[Endorsement by Herle:]
To Sir Edward Horseye the 13. of december. 1580. & another to mi cosyn Edmund
Cornwall the Baron of Burford./ the .14. december.1580.
[fol. 97r]
Sir. I was sorye with mi harte, to here of your late sycknes, & am as glad of your good
recoverye, for the contynewans wherof, I do praye & will do ani thing elles that were in
me to
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expresse the ernest & faythfull affectyon I bere yow,
which bothe your worthynes & vallew deserves, & in mi desire to obteyne place in
your fryndship,
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^comands ^
menyng by Godds leve to holld mi
promis yn comyng to visite yow shortlye, & yn the mene tyme do send yow these ij
papers yncluded the on of the last occurents owtt of the lowe contryes, & the other
conteyneng the Artycles of the peace concluded in frawnce by Monsieur, with the K.
of navarre, & the protestants./ Master
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Staffords man brought the sayd Artycles, &
^his
master^
is loked for hym sellf here furthwith. After whom the Comissyoners ar sayd to
follow./ Mi L. Thresuror who is now
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^sycklye gives
owtt^
that the parlyament
^in his oppynion^
will
^holld^
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./ The Q. Majestie is
sharplye bent agaynst the papists, & is resollved that the othe shalbe mynistred to the
Recusants of her procedyngs. the fyrst denyall wherof is a Premunire, & the second
^yf it be^
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mynistred the daye
^followyng^
, is Treson to theme that
persiste, which will galle theme yndede, & is the
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dyrect waye to mete with their
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sedicion & practis
^att homes^
& to discorayge their setters on
abrode./ Rumours ar sowd here by the Spaniards, that the K. their master, is possessed
of Portyngall, don Anthonio slayne, & that the sayd K. second son is accepted to be K.
over the sayd Portyngalles, which I hope be mere brutes &
^lyes as their other reportes heretofore
have byn^
wherwith I hartlye take mi leve this 13. of December.
1580 London./ Your
assured frend to love yow & obey yow.
[Postscript:]
[fol. 98v] poste scriptum. 13. of december. There be advertisments com
this daye from flusshing by certayne shippes of theyr owne retorned owt of Portingall,
that don Anthonio florissheth, and that the Sp: actyons do drowpe, which makes
voyed the former brutes that they spred of industrye, to discoraige the aydes that
might be sent thither in the favor of the sayd don Anthonio. mary yt is trew, that for a
last shifte, the K. of Sp: hathe cawsed his second son to be crowned in Lusbon, to
myttygate those of Portingall therby, that desire still to be in state of a Kingdom, and not of a provynce, to be governed by a viceroye at discretyon. But this smoothe
devise, and bering in hand of the Spanyards will not helpe them, and may decalare
that theyr cawses tend to declynatyon and despayre./
