council considered, we think requisite, for sundry considerations, to be subscribed by you: and, therefore, will and command you to subscribe the said articles, upon pain of incurring such punishments and penalties, as by our laws may be put upon you for not doing the same. Given at our palace at Westminster, 8th July, 1550.

Edward VI. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick.1

To his dearest and most beloved Barnaby,

I give thee great thanks, my dearest Mr. Barnaby, because thou hast written to me. Though I have scarcely time to send letters to thee, yet, lest I should appear ungrateful, I have written these letters unto thee, to let thee know that I have asked my uncle to send for you, and he desires thee to be here to-morrow. Salute D. Or. and D. Br., and say that I have not time to write to them. Farewell. The 9th of May, Wednesday, eight o'clock in the evening, the second of the new moon. Thy most loving

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Edward VI. to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.2

26th November, 1551.

Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Although we have, in our common letter to you and our

1 Written in Latin. From the Strawberry Hill Collection. This letter is the first of the series to Barnaby Fitzpatrick, who, after his return from France, was created by the king baron of Upper Ossory in Ireland, and died a most excellent Protestant. So says the historian Fuller.

2 Manuscripts in the Library of the Heralds' College, called the Cecil Papers. The lord lieutenant was Sir James Croft, who succeeded Sir A. St. Leger on May 23rd preceding this date.

council there, answered such things as were required for the affairs of our realm, yet hath your singular good service so commended you to our favour, that we thought it meet by this our private letter to give you a testimony of the same towards you; and if you shall proceed and apply yourself to continue your industry, wisdom, and painfulness, we shall not fail, but so consider you as the same shall be a demonstration of our good mind toward you. Understanding further that your substance of riches and manner of entertainment is less, and yet your charges much more than any other who hath served us as deputies there, we are pleased to give you in reward, to your relief, the sum of one thousand pounds; and further will that you shall have in your wages, of household servants, forty able horsemen, at 12d. per diem, and sixty footmen, at 6d. per diem, the same entertainment to begin at this next Christmas, praying you in some other numbers to diminish the same our charges, as you may conveniently: and for the allowance of the same we have written to our under-treasurer there for the time being, our letter to be sufficient warrant and discharge for the payment and allowance thereof. And likewise we be pleased to receive you into the service of our privy chamber, and mean to accept you as a gentleman thereof, not doubting but your good service and worthiness shall answer our expectations.

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And likewise upon the good commendable service done by Sir Thomas Cusack, knight, our chancellor there,

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1 The descendants of this family have generally spelt their name Cahusac, but pronounced the same as in the text.

we be pleased that he shall have, during the time of his service in the office of chancellor, the augmentation of his fee to another sum of a thousand pounds by the year more than he hath, 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 be pleased he, our said chancellor, shall have, as of our gift, the feesimple of the site of the abbey Cleonard, with the appurtenances, at the rent of £1 16s. 4d.; and certain tithes of the vicarage of Kylryne, and of the parsonage of Kyllagha, and Clonedaly, and Tyena, at the rent of £15 6s. 8d; 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 parts: 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 26th of November, 1551, and in the 5th year of our reign.

Edward VI. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick.1

20th December, 1551.

We have received your letters of the 8th of this present month, whereby we understand how you are well

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entertained, for which we are right glad, and also how have been procured once to go a pilgrimage, for which cause we have thought good to advertise you that hereafter, if any such chance happens, you shall desire leave to go to Mr. Pickering, or to Paris, for your business, and if that will not serve, to declare to some man of estimation, with whom you are best acquainted, that as you are loth to offend the French king, because you have been so favourably used, so with safe conscience you cannot do any such thing, being brought up with me, and bound to obey my laws; also that you had commandment from me to the contrary. Yet if you be vehemently procured, you may go as waiting on the king, not so intending to the abuse nor willingly seeing the ceremonies, an you look on the mass; but in the mean season read the Scripture or some good book, and give no reverence to the mass at all.

Furthermore, you shall remember when you may conveniently be absent from the court to tarry with Pickering, and to be instructed by him how to use yourself. For women, as farforth as you may, avoid their Yet if the French king command you, you company. may sometimes dance, so measure be your mean. Else apply yourself to riding, shooting, or tennis, with such honest games-not forgetting, sometimes, when you have leisure, your learning; chiefly reading the ScripThis I write, not doubting but you would have done so though I had not written, but to spur you on to do so. The sum of 1200 crowns you shall receive either monthly or quarterly, by Bartholomew Campaigne, factor

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in Paris. He hath warrant to receive it by here, and hath written to his factor to deliver it you there.

We have signed your bill for wages of the chamber which Fitzwilliams hath. Likewise we have sent a letter into Ireland, to our deputy, that he shall take surrender of your father's lands, and to make again other letters patents that these lands shall be to him, you, and your heirs lawfully begotten for ever, adjoining those two religious houses you spoke of.

Little hath been done here since you went, but the duke of Somerset's arraignment of felonious treason, and the masters of the new erected gendarmery.

The duke, the first of this month, was brought to Westminster Hall, where sate as judge, or high steward, my lord treasurer. Twenty-six lords of the parliament went on his trial. The indictments were read, which were several-some for treason, some for traitorous felony. The lawyers read how Palmer had confessed; that the duke once minded, and made him privy to raise the North; after to call the duke of Northumberland, the marquis of Northampton, and the earl of Pembrook, to a feast, and so to have slain them; and to do this thing (as it was to be thought) had levied one hundred men at his house at London: which was scanned to be a treason, because unlawful assemblies for such purposes was treason, by an act made in the last sessions; also how the duke of Somerset minded to slay horses of the gendarmes, and to raise London. Crane confessed also the murdering of the lords in a banquet. Sir Miles Partridge confessed the raising of London: Hammon,