5. They have wilfully imprisoned divers of the body of the University for matters of misdemeanour, as was pretended for not serving at musters etc., quite contrary to the tenor of her Highness' grant and many other privileges.

6. They do ordinarily procure writs of habeas corpus and such like for removing themselves out of prison, and their causes out of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, notwithstanding her Majesty hath commanded the contrary.

7. They do, for their private benefit and the secret defrauding of her Majesty, provide that there shall be no public persons appointed to be cessors for the subsidy, quite contrary to that which is provided for by composition between the University and

town.

Wrongs continued in greater excess, since the former were complained of and heard.

1. They refuse to receive and keep offenders committed to their gaol, they still commit purleyed persons whom they ought not to censure, and enlarge our prisoners in execution.

2. They still deny and withstand the proctors' wonted search, which service is means to prevent disorders, and especially clandestine contracts with our pupils of best note.

3. They proclaim their mayor sole regent and governor, they tumultuously put down the "skoles" of the clerk of the market. They summon privileged persons by sub pæna 100l. and subscribe their writs teste me ipso, and they still intermeddle with victuallers. 4. They unduly vex, by impleading before foreign judges, University men of all sorts.

5. They assess in subsidy and other charges scholars and scholar servants, notwithstanding the charters, act of Parliament, their own composition, the Privy Seal, and orders of the Exchequer to the contrary.

6. They have enclosed and let to farm divers parcels of the commons, and planted willows in great abundance, which they have appropriated to divers persons and their heirs, to the great prejudice of privileged persons, notwithstanding all the manors of the town belong to colleges.

7. They do make on privileged persons violent assaults, batteries and frays, walking armed contrary to proclamation, and so threaten public officers that none dare apprehend them upon any warrant.

2 pp. (136. 83.)

(2.) "Articles answered and replies examined at Lambeth, 1599," with regard to the enlarging of prisoners, disfranchising of burgesses and other matters relating to Cambridge.

[? 1599.]-Proposals made to "Your Lordship" for provision of victuals in the Western ports.-Undated.

1 p. (75. 94.)

GEORGE SHERLEY.

[1599.]-Petition to Sir Robert Cecil. Was maimed in the Irish wars and dismissed, and cannot obtain relief. Prays Cecil's favourable letters to the Justices of Middlesex, where he was pressed.

Endorsed :-"1599." 1 p. (P. 157.)

[1589-99.]-Petition of Richard Lunne to Sir John Fortescue, Treasurer of the Exchequer. Upon complaint of the Earl of Kent, has been condemned to imprisonment and fine for not aiding the bailiff of Olney in the arrest of offenders. His refusal due to his maimed hand. Prays release.-Undated.

p. (P. 289.)

WILLIAM BOYs.

[1599.]-Petition. Has been elected to a mastership, but is denied admission by the Vice-chancellor. Prays to be admitted,

or to have his cause judged.

Endorsed" 1599." p. (P. 359.)

SIR HENRY WALLOP to THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

[1599.]-As to a bill of Sir Christopher St. Lawrence's of 1001. towards the answering of money borrowed by the Earl of Ormond of the city of Waterford, for relief of the Queen's army in June, 1598, which bill has been left out of reckoning. Prays that the 1007. may be stayed out of the remainder of the reckoning assigned to be paid to Sir Christopher.-Undated.

1 p. (469.)

GYLES and KATHERINE COMEN to the QUEen.

[1599.]-Complain that they have been defrauded of their lands in Wexford by Christopher, son of Patrick Chevers, to whom their father had entrusted their property as their tutor. Christopher has expelled Gyles and committed Katherine to prison. Pray to have their cause examined and their lands restored.

Endorsed:-" 1599." 1 p. (699.)

NICHOLAS HILLYARD, the Queen's servant, to [THE PRIVY COUNCIL].

[1599.]-Of proceedings against him for non-payment of bonds, and of his suit to borrow 2001. of the "Orphanage money." Endorsed:-"1599." 1 p. (782.)

JOHN DANIELL to the QUEEN.

[1599.]-For further reward for his services. Endorsed:-" 1599." 1 p. (1009.)

ROBERT PHENWICK, WILLIAM PHILLIPS and OTHERS, Newcastle Merchants, to SIR ROBERT CECIL.

[c. 1599.]-Losses and sufferings sustained by the taking of their ship and goods in 1591 by two ships of M. de St. Luke's. Detail their proceedings from 1591 to 1599 to obtain redress. Pray for allowance for prosecuting their suit therein in France. Undated.

1 p. (1473.)

[? 1598 or 1599.]-Draft warrant by Sir Robert Cecil, as bailiff of the city and liberties of Westminster, appointing Ralph Dobbinson his deputy, and John Bird, John Baker, and Hugh Peachey as Dobbinson's servants.-Undated.

Note thereon that Mr. Dobbinson is advised that he being a deputy, can make no arrest by any of his servants, nor by them levy any distress, unless such servant be nominated by Cecil the chief officer; and he therefore prays Cecil to sign the warrant. 1 p. (1975.)

TENANTS for the MINES ROYAL in CORNWALL, MERIONETH, and DENBIGH, to the GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the MINES ROYAL.

[1599.]-Complain that the chiefest mine, and the best for yield, is withheld from them by Mr. Trevanian, contrary to their lease; although they have followed such courses for remedy as were directed by the Company, and by letters from Sir Walter Ralegh. As a consequence, they have wrought all this year to their great loss, the other mines not yielding profit to bear half the charge, and are unable to pay the rent of 2001. Pray the Company to remit the rent, and take order that they may enjoy the benefit of their grant, or else accept surrender of the lease. Endorsed:-"1599." p. (2028.)

RICHARD WRIGHT.

[? 1599.]-Certificate that Richard Wright, one of her Majesty's gunners, has well and dutifully behaved himself where he has been employed in the wars, as well in the Low Countries under the late Earl of Leicester, as also in France under the now Earl of Essex.-Undated.

Signed:-Essex, R. North, C. Mountjoye, R. Sydney, John Wyngfelde, Fr. Vere, Tho. Baskervile, Math. Morgan, Fra. Croft, and others.

1 p. (75. 97.)

SIR RICHARD CHAMPERNOWN.

[? 1599.]-Answer to the complaint of the Earl of Bath. The companies appointed him are as ready as any companies in Devon. He had no notice from the Earl of Bath, or the deputy

lieutenants, or the captains of the hundreds of Arme and Plynton, of any such order. He was in London at the time that the order was concluded, or he would willingly have performed his duty. The constables of the said hundreds had no precepts or warrants to raise men in arms shewed to them. Neither he nor any of his company have denied or will deny his Lordship's

warrants.

Undated. 1 p. (2327.) [See S.P. Dom. Eliz. CCLXXI. 128: p. 263 of printed Calendar.]

LORD HENRY HOWARD to the EARL of SOUTHAMPTON.

[1599,] April 27.-Though warning be sent to me of this bearer's departure one day sooner than I looked for, yet can I not let him depart without testifying my desire to do you service. I doubt not but you shall hear by some other means of the constancy of some friends of yours at this last election. Northumberland was very gallant on your side. So were Worcester and Mountjoy, notwithstanding the Queen's special bar with special injury. But there was another, whom I will not name, that was not afraid to run upon the pikes of some that will be thought to be very special friends of his, to show that he valued your friendship and noble virtues more than other men's caprices and partialities. But hereof you must never take notice, because I tell tales out of school, and would not impart so much to any other than yourself. The world is more calm with us of late since your worthy general's and my dear Lord's arrival. Even now the Queen perceives, though somewhat too late for the world's satisfaction (that wondered at so many showers without clouds) that a course was taken rather to prove constancy than to tax negligence. I have learned by these storms, raised without ordinary causes, to seek out new grounds in philosophy, and to prepare myself with patience against the next assaults when "probabily" may give shadows to exception, or envy take advantage out of best deserts to check forwardness.

The Queen begins to storm exceedingly at my Lord of Rutland's incorporation into Jason's fleet, and means, she says, to make him an example of contemning princes' inhibitions to all that shall come after him. God send him a good share in the golden fleece of honour which our worthy Lord shall compass by his valour, and then we will less fear the punishment that is inflicted upon generosity. The whole Court rejoiced much at your safe arrival, and will rejoice a great deal more at the next news of your happy success against the enemy. There want not some in this place that set light the service, as an enterprize achievable with weaker force than the State employs. Many of your friends are well and some are too well, if you will give me leave to be merry. We are only occupied in entertaining Dutch ambassadors that before dinner speak not very wisely, and after dinner not very warily. We are only now in expectation of your first attempts, and thereupon I shall be able to give you some light of the Court's

construction. The Queen excluded my Lord Keeper from nomination in this last choice of knights, and though she named him not, yet gave cause to some to conceive that his being named at the election before was the cause why she would not suffer any enrolment of the scrutiny. Keep this to yourself, I beseech you, or I might be made a reporter of his disgrace whom, for his virtue and his kind love to my dear Lord, I love and honour. Please you to advertise my Lord of this because I had forgotten to write of it.-This 27 of April.

[P.S.]-I beseech you to let my worthy Lord know that I delivered a packet to Mr. Cary to be delivered to his Lordship's hands, at the same time I wrote this to you, which will come a day later, but I trust no less safely.

Holograph. 2 pp. (67. 65.)

ROBERT OSBERNE to EDWARD REYNOLDS.

[1599,] July 21.-I am never jealous of my friend's favour, but I would you did lay the fault on my Lord, for you know what I have said of the well deserving of her, but his lordship is in those things little respective. Wherefore you shall do well to remember his lordship thereof. For I must be plain, if things continue so cross against his lordship, I am afraid that now, being bound to absent myself by reason of this office of Master of the Horse, and she seeing things not to fall out as she expects, may change as others have done. But I must ride it out, and trust upon the goodness of "good" (? God), and in meantime entreat you, as my good friend, to make known to his lordship of her well deserving, and that if he do not grace me, I am likely to receive a greater disgrace, and not in respect of myself, but in regard of the small account he makes of me, and that others do use such persuasions to her in my absence, and that those that do the same are his enemies, and do it to draw her thereby from him, that there might be nobody left to him. I know you are wise and can do this passing well if you list; which if you do, you may say, upon conference with her, you find she does not regard me as she hath, and that suddenly she is fallen off. In doing of this you shall command me, and what I may do to requite you shall be assured. I have received a letter by Sir Francis Bacons (sic) and Darcy, and Captain Noris this day, being 21 July. In the next letter I will send order for "venson." My Lady Dygbye's letter I received. We had no news but that these are knighted since our coming home, and that honest Nyck Nyn died 17 July, and was buried the next day, with shedding of many tears of his friends.-21 July.

The following list of names, and note, are on the margin of the letter.

Lord Gray, Lord Montegle, Lord Cromwell, Sir Thomas Weste, Sir Robert Vernon, Sir Henry Cary, Sir Ar. Champernoun, Sir George Manors, Sir John Daves, Sir William Constable, Sir John Powly, Sir Cary Renolds, Sir Francis Locon, Sir Will Courtny, Sir Will Kedolfyn, Sir Robert Basset.