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SP 12/197/39 f. 86r - v. William Herle to Lord Burghley. 
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[Superscription:] To the R. Honorable my verey good L. the Lord highe Thresuror of England &c. gyve these att Cowrtt./
[Endorsement by unknown hand:] 26 Jan 1586 master William Herle to my L.
Letter Text:

[fol. 86r] R. honorable good L. I send yow inclosed a drawght how with small charges the incursyons of the donkerkers may be stopped & wholly cutt of, lyke as I promised your L. of late, hoping that when yow have well perused the same, ye shall fynde it verey probable in matter, & the only mene to Rembarre them from comyng abrode, or to intrappe assmany as shall offer the yssueng furth to the seas, as they have byn wont to do, which it may plese yow to take in as good worthe as it is humbly ment & presented./

I have talked mi L. with monsieur Curon, of his negocatyon in denmarke, [whom] highly comends the K. to be a most juste & wise Prynce in his actyons & cowrses, verey honorable of his word, ye well advised & constant in his [Resolutyons] : havyng protested to hym by Th'eternall God, & strykeng him sellf [on] the brest with grett vehemency that he will rather se all the Spaynards & lyke the preests of the worlld, hanged & burned, beffore he wilbe separated from the amitye of his deerest sister & noles kynde neighbor, the Q. of England, which king surely mi L. deserves then to be well intreated from hence, & intertayned by her majestie very carefully in this dangerows season, which may produce grett good frutes to this whole Estate, to the wekening of her majesties enmy, ether Spaynish, frenche or Hanzes, pretendyng owght of the syde agaynst us, And yf I might further saye mi mynde, I do affirme, that there is no where necessity or Trade, or mutuall intelligence, doth more reqwire a [Liegyer] stylle to be resydent, than in denmarke, so he be a person qwallefyed in judgement, & in the Langaige of the Contry, therby hable to confferre with the K. pryvately, without ayde of Interpretor or Assistent. The chargs of which person might be deffrayed by our Traders & merchants, whom it consernes so nere & highly on this behallf./

Duke Adollph of Hollst, my Awncyent good frynd, is decessed lately, from a kynde of Gangrene in the legge, which I pray your L. to signeffye to her majestie from [me] for he was of her order./

There is on Standissh a bachelor of Arte of Oxford, com yesterday to [Town] recomended by lres to [d.] Allen, & conseqwently to others, att Remes & Roome, who tomorow shall Receve vj li. for a pece of a viaticum, butt I have order for his staye, wherby your L. shall know more, & with him wilbe a [caryer] of lres for the papists, a conyng fellow, that may decipher many closse contented persons./

I have byn in Towne synce monday, to take order for detts that I am entred in mi late service for her majestie besekyng your L. to have me in your favorable comendacion for mi sutes mencyoned in mi lre wrytten to your L. last, which I will blesse yow for, & awgment in honor & hellth to your good L. wherwith I fynisshe. 26. January Temple Barre. 1586. Your L. most Bownden W. Herllely.

[Postscript:] I was in place on sonday where 2. of good skyll & credite dyd affirme, that her majesties [ ... ] , by the yll husbondry of hawkes, will not be hable to serve .2. yeres

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