LETTERS OMITTED IN THEIR DUE order of TIME. The printing of some of these Supplemental Letters was postponed in the hope of giving them, if possible, from the Originals, instead of from Transcripts. But the hope has not been realized, save in one instance. The marginal numbers to which the mark is affixed will serve to show the due place of each letter in the General Series, as far as that place is at present ascertainable. 1596. CLXI. [LXIV.*] TO SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. clxxiii. § 73 (Hatfield). Holograph. Without date. SINCE I sent my letter to your Honor from Doverbefore I departed the rode-ther came up unto mee sume seven or eight sayle of the Fleet, who being all like to perris on Wensday after midnight, they weare driven to lett slip all their cables and ancors. LETTER [LXIV.*] 1596. May 13. To Sir R. From Naval matters with the Fleet pre I humblie beseich your Honor to cause a letter to be connected written to the Maior of Dover, to send a boate of the towne to save the sayd cables and ancors,-having all boyes uppon them. They weare left on the north-est pared against Spain. LETTER [LXIV.] 1596. May 13. part of Goodden Sands, in five or sixe fathume. Thus I humblie take my leve. From Dover,-on1hower after my former letter. Yours ever to do yow service, W. RALEGH. Addressed: To the right honorable Sir ROBERT CECILL, Knight, of her Majesties most honorable Privy Councell. In hast. Endorsed : 13 May, 1596. Sir Walter Raleigh to my Master. From Dover. LETTER [LXXXIV.] 1598? July 12. To Michael Sherborne. Entreaty for the furtherance of the payment, by the Lord Treasurer, of a debt owing to Captain Spring. 1598? CLXII. [LXXXIV.*] TO MICHAEL HICKES, SECRETARY TO THE Lord As printed, in 1720, by ARTHUR COLLINS, in the first edition of his WORTHY MR. MICHAEL, I AM most earnestly to entreat you for this gentleman, Captain SPRING, that partly for love, partly for honest consideration, you will further him with my Lord Treasurer for a debt of £300 which Her Majesty doth owe him. It hath been long due, and he hath good warrant for it. Besides, he hath served Her Majesty very long, and hath received many wounds in her service. These reasons delivered by a man of your utterance, and having his good angel at your elbow to instruct you, I doubt not but it will take good and speedy effect. CLXII. And, in the conclusion,' I never wrote unto you for LETTER any man or in any matter wherein you shall more binde [LXXXIV.*] me unto you than for this bearer; and so, not doubting of your assured friendliness, I leave you to God, and remain, Your most assured loving friend, W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]-Always remember you must deal conscionably, for my sake, and I will requite it. From Sherburn, the 12th of July. 1598? July 12. 160 3. CLXIII. [CXVII.*] TO LADY RALEGH. As printed, in 1839, by the Rev. J. S. BREWER, from a nearly contemporaneous transcript in MS. YELVERTON xvi. fol. 100 (All Souls College, Oxford)." RECEIVE from thy unfortunate husband these his last lines; these the last words that ever thou shalt receive from him. That I can live never to see thee and my child more!-I cannot. I have desired God and disputed with my reason, but nature and compassion hath the victory. That I can live to think how you are both left a spoil to my enemies, and that my name shall be a 1 These four words are printed by Collins in brackets, without any note. ? I have visited the All Souls Library, and (by the kindness of the Warden and Fellows) have profited by some of the MSS. there preserved; as the readers of the first volume of this book will have seen. But I was accidentally deprived of the opportunity of collating this letter with the MS. LETTER [CXVII.*] 1603. July. To Lady LETTER dishonor to my child,—I cannot. CLXIII. I cannot endure the [cxvII.] memory thereof. Unfortunate woman, unfortunate child, comfort yourselves; trust God, and be contented with I would have bettered it, if I had 1603. July. A letter of farewell and consolation.Reasons of his purposed suicide.His last wishes as your poor estate. Thou art a young woman, and forbear not to marry again. It is now nothing to me; thou art no more mine; nor I thine. To witness that thou didst love me once, take care that thou marry not to please sense, but to avoid poverty, and to preserve thy child. That thou to the dis didst also love me living, witness it to others;—to my poor daughter, to whom I have given nothing; for his sake, who will be cruel to himself to preserve thee. charitable to her, and teach thy son to love her for hist father's sake. posal of his Estate. For myself, I am left of all men that have done good to many. All my good turns forgotten; all my errors revived and expounded to all extremity of ill. All my services, hazards, and expenses for my country-plantings, discoveries, fights, councils, and whatsoever else— malice hath now covered over. I am now made an enemy and traitor by the word of an unworthy man. He hath proclaimed me to be a partaker of his vain imaginations, notwithstanding the whole course of my life hath approved the contrary, as my death shall approve it. Woe, woe, woe be unto him by whose falsehood we are lost. He hath separated us asunder. He hath slain my honor; my fortune. He hath robbed thee of thy husband, thy child of his father, and me of you both. O God! thou dost know my wrongs. Know, then, thou my wife, and child;-know, then, thou my Lord and King, that I ever thought them too honest to betray, and too good to conspire against. But, my wife, forgive thou all, as I do. Live humble, for thou hast but a time also. God forgive my Lord HARRY, for he was my heavy enemy. And for my Lord CECILL, I thought he would never forsake me in extremity. I would not have done it him, God knows. But do not thou know it, for he must be master of thy child and may have compassion of him. Be not dismayed, that I died in despair of God's mercies. Strive not to dispute it. But assure thyself that God hath not left me, nor Satan tempted me. Hope and Despair live not together. I know it is forbidden to destroy ourselves; but I trust it is forbidden in this sort,-that we destroy not ourselves despairing of God's mercy. The mercy of God is immeasurable; the cogitations of men comprehend it not. In the Lord I have ever trusted; and I know that my Redeemer liveth. Far is it from me to be tempted with Satan; I am only tempted with Sorrow, whose sharp teeth devour my heart. O God! Thou art goodness itself, Thou canst not but be good to me. O God! that art mercy itself, Thou canst not but be merciful to me! For my estate, [it] is conveyed to feoffees-to your cousin BRETT and others. I have but a bare estate for a short life. My plate is at gage in Lombard Street; my debts are many. To PETER VANLORE, some £600. To ANTROBUS as much, but CUMPTON is to pay £300 of it. To MICHAEL HEXT,3 £100. To GEORGE CAREW, £100. 1 In printing this name, Mr. Brewer has by an oversight added “Cobham," in a note. There is no doubt whatever that Howard was meant by Ralegh. The expression is strictly appropriate in Howard's case, and he was so called by others of his contemporaries. No instance is known of the designation "my Lord Harry" as applied to Cobham. And the internal evidence of the letter itself points to Howard. As "Master of the Court of Wards." Sir Michael Hickes, who had been secretary to Lord Burghley, and to whom Letter CLXII. is addressed. LETTER CLXIII. [CXVII.*] 1603. July. |