thus Almighty God send your Lordship health, with much honour. At Berwick, the 23rd of August, with the rude hand of your Lordship's most assuredly to com mand, To the right honourable and my very good Lord the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lieutenant-General of the Army in Scotland. R. SADLEIR. No. IV. (Talbot Papers, Vol. B., fol. 23. 1547.) SIR RALPH SADLEIR TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. Ir may please your Lordship to understand, that upon receipt of your letters by Mr. Fisher, both he and I conferred with Mr. Stonehouse upon the same, who answereth that more than he alleged by his letters last addressed unto your Lordship he is not able to perform; that is to say, to victual 3000 or 4000 men to fortify at the Pethes, and also the navy, with the supply of men more now appointed unto the same; so that if your Lordship will now have the whole army to remain eight or ten days longer, he says plainly that he is not able to furnish the same unless the navy be disappointed; and all for lack of millage, for he has grain enough, and drink sufficient, with also beefs enough, but for lack of millage, he is not able to furnish you with bread, except, as is aforesaid, you disappoint the navy; and this is his plain and resolute answer, so that your Lordship has now to consider, with the rest of the Council there, whether is better for the King's Majesty's service to leave the enterprise undone which my Lord Clinton has to do, or to leave the Pethes unfortified. And, to say my foolish opinion first, I think the fortification at the Pethes is not to be omitted for the other; which nevertheless I refer to your Lordship's wisdom, and the rest of the Council with you, who can better weigh and consider the importance of the thing than I can. And yet such a furniture of victuals may come out of the South, as before these eight or ten days be expired my Lord Clinton may chance to have also a convenient furniture for the execution of his enterprise. I think also if your Lordship write to the Provost and Burgesses of Jedworth, and to Lawder, to furnish you with such victuals as they can, some relief may come that way; and I, for my part, will write to Newcastle, and do what I can to make the country here to resort to your camp with such victuals as they be able to furnish. Finally, if your Lordship proceed with this enterprise at the Pethes, Mr. Stonehouse says that if your Lordship send to-morrow a hundred carts he trusts to see them laden out of hand, and will make ready more as fast as he can, but presently he can furnish no more; and also I will send you, with the same, 200 beefs, if it please you to have them. And thus Almighty God preserve your Lordship in long life and health, with increase of honour. At Berwick, the 2nd of September, at ten o'clock at night. Your Lordship's most assuredly to command, 'R. SADLEIR. To the right honourable and my very good Lord the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lieutenant-General of the King's Majesty's Army in Scotland. In haste; haste, post, haste. No. V. (Talbot Papers, Vol. B. fol. 35.) JAMES CLARKE TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. PLEASETH it your Lordship to be advertised that since Mr. Sutton's departure I have travelled with the Auditors of the Court of the Augmentation * for the allowance of your Lordship's fees, who have promised me that your Lordship shall have as large allowance as ever you had, and at this time they made a stay, forasmuch as they knew not what to allow; they look to have sight of your Lordship's letters patents, but I doubt not it shall not need, for they have the old register where they are enrolled. Sir Walter Mildmay, and Kellway, another who is of my Lord Protector's council, or in commission for the sale of all chantries, and other * The Court of Augmentation, so called from the augmentation of the royal revenue by the suppression of religious houses, was constituted in 1536. It was composed of a Chancellor, a Treasurer, a Surveyor, ten Auditors, and several inferior officers, and was invested with discretionary powers in all matters relative to the estates of those societies. hospitals and colleges.* They sit at Mr. Mildmay's every day, and such importunate heaving for houses in London has not the like been seen: 20 years' and 30 years' purchase is nothing, almost; such a stir is among the citizens in purchasing one another's house over his head that well is he that pricks highest. Undoubtedly the sale of the city will be a great thing as hath been heard of. As for news, the report is the French galleys are ready to sale into Scotland. On Monday last the Lord Grey rode post northward in all haste, who shall make an exploit on the borders shortly the like has not been done. The King's Majesty removes on Wednesday next to Greenwich. From London, this 27th of March, 1548. To my Lord. No. VI. JA. CLARKE. (Talbot Papers, Vol. B. fol. 31.) Indorsed, "Victuals at Haddingtoun."+ WHEAT, 87 quarters. Mistlin, or Rye, 86 quarters. These foundations were possessed of great wealth, derived from the pious pretence of saying masses for departed souls. The chantries were generally annexed to churches, and we are told that there were no less than forty-seven within St. Paul's cathedral: each of these had a separate, generally landed, estate. They were given to the King by the Parliament, in December, 1547, though not without much opposition, as well from protestants as papists; and thus went the last remnant of that immense mass of property which had been wrested from the Romish clergy in the course of the last fifteen years. This paper is erroneously dated on the back, by a modern hand," 1544." Haddingtoun was surprised by the English, under William Lord Grey of Wilton, in April, 1548. This is a return of the victuals found there. Malt, 234 quarters. Hops, 3160 lb. Pease, 130. Oats, 100 quarters. White Pease, 6 quarters. Claret Wine, 68 tons. Malmsey, 3 buts. Cheese, 198 weys 3 quarters. No. VII. (Talbot Papers, Vol. B. fol. 51.) THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK TO THE SHERIFF AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF DERBYSHIRE. AFTER right hearty commendation. Whereas, for certain weighty considerations, the King's Majesty lately signified his Highness's pleasure unto you, by his Majesty's commission and otherwise, for the taking of general musters within the county of Derby; and that, without any respect of persons, you should appoint and choose out the |