nants. None of them could excuse themselves of any of the four points, saving Appleyard said he meant nothing towards the Queen's person; for that he meant to have had them to a banquet, and to have betrayed them all, and to have won credit thereby with the Queen. Throgmorton was mute, and would say nothing till he was condemned, who then said, They are full merry now that will be as sorry within these few days. Mr. Bell was attorney for Mr. Gerrard, he being one of the Judges; and Mr. Bell alleged against Appleyard that he was consenting to the treason before; alleging one Parker's words, that was brought prisoner with Dr. Storey out of Flanders, that Parker heard of the treason before Nallard came over to the Duke of Alva. And there stood one Bacon by that heard Parker say so my Lord offered a book to Bacon for to swear; "O, my Lord," said Appleyard, "will you condemn me of his oath that is registered for a knave in the Book of Martyrs?"

They had set out a proclamation, and had four prophecies; one was touching the wantonness of the Court, and the other touching this land to be conquered by the Scots; and two more that I can not remember. There were many in trouble for speaking of seditious words. Thomas Cecil said that the Duke of Norfolk was not of that religion as he was accounted to be; and that his cousin

Richard Cecil, father of Lord Burghley, had a younger brother David, who was probably the father of this Thomas. No notice is taken in the pedigrees of that time of David's issue, and and it is not unlikely that the Treasurer interfered to prevent any record of a Romish and disaffected branch of his family.

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Cecil was the Queen's darling, who was the cause of the Duke of Norfolk's imprisonment, with such like; who is put off to the next assize. Anthony Middleton said, My Lord Morley is gone to set the Duke of Alva into Yarmouth, and if William Keat had not accused me, Throgmorton, and the rest, we had had a hot harvest; but if the Duke of Norfolk be alive, they all dare not put them to death. Metcalf said that he would help the Duke of Alva into Yarmouth, and to wash his hands in the Protestants' blood. Marsham said that my Lord of Leicester had two children by the Queen ; and for that he is condemned to lose both his ears, or else pay £100 presently. Chiplain said he hoped to see the Duke of Norfolk to be King before Michaelmas next; who doth interpret that he meant, not to be King of England, but to be King of Scotland.

Mr. Bell and Mr. Solicitor said both to this effect to the prisoners ;-" What mad fellows were ye, being all rank Papists, to make the Duke of Norfolk your patron that is as good a Protestant as any is in England; and, being wicked traitors, to hope of his help to your wicked intents and purposes, that is as true and as faithful a subject as any is in this land, saving only that the Queen is minded to imprison him for his contempt." Doctor Storey is at Mr. Archdeacon Watts's house, in custody, besides Powels. Thurlby, late Bishop of Ely, died this last week at Lambeth.

The Spanish Queen is arrived in the Low Countries, and will embark as soon as may be

The Emperor is setting forward his other daughter towards Metz, to be married to the French King. It is written, by letters of the 28th of the last, from Venice, that the Turk has landed in Cyprus 100,000 men, or more; and has besieged the two great cities within that kingdom, Nicocia and Famagosta. At one assault at Famagosta they lost 12,000 men; upon the which repulse the Begler Bey* of Natolia, the General of the Turk's army, wrote to the great Turk, his master, that he thought it was invincible. He answered that, if they did not win it before they came, they should be put to the sword at their return home. The Turk has sent another army by land against the Venetians, into Dalmatia, and are besieging Zara with 20,000 footmen and 20,000 horsemen, and divers towns they have taken, as Spalatro, Elisa, Eleba, and Nona, with great spoil and bloodshed; and it is written that the Turk's several armies are above 200,000 men against the Venetians. The men first sent by the Venetians fell so into diseases by the way as they were fain to prepare new men, which is thought will hardly come to do any good in Cyprus. A man may see what account is to be made of these worldly things, as to see in a small time the third state of Christendom in security, power, and wealth, to be in danger of utter overthrow in one year.

* Elizabeth, second daughter of Maximilian II. She was married to Charles IX. of France, Nov. 26th, 1570, and died Jan. 22nd, 1592.

† Beglerbey, or Beglerbeg; a Viceroy, or Governor of a Province.

They say my Lord of Leicester hath many workmen at Kenilworth to make his house strong, and doth furnish it with armour, ammunition, and all necessaries for defence. And thus Jesus have my Lord, and your Ladyship, and my friends in his tuition, to God's pleasure.

Scribbled at London, the last of August, 1570.

Your good Ladyship's ever to command

during life.

To the right honourable Countess of Shrewsbury, at Chatsworth, or where.

No. LIV.

(Howard Papers.)

SIR WILLIAM CECIL

TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

Ir may please your honourable good Lordship (after my humble commendations remembered to your Lordship and my good Lady) to understand that we two, your Lordship's troublesome guests,*

*Cecil, accompanied by Sir Walter Mildmay, had lately visited the Queen of Scots in her prison, to propose certain terms of accommodation; and commissioners were soon after named, both on her part and on that of her son, and a conference between them and Elizabeth's ministers was appointed to be held in London. Mary's friends, and indeed all honest men, were sanguine in their expectations of the event of this treaty; but Elizabeth rendered it fruitless by a stroke of that hypocrisy which, owing to a sort of fatality, as it should seem, always actuated her mind when she dealt with the Queen of Scots. See a long detail of this negociation in Camden. See likewise Dr. Robertson's judicious observations on Elizabeth's conduct in it.

arrived here safely at the Court on Saturday, in the afternoon, and have imparted to her Majesty our proceedings with that Queen, wherein our labours are not misliked by her Majesty; and yet some exceptions are taken to two or three of the last answers made by the Queen of Scots, wherein I think there will prove no such difficulty but that the Queen of Scots will satisfy the Queen's Majesty; so as the whole now shall rest upon some good determination of the rest at the coming of the Commissioners from Scotland on both parts.

We have, as in duty we are bound, made report to her Majesty of your Lordship's careful, discreet, and chargeable service in the charge of that Queen, for her surety, and for the Queen's Majesty's honour. We have also fully satisfied her Majesty with the painful and trusty behaviour of my Lady your wife, in giving good regard to the surety of the said Queen; wherein her Majesty surely seemed to us to be very glad, and used many good words, both of your Lordship's fidelity towards herself, and of the love that she thought my Lady did bear to her. We also besought her Majesty that your Lordship might receive her thanks for your chargeable and loving entertainment of us, which I trust she will cause to be known to your Lordship.

Now for the removing of that Queen, her Majesty said, at the first, that she trusted so to make an end in short time that your Lordship should be shortly acquitted of her; nevertheless, when I told her Majesty that you could not long endure