the Queen's Majesty, or your Lordships, such letters of direction and thanks as your Lordships shall think convenient; wherein, for that he is a young gentleman, and his presence there like to do good service, we beseech your Lordships both to consider so to place him for his estimation, and with such entertainment, as thereby he may be encouraged and enabled to serve according to his bounden duty, which we doubt not he will with diligence endeavour himself to do. Aud, for his better credit (the Queen's Majesty so think it should do well to have him sworn of this Council in these North Parts, whereof we also beseech your Lordships to advertise me the said Earl of Shrewsbury. pleased) we The Lord Dacres, by such exploit as he intendeth, supposes that the Armstrongs of Scotland, it may so chance, will make offer to serve this realm, having living or reward therefore convenient; and if your Lordships think it convenient to be accepted, it may then please you to be a means to signify the Queen's Majesty's pleasure therein to the said Lord Dacres. And now, we being resolved of the premises, have thought convenient that I, the Earl of Shrewsbury, should repair again to York, because the bruit of my remaining here should put the Scots in some doubt of a greater power to be brought hence, and thereupon increase their force towards their frontiers; whereupon I intend to take my journey towards York to-morrow. The town of Newcastle has two ships well furnished, which they would, of their own charges, continue in service of the wars; and they have also other two ships furnished, which, if it might please the Queen's Majesty, they would have set forth of her Majesty's charges; wherein it may please your Lordship to signify her Majesty's pleasure unto them. And thus we beseech Almighty God long to continue your good Lordship in good health, with much honour. From Brauncepeth, the 2nd day of September, 1557. No. XLVI. (Talbot Papers, Vol. D. fol. 153.) LORDS WHARTON AND EURE TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. PLEASED your most honourable Lordship to be advertised, that this 4th we are informed by several espials, coming to either of us, that the army of Scotland is coming forward, and that order is given, by proclamation and otherwise, that all the subjects dwelling by North Sowtray shall march on foot, unless a nobleman, knight, man of good lands, or captains, to ride, and none others; and all from Sowtray Southward to be their band of horsemen. The espials say they have 3000 harquebussiers made forth of all the borough towns in Scotland. On Friday last, at their consultation at Edinburgh (the Dowager, the Duke, the Earl of Hunt ley, and their nobility), it was reasoned there to be a great matter for their whole realm if the army of England should give them battle, the experience whereof they had felt before. The Dowager answered that there was much spoken of an army to rise in England, but, upon her credible intelligence, she would assure them all that there was no army towards; and if there were, the same was of no great force; so as they might do their purpose without danger of England. She lodged the 3rd night at Newbottle. The 5th, in the morning she and their noblemen met in Lawder, and there concluded their purpose, where they will make their first enterprise. The Duke said on Friday last that the Dowager and Mons. Dowcell were fully determined to assail Berwick; and that he was never otherwise moved by the Dowager and Docell but to assay that pece.* The ordnance, provisions, and victuals, come forward, as we before have advertised your Lordship. All the nobility of their realm, and that power they may make, are in this army, and in their best order. The espials say that Wednesday night they will approach near Tweed, and upon Thursday at their purpose. The Earl of Huntley has the vayward, the Duke the battle, and the Earl of Cassilis, and their nobility of their West, the rear ward. The espials say that if they see the army on this side they will strengthen themselves on their own ground. Fortified places were generally so called. We know your Lordship's noble wisdom will consider these; the surety of this peace of Berwick, and the time as presently it is, to be better furnished. And Almighty God send unto your Lordship as prosperous success as your own noble heart can desire. At the King's and Queen's Majesties' castle of Berwick, the 4th of September, 1557. Your Lordship's, at commandment, THOMAS WHARTON. WILLIAM EURE.* To the right honourable and our singular good Lord the * William, second Lord Eure, or Evers, son of Sir Ralph Eure, by Margery, daughter of Sir Ralph Bowes, of Streatlam Castle in Durham, succeeded his grandfather, William, in the title, and was bred to the profession of arms. He is styled in a very fine pedigree of his family, preserved in the College of Arms, "Gulielmus de Eure, Miles (cujus jussu delineatur) Dominus Eure, olim Capitaneus Castri et Villa Barwici." He was joined to Lord Wharton in that command, and in the Wardenry, not long before the date of this letter, and his commission was renewed in the 1st of Elizabeth. In 1570 he served under the Earl of Sussex on the borders, and in Scotland; and in 1587 was appointed, with the Earl of Rutland, to treat of a league with the He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, by whom he had five sons; Ralph, his successor; Francis; William ; Charles; and Charles; and six daughters; Anne, married to John, son and heir of Sir William Mallory; Muriel, to Richard Goodrick, of Ribston in Yorkshire; Martha, to Sir William Armine; Mary, Margaret, and Elizabeth. Lord Eure died Feb. 12, 1593-4. Upon the failure of this nobleman's male line, the family estates which were very valuable, particularly in Yorkshire, were inherited by his great great grand-daughters, Margaret, wife of Thomas, son of Sir Thomas Danby, and Mary, wife of William Palmes, of Ashwell in Rutlandshire, and Linley in Yorkshire. From the de No. XLVII. (Talbot Papers, Vol. D. fol. 167.) THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY Good Mr. Petre, AFTER my very hearty commendations, with like thanks for all your friendship, and gentle offer of the continuance thereof, for the which I am, and always shall be, as ready to do you what pleasure may lie in my power as any friend you have, whereof I pray you to think yourself right well assured. And where, according to the Queen's Majesty's order, I did repair to Brauncepeth for consultation for her Highness's affairs, as well with my very good Lord the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, and the Bishop of Durham, as also with the Lord Dacres, it was thought most convenient, both by me and also by all their Lordships, that immediately after the consultation, I should return thence: for that they all thought that my presence there should as well procure the Scots to prepare an army to those frontiers, and by that means annoy the inhabitants there, as also be an occasion to put her Majesty to further charges, which our study was, as much as we could, to avoid. And now, forasmuch as her Highness's pleasure is I shall scendants of the latter an ancestor of the late Marquis of Rockingham purchased a considerable part, particularly Malton, where the Lords Eure had a magnificent mansion. The title became extinct in George, Lord Eure, a violent sectary, and a man of singular character, who represented the county of York in Cromwell's House of Commons, and lived till the beginning of the last century. |