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have, during the time of his service in the office of Chancellor there, the augmentation of his fee to another sum of £1000 by the year more than he has, to be paid likewise as his other fee is paid, from Christmas next following; for the which purpose we have written likewise to our said UnderTreasurer our letters for the warrant. And further for the augmentation of his livelihood, and so, consequently, for the comfort of him in our service, we are pleased he our said Chancellor shall have, as of our gift, the fee simple of the site of the Abbey of Cleonard, with the appurtenances, at the rent of £1. 16. 4.; and certain tithes of the Vicarage of Kylryne, and of the Parsonage of Kyllagha, and Clonedaly, and Tyena, at the rent of £15. 6. 4. ; for the which purpose we will that you, by warrant, cause the same gift to pass under our great seal there. And we doubt not but you our Deputy, and so also our said Chancellor, will endeavour yourselves the best you may to alleviate our charges in some other part, that by these considerations, and such like, we be not overcharged in that realm without evident commodity be answered therefore.

Given under our signet, at our Palace of Westminster, the of November, 1551, and in the

fifth year of our reign.

VOL. I.

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No. XIX.

(Talbot Papers, Vol. A. fol. 58.)

LORD WHARTON

TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

Right Honourable,

PLEASE it your Lordship to be advertised that I wrote a letter unto the Earl of Angus, and sent the same to him by Richie Grame, against the entry of the Laird of Fentree, taken prisoner at So- lemme Moss, for whose entrance the said Earl stands bounden; and albeit that I have sundry times, at the request of his takers, called upon him to enter the said Laird, yet I cannot have that matter discharged, according to the Earl's bond and promise. And, touching the same, he has written a letter unto me by the said Richie, which letter I send unto your Lordship herein enclosed; and for the credence he refers to Richie Grame. He shews me that the said Earl delivered unto him a bill of the names of certain noblemen and gentlemen within that realm, all whom are promised to be of the Dowager's party against the Governor; which bill I send also unto your Lordship herewith. The Earl desired Richie Grame to let me see the bill, as he says.

Richie Grame shews me, further, that upon Tuesday last, the Earl of Augus and the Lord Fleming had much secret conference together; where the Lord Fleming required the Earl of Angus to send unto me that the said Lord Fleming would serve to the best he could for the advance

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ment of the King's Majesty's affairs in that realm, according to his former promise; and, therewith, desired the Earl of Angus to be mean unto me that his lands and friends might be forborne by the inhabitants of Eskdale, Ewsdale, and Wacopdale, Scotchmen, from doing of displeasure, which he fears, and I trust shall have cause, for I intend to practise that by them he may be annoyed this winter, as they may. Richie Grame shews me also that upon Wednesday last there was a meeting between the Earls of Angus, Glencairn, and Cassilis, and the Sheriff of Ayre; all which then agreed to stand with the Dowager against the Governor, as heretofore they have promised. He says, further, that the Governor intends to keep a parliament in Edinburgh, which shall begin the 12th day of November; and, in like manner, the Dowager, with those noblemen promised unto her, intends to keep a parliament in Stirling, seven 'days after the others. The Governor lies at Edinburgh, and George Douglas at Dalkeith: there are many arguments of displeasure between them. And thus the Holy Trinity have your Lordship evermore in his blessed preservation. At Carlisle, the 17th of October.*

Your Lordship's humbly at commandment,

THOMAS WHARTON.

*This letter appears to have been written in 1552, when the Queen Dowager was attempting to force the Regency from the Duke of Chatelherault, which he afterwards voluntarily resigned to her.

No. XX.

(Cecil Papers.)

SIR RICHARD MORYSIN

TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Please it your good Lordships,

WHEREAS Mr. Chamberlain does at large write unto your Honours, both what the Emperor demands of these his Low Countries, and also what time the burgesses have to make answer to his Majesty's demands, I, till I be better acquainted with the men and matters of this country, will learn what I can, and in the mean season hearken how things go that are farther off, and yet not so far off but those there and these here must either quail one after another, or be had in consideration at once. For the meeting of the great Princes this Shrovetide at Duke Maurice's house, called Dresden, the appointment was not kept; because, as some men think, Duke Maurice had, of himself, framed such matter as now did more need to be set forward than to be sitten upon. It is said the Palsgrave comes hither, sent by all the Electors, Princes, and States of Germany, to the Emperor ; and, though he be not yet on his way, men say

*Maurice Duke of Saxony, raised to the Electorate by Charles V. who had deposed his kinsman John Frederick. He had occasionally sided with almost every party in the present troubles, and in the beginning of the year 1551 had concluded a league with Henry II. of France, and the malecontent Princes of the Empire, so unexpectedly that Charles had not the least suspicion of it till he saw the Saxon troops in motion. He was killed at the battle of Sieverhausen, in the Duchy of Lunenburgh, five months after the date of this letter.

some one of his Chancellors has already sent his errand to the Queen. + The Princes, and States, do mean to offer by him of men and money sufficient to recover out of the French King's hands Metz, and any thing else that pertaineth the Empire ; but this their fair offer is upon such a condition, as men think the Emperor will much rather want them than ever consent to the other. They will find plenty of men and money, they say, so that the Emperor be content to make Maximilian coadjutor of the Empire with him. The Queen has time to devise the answer, which knows the errand so long before it is done. Men doubt whether she will utter so unpleasant a matter to the Emperor or no, till he be stronger, and better able to bear it. Some who do hear of these news, and do take them for true, imagine the practise proceeds from Duke Maurice; who must, of necessity, set up Maximilian, seeing the Prince of Spain and he are never like to be friends. There are few so fit to frame such a matter, few who would be gladder to travail in it, none that had more need it be brought to pass, than Duke Maurice. The Pals

* The words printed in Italics are written in cyphers.

† Mary, third sister to Charles V., and widow of Lewis II., King of Hungary and Bohemia. She was Governess of the Netherlands from 1530 till her brother's resignation of the Empire in 1555, and died in Spain, Oct. 18, 1558, aged 53. A Princess of masculine spirit and understanding, to whose management the most important affairs had been committed for several years.

Afterwards Philip II. of Spain. Maximilian, mentioned immediately before, was eldest son of Ferdinand, King of the Romans, brother and successor to Charles. He was at this time King of Bohemia; became Emperor in 1564; and died in 1576.

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