fully to preserve, keipe, and defende your Maiestie, long reigning ouer us all, your true and faithfull subjectes, a most victorious and triumphant Princesse, Amen. From Temple Newsome, the xxviij. of Marche, 1554.

Your Maiesties moste bounden and obedient

subjecte and seruaunt,

HENRY DERNLEY.

LETTER CLII.

Queen Mary to the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer.

[MS. COTTON. TIT. B. II. fol. 157. Orig. THE SIGNATURE AND POSTSCRIPT IN THE QUEEN'S HAND.]

My Lorde, forsomuche as at your departure frome me I made you a promys not to determyne the gyfte of anye lande wythowte your consent, wherfor I doo sende you here inclosyd a Byll which Sir Edmonde Peckham makethe requeste to have in suche sorte as yt shall appere unto you by the sayed bill, so that I shall desyre you to paruse yt well, and yf you thincke yt to be suche lande as I maye geve wythe my honor, I shall thincke yt verye well bestowyd, for that he is

one that hathe well desarvyd yt and hathe had no kynde of recompence, and thus wythe my verye hartie comendacions I comytt you into the handes of Almightie God. From Farname the iiijth. of Julye. Your Mystresse assured

MARYE

THE QUENE.

My lord I moste hartely thancke you for your dayly paynfulnes taken in my service.

LETTER CLIII.

Queen Mary to the Lord Privy Seal, upon the Arrival of Philip II.

[MS. COTTON. VESP. F. III. fol. 12. ENTIRELY IN THE QUEEN'S

HAND.]

Instructions for

my

Lorde Previsel.

FYRSTE to tell the Kyng the whole state of this Realme with all thyngs appartaynyng to the same, asmyche as ye knowe to be trewe.

Seconde to obey hys commandement in all thyngs. Thyrdly in all thyngs he shall aske your advyse, to declare your opinion as becometh a faythfull Conceyllour to do.

MARYE THE QUENE.

LETTER CLIV.

Letter of Privy Seal to the Clerk of the Queen's Stables.

[FROM THE ORIGINAL AMONG SIR WILLIAM MUSGRAVE'S PAPERS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.]

This Letter is curious, inasmuch as it explains what a Waggon or Chariot was in the days of Mary the First; such an one as was fit to convey the Ladies and Gentlewomen of her Privy Chamber.

By the Queen.

MARYE THE QUENE.

We will and commaunde you forthwithe uppon the sight hereof ye deliver or cause to be delivered to our trustie and welbeloved servaunte Edmonde Standen, clarke of our stable, one Wagon of tymbre work for Ladies and Gentlewomen of our Prevye Chamber with wheeles and axeltrees, strakes, nayles, clowts, and all maner of work thertoo apperteyninge; fine redde cloths to kever and line the same Wagon, fringed with redde sylke and lyned with redde buckeram paynted with redde colours; collers, drawghts of redde lether, hamer clothes with our Armes and badges of our colours; and all other things apperteininge unto the same Wagon: and these our Letters shalbe your sufficient warraunte and discharge on this behalfe at all tymes. Yeven under our signet at our Manour of Westminster the xxviiith, daye of Aprill in the thirde and fourthe Years of our Reign.

LETTER CLV.

The Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, upon her being ordered to go to the Tower at the time of Wyat's Rebellion.

[MS. HARL. 7190. art. 2. a Transcript from the original in the State Paper Office.]

Holinshed has given a most interesting Narrative of the transactions which preceded and followed the writing of this Letter: but too long to be transcribed in full.

The day after the breaking out of Wyat's rebellion was known at Court, he says, the Queen sent three of her Council, Sir Richard Southwell, Sir Edward Hastings, and Sir Thomas Cornwallis to Ashridge, with a strong guard, to escort the Princess Elizabeth, who lay sick there, to London. When they arrived, at ten o'clock at night, the Princess had gone to rest, and refused to see them: they however entered her chamber rudely: when Her Grace, being not a little amazed, said unto them "Is the haste such that it might not have pleased you to come tomorrow in the morning?" They made answer that they were right sorry to see her in such a case. "And I," quoth she, " am not glad to see you here at this time of night." Whereunto they answered that they came from the Queen to do their message and duty; that it was the Queen's pleasure that her Grace should be in London on a given day, and that the orders were to bring her quick or dead.' The Princess complained of the harshness of their commission; but Dr. Owen and D1. Wendie deciding that she might travel without danger of life, her Grace was informed that the Queen had sent her own Litter for her accommodation, and that the next morning she would be removed. She reached Redburne in a very feeble condition the first night; on the second she rested at Sir Ralph Rowlet's house at St. Albans; on the third at Mr. Dod's at Mimmes, and on the fourth at Highgate, where she stayed a night and a day. She was thence conveyed to the Court, where remaining a close prisoner for a whole fortnight she saw neither King, nor Queen, nor Lord, nor Friend. On the Friday before Palm Sunday, Gardiner bishop of Winchester with nineteen others of the Council came from the Queen, and charged her with being concerned not only in Wyat's conspiracy but in

the rebellion of Sir Peter Carew. They then declared unto her the Queen's pleasure that she should go to the Tower till the matter could be further traced and examined. Against this she remonstrated, protesting her innocence, but the Lords answered that there was no remedy. Her own attendants were then dismissed, and those of the Queen placed about her.

"Upon Saturday following," says Holinshed, that is the next day, "two Lords of the Council (the one was the Earl of Sussex, the other shall be nameless) came and certified her Grace, that forthwith she must go unto the Tower, the barge being prepared for her, and the tide now ready which tarrieth for nobody. In heavy mood her Grace requested the Lords that she might tarry another tide, trusting that the next would be better and more comfortable. But one of the Lords replied, that neither tide nor time was to be delaied. And when her Grace requested him that she might be suffered to write to the Queens Majesty, he answered that he durst not permit that: adding that in his judgement it would rather hurt than profit her Grace in so doing. But the other Lord, more courteous and favourable (who was the Earl of Sussex), kneeling down, said she should have liberty to write, and, as a true man, he would deliver it to the Queens Highness, and bring an Answer of the same, whatsoever came thereof. Whereupon SHE WROTE" the Letter which here follows:

To the Queen.

If any ever did try this olde saynge, that a Kinge's worde was more than another man's othe, I most humbly beseche your Majesty to verefie it in me, and to remember your last promis and my last demande, that I be not condemned without answer and due profe: wiche it semes that now I am, for that without cause provid I am by your Counsel frome You commanded to go unto the Tower; a place more wonted for a false traitor, than a tru subject. Wiche thogth I knowe I deserve it not, yet in the face of al this realme aperes that it is provid; wiche I pray God, I may dy the shamefullist dethe that ever any died, afore