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[fol. 198r] I am sent for to the Court: and beyng redy to go out of the my houss I am frendly informed, that you mak ostentation of your greatness with me and do send all my lres abrod in the Cite, which I send yow. I am well content that every man shuld know that I lyk yow. but to send and disperss my lres in that sort I can not allow. being desyruos that yow wold retorn them to me. and yet I am to perform all therin wrytten. many may think grett [levity] in me, to have my privat lres in this sort spred abrod./ W Burghley.