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[^SAMPLE 1:

CECIL, ROBERT.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
THE EDMONDES PAPERS. A SELECTION
FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR THOMAS
EDMONDES, ENVOY FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH
AT THE FRENCH COURT.
ED. G. G. BUTLER.
LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, 1913. 
PP. 303.1  - 304.23 (119) (RCECIL)
PP. 320.15 - 321.18 (125)

EDMONDES, THOMAS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 393.1 - 396.5 (151) (EDMONDES)

ELIZABETH I.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 387.19  - 388.15 (148) (ELIZ)
PP. 400.124 - 403.29 (153)

SAMPLE 2:

CECIL, WILLIAM.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
ORIGINAL LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH
HISTORY; INCLUDING NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS.
SECOND EDITION, VOL. III.
ED. H. ELLIS.
LONDON: HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD, 1825.  
PP. 24.1 - 28.9 (226) (WCECIL)

TEXT:  A LETTER BY THE FELLOWS
OF TRINITY COLLEGE.
Idem.
PP. 32.1 - 34.15 (230) (TRINCOLL)

CONWAY, EDWARD.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 154.6 - 157.16 (292) (CONWAY)^]

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<P 303>
[} [\CXIX.\] }]

   M=r= Edmondes. Vntill this very day wee haue not heard one
worde of yo=w= since your departure, w=ch= kept vs in           #
douptfulnes of your
safetie till by your letter bearing date the xix=th= of this    #
moneth her
may=tie= receaved full and ample satisfaccon for as much as     #
concerned
your owne proceadinge only that w=ch= yo=w= wrytt concerning    #
the Truce,
or Peace, did not so clearely make mencion of the partyculer    #
point,
whether her may=tie= should be by the agreament betwene them    #
comprehended
in the same or noe, as by a letter from Mo=r= Villeroy it
appeareth, wherin he wrote to Mo=r= ffontaine w=th= theis       #
wordes. Yo=w=
maie let the Queene knowe, (for I speake it not by hearesay)    #
that her
may=tie= is comprehended by the assent of the Spaniard into     #
the Treatie,
and therefore yo=w= shall do well in y=e= next to wryte what    #
yo=w= heare,
althoughe I doupt not before the arryvall of this, but wee      #
shall heare
more by the personne that the kinge sendes hither. The present
occasion of this dispatche is shortly this. This very day       #
advertysement
is come to the Queene of the ffleet of Spaine w=ch= is issued   #
from
fferoll and the Groyne the viij=th= of this moneth beinge 120   #
sayle w=th=
10000 souldyers 2000 Maryners and many Mylls for Corne, many
woemen, 300 horse and many Materyalls for ffortificacon~s.      #
That this
is no ffable yo=w= may advertyse the king, that a small man of  #
warre of
England being at sea fell into their company in y=e= night in   #
a storme,
and seing one of their small shippes in distres to the          #
Leewarde, bare
vp w=th= her, fought w=th= her, and tooke her; but after he     #
had possessed
her, and thought to beare for Ingland, some of the ffleet       #
chased her,
and so she was forced to let her goe, but tooke out seaven men  #
of her,
the Cap=en=, the master, and others, whose examinacon~s being   #
taken at
Plymmothe, was sent vp this day, and contayneth what before I
spoke of, and that their Rendes vous was to come for ffalmoth.
This being certaine that at sea thay were mett, and it          #
appearing
fully, that but for the east wyndes w=ch= haue blowen           #
straynably, they
had ben at their Place of descent, hath given her may=tie=      #
iust cause
to looke about her, having nowe no ffleet in readynes to fight  #
w=th=
<P 304>
them at Sea, but o[\... OBLITERATED\] trust to the land         #
defence, And
therefore she lytle doupteth [\... OBLITERATED\] king wyll in   #
any sort 
myslyke the sodden revocacon~ of the Troupes of Pycardy to      #
serve
herselfe. ffor this is of all certentye, ether it is for        #
Irelande or
Englande, yf for Englande, then are wee to doupt the taking in  #
of the
Army of the Lowe Contreys to be transported, w=ch= (as it       #
falleth out)
need not feare ffraunce if the Truce be made as all the world   #
sayes it is,
and as shrewd circumstances discover: ffor wee see the          #
Car=all= hath lost
Amyens, followes not Count Mawryce, but keepes his fforces      #
togeither
and nowe soddenly drawes them downe to the sea syde. This her
may=tie= Requires yo=w= to lay feelinglie before the king, as   #
Reasones
sufficient to dispence w=th= her Revocacon~, the Erle of Essex  #
having most
of her ma=tes= Cap=ens= in y=e= voyag, and theie being fitt     #
to be imployed in
this kingedome, if he should attempt y=e= Ile of Wight or any   #
Place nere
the harte of the kingdome. This being all at this tyme w=ch=    #
my leasure
will permytt me to wryte exspecting howerly to heare of their   #
arryvall
if the storme haue not forced them to their owne coast againe.  #
And so
I commytt yo=w= to God. ffrom y=e= Cort at Whithall the         #
xxvj=th= of Oct. at
xj=en= in y=e= night.

Your louing frend
Ro: Cecyll.

   Yf they be gone for Ireland they fynd it at an evyll tyme,   #
for the
Noble Lo: Burghe is dead of Sycknes the xiiij=th= of this       #
moneth.

<P 320>
[} [\CXXV.\] }]

   M=r=. Edmondes: It is no highe tyme That I do certifie       #
yo=w= of the
receipt of all yo=r= packetts (whereof I receaved iiij=or=      #
dated in October
and Nouember and two in december) And that her may=tie= is      #
very well
satisfied w=th= yo=r= proceadinges.
   What Mons=r= de Maisse had to propounde yo=w= knowe well     #
enoughe
and therefore I need not touche it: But in short this yo=w=     #
shall knowe.
That the States refuse Treatye, desire the Queene to stoppe     #
her eares
to it, and doe send to Roane deputies to meet the king or his   #
ministers
whom they hope also to overcome w=th= infaylible argum=tes=,    #
and to
moue him to contynue in a warre, rather than to make peace; Her
May=tie= therefore being desirous to heare howe thinges are     #
carryed there,
and to see howe the kinge digesteth this their refusall will    #
send over
also some deputies, to ioyne in Conferrence w=th= the kinges    #
Mynisters
and theirs, to the intent that as they are all in a Bande of    #
Confederacy,
so they may ioyntly resolue ether to giue eare to Treatye, or   #
to provyde
<P 321>
for warres contynuance, and then each other open, what one      #
party will
have of an other and howe they are able to performe it, or to   #
hold it
out W=th= this Resolucion Th'embassadour is lyke to come away,  #
w=ch= is
the sowndest and most necessary; ffor to treat w=th= Spaine     #
before this
Conferrence, were not in good proporcion, but because he hath   #
not yet
had this aunswere giuen him, yo=w= may make vse of it only as   #
yo=r=
discrecion shall serve yo=w=. Other thinges for the present I   #
haue not
worthy yo=r= knowledge but do rest assuredly.

Yo=r= loving freinde
Ro: Cecyll.

   from the Lowe Contryes comes Monsr. Barneuelt and Mons.
Justynian Nassau. from England as yet, it is not knowen who.    #
from
y=e= Cort at Whithall the xxxj=th= of decem. 1597.

[\Endorsed\] 31 December 1597
from M=r= Secretarie.

To my very Lovinge freinde
M=r= Thomas Edmondes Esq=r=
her Ma=ties= Agent w=th= the frenche kinge. 

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<P 393>
[} [\CLI.\] }]

   It maie please yor honor. I haue according to yor honors
Comandement used all endevor and industrie to fynd out a meanes
for yor honor to receiue aduertisementes out of Spaine, but     #
being verie
hard to meet wth one to send exp~slie thither, that is          #
faithfull and
sufficient, and can be able to serue yor honor as were fitt, I  #
haue
therefore aduised howe to wourke the same by those of the       #
best sorte
here that haue correspondencie in Spayne, And aboue all others  #
one
Monsr Anthoine Balbany, an Itallian marchant of the Principall  #
of this
Towne, hauing the most frequent & best aduertisementes from     #
thence
because of his great trade there, and wth the chief p~sone of   #
that
Countrie I sought to haue it p~pounded to him, whether he       #
would be
content to emploie his frends to aduertise him of that wch      #
should
passe there, and that yor honor might receiue information       #
thereof,
wch curtesie yor honor would alwaies kindlie acknoweledge       #
towardes
himselfe & anie his frendes as they should haue anie neede to   #
use yor
honors fauor. There was some difficultie made at the first to   #
deale
wth him therin, because being a sup~stitious papist, and not    #
to be
swayed by the consideration of benefittes, in respect of the    #
greatnes
of his estate, it was doubted the ouuerture would not be        #
agreable to
him, but for that he wth Monsr Zamatt doe shippe great          #
quantetie of
Corne to transport out of the Realme into Spayne, and arguying  #
wth
me, whether the same be in danger to be staied if the said      #
vessells
be mett by anie englishe shippes I did thereof assure him,      #
yett afterwardes
I did cause it to be signified to him, that if for his better
assurance he would be strengthned wth anie pasportes from my    #
lord
Admyrall that I durst p~sume yor honor would gratifie him wth   #
anie
that he should neede for his p~ticuler and fauor him in all     #
other his
occasions so as he would requyte it in the other curtesie to    #
p~cure yor
honor to receiue information of that which shall passe in       #
Spayne. He
hearkned to this offer, and assured me that he will geiue yor   #
honor all
satisfaction in yor desier, and hereuppon prayed me to send in  #
dilligence
<P 394>
to yor honor to beseech you to be pleased to assist him with    #
the said
pasportes, but for that the nombr wch he demandeth is great,    #
being
twelue, I feare it wilbe an unpleasant motion to yor honor      #
yett I
thought good to p~sent it to yor honors consideration first     #
for that it is a
spetiall meanes to p~cure yor honor to receiue verie goode &    #
frequent
aduertisements, and wthout anie charge to you, and secondlie    #
for that I
fynd these people are resolued to mainteyne that librtie to     #
Carrie Corne
into Spayne, and thereuppon haue geiuen assurance to Zamett &   #
the
rest to staie all englishe mens goodes for their recompence,    #
if staie be
made of their shippes by her maties subiectes, To auoyde the    #
sendinge
of so greate nombr of pasportes, as since he reqeyred of me, I  #
undertook
that yor honor would be pleased to p~cure the release of anie   #
of
his shippes that should be staied, wch although he acknowledged #
to be
a fauor yett it did not content him, for that he feareth that   #
being
subiect to that staie, it will make him to loose the benefitt   #
of his markett
& hazard the p~ishing of the Corne. He hath alreadie sent       #
awaie some
shippes & desireth these pasportes for those vessells wch are   #
yett behind,
wch he saieth are not aboue the burthen of threescoore tonnes   #
but thereof
I cannot geiue assurance, and doe humbly submitt the iudgement  #
of the
conveniencie, or not, of his request, to yor honors best        #
consideration,
And where happelie it may be thought that I seeke thereby to    #
p~cure
some p~fitt to myself I beseech yor honor to beleeue my poor    #
p~testation
wch I will not falsifie to you, that I haue not therein anie    #
desseing or
interest of privatt benefitt, but onlie a superstious desire    #
to serue yor
honor in that wch you haue so much in recommendacion, and is    #
of so
great importance. It is desired that the pasportes may runne    #
in the
name Peter Bernardin Massey and Anthonie Balbany and blanckes   #
to
be left for the names of the shippes, and of the Masters.
   I hope also to p~cure that the Ambr of Venice shall drawe    #
often
aduertisementes from their Ambr. in Spayne and send them from   #
tyme
to tyme to yor honor, and will emploie all other meanes         #
possible, that
by the plurallitie of advices yor honor maie by the better      #
serued and
make the truer iudgement of thinges. I doe contynuallie         #
sollicitt the
paiement of the 20000 Crownes as yor honor demandeth me, and am
still confidentlie assured by Monsr de Rhosny who is the (\fac  #
totum\)
here for monie matters that wthout faile it shalbe answeared    #
out of
this yeares receipt, but that it cannott be soone leuyed.
   He toulde me that he understoode her matie had geiuen the    #
said
<P 395>
monie unto some aboute her but I assured him, that it is a      #
false
information.
   Monsr de Villeroy did verie kindlie take yor honors letter   #
and
will by the Ambr. retourne yor honor answeare thereunto. I did  #
also
acquaynte him, in other discourse, that the Ambr had not yett   #
made
anie privatt acquaintance wth yor honor, touching the wch he    #
sayd that
he would wryte unto him, being a faulte wch his frendes here    #
doe
accuse in him, that he doth too formallie hould himself on his  #
grauitie,
but being otherwise a verie honest gent, and of great           #
integritie. He
doth complaine greatlie in all his dispatches that he cannott   #
receiue
satisfaction from my lord Admyrall in matters of iustice. That  #
yor
honor doth order & direct verie well, but that his l. doth not  #
answeare
it in p~fourmance & execution I assure yor honor if it be not   #
p~vyded by
some good establishement to redresse the disorders of both      #
sides, our
poore marchantes wilbe undonne by these differences, and yor    #
honor
will forthwth see the effectes thereof. I haue comunicated wth  #
one
Smyth the answeare wch yor honor sent me from M=r=. Kelley      #
touching
the wch he hath thought good to wryte againe to yor honor.      #
There is
no likelyhood to compound so discordant allegations, unlesse    #
they were
together, or that they will agree to whom to referre their      #
differences,
and these expostulations in the mean tyme serve to litle        #
pourpose.
   It is verie earnestlie desired that it will please yor       #
honor either to
send the pasportes wth expedition or ells answeare that they    #
cannott be
getten for that they stay the dep~ture of their shippes         #
thereuppon, and
therefore yor honor shall greatlie satisfie them to geiue a     #
speedie
resolution wch I beseech yor honor to be pleased to doe. And
craving also p~don for hauing troubled yor honor wth so         #
tedious a
letter I  most humbly take my leaue ffrom Paris the second of
Januarie 1598.

I send yor honer the memoriall
delyuered me for the said pasportes.

Yor honors 
most humblie bounden
Tho: Edmondes.

[\Endorsed\] 1598
2 Jan.
M=r= Edmondes to my M=r=.
His endevor to setle some intelligence wth Spaine
<P 396>
   Twelue paspor=t=~ to be procured from y=e= l. Adm=ll= for    #
ffrenche
merchan=t=~ to carry Corne for Spaine.
   Rc. the ixth at Whithall.

   To the right honorable S=r=. Robrt Cecyll knight Principall  #
Secretarie
to the Queenes Mat=ie= and chancelor of the Duchee of           #
lancaster.

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<P 387>
[} [\CXLVIII.\] }]

   By the Queene.
   Elizabeth R.
 
   Trusty and welbeloved, wee greet you well, wee haue seen     #
y=r=. l~re,
to our Secratary, and th'enclosed from the Master of Gray,      #
w=ch= bringeth
to vs, at one instant, two stange wonders, first that he is     #
resuscited,
whome we held by this tyme intombed, Secondly, that (being all  #
this
while vnburied), he could passe ouer so many yeares in          #
silence. But
seing wee do find, that his retired affection towards vs,       #
returnes to his
former place of confidence, you may do well, to assure him      #
hereby,
that whatsoever he shall do, for our seruice, in any thing,     #
shalbe
performed to those, who~ he knowes well, to haue ever resolved  #
of this
position, (\Si ingratam dixeris, omnia dixeris\) . For the      #
other parte of his
<P 388>
motion, that wee would write some l~re to his frend, for whome  #
he
vndertaketh, it is a Course, that wee haue never vsed to any,   #
but such,
whose meritt hath first purchased trust and favour, Lett him    #
therefore
know this, that as wee do thanck, both him, and th'other,       #
(whosoever
he be), for his good disposition, so when any effect shall      #
followe of
his honest purposes, our requytall, (in what is fytt for a      #
Prince), shall
not be long behinde. Some other things we haue imparted to our
Secretary, wherein you may beleeue him;
   From our Palace of Westminster, the 4=th= of Decembr: 1598.

[\Endorsed\] M=r= Edmunds 4=th= December 1598
ffrom her ma=tie=.

To our trusty and welbeloued
servant, Thomas Edmunds,
our Agent w=th= the French
kinge.

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<P 400>
[} [\CLIII.\] }]
Elizabeth R.

   Trusty and welbeloued, Wee receaued by the french            #
Embassadour,
not many daies past, a kind and carefull advertisement and      #
advise from
our good Brother the french king; wherein he hath lett vs       #
know, what
he hath heard, of great preparations, by sea, in Spayne; and    #
wished vs
carefully to stopp, the transportation of warlick provisions;   #
affirming
<P 401>
to haue geuen the lyke caution, to those of Holland, by his     #
Agent there.
An Ouverture very wellcom to vs, because it confirmed his       #
constant
frendship, to whome wee had Leaft no good office vnperformed;   #
and
assured vs further (howsoe`uer the courss and revolution of     #
humane
things, haue altered the face of his affaires) that he can not  #
but Judge,
That our prejudice, may, in consequence, proue his danger. When
wee further replied, that wee ded heare, of diuers Ships in     #
france, w=ch=
were destined to Spayne, w=ch= wee, could not, w=th=out great   #
Inconvenience,
lett pass; he ded assure vs, that he would write to the king:   #
and w=th=in
few dayes after, ded acquaint vs, that the king his Master      #
would haue
an honorable care, at this tyme, and had sent into france to    #
discover
in what Ports, these preparations were. But now of late, when   #
he
pursued a Remonstrance, concerning the trafficq; he handled two
principall poincts w=th= our Counsaill, the one, To haue        #
Justice for things
past, The other, To haue an Order established, for prevention   #
of lyke
supposed spoiles in future. How properly these ded fall into    #
the
Center of our desires (as being both essentiall parts of all    #
kingly
gouuernement; the one, for administration of Justice the        #
other, to
conserve and augment Liberties and fortunes of our subiects,    #
w=ch=
draweth their loue and obedience) may appeare if we be rightly
reported, and censured. For seing Princes by Institution must   #
vse
the Judgements of subaltern Ministers, in distribution of       #
gouuernement;
wee ded immediately enjoine all those to whome such aucthority  #
and
execution belongeth, to receaue w=th=out delay, all Cahiers of  #
complaints;
and to bethinke, how wee might speedily reforme all past        #
disorders,
that should fall out to be proved, and how wee might settle a   #
course of
quiet commerce hereafter. Herein what hath followed, shall      #
appeare by
this Memoriall, whereof wee haue geuen his Embass=r= a double,  #
to w=ch=
wee referre you, as being the substance of diuers               #
Consultations, between
the Embass=r= and our Counsaill, and other personnes of         #
quality and
vnderstanding, appointed to attend and assist them, in matters  #
incident
to questions of this Nature; wherein although it shall          #
appeare, by
the aunswer in writing, that wee insist vpon nothing, but       #
that, w=ch=
the Law of Nations, and former Treaties between Princes, may
warrant; yet wee command you, to tell him plainely, that wee    #
could
never haue expected (at this tyme when wee are so full of       #
trouble and
expectations of danger to our state) wee should haue ben by him
denyed any such matter (though it were more vnproffitable to    #
his
<P 402>
subiects) considering how many of ours, wee haue sacrificed for #
his
sake; and how little wee haue weighed Vtilety, when there hath  #
ben
question of his safety. This do wee command you, to deliure     #
vnto him,
not as vpbraiding our former helps, or as sorry for their       #
effects in his
fortune; but as a Prince that is sensible of the strang         #
proposition of his
Embassad=r= w=ch= wee can not devise how to match w=th= his     #
first Introductions
into this cause: for as wee haue for settling of Justice        #
agreed of
the forme of Tryalls, by accomodating ourselfes, in any         #
course, that
may not make a Renverse of all our formes of Justice, wee must  #
needs
say this, That now that he is informed, that an Army is         #
making, and that
it is evident, that a particuler portion of Corne is expected   #
from Nantes,
to furnish that expedition into Ireland, If he should yeald no  #
further, then
ordinary rules would tye him, although we had not plainely      #
shewed the
contrary to his Embassad=r= as wee haue don, yet wee must       #
surely conclude,
that we are requited w=th= vneven measure and must leaue it to  #
himself, if
his case were ours, what he would think, when in such an        #
instant of
preparations, our best frends releeue our adverse party in      #
their necessities.
For the other poinct concerning the prohibition intended
against our Cloath, and stayed vpon y=r= remonstrance (for so   #
his 
Embassad=r= confesseth) we can not but well interprete his      #
owne particuler
proceeding, having vnderstood, that it was rather carryed on so
farr by his ministers, then resolued by his direction. But yet  #
wee must
say plainely, That it appeareth strange vnto vs, when wee were  #
able to
shew it, that since the comming to our Crowne, it was never     #
denyed vs
by any of his predecessors; and that in tyme of Charles the     #
ix=th= a direct
Treaty was concluded for it in 1572; his Embassad=r= should     #
make this
replication, That in the former kings tymes, it was but a       #
Tolleration;
and that when that Treaty was made, it was never fully          #
executed. This
seemeth to vs surely a very hard proceeding, when if other      #
kings had
suffred it, betweene whome there had passed often breaches;     #
wee might
not haue ben secure of him, betweene whome and vs, had passed   #
so
straight obligations; or now that it is knowen, that by a       #
Treaty, it
was accorded, that it should be sought to be altered, because   #
the
execution was interrupted when it is well knowen, that the      #
Massacre of
France following, and so dayely troubles arrising, it was not   #
our default,
that it was not in all circumstances executed. This injurious   #
Cours,
we can never imagine to proceede from y=e= king our brother,    #
but from
some other omissions of his Ministers; for what could more      #
haue foretould
<P 403>
the world of alteration of kindnes (if you had not remembered   #
it,
and the king suspended it) then so apert a declaration of       #
hard measure to
our people? Thus farr and w=th= this rondeur haue wee           #
proceeded w=th= a
desire to cleare all manner of scruples, w=ch= might weacken    #
ether the
reputation, or essence of our perfect frendship; w=ch= wee      #
were desirous to
intimate to himself, from whome wee promise our self, all such  #
effects, as
are agreeable to Princely Judgement and Moderation, both being  #
vertues
properly annexed to the ranks, w=ch= Princes hold vnder God,    #
whome he
hath chosen, to rectify the errors and partialities of          #
Inferiors, howsoeuer
wee may be pressed dayly w=th= Importunities, to w=ch= vulgar   #
spiritts are
subiect. You shall in the end assure him, that as wee may not   #
condemne
our Subiects, onely because they are accused, so whosoeuer can
be convicted, shall duely paye the price of his cryme. Wee      #
haue commanded
our secretary, to acquaint you, what hath passed between the
french Ambassad=r= and him, in whome wee find more acrimony,    #
then wee
expected, especially in this, wherein he sheweth merely a       #
spiritt of
Choller and pride, when he gaue the first cause himself,        #
obserue what
impressions he seeketh to worke there, and obviate them,        #
according
to y=r= discretion, and acquaint vs by y=r= letter to our       #
Secretary of all
particulars, and take notice from vs hereby, that as well by    #
y=r= letters,
as other testimonies geuen vs by our Secretary of y=r=          #
diligence that wee
do very gratiously accept y=r= honest and faithfull endevoirs.  #
Returne
thanks from vs to the Duke of Buillon, to whome wee would haue
written thanks for his kind Letter, but that a Flux in our Eye  #
hindered
vs, from writing to the french king, to haue prepared his       #
minde not to
mistake, vpon an vntrue reporte, the good will of our           #
Tablettes, who
hath euer ben ready to do him good offices.
   At our Palace of Westminster, this 20=th= day of Januar.     #
1598 of our
Raigne the 41=th=

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<P III,24>
[} [\LETTER CCXXVI.\] }]

   To my loving frend M=r=. D=r=. Legge Vicechancellor
&c. and to the rest of the Heads there.
   Wheras the great excess and disorder of Apparell
hath not only impoverished the Realme, but hath bene
a special cause of many other vices and evil examples
in all degrees; for the due reformation whereof it is
<P III,25>
godly provided for in all persons and places, if due
execution were had accordingly: for want wherof,
many have greatly exceeded the prescription of Law,
and left the ancient, grave, and comely apparell generally
used of all scholars in both Universities heretofore;
whereby they were known and reverenced, every
man in his degree, both in the University and withoute,
in Court and City; by wearing of that comely, decent,
and wonted apparell; the due consideration whereof, is
referred by her Majesties Proclamation to the Chancellors
of both Universities, supposing that their commandement 
will work a perfect reformation of all disorders
in both the said Universities. Wherefore these
are straitly to charge and command you the Vicechancellor 
and Hedds of the Colleges in the University of
Cambridge, that the Statutes and Orders made in your
University for the special apparell to be worne of all
degrees of scholars, made sithens her Majestie's most
gracious raigne, be duely observed and kept, and that
no hatt be worne of any Graduate or Scholer within
the University, except it be when he shall journey out
of the Town, the same Graduate or Scholar having
his name in any Table, or being in commons in any
House of Learning in the said University; except in
the time of his sicknes. And that all Scholers being
Graduats upon the charges of any Howse, do wear a
square cap of clothe, and lykewise scholers of Howses
that be no Graduats, and all other Scholers that have
taken no degree of Scholers, and do lyve upon their
<P III,26>
own charges, do weare in the said University a round
clothe cap. Saving that it may be lawful for the sons
of Noblemen, or the sons and heirs of Knights, to
wear round caps of velvet, but no hats. And also that
every such aforesaid Scholer, being a Graduate, shall
wear abroad in the University, going out of his College,
a gown and a hoode of clothe, according to the
order of his Degree. Provided that it shall be lawfull
for every Doctor of Divinity, and for the Master of
any College, to weare a scarlett tippet, or a tippet of
velvet, according to the antient customs of the realme,
and of the said University: the which gown, tippet,
and square cap, the said Doctors and Hedds shall be
lykewise bound to weare when they shall resorte either
to the Courte or to the City of London.
   And that the excess of Shirtbands and Ruffs exceeding
one inche and halfe (saving for the sonns of
Noblemen), the fashion and colore of other then white,
be avoyded presently.
   And no Scholer nor Fellowe of the foundation of
any Howse of Learninge do weare either in the Universitye 
or without, so long as he retaine the livings
of a Fellowe or Scholer, any hose, stockings, dubletts,
jackets, coats, or jerkins, or any other kinde of garment
of velvet, satten, or silke, or in the faceing of the
same shall have above one quarter of a yard of silke,
or shall use any other light kynde of colore, or cutts,
or gards, or fashion, which shall be forbidden by the
Chancellors, or in their absence by the Vicechancellor
<P III,27>
and the more part of the Hedds of either of the said
Universities.
   And that no Scholer do weare any longe locks of
heare upon his hedd, but that he be notted, polled, or
rounded after the accustomed manner of the gravest
scholers of the said University, under the pain of six
shillings and eight pence for everye tyme that any graduate
Fellow, Scholer, Pensioner, or Sizer shall offende
in any of the foresaid Orders. The forfeycture
for every publique offence committed without the College
to be collected, immediatelye after the offence
done, by the bedells or other Officers therunto appoynted
within the said University, and to be payd
either to the Chancellor, or in his absence to the              #
Vicechancellor
of the said University, to th'onlye use of
the same, and by him to be accompted for at his general
accompts for his yeare.
   And the punishments and forfeytures of all the
aforesaid offences by any of the aforenamed Students
within any of the Colleges or Halls in the said University,
to be taken by the Hedds and Sub-Hedds of
the said Colleges and Halls where such offence is committed,
and to be converted to the use of the said College
or Hall.
   And thes Orders, together with all other good Orders
heretofore taken for exercises of Learning within
the aforesaid University, I require you and every of
you duely to observe and precisely to kepe according
to your Oath and duties, as you will retaine my favour
<P III,28>
and would have me to continue my careful government
over you: which I assuer you I will cast off,
yf I fynde not a due and spedye reformation of all disorders
among you: for her Majesty looketh for the
same, both at myne and your hands, and that forthwith.
So I bid you hartelye farewell, from my House
in the Strand, this 7=th=. of Maye 1588.

Your loving frend
W. Burghley.

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<P III,32>
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<P III,33>
   Our bounden dutie in most humble wise remembred.
Whereas we intend for the exercise of yonge
gentlemen and scholers in our Colledge, to sett forth
certain Comoedies and one Tragoedie. There being
in that Tragoedie sondry personages of greatest astate,
to be represented in auncient princely attire, which is
no where to be had but within the Office of the Roabes
at the Tower, it is our humble request Your most honorable
Lordship would be pleased to graunte your
Lordships Warrant unto the chiefe Officers there, that
upon sufficient securitie we might be furnished from
thence with such meete necessaries as are required.
Which favor we have founde heretofore upon your
good Lordship's like honorable Warrant: that hath
the rather enbouldened us at this time. And so cravinge
pardon for this presumption, with remembrance
of our dayly prayers unto God for the preservation of
Your Honor's health to his owne greate glory we humbly 
<P III,34>
take our leave. From Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge,
28=o= Januarij 1594

Your Honor's most bounden
ever to be commaunded
Thomas Nevile.
George Lee.
Jer. Radcliffe.
John Sledd.
Jre. Milver.
Guli: Hall.
Samuel Heron.
Cuthbert Norris.

   To the right honorable our verie
singuler good Lord Burghley, Lord
High Treasurer of England.

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<P III,154>
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Most gratious patron.

   I am commaunded by his Majestie for the shortening
of his labour, to signifie unto your Grace that his
Highnes may soe be informed of the great streyght
and distress his Majestie was in upon the receipt and
consideracon of the Articles brought by M=r=. Killigrey,
upon three poynts:
   1. The perpetuitie of time for the abrogation of all
Lawes concerning the Roman Catholiques, in noe time
to bee renewed against them, nor any other to bee
raised in their place upon any occasion.
   2. His Majestie must do his best that the Articles
in favour of the Roman Catholiques must bee confirmed
by Parliament within three yeares infallibly, and
sooner, if the constitution of affairs would permit it.
<P III,155>
   3. The Councells oath.
   In the first, his Majestie foresawe an infinite liberty,
a perpetuall emunity graunted to the Roman Catholiques; 
which if it should bring them to daungerous
encrease, or incourage them to the acting of insolencies,
his conscience opposeth his wisedome of Gouerment,
and his Soueraignity runs a daunger.
   Touching the Parliament, his Majestie sawe it impossible
for him to effect, neither did his affection and
reason incline to exercise his power that way if it were
in his hand.
   And for the Councells oath, as his actes had not
need of theire fortification; soe might his honor and
the cause recieve prejudice by their refusall.
   But that which pinch't and perplex't most, was, that
this was not now a free and entire cause. But his Majesties
power was given to the Prince: according to
which power, his Highness had concluded theise Articles:
soe as now it went upon the honor of his Majestie
and the Prince, and perhaps upon the liberty and
power of his Highness returne and safety of his person.
   These tender considerations of honor, suerty of his
estate, fatherly loue, and conscience, his Majestie debated
some dayes, with as much wisedome, naturall
affection, courage, and piety, as became a greate, wise,
religious Kinge, and tender louing Father.
   And in conclusion having often honored Secretary
Calvert, Cottington, and myself with the hearing of
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his wise apprehensions and deliberations, in and about
his greate perplexity, his Majesty resolved to call to
him some of the most eminent of his Councell (whose
names are here inclosed) that hee might open himself
to them, recieve advice or confirmacion, or at least
take, by those leading voyces, a measure of the iudgments
and affections of the rest. Without flattery I
speak the truthe before God, those Councellors assembled
on Sunday at Wanstid; His Majestie made the
most serious, (I may say) the most sadd, fatherly, kinde,
kingly, wise, and pious, manly, stout speech that ever
I heard, which noe man can repeate or relate (without
blemishing) but himself. But this effect it wrought,
all the Lords were of opinion that his Highness wordes
and Articles must bee made good; that the oath by the
Councell must bee taken; and with one voyce gave
counsell (as without which nothing could bee well) that
the Prince must marry and bringe his Lady away with
him this yeare; this old yeare; or ells, the Prince
presently to returne without marriage or contract;
leaving both those to bee accomplished by the usuall
formes. My Maister having honored mee with his commaundements
in the trayne and shadow of that, I presume
to convey by your Grace, to his Highnes, as
humble thankfulnes as my poore heart is capable of,
for the signe of his Highnes memory of me and favour
to me received by M=r= Killigrey. And I beseech your
Grace to promise to his Highnes for mee that I will
<P III,157>
not onely fill my pocketts with papers to attend his 
service, but bleeding, emptie my vaynes for it.
   It is your free goodnes and favour to mee which
open's the way, and hath ledd mee to that condition of
favour I have. Preserve your creature, as farr as you
iudge my faith and thankfulnes will warrant you, which
I dare not discribe; knoweing my thoughts exceede my
words, and may outgoe the opinion of others, and fall
short of my owne knowledge, a part of which is that I
will live and dye

Your Graces
Most humble
servant
Edw. Conwey.

Theobalds 17=th= of
July 1623.



