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LETTER I.

DUDLEY THE EARLE OF LEYCESTER TO DR. HUTTON, READER OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES DIVINITIE IN CAMBRIDGE.1

JUNE 7, 1565. (770.)

MR. HUTTON, I receaued your lettre this morning the 7 of June. Imedyatly I moued your sewte to the Queen's Majestie, touching the prebende in Westminster voyd by the death of Mr. Beamont; which her highnes hath graciouslye graunted vnto you, and in so fauorable sort, as I perceaue, yf yt had bin a much better thing, you were thought worthie to haue receaued yt at her hands. This farre of hir Majesties good opinione toward you I thought to signifye vnto you to encreace the smalnes of the benefytt of your sewte, as a good testymony of hir further better dysposityon, and assured satysfactyon for you, for your greater hope of hir more goodnes hereafter. And for myn one part euen as in this tryfle, so when you shall haue greater occasione, my good wyll shall apere no less willing and ready to pleasure you. Not dowting but the same cause which hath moued me and others to conceaue so well of you, shall rather encrease and florysh in you, I meane your knowlege and zeale towarde the trewth; and than dowbt you not, but assewer yourself of such good wyll and frendshipp as I and such shal be able to shewe you. So fare you hartyly well. From the Court in hast this 7 of June.

Your veary frende,

To my verry frend Mr. Hutton, Reader of the

Queen's Majesty's divynitye Lecture in
Cambridge.

R. LEYCESTER.

(The whole letter is in the Earl of Leicester's own hand. Armorial seal.)

These headings are in general copied from endorsements by Sir Timothy Hutton; and, where a number (in the present instance 770) is added, it must be understood that the letter or other document constituted that number in Sir Timothy's arrangement of his papers.-ED.

LETTER II.

Dr. E. GRINDALL, BISHOP OF LONDON, TO DR. HUTTON.

15 SEP. 1566. (788.)

SALUTEM IN CHRISTO! Wheras I appoynted you to preache att Paules Crosse the 3 off November nexte: becawse the Parlament dothe holde, and therfore it is lyke that the Bisshops shall occupie the rowme those Sundays in the myddes off the tearme, I muste entreate you to prevente your daye, and to preach Dominica 17a, which is the 6 off October nexte. The tyme, thowghe it may be somewhatt shorte, is longe enoughe for you; and I am destitute. It is the firste Sundaye off the Parlament, and therfore I labour to have one learned for thatt daye. I praye you fayle nott, and certiffie me wth conveniente spede agayne. Fare ye well. Frome Fulham, 15 Septemb. 1566.

To my lovinge frende, Mr. Doctor Hutton,

Mr off Pembrooke Halle in Cambrige.

Yo' in Christe,

EDM. LONDON.2

(In the Bishop's own hand. Seal of arms imperfect.)

LETTER III.

A LETTER FROM THE FELLOWS OF PEMBROKE HALL TO EDM. GRINDALL, BISHOP OF LONDON, SHEWING WHAT GREAT RESPECT AND ESTEEM THEY HAD FOR THEIR MASTER, DR.

HUTTON.

31 AP. 1567.

DICI vix potest (amplissime Præsul) quantus luctus, quantum etiam gaudium, lectis litteris tuus, animos nostros repente invaserunt. Et luctum equidem non mediocrem attulit amantissimi in nos Præfecti decessus. Quem enim propter egregiam doctrinam, summum in nos studium, vitæq; sanctimoniam, cha

2 Edmund Grindall, Bishop of London in 1559; Archbishop of York in 1570; Archbishop of Canterbury in 1575.

rum et intimum semper habuerimus, eum ita nunc arctis ulnis amplectimur, ut nutricis instar non sine summo morore et lachrymis dimittamus. Atque certè, ni gravissima auctoritas tua (quæ apud nos jure et debet et possit omnia) intercessit, lautius et melius nobis consultum putaremus, priusquam è complexu abstrahi patiamur, ejus os et vultum appellare. Sed vide, quæso, quanta sit apud nos authoritas tua, quanta vicissim animorum nostrorum retributio, ut ex quo nos a Papistica fæce primus repurgâras, in clientelam tuam receperas, patrocinium tuum et defensionem experti sumus, in te uno consilium nostrum et spem omnem reposuerimus. Ægerrimè patimur eum a nobis divelli, cui enixè et libenter semper adhæsimus. Sed cum ita sors ferat, cedemus fato nostro; cedemus numini optimè providenti, cedemus Deo, qui omnia cooperatur in bonum, iis qui diligunt illum. Et nisi ferè uno spiritu, muliebri more, lachrymas fundere et lætitia gestire videremur, in tanto luctu merito lætari possimus, quod eum nobis custodem eligendum proponis, in quem nos precibus ad amplitudinem tuam frequenter iremus, eum a nobis te impetraturum speres, quem nos libenter optamus; optas, quem vix sperare potuerimus. Vehementer ergo nobis, nostrisq; studiis gratulamur, Deoque præpotenti imprimis gratias agimus, quod non ita Ridleios stirpitus è nobis eradicaverit, ut unicam fibram Grindallum (quem honoris causa nominamus) una etiam tollat. Hinc enim Huttonus nobis ortus, qui vires nostras non mediocriter auxit. Hinc tandem Whitgiftus, quem unum in optatis et habemus et volumus maximè. Age ergo (honorande patrone) quod impetrare vis, illud, tabellis subscriptis, summo animorum nostrorum ardore impetrasti. Quod petis a nobis in illud incumbas, et nos vicissim a dominatione tua petimus, quod tanto studio inchoasti, bonis avibus perficias. Vale! Pridie Calend. Maii Anno 1567.3

3 Quoted at length by Dr. Ducarell, in his Memoir from the Appendix to Strype's Life of Whitgift, No. ii. p. 4.

LETTER IV.

LADY HUNTINGDON TO MR. DEANE OF YORKE.

JULIE 21, 1575. (871.)

AFTER my verye hartie commendacions. Forasmuch as a kinsman of my lorde and a cosen of myne doe intend, by the grace of God, to marrye together vppon Sondaye nexte, I am therefore bould to desyre you, that you would take the paynes to be here againste that tyme, and to bestowe a shorte sermon vppon vs, suche as for the short warning you have maye suffise for that audience. The which ended, or before, att your discretion, I muste further intreate you to helpe to sollempnize that mariage. And even soe, being bould to truble you, I doe bidd you hartelye fare well. Att York, this xxjth of Julye, 1575. Your frend in the Lord,

K. HUNTINGDON.“

Good Mr. Deane, refuse not to take this paines in being heare against Sondaie; which I shall thinke my sealfe beholdine to you for the same, and will be redie to pleasure you in any thing I maie.

To my very loving frend, Mr. Deane of York.

EDMUND GRINDALL,

LETTER V.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, то DR. MATTHEW HUTTON, DEAN OF YORK.

25 APRIL, 1577. (84.)

SALUTEM IN CHRISTO ! I hartely thanke ye for your favour extendett towards this bringer W. Allen. I perswade my selfe that ye shewed him favour for my sake in the office bestowed

♦ Katharine, daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, sister of Robert Earl of Leicester, and wife of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon at this time, and till the year 1595, President of the Council in the North.

vpon him, and thatt ye had remembrance off my sute made vnto ye for him heretofore, and therefore I thanke ye accordynglye. Iff I had hadde anie speciall creditte when Durham and Carl.5 were bestowed, some hadde not spedde so well but blame your selfe and Sir Tho: Garg: ye 2 comendett him, to be rydde off him and nowe Simon is as goodd as Peter. This geare wolde make a man synge "Mei autem penè moti sunt pedes," &c. (Ps. 72. 2.)

Off myne owne present state I thynke ye can nott be ignorant: it maye be, that evell reports flye abroade agaynste me; my meanynge is goode. The ende is in Goddes handes, to whose grace I hartely commende you; with my salutations to M'. Palmer, and the reste off myne olde Chapleyns Prebendaries off your chirche. Lambethe, 25 Aprilis, 1577.

CECYLL LORD BURGHLEY TO MR. DEANE OF YORKE.

AUGUST 12, 1577. (558.)

GOOD MR. DEANE, I most hartely thank (you) for your harty commendations, which this berer M'. Ramsden delyveyred me, with a token in gold, being the monument of the good elect kyng Edward my master, whom God took seasonably for his soule to be a kyng in heaven, and onseasonably from this his erthely kyngdom, therby blessing hym, and scourgyng vs. God favor vs now in the reigne of our Soverayn with more of his

5 Richard Barnes, Bishop of Carlisle, was elected to the See of Durham, 5 April, 1577; and his successor in the See of Carlisle was John Mey, Archdeacon of the East Riding, in the Cathedral of York, who seems to have been in no great favour with Dean Hutton and Sir Thomas Gargrave. For a memoir of Sir Thos. Gargrave, see Lodge's Illustrations of British History, i. 130.