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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_MINUTE_OF_A_LETTER_FROM_QUEEN_ELIZABE
TH_TO_THE_QUEEN_OF_SCOTS,_FEB._1ST._1571>

Madame , of late time I have receaved divers letters from yow to the
which you maie well gesse , by the accidentes of the time , whie I have
not made anie answer ; but speciallie because I sawe no matter in them
that required any such answer as could have contented yow ,
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,1.3)

and to have discontented yow had bin but an increase of your impatience
which I thought tyme would have mitigated as it doth commonlie where
the cause thereof is not truelie grounded (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,1.4)

and that it be so understand ; (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,1.5)

but now findinge by your last letter the 27=th=. of the last , an
<P_2.3,2> increase of your impatience tending allsoe to manie uncomelie
, passionate , and vindicative speeches , I thought to change my former
opinion and by patient and advised wordes to move yow to staie , or
ells to qualifie your passions , and to consider that it is not the
manner to obtaine good thinges with evill speeches , nor benefitts with
injurious chalenges , nor to gett good to yourself with doinge evill to
another . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,2.6)

And yet to avoyd the fault which I note yow have comitted in filling a
longe letter with multitude of sharpe and injurious wordes , I will not
by way of letter write anie more of the matter ,
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,2.7)

but have rather chosen to committ to my cosin the Erle of Shrewsbury
the thinges which I have thought meete upon the readinge of your
letters to be imparted unto you , as in a memorial in wrytinge he hath
to shewe you : wherwith I thinke yf reason may be present with you ,
and passion absent at the reading , you will folowe hereafter rather
the course of the last part of your letter then the first ; the later
being wrytten as in a calme and the former in a storme , wishing to you
the same grace of God that I wish to myself , and that he maie direct
you to desire and attaine to that which is meete for his honnor and
your quietnes , with contentacion both-8 of bodie and minde .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,2.8)

Given at my Pallace of Westminster the first daie of February 1571 .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,2.9)

Your Cosyn that wisheth you a better mynde . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,2.3,2.10)

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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_LETTER_OF_WARRANT_FROM_QUEEN_ELIZABETH_TO_
SIR_SMITH_AND_D=R=._WILSON,_FOR_PUTTING_TWO_OF_THE_DUKE_OF_NORFO
LK'S_SERVANTS_TO_THE_RACK>

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Elizabeth R. By the Quene . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,261.14)

Right trusty and welbeloved we grete yow well ,
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,261.15)

and fyndyng in the traytoroous attempts lately discovered that neither
Barker nor Bannister the Duke of Norfolks men have uttred ther knolledg
, nother will discover the same without torture ; forasmuch as the
knolledg herof concerneth our suerty and estate , and that they have
untruly allredy answered , We will and by warrant herof authoriss you
to procede to the furder examynation of them uppon all poynts that you
can thynk by your discretions mete for knolledg of the truth .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,261.16)

And , they shall not seme to yow to confess playnly ther knolledg ,
than we warrant yow to cause them both , or ether of them , to be
brought to the rack : <P_1.2,262> and first to move them with feare
therof to deale playnly in ther answers , (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.17)

and if that shall not move them than yow shall cause them to be putt to
the rack , and to find the tast therof untill they shall deale more
playnly , or untill yow shall thynk mete . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.18)

And so we remitt the whole procedyng to your furder discretion ,
requiryng yow to use spede herin and to require the assistance of our
Lieutenant of the Toure . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.19)

Gyven under our signet the xv=th= of Septemb. 1571 .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.20)

To o=r= trustie and right well beloved Counsellors S=r=. Thomas $Snyth
K=t= . and to o=r= $trustie and welbeloved Doctor $Wilson one of the
Masters of our Requestes . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.21)

{COM:indorsed} Receaved at the Towir the xvj. daie of 7=ber=. at eleven
of the clocke in the forenoone 1571 . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,262.22)

<heading:edcomment:LETTER_QUEEN_ELIZABETH_TO_LORD_BURGHLEY,_TO_STAY
_THE_EXECUTION_OF_THE_DUKE_OF_NORFOLK,_A._D._1572>

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My Lord me thinkes that I am more beholdinge to the hindar part of my
hed than wel dare trust the forwards side of the same ,
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.25)

and therfore sent to the Levetenant and the S. , as you knowe best ,
the Ordar to defar this execution till $they {TEXT:the} here furdar .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.26)

And that this may be done I doubte nothing , without curiositie of my
further warrant , for that ther rasche determination upon a very unfit
day was countermaunded by your considerat admonition .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.27)

The causes that move me to this ar not now to be expressed , lest an
irrevocable dede be in mene while committed .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.28)

If $they {TEXT:the} wyl nides a Warrant , let this suffice , all
written with my none hand . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.29)

Your most lovinge Soveraine Elizabeth R. (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.30)

{COM:indorsed_in_Lord_Burghley's_hand} xj. Ap=l=. 1572. The Q. Ma=ty=
with hir own hand , for staying of the Execution of the D. N.
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.31)

R~ at 2 in the Morning . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,263.32)

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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_QUEEN_ELIZABETH_TO_THE_EARL_OF_SHREWSBURY
,_THE_APPOINTMENT_OF_NAVE_TO_BE_SECRETARY_TO_THE_QUEEN_OF_SCOTS>_C ODE

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Elizabeth R. By the Queen . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,278.36)

Right trusty and right welbelovid Cosin and Counsellor we greete yow
well . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,278.37)

Whereas the Queene of Scotts hath ben destitute of a Frenche Secretary
sens the deathe of Rollet , and hath by her awne lettres , and by
meanes out of France , desyred us to suffer an other to come and
supplye that place about her ; which we have hitherto forborne to
graunt , for dyvers good causes , and emong other , for the evell
offices whiche her other Secretary did there , wherof yow ar not
ignorant . Now forasmuche as the bearer hereof , called de Naou , a
Frencheman , hath ben chosen and recommended to us by our brother the
Frenche King , with request that he may gooe to her and serve her as
her Secretary , and hath promised that he shall carye himself in that
even maner that becommeth an honest mynister , nor shall practise any
hurtfull or offensyve thing , which he himself hath also vowed and
promisid heere , with offer that if he shall at any tyme be fownd
fawtye , he submittith him self to any punishment : Upon these respects
, and at her earnest request , we ar pleased that the said de Naou
shall resort thither and abyde with her as her Secretary .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,278.38)

And so our pleasour is yow shall receive him into her company , and
suffer him to serve her in that place ; admonishing him now , at his
entrey , and also herafter , to have consideracion of the caution
whiche our said brother the Frenche King hath gyven <P_1.2,279> us for
him ; and also of his awne promes , as he will avoyd the danger wherin
he hath condempnid himself , if he $shall $be {TEXT:shalbe} herin fownd
faultye . (ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,279.39)

Geven vnder our Signet at our Mannor of Saint James the xxix=th= of
Marche , 1575. in the xvij=th= yere of our Reign .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,279.40)

To our right trusty and right welbeloved Cosin and Counsellor , the
Erle of Shreusbury , Erle-Marshall of England .
(ELIZ-1570-E2-P2,1.2,279.41)