ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub

1561, July 14.-The Queen supped at my house in Strond before it was fully finished, and she came by the felds from Christ Church.-P. 752.

1563, August 2.-The plague began in London.-P. 754.

1564, April 2.-Easter Day. H. Killigrew wrote to me an invective for my misliking of his mariadg with my sister Catharyn Cook-P. 755.

July 16.-My Foot hurt at Greenwich by paring my nail.
-P. 756.

August 21.-At Bever to se my L. Latymer's daughter for my
son.-P. 756.

Dec. 9.-The Queen sore sick of the flux.-P. 756.

1565, Dec. 20.-Proclamation to sett pricis of wynes viz. Gasc. wynes after custom and import at 77. 6s. 8d.-P. 761. 1566, May 6.-I was sore sick at Grenwych.-P. 761.

June.-Fulsharst a foole was suborned to speke slanderoosly

of me at Grenwych to the Q. Majesty, for the which he was committed to Brydwell.-P. 761.

June 16.-A discord inter Com. Sussex et Lecester at Grenwych, ther appeased by hir Majesty.-P. 761.

June 19.-The Scotish Q. delyvered of a son, who afteward was named James.-P. 761.

June 21.-Accord between the Erle Sussex and Lecester afore
hir Majesty at Grenwych.-P. 761.

November 29.-Sir Henry Noryce to be sent ambassador into
France. I was first greved with the gout in the parlement
tyme at Westminster, and hardly used by meanes of Justice
Browne, as the Erle of Sussex can tell.-P. 763.

2

1567, March.-A lottery in London, granted to Georg Gilpyn and Peter Grimaldy.-P. 763.

July 23.-Tho. Bryncknell, an under cook, was hurt by the Erle of Oxford at Cecill-houss, wherof he dyed, and by a verdict found felo de se, with running upon a poynt of a fence sword of the said Erle.-P. 764.

November 8.--Warnyng gyven at Hampton Court to the officers of the houshold that kepe tables, to cause ther guests to use modest speches uppon the affayres of the realme.-P. 764. 1568, December 4.-A lottery in London. Commissaryes Alderman Garrett, Mr. Offley, M. P. 766.

1570, August 12.-I was sick at Rycot.-P. 770.

1571, September 22.-The Queen's Majestie came to Thebalds, wher these verses following war presented to hir Majesty, with a portrait of the houss.-P. 772.

1572, October 4.—The Queen's Majestie appeared to have the smallpoxe at Hampton-court; but she recovered spedely.-P. 773. 1576, March.—The Erle of Oxford arryved, being retorned out of

1 His wife's sister.

2 This is the first lottery which is known to have been established in England.

3 Lord Burghley's son-in-law.

VOL, I.-PART III.

The verses are omitted.

FF

Italy, he was entyced by certen lewd persons to be a stranger to his wiff.-P. 778.

1578, March 25.-One Dr. Heth offered to cure me of the gout.— P. 781.

1585, June 4.-Anna 2d fil. Jo. Domini Russell, erat etatis 7 annorum, nata 1578.-P. 782.

1586, June. The lottery of armour, under the charge of John Calthrop determined.-P. 784.

September. The keepyng of the lyons in the Tower graunted to Thomas Gyll and Rafe Gyll, with the fee of 12d. per diem, and 6d. for the meat of three lyons.-P. 785.

July. The Spanish navy attempted to have invaded England; but they durst not attempt it, because the English navy withstood them.-P. 786.

1588.-For the wages of 2900 men upon the seas, under Sir Francis
Drake for two months 5960l. and for vittayle for them
4736/. and for sea store for 24 shippes serving under the
Lo. Admyrall 5001, the whole charg 12,334/.-P. 787.
1588, April.-The Lord of Hunsdon had sundry directions how to
satisfye the Scotes king for his mother's deth.-P. 787.
June. A grant to the E. of Glencar in Ireland, of his estate
surrendered to the Queen, to be determined, if his daughter
match with any but with an Englishman.-P. 788.

June.-Anna Comitissa Oxoniæ filia mea charissima obiit in
Do. Grenwici, et 25 sepult. Westminster -P. 788.

July 29.-The Gr. navy of Spayn forced into the North Seas,
and so with great wrack passed homewards about Scotland
and Irland.-P. 788.

1589, April 4.-Die Veneris inter hor. 3 et 4 mane obdormit in Domino, Mildreda, Domina Burgley.-P. 790.

April 21.-Funeralia Mild. Dominæ Burghley: beata mortua quæ in Domino mortua est.-P. 790.

1592, May. A priviledg graunted to John Norden, to imprint a book called Specular.-P. 799.

[ocr errors]

1594, March 25.-A priviledg granted to Charles Yetzwest for printing all books of the common law.-P. 803.

July 12.-The Queen came to Robert Cecill's house to speak with me.-P. 805.

1597, January.-A bargaine with certayne merchants of London for 2300 quarters of wheat, at 48s. the quarter, to be shipped and sent into Ireland

which is the last entry. In selecting these extracts, all which merely relates to political affairs, appointments, and grants of offices and lands, has been omitted. It would be difficult to find a more useful epitome of the transactions which occurred from 1553 to 1597, than that journal affords; and we would strongly recommend its being reprinted in a small volume, with a good index, and perhaps with notes: at the same time that it would present the dates, and a reference to the greater part of the public events of the period, it contains numerous notices, which

it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere. It is deserving of remark, that Burghley generally speaks of himself in the third person; and that, though the most trifling events are sometimes recorded, not a word occurs of the death of the Queen of Scots.

The two last articles in the volume are those which were "printed with the proposals of the editor." One of them is a letter of some value from Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Cecill, in 1601, but we notice it chiefly to point out the difference between the specimen which it affords of the plan of Mr. Murdin's work and its execution. To that letter more notes are given than, with the exception of the very first in the volume, are to be found in the whole collection; the want of which, and of an index, tend, in a greater degree than might be imagined, to lessen the utility of the editor's labours.

Having extracted the most interesting passages in the volume, we shall conclude this review of it with some proof of the attention which we are disposed to pay to such of our readers as are interested in a knowledge of obsolete words, and bibliography. For the former we have been only able to find one expression that can be considered at all peculiar, but of the use of which, Archdeacon Nares has given some examples, and the same word often occurs in " Nichols's Progresses of James the First:" hence we should scarcely have noticed it but for the circumstance in relation to which it is used. Sir Ralph Sadler, Sir Thomas Smith, and Dr. Wilson, in their report of having conveyed the Duke of Norfolk to the Tower, on the 7th September, 1571, say—

"So havyng prepared a Folecloth Nag for him, I Sir Rauf Sadler on the one side, and I Sir Thomas Smith on the other side, and I Doctor Wilson comyng immediately after, with onely our servaunts and freends accompanied, he was betwixt four and five of the clock quietly brought into the tower, without eny truble, save a nombre of idle raskall people, women, men, boyes, and girles, runnyng about him as the manner is, gasyng at hym.”—P. 149.

Bibliographers will find several remarks which materially enhance the value of the books to which they refer. Sir Edward Stafford, the Queen's ambassador at Paris, in a letter to the secretary of state, August, 1584, speaking of a reply to the "True Execution of Justice in Englandi," says it was then just come owte," and observes

66

The only copy of that publication in the British Museum, is entitled, “ The True Execution of Justice in England for Maintenance of Public and Christian Peace against Certeine Stirrers of Sedition and Adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realme without any Persecution of them for Questions of Religion as is falsely reported & published by the Fautors and Fosterers of their Treasons. Secondly Imprinted at London

"I have sent you one of them; ytt is of Doctor Allen's', or Nicholson's doing, printed, as I heere, at Reims, though they saye in Germanye, marvelous closelye kept heere from selling, not to be had for moneye as this bearer kanne tell you. I was faine to recover them, I have by some of their own faction, of whom I have divers things: he assureth me, that at this hower, there are two companies of them gon into Ingland, 200 in a companie, to land some of them westward, some by long seas. There is in my opinion no speking to have them called in for divers reasons; the one, because theie are very secretly sold, the other, beause theie will tak an advantage of ytt and mak men beleeve ytt is because we are touched to the quick; the third, because the King was willing to have ours goe abroade, he will perchance say ytt was but their defence, and therfore no reason but it should goe to.”

He concludes with this very wise observation, which we would especially commend to the notice of those meddling gentry of the present day, who are so ready to call upon the law to repress publications that offend their moral, political, or religious sentiments:

"My opinion, is both in that and other things, ytt is better to let them come, as making no account of them, or else to answer them without sayinge anye thing. For speaking against the publishing them, maketh them the more desiered, and better beleaved of a great manye."-Pp. 418, 419.

In the following month Sir Edward observes:

which as you

"I have sent your honour a book of a new may see, is printed heere, and is openly cryed abowte the streetes of this town: the direction to the Spanish agent onely is putt owte within these two dayes; at the first ytt was sold withowte putting owt.... I have also sent your honour another book closelye printed heere, and closelye ynoughe yet kept, with a pedigree, which is that which followeth the leafe which I sent you by my last.”—P. 423.

The next allusion to the subject is in December in the same year. His Excellency then informed Walsingham—

"I have sent you an answer made of the secret book that was made by the faction of Guise against the King of Navarre: the autor, who did but once peruse the factious book, will not be knowne. The book ytself, wherunto ytt answereth is shewed heere onlye to the factious sort, and not left owte of sight in any body's hands, so that there is no possibilitie to come by ytt; yet both Plessis and

mense Jan : 1583 An: Reg: Eliz: 26: with some small alterations of thinges mistaken or omitted in the transcript of the first originall." 4to. black letter, pp. 37. A curious note on this work occurs in the "Athenæ Oxonienses," by Bliss, vol. i. p. 620, where it is attributed to Lord Burghley. Humphreys doubts whether a first edition ever appeared, but Dr. Bliss determined the question in the affirmative, by describing a copy of it. It is clear, however, that neither of those writers knew of the existence of a copy of the second edition.

Cardinal Allen, to whom it is attributed by Anthony Wood, Athen. Oxon. by Bliss, vol. i. p. 619.

have offered fayre for ytt, and I, for my part, have sought all the wayes and meanes I could to come by ytt. This I had left but a night with me, and as you may see by the manner of the writing, made ytt be pulled in pieces and copyed by diverse persons, and so bound ytt up againe. I have let Plessis have a copye of ytt, who nere could come by ytt but by my meanes, and thanked me more for ytt, than for anything I did for them sence I came into France. I think now, by that book theie have formed the principall points of the seditious book, theie will add and mend some things in ytt. I pray you let my Lord Tresorer see ytt, to whom I have written that I have sent you, havinge but that one copye, and when you have seen ytt, I beseeche yoo retourne ytt me againe.”—P. 425.

But Sir Edward Stafford was the prince of book-hunters, and merits a monument from the Roxburgh Club: on the 25th of the same month he tells Walsingham,

"I thought also fit to present you, for a new yeares gift, the frute that is come of the safe-delivery of our swelling mountaine heere, at whose hands was looked for some great matter, havinge been, since his retourne from Bloys, continually occupied from two a clock after midnight, which is his ordinarye tyme of risinge, and tyll eight a clock in the morning, being shut up in his cabinet, himselfe scriblinge, and two or three others under him, which men seem heere (consideringe his paynes and his close keeping of that which he write and made to be written) to conceave, that we should have some great matter; others feared some dangerous matter but that the fruite of all this is, this littell mouse that I send you, which when you shall have nothing else to doe, ytt may be you will tak som pleasure in the redinge of ytt."-P. 425-6.

And after describing a body-guard which the French king had created of forty-five persons, and which he called "Taillagambi," he says,

"These have certen orders set down delivered to every one of them in a book to himself, and a verie straite order taken that none of the books should be printed more than for everie one of them one, himself one, and his two minions eache one; but yf any more of them come abroad, ytt shall go harde but I shall come by one and send ytt you."-P. 426.

On the 29th of December, Stafford informed Walsingham, "I have sent your honor a book, which is the answer to the Justice of Ingland, translated into Latin', with some addition in the begin

There is a copy of this tract in the library of the British Museum, of the title page of which the following is a correct transcript:

"Ad Persecutores Anglos pro Catholicis Domi forisque persecutionem sufferentibus; contra falsum, seditiosum, et contumeliosum Libellum, inscriptum, justitia Britannica. Vera, sincera, et modesta responsio: qua ostenditur, quàm iniustè Protestantes Angli Catholicis perduellionem objiciant ; quàm falsò negent se quendam religionis causa persequis; et quàm callidè laborent hominibus externis imponere, ne earum quæ infe

« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »