistance to discover the trueth (as in deede I did), but
not to joine in certificate with them.
   (^b. Secondly.^) - If I had bene required so to doe, yet
could I not have any two of them to joine with me in
certificate: for, before the Judges came to Yorke, M=r=.
Atturney departed, and not yet retourned; Sir Thomas Fairfax
also went away before I could certifie; and Sir Edward (who
hathe taken great paines in this matter) was in the contrie, I
did not know where, nor
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when he would retourne; and therefore sent the certificate.
Within two or three daies after, Sir Edward came and shewed me a
note out of the recordes of the Counsell, shewing who was 
Vice- President everie sitting many yeres, but what was fund in
the records of the Assises neither he nor any of the Counsell
did informe me; albeit Sir Edward seemed sorie that my
certificate was sent before he did retourne. Yet, before their
departure, I had the assistance here of Sir Edward and M=r=.
Atturney, and their advise that I should write to my Lord Darcy
to know what place to take, and to learne of auncient men the
usage, &c.; which I did accordingly.
   (\Objectio 2.\) - But the other three gentlemen have made
certificate differing from myne, &c.
   (\Respon.\) - I answere, that, after the letter of the 5=th=
of March directed to me, there came an other letter of the 21 of
the same from your Lordship to me and the rest of the Counsell
of Yorke, whereby authoritie was geven to search the recordes of
the Assises, before denyed; and, bicause my health did not well
serve me, I sent to my Lord of Limerike M=r=. Hales and M=r=.
Ferne, who then onely were at Yorke, praying them to send for
the Clarke of the Assises to search the records of that court,
which I understand was done verie diligently. And, after the
Clarke had retourned his search to the Counsell, subscribed with
his hand, my Lord of Limerike and others then at Yorke did
subscribe their names, and sent it up; neither Sir Thomas
Fairfax nor M=r=. Atturney being then at Yorke. But what they
found, and what they certified, they did not make me privie
neither before their certificate nor after; yet since (I hear)
they found in the records that the late Lord Ewre toke place of
them once or twice, and the same confirmed by some witnesses,
which is said to differ much from my certificate. But (under
reformation) albeit there is contradiction betwene those whom I
did examine by vertue of the first letter, and those that were
examined by the Counsell at Yorke by the later, yet there is no
contradiction betwene the certificates, but a difference onely
(\secundum magis et minus\) , for bothe may be true, &c.
   (\Objectio 3.\) - But, immediately upon receipt of your
Lordships' letter, I writt a private letter to Sir Edward and
M=r=. Atturney, that my opinion was that Barons Vice-Presidents
should take place, &c.
<P 166>
   (\Respon.\) - And I answere, that my opinion was then, and
yet is, that they should have place, if the gaole-deliverie be
kept by the commission dormant to the Lord President and
Counsell. Which is not contrarie to my certificate, wherein by
your direction I was required to certifie what I could learne of
the usage, not what I thought convenient, &c.
   (\Object. 4.\) - But I my self toke the place, &c.
   (\Respon.\) - I answere, that, as I was not President, so was
I not Vice-President, but appointed by hir Majestie's commission
under the great seall to supply the place, which the worthie
late Lord Treasorer advertised me was like to continue untill
hir Highness should resolve of a worthie man to succead the good
Erle of Huntingdon. I did lye at the mannor, and kept the diett
for the Counsell, and the Judges came allwaies to me at their
coming to Yorke, as they did to former Lords Presidents, and now
doe to my Lord now President, and I did sitt betwene them on the
bench, onely when the commissions were in reading and the
chardge in geveing. But (under reformation) I take it, this
maketh nothinge for everie Vice-President: for, the Lord
President may appoint any of the Cousell to be Vice-President,
and Doctor Rokebie, one of the Prebendaries of Yorke, was 
Vice-President; and yet it had not bene convenient that he
should have taken place of the Judges, who are knowne to be wise
and great lawyers, and come with great authoritie for the great
good of the subject, and therefore deserve all honor that may be
geven them without injurie to higher authoritie.
   (\Object. 5.\) - But I gave to much credit to the Lord
Darcie's letter, who, about two yeres before, had written to the
contrary, &c.
   (\Respon.\) - I answere, that what he writt before I can not
tell; but since, he being desired by my Lord of Limerick and
M=r=. Ferne to certifie what place he toke, signified by his
letter to them more plainly then he did to me, viz., that he
gave place to them, bothe in the church and on the bench.
   (\Object. 6.\) - That I have geven the Lord President cause
of exception against me, and therefore it pleaseth your Honors
to use me no more in this particular.
   (\Respon.\) - I answere, that I geve your Honors humble and
heartie thanks, and wish I had not bene used at all. But (I
protest before God) I never meant to crosse my Lord President,
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whom I allwaies loved, and doe honor with all my hart, not onely
for his place which he houldeth under hir Majestie, but also for
the deserved great good will I did ever bear to my verie good
Lord his noble father, as worthie a counsellor as ever England
bredd. Thus, beseaching God to blesse this kingdome with hir
Majestie's long and prosperous reigne, and all your Honors with
his manifold graces, long to serve so gratious a sovereigne, to
the great good of this Church and common wealth, I humbly take
leave. From Bishopthorp, the xxx=th= of Maie, 1602.
   Your Honors' in Christe to be commaunded,
   Matth. Ebor.

<Q HUT 1602 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 167>
[} [\LETTER CIV.\] A COPYE OF MY LORD ARCHBISHOP'S LETTER UNTO
THE LORD PRESIDENT.}] [^TO EDMUND SHEFFIELD^]
[\30 Aug. 1602.\]
   Right Honorable, I thanke your Lordship hartely for the booke
and newes you sent me by my Chancellor. The booke I have redd,
and mislike that it should come to the hands either of the
papists (whom it will confirme in their error), or of the simple
protestants, whom I fear it will weaken in their faith, &c.;
ffor, albeit these traitors vomit their poison one against an
other, yet they joine together in casting out poison against
religion and the State. As for hir Majestie's entertainment at
my Lord Keeper's house, I am glad to heare it was to hir good
likinge and best contentment; and (in deede) it could not be
otherwise, ffor, besides the loyall and chearefull harts of the
master of the house and his good ladie (well knowne to hir
Highnes before, and then speciallie shewed), two of the first
creatures that ever God made, and so now two of th' ouldest,
Time and Place, forgetting their yeres, 5564, did (as it were)
caste awaie their crutches and frame themselves to the present
worlde to speake (\placentia\) , concurring, consenting, and
conspiring to cheare and solace hir Highnes, by whose wise and
happie government bothe time and place themselves
<P 168>
have bene much graced. These two are verie nere of kinne to two
oulde predicaments as ould as them selves, (\quando et ubi\) ,
which I praie God may allwaies and everie where likewise concurr
to serve her Majestie; that, whensoever and wheresoever shee
taketh anie thinge in hand, God's holie hande and powerfull
spirit may direct it to his glorie, and hir happines and
comforte, bothe in this world and in the world to come. Thus,
beseaching God to blesse your Lordship, my good Ladie, and all
youres with his manifould graces, I bid you moste hartelie
farewell. From Bishopthorpe, the xxx of August, 1602.
   Your Lordship's in Christe moste assuredly,
   Matth. Ebor.

<Q HUT 1603 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 169>
[} [\LETTER CVI.\] ARCHBISHOP HUTTON TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\13 Julii, 1603.\]
   (\Salutem in Sal. &c.!\) I like not in any case that yow
should go to London, the sicknes is so dispersed. Since your
boyes coming hither, I perceaive by a letter from D=r=. Benet
that the coronation is like to hould as was appointed, but with
lesse solemnitie then was expected. I thinke verie fewe will go.
I will write to D=r=. Benet to excuse yow. The Lord blesse yow
and youres with his manifould graces. At Bishopthorp, the
xiij=th= of Julie, 1603.
   Your loving father,
   Matth. Ebor.

<Q HUT 1604 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 170>
[} [\LETTER CVIII.\] MY LORDE'S GRACE [\TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON,
HIS SON.\] }] 
[\18 May, 1604.\]
   (\Salutem, &c.!\) I have kept your sonne Math. here these 4
or 5 daies, fearing the dainger of the sicknes, &c. And now,
being informed that it spreadeth abrode and increaseth in Yorke,
I hould it best that you take him to you, for that I doubt he
can not so well stay here without dainger or great fear so nere
th' infected places and among so manie in this great familie.
And so, praying God to blesse you and all youres with his
manifould graces, with hartie commendations to my good daughter,
I end. Bishopthorp, this xviij=th= of Maie, 1604.
   Youre loving father,
   Matth. Ebor.
<P 171>
   You shall do well either to fetch him or send for him, and
also a toward scholar, a pretie boy, M=r=. Rawson's kinsman,
that waiteth on him. You need send the fewer, because I hear
that M=r=. Crawthorne and Th. Stirkai stay till he comes, and
all my horses are at grasse.
   To my verie loveing sonne, Timothie Hutton, at Marske, with
speede.

<Q HUT 1594 TMATTHEW>
<A TOBIE MATTHEW>
<P 188>
[} [\LETTER CXIV.\] TOBIE MATHEW, DEANE OF DURESME, [\TO MR.
TIMOTHY HUTTON.\] }] 
[\Ult. Dec. 1594.\]
   Sir, I am geven to understand you fall to your studies
againe, and thereof am I glad to heare; especially that you take
a speciall delight in historie, the witnes of tyme and memorie
of life, yea after death. Let me recommend to your diligent
reading the book I send you herewith, a translation of a most
excellent author by a great learned frend of myne. You shall in
myne opinion profit and please yourself muche in the perusing
thereof, attending it well, and using with the text the
annotacions, but, of all other thinges, preferring here and
there your Christian judgement before the profane pollicie of
the originall writer. No merveile, for what booke all faltlesse
but the Book of God? And so, hartily wisshing you and yours
longe and prosperously to enjoye the yeares, lyfe, and land of
your honorable and reverend father, I betake you and gentle
M=rs=. Hutton to the grace of God. At Duresme, (\ult. Decemb.\)
1594.
   Your assured loving frend,
   Tobie Matthew.
   To my worshipful and verie loving frende M=r=. Timothie
Hutton, at Awkeland.

<Q HUT 1608 ACAREW>
<A ADRIAN CAREW>
<P 208>
[} [\LETTER CXXVII.\] ADRIAN CAREW, MASTER OF WARTON SCHOOL, TO
SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\July 27, 1608.\]
   Right worshipfull, my humble dutie remembred, &c. Sir, I
receaved a letter of reprehension of late from my dearest cousen
Sherrard for not wrighting unto you by the returne of John
Ellow, which time would not permitt; yet his legate discovereth
the effectuous zeale of a mind fraught plenteouslie in him with
the bewtie of memorable thankfullnes. He knowes that (\malum non
recedet e domo ingrati\) ; of which I was nither unmindfull,
nither yet do I anie waie distast his grave and strict
admonition in the same. His lines alltogeather incited me to
thankfullnes; yea, thankfullnes to you, to whose extraordinarie
favour I never can be sufficientlie enough thankfull, and, to
use his owne saying, (\Grates persolvere dignas non opis est
nostrae\) , from the bountie of whose charitable palme I
receaved a refuge against all schollars' common enimie, viperous
necessetie, yea a cataplasme carefullie carefullie [\SIC\]
imploid against the frequent wound of this ulcerous world's
unregard of the Muses. Sir, I am not unthankfull, God that knows
my hart is assured. Nither, were that within the limitts of my
power to be procured which should shew it, I would rack my self
to leavie the arrerage, I would not owe it: not that my
<P 209>
shallownes in judgement can intimate anie thing that you expect
other at my hands then a hartie care, and a hand to office that
hart in the true pourtracture of the same care; but because I
would not through my oversight work anie uneavenes in that path
which you so divine wiselie, honourablie, humanelie,
charitablie, and humblie have laid before my deare cousen's
feete; my deare dearest cousen, who hath consented often to my
thought, and I to his, in this (and that without assentation),
you are a man made up of divine wisedome, honour, humanitie,
charitie, and one in whose rank it is rare to find the like for
true humillitie, humilitie the fayre ornament of all grace and
vertue. Sir, I will be thankfull, and my verie soule is
allreadie resolved into a myriad of thanks for your marveylous
respects laid upon us and bounteous effects: but my hart is
ashamed, and I doubt the acceptance; for, being of late sick of
some abuse, my choller willfullie pursued for an untimelie
medicine, having forgotten that (\morbis nihil est magis
periculosum\) then (\immatura medicina\) ; by which I have done
that which will undoe the kind knot of your favour towards me.
The matter I refer to my cousen's lips, being loath to regester
the unhappie cause of my recession in that which should be the
record of my progression in the vertue which you have busied me
in; when he hath spoken it, beleve it (I beseech you), he shall
speake the truth. Credit, I humbly praie you, no vulgar tongue,
for (\Plebi non judicium, non veritas\) . (\Non est consilium in
vulgo, non ratio, non discrimen: ex opinione multa, ex veritate
pauca judicat.\) Nither too much to our predecessors, though
they have bene kind; for no doubt (\Aegris oculis alienam
faelicitatem intuentur\) . And then, I beseech you, give me
leave to be my owne judge. My selfe have done the offence most
against my selfe, for which I will exile my selfe from all hope
of your abused favour; and, I most humblie beseech you, respect
my cousen nothing the worse, in whom you are nothing deceaved.
What you have done for me praie permitt me to resigne againe to
his brothers, whose sufficient lerning for Greeke and Latin can
well discharge this, and a greater charge then this. Their
modestie and civillitie is as their brother's. I doubt not but
you will be pleased in their dilligence, pacience, and
temperance. I will thankfullie make restitution to them of all
that I receaved, except your favour, which I have willfullie
lost. (\Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.\)
<P 210>
Ireland, which hath begun my griefe, shall ease it, or end it,
as God shall please. For those that have abused me here, God
forgive them. I cannot with pacience live anie longer among
them. (\Nec amissos colores lana refert medicata fuco.\) God
forgive my offence towards you; to redeeme the which, I will
taxe all the actions of my hands, and thoughts of my hart. Yea,
my hart, hands, life, lerning, all that I have, shall be alwaies
readie to be exposed to the honour of you and your most
honourable ladie. I onlie request this one thing at your hands,
your favourable report. I will sowe the seedes of true
repentance for my rash oversight, by the which I hope againe in
time to regaine grace at your honourable hands. (\Multo firmior
est fides quam reponit poenitentia.\) Not forgetting my dutie to
your singular good ladie, your excellent chilldren, the
ingenuous offspring of right generous parents, I a thousand
times recall all your curtesies, readie to take my leave of
discourteous Lancashier. Warton, (\Julii 27=o=\) , 1608.
   Obliged to your worship in all the offices of humilitie and
thankfullnes,
   Adrian Carew.
   To the right worshipful my most worthie good frend, Sir
Timothie Hutton, at Mask, give these with speede.

<Q HUT 1617 T1HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 1>
<P 217>
[} [\LETTER CXXXIV.\] A COPPIE OF MY LETTER TO MR. DEANE OF
YORKE.}]
[\Julie 8, 1617.\]
   Sir, I must and doe acknowledg, as I ame a poore sonne of a
Levite, that yt had becomd me eare now (yf I held not some
particulars of my poore estate of you) to have tendred the dutye
that I doe owe unto your hollie trybe: but my place of beeing
alderman in thys poore towne of Richmond, wheare I dwell, hath
prevented dyvers intented tymes which I had purposed to have
wayted on you. I would entreate you that myne attendance may be
acceptable in the assyse weeke, at which tyme I doubt not but to
gyve you contentment for such leases as I hould of you; beeing a
greate part of the portion which my deare father left unto my
selfe and manye of my lyttle selves. I have noe reason to press
you for extraordinarye favoure, bycause I have not deserved
anything of you, but to be used as you use others; and I cannot
doubt of that, bycause I heare of your true worth everye way:
humblye thanking God even for the glorye of hys word, and the
good of that church, that he hath sent such an one amongst us.
God is my wyttnes that I speake yt without adulation, yt beeing
a thing very farre from my playne dysposition; and I doe detest
yt either in myselfe or anye. I doe eftsoones entreate your
<P 218>
favoure for thys tyme prefyxed, at which tyme (God wylling) I
wyll attend you; tyll when, and then, and always,
   I rest, &c.
   To M=r=. Deane of Yorke.
   Julie 8, 1617.

<Q HUT 1620 T2HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 2>
<P 225>
[} [\LETTER CXLII.\] TIM. HUTTON, MY KYNSMAN.}] [^TO SIR TIMOTHY
HUTTON^]
[\June 29, 1620.\]
   Right Worshipfull,
   My humble duty remembred; with my thankfullnesse for your
late, as yet, undeserved favor and helpe in the tyme of my
greate nede; with my daylye prayer to the Almighty for your
reward, and contynuall health and happnes, to his best will and
pleasure. May it please you to pardon my bouldnes in that I ame
constrayned to trouble you by reason of my myssefortune, as I
understand by my deare ffreind M=r=. Robert Fort you are fully
made acquaynted with; whose love hath ben such to me that,
unlesse he had byn ordayned of God to worke my good, beinge to
me a straynger, I can see no reasson that I should receve such
kindnesses from him as I have obtyned, in somuch that they have
semed to savor more lyker the deedes of a ffather then a
ffrinde; wherby he, to worke my peace and quiett, hath taken
most of my debtes upon him selfe, and disburssed much mony for
me, and ordered althinges in that forme, beinge a man of good
cappassitie, that, with the help which I understand he did
wright unto you to be pleassed to doe for me in the behalfe of
my good, which to my joy, as I understand, you have promysed to
doe for me, I may be rayssed from nothing to be able to repaye
your former deede, worthey of me to be remembred, and lykewisse
lyve of my selfe to the rejoysement of all my good ffreindes,
and especyally not forget from whence all my good cometh; the
tyme being very short which muste establish my hoppes, which
only relye upon your helpe in the forme M=r=. Fort hath shewed
your worship, the which I refer to your worthy consyderacion.
And so, as my bounden duty commandeth, I shall never seasse to
pray to the Allmighty God, whoe is the sender of all goodnes
upon his servants, to multyply
<P 226>
and increasse your worship with all the contents of this world
and the joyes of the etternall worlde to come; and thus I sease
at thes tyme to trouble your worship any ffurther, humbly
desiring your answer. From the Blew Ancker in Feld Lane, London,
June the 29=th= day.
   Your lovinge servant, and at your worship's command.
   Timothie Hutton.

<Q HUT 1621 T2HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 2>
<P 228>
[} [\LETTER CXLV.\] TIM. HUTTON, MY KYNSMAN, TO JO. ELLOW.}]
[^TO JOHN ELLOW^]
[\Maie 31, 1621.\]
   Kinde John Ellow, my best love and harty commondationes
remembred unto you. This is to certifie you that I have receved
your letter, and M=r=. Forte another ffrom Sir Timothie, for the
which I give you many thoussand thankes; intreating you to
deliver M=r=. Forte's letter to Sir Timothie, and to further me
in my affares: thus desiring your love to speake to Sir Timothie
for me to stand my frend at this time, and I shall be mad for
ever, and my fortunes raised againe. M=r=. Forte and his wife
and Susan remembers their loves to you. Soe I end, leavinge you
to the protection of Allmightie God. Frome the Blew Ancker in
Feld Lane, London, May the 31=th= day.
   Your loving ffrind to his power in what I may,
   Timothie Hutton.
   To his assured and very lovinge ffrind, John Ellow, dewelling
with Sir Timothie Hutton, knight, at Maske, deliver this.

<Q HUT 1621 T2HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 2>
<P 228>
[} [\LETTER CXLVI.\] TIM. HUTTON, MY KYNSMAN, TO JO. ELLOW.}]
[^TO JOHN ELLOW^]
[\June 14, 1621.\]
   Kind John Elow, my best love and harty commendations
remembred unto you; hopping of your good health, with all the
rest of my good ffrinds. This is to certyfie you the cause of my
wrighting unto you is to intreat you to speake to Sir Timothie
for me; and that he would be pleased to doe somthing for me at
this tyme, for I never had more ned in all my lyfe. I doe owe
M=r=. Fort +L10. 12 (^s.^) , which doth greave me very sore, he
having layd out the most of it out of his purse to keppe me from
prisson; and now he will doe no more, and I cannot blame him,
for, had not he bene, I had ben dead in prisson afore now. Kind
John Elow, speake to Sir Timothie that he would be pleased to
lend
<P 229>
me +L10 12 (^s.^) to pay him, and I shall thinke my selfe happy,
and be bound to pray for his worship, and in tyme pay his
worship agayne. Soe I would intreat you to showe Sir Timothie
this letter, wherby he may understand my wants at this tyme, for
they wear never more. No more at this tyme, but, intreating your
answer, I commit you to the protection of Allmighty God. From
the Blew Anchor in Fild Lane, London, June the 14=th=.
   Susan hath sent you a token for a remembrance, of hir owne
makinge.
   Your loving ffrind to his power,
   Timothie Hutton.

<Q HUT 1623 WALDBROUGH>
<A WILLIAM ALDBROUGH>
<P 231>
[} [\LETTER CLI.\] WILL. ALDBROUGH [\TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON\] .}]
[\Januarie 15, 1622-3.\]
   Ryght Worshippful.
   Forasmuch as I am not able in bodye to come to your sessions
at this instant, having formerly bene att the sessions at
Hemsley; therfore I thought fitt to signifie unto you, thatt yf
yt stand with your good-likinge, that, according to his
Majestie's orders, there shall be a division of our selves into
sundry wapentakes for the spede preventing and remidinge of the
dearth of corne and other victualls according to the said
orders, I shall be redye for the spede execucion of the said
service to joyne with those of our assosiats as you shall think
fitting for the execucion of the said service within the
wapentake of Hallikell and Hangeast, upon notice of the tyme and
place which I thinke fitting afore your departure from sessions
to be sett downe, and notice therof to be geven to the head
constable now present at your sessions. The place I think
fitting to be att Burneston; the tyme as shortly as you can; the
charge to bee that the pettie constable and bring [\SIC\] a note
of all brewsters lycensed and lycensed maltsters, and the
malsters to be present, all badgers and ingrossers
<P 232>
of corne, and whatt further derections you will sett downe.
Thus, upon notice of your pleasures hearein, I will be redye to
the best of my knowledg to do his Majesty service, both now and
all other tymes.
   Yours in all kindenes,
   Will. Aldiburgh.
   Ellingthorp, Januarij 15, 1622.
   William Rey of Kirbie super Moram, I hold him not fitting to
tiple, for that he doth harbour by a whole weak to gether
contemptououse persons to the law; therefore I pray you lett him
be disallowed by sessions.

<Q HUT 1623 T1HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 1>
<P 236>
[} [\LETTER CLV.\] A COPIE OF MY LETTER TO MR. RYGGE.}]
[\Aug. 18, 1623.\]
   Sir, I suppose you are nott ygnorant of a match which was
intended betwyxt my maugh Cleburne hys eldest sonne Edmund and
my daughter. I doe protest unto you (in the word of truth) that
the breach thereof is no smale dyscontentment unto me; and that
I must needs cleare the young gentleman soe farre, that there
was noe fault neither in hym selfe nor on hys syde, but onely
the dysaffaction of my foolysh daughter, whoe is lyke (and
shall) to pay for hyr follye.
   I understand that there hath beene conference betwyxt hym and
you touching hys sonne with your daughter, whearein (yf ytt
shall please God that yt goe forward) I shall nott be a lyttle
glad that he shall match with one of such integretye as you are
reported to be. Hys estate is fayre, and such as (with a lyttle
tyme) will free hym from all incombrances: and bycause I know
you cannott but be desyrous to know them, I have delyvared a
note of them unto my maugh (the bearer heareof) which he wyll
shew you. As for myne owne mony, which I have payd, I wyll nott
take one pennye for use, butt that I may have ytt upon one
quarter's warning yf of necessytye I must requyre ytt; which I
thinke wyll nott be hastely, for my daughter is nott much above
fowarteene yeares ould. As for other bonds which I am entred
into for hym to supply hys occasions, I hope noe reasonable man
wyll thinke ytt unreasonable to desyre securitye for myne
indemnitye.
   I wyll wyllinglye release any interest that I have in hys
estate, upon such securitye as shalbe reasonablye requyred; and
that the covenants for the good of the chyldren be parformed,
for I must profess that I wyll never betray that trust that is
reposed in others with myself for them whylst I lyve.
   These things performed, and that there be an agreement
betwyxt you, (which I beseach God to dyrect and bless,) I shalbe
verye desyrous that the busynes may receave an overture,
<P 237>
and wylbe wylling to meate whensoever and whearesoever you or
any shall please to prefyx. And thus I rest,
   Your verrye loving freind, 
   T. H.
   Marske, Aug. 18, 1623.
   My letter to Mr. Rygge.

<Q HUT 1623 T1HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 1>
<P 245>
[} [\LETTER CLIX.\] MY LETTER TO MY LORD'S GRACE OF YORKE FOR
MR. SHERRARD.}] [^TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK^]
[\8ber ult. 1623.\]
   My dutye remembred, &c.
   I made bould att my last beeing att Byshoppthorp humblye to
entreate your Grace's favoure in the behalfe of thys bearer
M=r=. Sherrard; and I dyd then intimate unto your Grace that
(with your favourable acceptance) I would wryte with hym unto
you att such tyme as he brought the booke which your Grace
requyred hym to wryte.
   I must acknowledg that I have nott deserved to obtayne any
sute of you; yett such is the nature of necessytye that yt
oftentymes presumeth upon (\non erubescunt literae\) . And, now
that I have begunne to speake unto my Lord, (\"ne quaeso
accendatur ira Domini, si loquar tantum hac vice"\) . Good my
Lord, even for God's sake, hys glorie, and the good of hys
Church, lett me beseech and humbly beg your favour for hym,
whose integretye of lyfe I know, and whose learning you know,
and for both I know nott many such.
   I know your Grace hath many worthye Chaplaynes, whoe depend
on you for there preferrement; butt myne humble sute is, that
(as God hath made them fyshers of men) your Grace would bestow
such a poore flye on hym as your Chaplaynes happelie wyll nott
vouchsafe to bate there hookes withall. The poore meanes that he
hath is nott worth twentye pownds (\per annum\) (I speake of the
most), having a wyfe, twoe chyldren and one half (I speake of
the least); and such is the myserie of the tyme, and my desyre
to wyshe hym good, as I would wyllingly gyve out of my poore
estate one, twoe, or three hundreth powndes to buye hym a lyving
yf I knew how to come by ytt: butt thys I make bould to wryte
unto your Grace to shew my symple condition to hym as a learned
mynyster, and as I am myselfe a poore sonne of a Levyte; your
Grace's honorable and free dysposition to all schollars beeing
known unto all. Thus,
<P 246>
loath to add tediousnes to bouldnes, and humblye craving pardon
for the same, I doe rest,
   Humblye at your Grace's comandment,
   T. H.
   Richmund, (\8=bris= ult.\) [\1623.\]

<Q HUT 1623 T1HUTTON>
<A TIMOTHY HUTTON 1>
<P 246>
[} [\LETTER CLX.\] MY LETTER TO MR. DODSWORTH, CHANCELLOR, FOR
ETHERINGTON.}] 
[\9ber 22, 1623.\]
   Sir, I have made bould heeretofore to entreate your lawfull
favour for Tho. Cooke, alias Etherington, in hys tedious and
chardgeable sute; which now I heare is to be sentenced upon
Thursday next. If you please to remember, I was att your owne
howse, when and wheare I shewed you all the evydences which
weare taken upon oath for the King, and they prooved strongly
for hym; otherwyse he had been condemned att the last assises,
and had suffered death, which had gyven an end to all hys
trobles: butt now, whatt with the hanging of cause soe long, and
that yf sentence goe agaynst hym, ytt wylbe worse then death
unto hym, beeing utterlye undon allreadye.
   And, good Sir, gyve me leave to remember you, that, when I
shewed you the depositions, you sayd that you had beene
stronglye enformed of the heynousnes of the fact, and that you
never heard soe much to the contrarye before; and that, yf they
weare true, there would be no doubt but the cause would goe well
enough on hys syde.
   Sir, nott to interpose my poore opynyon with your reverend
judgment, I doe proteste unto you even upon my conscience and
knowledg ytt is as conscionable a cause (whearein I beseech your
favour) as ever I knew in my lyfe.
   I would nott wrongfullye intimate thus much unto you, bycause
if the cause goe agaynst hym ytt is hys undoing (as he is
allreadye), yea though ytt weare upon the hazard of myne owne
overthrow, for all the worlde; butt onlye that I cannott
contayne but in soe conscionable a case to entreate your lawfull
and just censure.
<P 247>
   And the rather for that I have heard ( (\nescio quo\) ) that
you are resolved to gyve sentence agaynst hym; which I doe
rather wonder att then beleave, knowing that the judgement of a
judge is (untyll ytt be delyvered) (\in scrinio pectoris\) .
   He hath beene mooved by dyvers to appeale further, but I have
styll dyswaded hym from ytt; assuring hym of your upryghtnes and
lawfull favoure, wheareof I doubt not, and whearein you shall
fynd hym an humble and thankefull remembrancer of the same. And
thus, loath to add tediousnes to bouldnes,
   I rest your ever loving frend,
   T. H.
   (\9ber\) 22, 1623.

<Q HUT 1624 WALDBROUGH>
<A WILLIAM ALDEBROUGH>
<P 248>
[} [\LETTER CLXII.\] WILL. ALDEBROUGH [\TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON\]
COM. PRO RECUSAN.}] 
[\5 Sep. 1624.\]
   Syr Tymothie, I would desire you, as convenienly as you
could, to send me word what tyme and place you appoynte for the
executione of his Majestie's commission to us and others
directed for the levying of his Majestie's fines for the fynes
of the recusants. It is lett me understand (but I am nott
certayne) that the Commissiners have setten upon the said
commisson in all devisions save Richmondshire; so I would desyre
you that wee might not be slacke therin, and that you would
appoynt a place within twelfe myles, for I am not able further
to travill. Thus, with my love and kinde wishes to you, my
ladye, and your children, I committ you to God.
   Yours in all kindenes,
   Will. Aldeburgh.
   Ellingthorpe, the 5=th= Sept. 1624.

<Q HUT 1637 JJACKSON>
<A JOHN JACKSON>
<P 259>
[} [\LETTER CLXVI.\] JOHN JACKSON, RECTOR OF MASKE, [\TO MATTHEW
HUTTON, ESQ.\] }] 
[\June 2, 1637.\]
   Good Sir, I do so thirst for your returne, and languish so
thorough my defeated hope of having enjoyed yow heere this
night, that I have neither mind ne power to write more than two
words. And (indeed) to be cramped with reading a short letter is
less torment then to be putt on the rack with a long. Touching
your sweet self-multiplyed ones (of which yow desire to heare in
the first place), M=r=. Jones, in your absence, hath bene as
carefull of them as one could be of a christall glass. They are
all three as your owne harts could wish them; that is, very
well, save that Jacky laboureth a little in his eyes. Babby
(whose innocent actions carry theyr warrant with them) cheeres
us all with her warme and moyst kisses. Touching the mony yow
wrote about, I can say nothing but as the day shall bring forth.
You know who is to be the paymaster of the greater part of it;
one who, if all the rules of physiognomy be not false, will not
pay just at his day. The bearer heereof will also beare yow all
the regreets that yow can expect from your owne family. I send
yow mine heere under seale, not so much for the secrecy as for
the sureness thereof. Also to M=rs=. Hutton and M=rs=. Rothy
more harty affection then poetry can feigne or oratory vary;
also to
<P 260>
yow all this short but full prayer, Jesu be your Jesus! From
Marske, a place seated betweene 4 great hills, or (as yow may
properly speake) the English Alpes; which, though it be our
habitation, yet, in your so long absence, our place of
banishment.
   Yours verily, to be ever commanded,
   Joh. Jackson.
   June 2=o=, 1637.

<Q HUT 1638 JJACKSON>
<A JOHN JACKSON>
<P 260>
[} [\LETTER CLXVII.\] JOHN JACKSON [\TO MATTHEW HUTTON, ESQ.\]
}] 
[\March 1637-8.\]
   Good S=r=, We now begin to grow impatient of your long
absence from us: so, as I am a generall suitour to pray yow to
fold upp your businesses and make hast northe-ward. By our
neighbour, M=r=. Nicholson, I wrote to yow. By your servant, Th.
Cl., I receaved a kind letter from yow, for which I owe yow much
thancks; whereby I perceave yow have very notably fitted mee
with a trilingue psalterium, which indeed is just such an one as
I would have (if it be well printed). For the Chaldee or Syriack
I care not, and only mentioned them because I thought yow would
hardly gett one of the three tongues only. I pray, Sir, let it
be preserved even as it is, without alteration of binding, if
already yow have not delivered it over to be broken by the
bookbinder. So as the book yow had upp with yow being fayrely
bound, and that only brought downe, yow have fully therein
concurred with my desires. I hope by this tyme M=r=. Bulwer's
debet is payed yow. I must needs, in the behalf of my wife, pray
yow also to buy her 2 fayr and usefull bone combes, about 16 or
18=d=. a piece. God send us yow saffe home is a piece of our
March leiturgy, and of
   Yo=r= very fr. and servant,
   Jo. Jackson.

<Q HUT 1604 M1HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 1>
<P 304>
[} [\LETTER CLXXXII.\] THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK TO THE BISHOP OF
DURHAM.}] [^TO TOBIE MATTHEW^]
[\7 Mar. 1603-4.\]
   (\Salutem in Christo!\) I think my self very much beholden
unto your Lordship for your many pitthie kind letters. Your
former good advertisements towching the late Conference and
Commissioners, &c. did pass somewhat slowlie; but your woeful
letter of the heavie news of the death of that most reverend and
worthy Archbishop, brought to me on Saturday last, came too, too
soon, the Lord God knoweth. Many (no doubt) may, and do lament,
that his Majesty hath lost a faithful, good counsillor; the
Church a great and notable pillar and patron; and my self also
have special cause to sorrow for the want of such an auncient,
constant, and dear friend. It is a singular comfort and
incouragement to us all, that his Highness vouchsafed so
graciouslie to visit him; wherein, as in many other excellent
vertues and things, he doth imitate his late dear sister, worthy
Queen Elizabeth, who did alway bear and shew a special good
affection toward him. God move his Majestyes royal and religious
heart (the sooner the better) to make special choice of one to
succeed him; and I think that either your Lordship, or my Lord
of Winchester, is like to have the place: albeit the dealing
with the Sec [\Secular\] Priests against the Jesuits in his
Majesty's time is now said to be a good service, and that it was
done only to advance his Majesty's title against the Spanish
faction.
   I send you and my Lord of London my proxy, jointly and
severally, lest your Lordship should happen to be sick, &c. I
pray you help Sir John Bennet to such copies or things as are to
be sent hither, and must be confirmed by Convocation. Thus,
beseeching God to bless your Lordship with His manifold graces,
and that I may never see you more (though I love you entyrely)
but that you may be placed there, to God's glory, the good of
<P 305>
His church, and your own contentment, I bid you most hartily
farewel. From Bishopthorp, the vii=th= of March, 1603.
   Your Lordship's very assured loving friend and brother,
   Matth. Ebor.
   To the Right Reverend Father, my very good Lord and Brother,
the Bishop of Duresme.

<Q HUT 1623 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 308>
[} [\LETTER CLXXXVI.\] THOMAS BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\4 May, 1623.\]
   Sir, I have beene at Newcastle and at Sir Wm. Wrey's, but Sir
Wm. Wrey was gone into Yorkshire. I stande in doubt I shall not
gitt money in tyme. I have spoken with one M=r=. Coale; his
answere is delatorye. He seemes as thoughe he woulde buy yt; but
he hath an offer of Folansbye by my nephew Hiltone, that lyes
nearer to Newcastle, and therefore he will not part with his
money untill he be resolved for yt: yet he hath promised me an
answere this weeke by our carryers that goes to Newcastle. Upon
his words I went to the east of Bishoppricke to have spoken with
my nephew John Hilton, but I missed of
<P 309>
him; and his wife tells me that she thinkes yt is not of sale. I
shall have answere from John Hilton tomorrow, as I expecte. I
have written to Sir Wm. Wrey by this bearer: what yt will worke
with him I know not; but, yf he please to doe me the favour he
may doe, I shall rest ever beholden to him. If he returne me any
answere, call for yt and see yt, yf you please; and, howesoever
he please to doe, I will not cease to labor to procure this
money at some hand, and therefore I staye tomorrow at home to
heare from him. I have ridden downe my grasse horses in this
journey, otherwise I would have come over; but I must needs ease
them to-daye, to have them readye upon Tuesday. Thus,
commendinge my love to you, I rest
   Your assured lovinge brother,
   Thomas Bowes.

<Q HUT 1624 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 309>
[} [\LETTER CLXXXVII.\] THOMAS BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\3 Jan. 1623-4.\]
   Sir, I praye you let me intreate you to enter bond agayne to
my cosin Wycliffe for the 50=li= that you stand bound for with
M=r=. Blackborne. I intreated my cosin Wycliffe to put in my
name; but yt seemes his sonne hath mistaken yt, for my cosin
Wycliffe haith sent his sonne and a bond onelye with your name
and John Blackburn's. I have intreated M=r=. Blackburn to stand
bound agayne, and he is come to our house, where wee expect the
bond; and, when he hath sealed yt, I will come up with my cosin
Ascoughe to you. Soe, comendinge my love to you, I rest
   Your assured lovinge brother,
   Thomas Bowes.
   Januarye 3=d=, 1623.

<Q HUT 1624 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 310>
[} [\LETTER CLXXXVIII.\] THOMAS BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\31 Oct. 1624.\]
   Sir, I praye you be pleased either to send one to Sir Conyers
Darcye for the deed, that he wilbe pleased to bringe it to you
tomorrow to Bedall, or send your man from Bedall for yt
tomorrow; for I can not call upon Tuesday with any conveniency
at Horneby, beinge to speake with M=r=. Davill that morninge,
for sooner I can't gett to him. I goe this night to Streatlam
for my sister's joyntur, and return tomorrow, and soe to Yorke.
I praye you therefore eyther send your man in the morninge to
Sir Conyers for yt, or from Bedall for yt. Soe in hast
comendinge my love to you I rest
   Your assured lovinge brother,
   Thomas Bowes.
   Oct. 31=st=. [\ENDORSED\] 1624.

<Q HUT 1625 M2HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 2>
<P 310>
[} [\LETTER CLXXXIX.\] MATTHEW HUTTON TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\After 27 Mar. 1625.\]
   Sir, My duty bindes me to this observance, as to give you a
weekely accompt of our parliamentary proceedinges. My last
letters acquainted you with such passages as had had there
overture in my absence, since which time (\"sic se res habet"\)
. A select committee of 12 spent the beginninge of this weeke
(the House in the mean time not sitting) in examininge all the
phisitions and surgeons that attended of our late King att his
death, about a potion which was given by the Duke of Buckingham
to the King, and a plaister applyed by his directions; both of
them being contrary to the general directions of all the
phisitions, and absolutely disliked and gainesaid by some, by
name D=r=. Ramsey (who since his examination is committed):
which act of the Duke was judged, first by the judgement of the
12, and afterwards upon report to the House, to be and act of a
transcendent presumption,
<P 311>
and of a dangerous consequence; and so resolved to be annexed to
the Duke's charge. Montagu is, for his booke, transmitted to the
higher House; and his booke judged to be contrary to some of the
articles maintained by our Church. The Earle of Bristow was sent
for, as was supposed, as a delinquent; but must first come into
the higher House as a Peere: this 'generally thought the King
will be his accuser. (\Caetera quis nescit?\) His sonne, this
morninge, presented our House with a petition containinge many
articles against the Duke; and those of such consequence, that
it is probable that one of them will suffer. I intend (God
willinge) to put in my bill of Thursday next; I pray God send
itt good success. Sir John Bennett is not yet come to towne,
neyther can I make any certainty of any money. M=r=. Sotherne is
content that we shall have a parley, but what it will produce I
cannot as yett imagine; I am advised both by M=r=. Justice
Hutton and others to buy him out, though we pay deer for itt:
and therefore, good Sir, acquaint my unkles with the dangers,
that they may be motives for them to allow of our composition;
for, when we shall have both Marbury his recognizance, and these
two statutes in our owne power to extend upon the estate, we
need not doubt but that all subsequent securityes will be glad
of reasonable composition. And thus, with an humble tender of my
duty, I rest
   Your obedient sonne,
   Matthew Hutton.
   Fleet Street, att the signe of the Ship, neere Temple Barr.

<Q HUT 1625 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 311>
[} [\LETTER CXC.\] THOMAS BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}] 
[\20 May, 1625.\]
   Sir, I have beene diverse wayes to have gott money, but as
yet I cannot finde any that hath money or will finde money:
onelye M=r=. Dawson of Newcastle hath ready money, but he hath
gone throw with M=r=. Trolopp for his land, and payes him this
<P 312>
day +L1,900; that bargayne was once gone back, but they are now
agreed. I know M=r=. Robinson woulde gladly buy some lande, and
yett I cannot gett him to buy myne: and in good faythe he shall
have yt free of all troubles, by God's grace, yf he will buy;
and he shall have yt leased, yf he like, for 21 yeares. I have
sought diverse wayes, and yet will looke for more, that I may
satisfy your last kindnes, as all your other, with what
conveniency I can; and I praye you, yf he have any occasion to
come to you, that you will speake to Williamson of Barton to buy
parte of yt. I entreated my nephew Dodsworth to speake with him
in that kinde. Thus, commendinge my love to you, desirous to see
you shortly, I rest
   Your assured lovinge brother,
   Thomas Bowes.
   Streatlam, the 20=th= May, 1625.

<Q HUT 1626 M2HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 2>
<P 312>
[} [\LETTER CXCI.\] MATTHEW HUTTON TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}]
[\23 Sep. 1626.\]
   Sir, M=r=. Sotherne hath falsifyed his trust, and this
morninge before I gott to towne arrested my unckle Thomas; who,
for any thing I can gather from him, is content to undergoe the
extreamity of the law, and that out of willfulnes rather then
necessity. He intendeth, yf he can prevayl with the 
Under- Sheriff, to see you in his way; in which respect I have
made bold humbly to intreat your forbearance of any further
engaging yourselfe untill all such to whom any preceding
incumbrances do appertaine be called in, to knowe what security
they will be content to accept off, that so we may know the
uttermost of our dangers before we engage ourselves any further.
I intend this night to know Sir Talbot his intention, and
presently after you shall partake the same. Thus cravinge pardon
for my boldness, humbly cravinge your blessing for
   Your dutifull sonne
   Matthew Hutton.
   Rich. 23=th= 7=ber=, 1626.
   To his lovinge father, S=r= Timothy Hutton, K=t=., att
Popleton, be these del. The bearer is satisffyed.

<Q HUT 1626 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 313>
[} [\LETTER CXCII.\] THOMAS BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}]
[\25 Sep. 1626.\]
   Sir, M=r=. Sotherne has arrested me upon the first statute,
being 600=li=. I am now here in the castle at Yorke, and came
hither yesterday; I could gitt neyther paper nor inke untill my
man came, for otherwise I had written to you yesterday. I think
I must give bond for my true imprisonment; and therefore I have
made bolde to write theese to you, and to intreate you to joyne
with me for security, and my sonne shall give you what bonde you
please to keepe you harmeles of that bonde. I came upon such a
sudden that I am unprovided of money; I praye you therefore that
you will be pleased to lend me tenn pounds for sixe weeks, and
you shall then have yt repayed. I have not as yet spoken with
M=r=. Blawithe what bond he will require: but, require what he
will, I hope you are persuaded I will not offer to doe my self
or frends wrong in yt; yt beinge nowe way beneficiall to me, but
hurtfull. Thus, comendinge my love to you and the Ladye Hutton,
I rest
   Your assured lovinge brother
   Thomas Bowes.
   From the Castle at Yorke, this 25=th= of Sept. 1626.

<Q HUT 1627 TABOWES>
<A SIR TALBOT BOWES>
<P 314>
[} [\LETTER CXCIV.\] SIR TALBOT BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}]
[\20 Jan. 1626-7.\]
   Maugh! I perceyve by my sister, that, though sundrye of my
supposed freindes be lyke doves that forsake ruinous houses, yet
yowe contynue still the same yowe alwayes were; our declininge
fortunes have made no alteration in your affection. I have now
no meanes of requitall of any your least favours, but onelye to
gyve youe thankes for all togyther. If I shoulde enter into
particulars, I know not where to beginne; but that which is in
present use is freshest in memorye: and therefore, first, I
thank you for your tabacco sent to my wyf; for I owe as much
thankes as she, bycause I participate with her in the takying of
yt. I cannot be unmyndefull to gyve you thankes for your sonne
Phillip's companye with us, for he gave us a sermon wherein we
receyved muche comfort and great cause of rejoycinge. In good
fayth, I am verye glad to see his good proofs; and, the rather,
bycause I doubte not but yt will gyve you an extraordinarye
contentment. I have had a great desyre to come to see you; and
it is not distance of place, nor unseasonableness of weather, or
yet wayes, that coulde keepe me from you: but my brother's
misfortune makes me afrayd to fall into the same danger, and so
I hope you will take yt. How thinges stand between Richard
Fletcher and us, my sister hath related to you. I intend the
next weeke to wryte to him, and what answere he gyves me you
shall heare so soon as I can. In the mean tyme I will saye noe
more but hast, hast; lappinge up in sylence what I cannot
expresse in wordes. And among my manye afflictions, next after
my spirituall comfort, this is my last consolation, that you do
still accept me into your good
<P 315>
opinion; whiche I will ever seeke to preserve, that I maye be
still reputed
   Your brother-in-law and true love,
   Talbot Bowes.
   Streatlam, the 29=th= of Januarye, 1626.
   To the Ryght Worshippfull my verie lovinge brother, Sir
Tymothye Hutton, Knight, gyve these.

<Q HUT 1627 M2HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 2>
<P 315>
[} [\LETTER CXCV.\] MATT. HUTTON [\TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON, HIS
FATHER\] .}]
[\9=ber= 2, 1627.\]
   Sir, I thanke God I am safely arrived att Marske, and left my
wyfe (as wee thinke and hope) past all danger; for the 9=th= day
was past ere I left her, and they att the height. I intend to
goe to Littleburne to her of Tuesday, in hope to bringe her home
(with the help of the coach) the latter end of that weeke: yf
she be not able to ride, then I must leave her. And immediately
after Martinmas day I will hasten to Popleton to observe your
directions, and follow the advice of counsell in takinge
security for such further engagementes as we shall engage our
selves for my unckles. And thus, with the tender of my duty to
your selfe, and my service to my Lady and M=r=. Weekes, I rest
   Your dutifull sonne,
   Matth. Hutton.
   Marske, 2=d= (\9=ber=\) , 1627.

<Q HUT 1627 TABOWES>
<A SIR TALBOT BOWES>
<P 315>
[} [\LETTER CXCVI.\] SIR TALBOT BOWES TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON.}]
[\18 Nov. 1627.\]
   Sir, I was muche comforted and refreshed with hope that, by
your good meanes and your sonne's, my brother should have had
present delyverye from his long and tedious imprisonment: but I
perceyve yt is God's will yet to trye me further how I can beare
his hand; for of late I receyved a letter from my nephew
Matthew, wherein he desyred that with patience his jorney to
London
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for that occasion might be deferred till Candlemas terme, in
respect both of his owne weaknes and his wyf's dangerous
sicknes, whom to leave so soone in suche a case woulde be to her
a great discomfort and discouragement. I returned him answere,
that God forbyd I shoulde intreate him to anythinge that was
eyther an impayringe of his owne health or a discomfort to his
wyfe; and, in good fayth, I then writ truely and ingeniouslye as
I thought: but since I hear that his wyf is pretylye well
recovered, and I hope he himselfe may undertake suche a jorney
without danger; whiche yf yt may be, then I woulde intreate your
furtherance thereunto. It is true that my brother's imprisonment
is greevous unto me, in respect he is my brother; and yt is
augmented by this, that yt is generally apprehended to be for my
cause. I have no freinde in the world whom I dare intreate in so
great a busines as his deliverye but your self alone; and yet I
am not so thirstye to compasse myne owne desyre, nor so
respectlesse of the wellfare of yourself and your posterytye, as
to intreate you to anythinge unlesse you first see yourself
freed from feare of future danger. But, yf that may be done,
then myne earnest desyre is for expedition in the busines; for I
perceyve delayes wilbe a great discomfort to my brother, and in
that respect too grevous to my self. I will saye no more, but
the experience of your former love hath made me adventure upon
this request; and, yf there be any cause of my presence to make
securytye, upon notice thereof I will not fayle to come to
Yorke: and in the mean tyme thinke this of me, I beseeche you,
that I will never forget what you have done for
   Your distressed brother-in-lawe and love,
   Talbot Bowes.
   Streatlam, the 18=th= of November, 1627.

<Q HUT 1628 M2HUTTON>
<A MATTHEW HUTTON 2>
<P 316>
[} [\LETTER CXCVII.\] MATTHEW HUTTON TO SIR TIMOTHY HUTTON, HIS
FATHER.}]
[\6 Feb. 1627-8.\]
   Sir, Tis now certainly agreed that there shall be a
parliament, and to begin upon the 17=th= of March. Good Sir,
sollicite the
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towne that wee may continew our places, that I may endeavour the
prosecution of that course which I formerly intended as the
onely meanes we have to attaine our ease and comfort. Yf my
cosin Christopher Wandesford be not off the House, I fear we
shall not effect our desires; and therefore, yf S=r=. Talbot
will not be perswaded to desist, I pray you lett my cosin have
the place rather then myselfe. I was in hope to have gott out of
towne this weeke, but I fear I shall not; for some of the
gentlemen with whom I am to treat be out of towne, and I must
stay there returne. I have placed my brother Thomas with M=r=.
Farmer: the indentures are not yet sealed, so as I cannot send
you the conditions. My brother Phillip prosecutes his suit, but
I much fear the success will not answear his paines. The 20=li=,
as dew upon your accompt, we must take order to pay; but we hope
to gett my order from the Barons of the Exchequer to stay the
seisure for the 60=li= till there come a charge demonstratinge
the particulars, which they thinke will be (\ad Graecas
calendas\) . And thus, with the tender of my duty to your selfe,
and my service to my Ladye (whose freindes are all well), I rest
   Your dutifull sonne,
   Matth. Hutton.
   London, 6=th= Feb. 1627.
   I am summoned by the bell to doe the last offices of a friend
to M=r=. Christopher Brooke.

<Q HUT 1629 ABOWES>
<A ANNE BOWES>
<P 317>
[} [\LETTER CXCVIII.\] ANNE, WIFE OF THOMAS BOWES, TO MATTHEW
HUTTON.}] [^TO MATTHEW HUTTON, ESQ.^]
[\1629.\]
   Good Nephew, Let me intreat you to looke amongst your
writings for the articles that was last agreed upon betwixt Sir
Gorge Bowes and mi husband, for I think you have them; for, if
you cannot helpe me to them, I knowe not what to doe: for Sir
Gorge Bowes wil not pay the rent charg which was due at
Martinmas last, but still puts me of that there is some
reckening betwixt his unckell and him, which I knowe not how to
answer till I se the
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articles: for, if there be anything in them unperformd, so it
is; for, since the time those was maid, I am sure we neither
bought nor tooke any thing of him. Good Sir, for God sake
perrues the articles, and, as you find them, let me have your
best adviss what to doe, for I would be verie loth to doe Sir
Gorge any wrong; and yet mi owne necesseties presethe me so,
that, if it be due, I would have it. There is tow-and-fortie
shillings more which Sir Gorge should have paid me mor than a
year since, but I canot get one peny from him. The rent charg
was assined me to pay for that ground I hav of Will Dowethwat at
Barforth, and it much greves me that I should be soe ill a
tenant as not to paye my rent when it is due; for I only desird
that I might hav that rent charg assind me to discharg that rent
at Barforth, thinkin it would alwaies hav bene surly payd at
such times as it was due: but he stil delaies, and forceth me to
wrong you for your rent. Thus, hoping you will excuse me at this
time, promising hereafter to be a better tanant, I rest with mi
true and due respect to you and all yours, desiring still to
remain
   Your faithfull loving aunt to her pore,
   Anne Bowes.
   [\NO DIRECTION.\]

<Q HUT 1630 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 318>
[} [\LETTER CXCIX.\] THOMAS BOWES TO MATTHEW HUTTON.}] [^TO
MATTHEW HUTTON, ESQ.^]
[\27 June, 1630.\]
   Sir, Upon perusall of your counsell opinion, I finde that he
insists much upon a deede made from Sir George Bowes to you of
the castle, mannor, and lordship of Streatlam, (\anno\) 1629.
Sir George Bowes att that time hadd nothing to doe with the
castle or mannor, but I shall not dispute eyther his right or
ours at a distance: onely give me leave to acquainte you, that,
unlesse you will be pleased to come over accordinge to your
agrement and mine, the tenants will drive your tenants' goods;
which I should be loath should be done untill wee had a fuller
understandinge of the busines.
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   My cozen Cleburne went this morninge to Thornton from hence:
she expected to have mett you here; but faylinge, she desired me
to acquaint you, that you will heare of her eyther att Cillerby
or there. Be assured none is more unwillinge that any trouble
should fall out betwixt you and my brother then your
affectionate cozen,
   Thomas Bowes.
   June 27=th=, 1630.
   For his kinde cozen Mathew Hutton, Esq. these.

<Q HUT 1633 THBOWES>
<A THOMAS BOWES>
<P 320>
[} [\LETTER CCI.\] THOMAS BOWES TO MATTHEW HUTTON.}] [^TO
MATTHEW HUTTON, ESQ.^]
[\5 June, 1633.\]
   Sir, I have but relation of Sir George Bowes' busines,
concernynge which, as he says, is this: he hath payed, as he
reports, 1200=li= of the money, and had the rest there readye to
paye; of which summe my nephew Thomas Delavale brought 700=li=
from his sister-in-lawe, with direction from her to bringe it
againe; for, Sir George Bowes not havinge credite to procure the
whole summe, he and his ladye went to Seaton, and dealt there
with his sister Barbarye for 700=li= until Pentecost, and that
she shoulde have securitye out of Bradley to have her money
repayed then. After this he writt agayne to his sister-in-law
not to fayle him at the tyme, for that she shoulde have her
money returned agayne; whereupon she sent the money with her
brother, my nephew Thomas Delavale, and I thinke the whole summe
was tendred: but, M=r=. Eurye having some speach with Mr.
Delavale, yt was perceived that the 700=li= must not be payed:
whereupon the Lady Eurye broke off, and woulde doe nothinge
without all her money. M=r=. Delavale was laboured both by Tobye
and John Ewbanke to lend yt untill Pentecost, and they would
then repaye; but he would not goo from her direction. Sir George
did promise securitye
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out of the land; and, when the deed came to be seene, yt is
sayde that land was to passe in Sir George Bowes' sonne's name.
Soe all is wronge there. John Ewbanke hath an estate, as yt is
said, of Cleatlam, and haith his goodes there; and Sir George
Bowes is glad to take some part of yt of him, and the house. He
is now at Newcastle; and yt seemes he thinkes his money will
never have an end, for he is making matches with the lordes of
horse-courses, and, as we heare, hath made 2 matches, the one
for 40=li=, thother for 100=li=; soe that wee feare he will make
an end of all soone: and yt is given out that they intend to goe
and live at London at Michaelmas, and live there upon the
interest of their money. I heare the Ladye Eurye is cuttinge
down such wood as there is there, and Sir George Bowes sent to
forbid them; but this forbiddinge will take noe place: so that
wee see noe good to be doone for him, yf he cannot gett yt by
lawe.
   In good fayth, I could not tell you any thinge touchinge my
brother Warcop's performance with you, neyther knew I any thinge
of his abilitye; and seldom do I see him.
   Yo write that yo have sent me the bill of charges touchinge
the judgment to Christ. Peacock. I asked your man yf he had any
other writinge to me than your lettre, and his answer ys that he
hath none: soe that I have see noe such note. Your tenant
Parmely had a cowe driven by baylies. As for my contempt, when I
was at York, I caused the court to be sought, and noe such
thinge is there to be found against me; and the truth is, I
never had a lettre served upon me wherbye suche contempts should
accrue: so that I thinke yo may have a very good amendes of the
bailyes; for, yf it had bene soe that I had beene in contempt,
they must take my owne goods for it, and not an other's. I shall
disburse none to drawe your fine, but both I and my sonne will
perform what is ryght to be doone yf the fine be accordinge to
Sir George Bowes' deed for the demaine. Thus in hast I have
written yo an answer to all your enquiries, soe well as I can;
but the truth is, wee of Streatlam are mere strangers to Sir
George Bowes' businesses. And soe, commendinge my love to yo, I
rest
   Your assured lovinge uncle,
   Thomas Bowes.
   June the 5=th=, 1633.
   To the Right Worshipful my assured lovinge nephew, Mathew
Hutton, Esq., at Maske, theese be dd.



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