"To my Lorde my Father, "My Lord, my Brother told me of the Ire yor Lo. sente him for putting away of Morgayne and Marven; and sayd he rejoyced that yo' Lo. would so playnely directe & comande him what to doe; and he trustethe hereafter to please yo' Lo. in all his doynges; wherunto, according to my deuty, I prayed him to have care above all manner of thinges, and advised him to kepe secret yo' Lo'. directions. "I have founde out a sober mayden to wayte on my wyfe, if it shall so please yo Lo. She was sarvante unto Mrs. Southwell, now Lorde Padget his wife, who is an evell husband, and will not suffer any that wayted of his wife before he married her, to continew wth hir. As it behoves me, I have bene very inquisitive of the woman, and have harde very well of hir behavior, and, truly, I do repose in her to be very modest and well gyven, and suche a one as I truste yor Lo. shall not mislike; but, if it be so that she shall not be thought mete for my wife, she will willinglye repayr hither agayne. Her name is Marget Butler: she is aboute 27 yeares old. Mr. Bateman hathe knowen her longe, and thinkethe very well of her. She is not very beautifull, but very clenly in doyng of any thinge, chefely aboute a sicke body, to dresse any thinge fitt for them. I humbly pray yor Lo. to sende me worde whether I shall make shyft to sende hir downe presently, for she is very desyrouse not to spend hir tyme idely 1. Thus most humbly desiring yor Lo'. daly blessing, with my wonted and continuall prayer for yo1 Lo'. preservacon in all honor and helthe, long to continew, I end. At the Courte, this Munday, the 25th of May 1573. Yo' Lo'. most huble and obedient Sun, GILBERT TALBOTT." Her Majesty came from her Palace at Greenwich, on Wednesday the 14th of July, to the Archbishop's house at Croydon, and stayed with all her attendants, 'Perhaps it is unnecessary to apologize for inserting this extract, from a long letter of domestic matters, as it affords so remarkable an instance of the respect which people, even of the first rank, paid to their Parents. Gilbert was at this time married, and a Member of the House of Commons. "The great and good Archbishop Parker (who succeeded Pole in 1559) resided mostly at Lambeth; but was often at his house at Croydon, where he had the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth, and all her retinue, consisting of the principal Nobility of this kingdom. I suppose her Majesty was so well pleased with her Entertainment here, that she designed the Archbishop another visit the next year: at least, preparation seems to have been made for it, as appears from an original paper, dated May 15, 1574;" [which shall be transcribed under the account of that year.] Ducarel's Croydon, p. 36. "Abp. Parker, who wrote a treatise "on the Lawfulness of Priests marrying," was privately married before the Statute which enjoined celibacy to the Clergy was repealed. Queen Elizabeth, who could never be reconciled to this part of the Reformation, is said to have expressed her dislike of it thus rudely, upon taking leave of Mrs. Parker, after having been sumptuously entertained at 328 SUPERSTITIOUS MONUMENTS AT ALL SOULS COLLEGE DEFACED, 1572-3. neglected so to doe: These are, by virtue of her sayd Majesty's Commission, again to will and commande yowe to make youre personal appearance before us her Majesty's Commissioners or owr colleagues in the President's Hawle of Magdalen College in Oxforde on Tuesday nexte, which shall be the XXII of this presente monthe of December, at one of the clocke in the afternoone, bringing with yowe a true certificate of yowre whole doinges in the said defacing of the sayde monuments of superstition; whereof fayle yowe not, as yowe will answere to the contrarye at yowre perill, and retorne back the former, and also this writ with yowe. From Magdalen College in Oxford xvi1 Dec. 1573. LAUR. HUMFREY. HERBERT WESTFALING. JO. KENNALL. Wm COLE. The following Letters from Gilbert Talbot', exhibit a curious account of Court intrigues : "To my Lorde my Father, "My most huble deuty remembred, ryght ho. my sing. good Lo. and father; because of the convenientnes of ye bearer hereof, I have thought good to advertise yor L. of ye estate of sum here at ye Courte, as nere as I have lerned by my daly experience. My Lo. Treasurer, even after the ould mañer, delythe wth matters of ye state only, and beareth himself very upryghtly. My Lo. Lecester is very muche wt her Matie, and she sheweth the same great good affection to him that she was wonte; of late he hath indevored to please hir more then hertofore. There are towe sisters nowe in ye Courte that are very farr in love wth him, as they have bene longe; my Lady Sheffeld and Frances Haworthe; they (of like stryving who. shall love him better) are at great warres together, and the Queine thinketh not well of them, and not the better of him; by this meanes there is spies over him. My Lo. of Sussex goeth wth the tyde, and helpethe to backe others; but his owne credite is sober, consydering his estate. He is very diligent in his office, and takethe great paynes. My Lo. of Oxforth is lately growne into great credite; for the Q. Matie delitithe more in his parsonage, and his daunsinge, and valientnes, then any other: I thinke Sussex doth back him all that he can; if it were not Second son of the Earl of Shrewsbury, whom in 1590 he succeeded in his title. He died in 1616. Daughters of William Lord Howard of Effingham. The Earl of Leicester married the former, and the Earl of Hertford the latter. for his fyckle hed he would passe any of them shortly'. My Lady Burghley unwisely hathe declared herselfe, as it were geliouse, web is come to the Quene's eare; whereat she hath bene not a litell offended wth hir, but now she is reconsiled agayne. At all theise love matters my Lo. Tresurer winketh, and will not meddle any way. Hatton is sicke still. It is thought he will very hardly recover his disease, for it is doubted it is in his kidnes: the Queine goeth almost every day to see how he dothe. Now is there devices (chefely by Lecester, as I suppose, and not without Burghley his knowledge) how to make Mr. Edward Dier3 as great as ever was Hatton; for now, in this tyme of Hatton's sicknes, the tyme is convenient. It is brought thus to passe; Dier lately was sicke of a consumcion, in great daunger; and, as your Lo. knoweth, he hathe bene in displeasure thes two yeares, it was made the Quene beleve that his sicknes came because of ye continuaunce of hir displeasure towardes him, so that unles she would forgyve him he was licke not to recover; and heruppon hir Matie hathe forgyven him, and sente unto him a very comfortable message; now he is recovered agayne, and this is the beginninge of this device. Theise thinges I lerne of suche younge fellowes as myselfe. "Towe dayes since, Doctor Wilson told me he hard say that yor Lo. wth yor charge was removed to Sheffeld Lodge, and asked me whether it was so or not: I answered, I harde so also; that you were gone thither of force till the Castle could be clenged. And further, he willed to know whether yor L. did so by y consent of ye Counsell or not; I sayde I knew not that, but I was certayne yo Lo. did it uppon good grounde. I earnestly desyred him, of all frendshipp, to tell me whether he had harde any thing to ye contrary; which he sware he never did, but asked, because he sayd, once that Lady should have bene conveyghed from that house. Then I told him what great hede and care you had to hir safe This was Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford of his family. The following anecdote confirms Mr. Talbot's hint of his eccentric character. When the Duke of Norfolk, whom he entirely loved, was condemned, he applied to Lord Burghley, whose daughter he had married, passionately beseeching him to interfere in the Duke's behalf; but his request being refused, he told Burghley, with the greatest fury, that he would revenge himself by ruining the Countess : and he made his threat good; for from that hour he treated her with the most shocking brutality, and having broke her heart, sold and dissipated the most part of his great fortune. He died June 24, 1604. Sir Christopher Hatton, Vice-chamberlain. He was afterwards knighted, and appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. ♦ Soon after one of the Principal Secretaries. keeping, especially beyng there; that good numbers of men, continually armed, watched hir day & night, & both under hir windowes, over hir chamber, and of every syde hir; so that, unles she could transforme hirself to a flee or a mouse, it was unpossible that she could scape. At that tyme Mr. Wilson shewed me some parte of ye confession of one (but who he was, or when he did confess it, he wold in no wise tell me), that that fellow should saye he knewe the Queine of Scotts hated yor Lo. dedly because of your religion, beynge an earneste P'testante; and all the Talbotts els in Ingland, beyng all Papistes, she estemethe of them very well; and this fellow did beleve verely all we Talbotts did love hir better in our hartes than the Queine's Matie. This Mr. Wilson sayd, he shewed me because I should see what knavery there is in some men to accuse. He charged me of all love that I should kepe this secrete, wch I pmised; & notwithstanding, consydering he would not tell me who this fellow was, I willed a frend of mine, one Mr. Frãcis Sothewell, who is very great wth him, to knowe, amongest other talke, who he had last in examinacion; and I understode that this was the examinacion of one at the last Session of Parlam1, & not since, but I cannot learne yet what he was. "Mr. Walsingham is this day comen hither to the Courte; it is thought he shall be made Secretory. Sr Thomas Smythe & he, bothe together, shall exercise that office. He hath not yet told any newes; he hathe had no tyme yet for beinge welcomed whom 1, as soone as I here any, yor L. shall have them sente. Roulsdon hathe wrytten to yor Lo. as he saythe, by this bearer, he trustethe to yo1 Lo. satisfaction: I have bene very importunate of him for the psent paymt of his dett to yor Lo. He cannot any wayes make shyfte for money unles he sell land, which he voueth to do rather than to purchase yo' L'. displeasure. I have moved my Lo. Tresurer towe sundry tymes, as yo' L. comanded me, for ye mustering within yor L'. offices. The fyrst tyme he willed me to cum to him sum other tyme, and he would gyve me an answere, because then he had to wryte to Barwike in haste; this he told me before I haulfe told him yt I ment. The second tyme, wch was on Saterday last, my Lo. Lecester came unto him as I was talking; but to-morrow, God willing, I will not fayle to move him thorowly. For other matters I leave yor Lo. to the bearer herof. And so, most humbly desyring yo' Lo'. daly blessing, wth my wonted prayer for ye continuance of yo' Lo'. honor, and helth longe to continew, I end this x1th of May 1573. "Yo Lo'. moste humble and obedient Sun, GILBERT TALBOTT." 'He had been long Ambassador in France, and was appointed first Secretary soon after his return. "To my Lorde my Father, "My Lord, my Brother told me of the Ire yor Lo. sente him for putting away of Morgayne and Marven; and sayd he rejoyced that yor Lo. would so playnely directe & comande him what to doe; and he trustethe hereafter to please yor Lo. in all his doynges; wherunto, according to my deuty, I prayed him to have care above all manner of thinges, and advised him to kepe secret yor Lo'. directions. "I have founde out a sober mayden to wayte on my wyfe, if it shall so please yo Lo. She was sarvante unto Mrs. Southwell, now Lorde Padget his wife, who is an evell husband, and will not suffer any that wayted of his wife before he married her, to continew wth hir. As it behoves me, I have bene very inquisitive of the woman, and have harde very well of hir behavior, and, truly, I do repose in her to be very modest and well gyven, and suche a one as I truste yor Lo. shall not mislike; but, if it be so that she shall not be thought mete for my wife, she will willinglye repayr hither agayne. Her name is Marget Butler: she is aboute 27 yeares old. Mr. Bateman hathe knowen her longe, and thinkethe very well of her. She is not very beautifull, but very clenly in doyng of any thinge, chefely aboute a sicke body, to dresse any thinge fitt for them. I humbly pray yor Lo. to sende me worde whether I shall make shyft to sende hir downe presently, for she is very desyrouse not to spend hir tyme idely. Thus most humbly desiring yo' Lo'. daly blessing, with my wonted and continuall prayer for yor Lo'. preservacon in all honor and helthe, long to continew, I end. At the Courte, this Munday, the 25th of May 1573. Yo' Lo'. most huble and obedient Sun, GILBERT TALBOTT." Her Majesty came from her Palace at Greenwich, on Wednesday the 14th of July, to the Archbishop's house at Croydon, and stayed with all her attendants, Perhaps it is unnecessary to apologize for inserting this extract, from a long letter of domestic matters, as it affords so remarkable an instance of the respect which people, even of the first rank, paid to their Parents. Gilbert was at this time married, and a Member of the House of Commons. "The great and good Archbishop Parker (who succeeded Pole in 1559) resided mostly at Lambeth; but was often at his house at Croydon, where he had the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth, and all her retinue, consisting of the principal Nobility of this kingdom. I suppose her Majesty was so well pleased with her Entertainment here, that she designed the Archbishop another visit the next year: at least, preparation seems to have been made for it, as appears from an original paper, dated May 15, 1574;" [which shall be transcribed under the account of that year.] Ducarel's Croydon, p. 36. "Abp. Parker, who wrote a treatise "on the Lawfulness of Priests marrying," was privately married before the Statute which enjoined celibacy to the Clergy was repealed. Queen Elizabeth, who could never be reconciled to this part of the Reformation, is said to have expressed her dislike of it thus rudely, upon taking leave of Mrs. Parker, after having been sumptuously entertained at |