CVII. TO SECRETARY SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. clxxxvi. § 131 (Hatfield). Holograph. SIR, I HAVE now receved of Mr. THOMAS FREAKE the full summe of foure hundred poundes, accordinge to your former letter, which I hope will sett all free. By the next, I will send a particuler, easier to be understoode. Mr. FREAKE had not so mich mony of his owne att the present, but hathe taken it up of his frinds. He was exceeding willinge to do yow service therin, and wilbe in any thinge that yow shall pleas to use hyme, for which I pray yow to returne hyme thancks. For it is a hard matter in this country1 to make provision of mony. By the next, I hope yow shall here that the shipp is gonn, that now stayes butt for the winde; and so, having no other matter of importance, I rest your's to do yow service, W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]-I will returne the last letter by the next packett. Addressed: To the right honorabell Sir ROBERT CECYLL, A ̧ht, Pri ipa" Endorsed: "Sir Walter Raleigh to my Master." Without dale. 1 Jersey' 1 60 2. CVIII. TO SECRETARY SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xciv. § 56 (Hatfield). Holograph. SIR, LETTER 1602. July 20. To Sir R. From Yow will, I hope, geve me leve to salute my Lord COBHAME and yow, both in a letter. I can send no newse from hence. I here not from any part of the world as yet. I cannot send away a barke for Spayne, the winde blowing continewally att west and north west. From France I have hard nothing, butt that a bark of Jersey. Granvile told me that the master was offred a hundred Greetings. crowns to be pilot for this place by SPINOLA. Butt he-Foreign concluded with a sute for the transporting of sea cole;- rumours. to which, I suppose, his silee1 tale1 tended. news and -Expected arrival of Normans I feare the cumming of many Norman gentelmen. Butt I cannot prevent it. I shalbe mich pesterd with in Jersey. them. I beseich yow bestow a line on me, that leve in desolation. And, if yow find no cause to staye me here, I would willingly returne. 2 The newses here of EPERNON'S flight from Court, the Constabell's disgrading, and such other Rochell advertismentts, I beleve not. Yow best know what hathe paste. I shall ever rest to do yow bothe service with all I have, and my life to boote, W. RALEGH. 1 These two words have been hurriedly written, and the reading is a little doubtful. The word " tended" is plain. 2 I.e. the Marshal Duke of Biron. LETTER CVIII. 1602. July 20. [POSTSCRIPT.]-BESS will convey me your letters, if yow send any. Jersey, the 20 of July [1602]. I arived here the 3rd, so I have walked here this 17 dayes in the wilderness. Captain BUTTON is gon with the Vangard. Captain TURNER is here; and the three Flemings att Garnsey. Addressed: For Her Majesties especyall affaires. To the right honorable Sir ROBERT Endorsed: July 20. Sir Walter Raleigh to my Master. From Jersey. CIX. TO HENRY BROOKE, LORD COBHAM. From the Original. Domestic Correspondence: Elizabeth. Unarranged * That this partially-dated letter belongs to the year 1602, and that the "arrival," with a reference to which it begins, was from Jersey, is sufficiently shown by a passage in a letter of Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew, in which the writer says: "You cannot have answer from my Lord Cobham, because he is at Dover; nor from Sir Walter Ralegh, because he is at the West, newly come out of his Island. The rest will write unto you by the next." (MS. Tenison, dciv. f. 204 Lambeth Palace.) This was written on the 9th of August, 1602. On the 8th of July, Chamberlain had written to Sir Dudley Carleton: "Sir Walter Ralegh is upon the way to his govern ment in Jersey." (Domestic Correspondence: Elizabeth. Un arranged Papers; Rolls House) The "Lord Viscount" of the postscript was Thomas Howard, third Viscount Bindon, a grandson of Thomas, eighth Duke of Norfolk. Of the suits referred to some account will be found in the preceding volume. MY WORTHY LORDE, LETTER 1602. Aug. 12. To Lord Cobham. From from Jersey. Its defences. I AM now arived, having stayde so long as I had means. I caused the Antelope to be revitled for fourteen dayes, which was as much as that place could afforde; and that being spent, I durst not tarry to cum home towards Winter in a fisherman. I presume,-ther is no cause to doubt it,—the castells ar defensibell enoughe, Sherborne. [and] the countrey1 reasonabell well provided. The Return Spanierds will ether do somewhat more prayseworthy, or attend a better opportunetye. I am reddy now to obey your cummandementts. If yow will cum to the Bathe, I will not fayle yow, or whatsoever elce your Lordship will use me in, in this worlde. I will now looke for the Lord HENRY of NORTHUMBERLANDE, who, I thincke, wilbe here shortly, knowing my returne, and I doubt not butt hee will meet us also att the Bathe, if your Lordship acquaynt hyme with the tyme. It is best, if your Lordship purpose it, to take the end of this moneth att fartheste. I here that the Lord Chamberlayne is dead. If it be so, I hope that your Lordship may be stayde uppon good cause; if it be so, I could more willingly cum eastward then ever I did in my life. Howsoever it bee, they be butt things of this worlde, by which thos that have injoyed them have byne as littell happy as other poore men. Butt the good of thes changes wilbe that while men ar of necessety to draw lotts, they shall hereby see their chanses, and dispose themsealvs accord 1 Jersey. Hopes of an early meeting with Cobham the Earl of and with Northum berland. LETTER CIX. 1602. Aug. 12. ingly. I beseich your Lordship that I may here from yow. From hence I can present yow with nothinge butt my fast love and trew affection, which shall never part from studiing to honor yow, till I be in the grave, Weimouth, this 12 of August [1602]. W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]—My Lord Vicount [BINDON] hath so exalted MEERE'S sutes agaynst mee, in my absence, as neather Master Serjent HEALE nor any elce could be hard for mee to stay trialls while I was out of the land in Her Majesties service;-a right and curtesy afforded to every begger. I never busied mysealf with the Vicont's wealthe; [nor] of his extortions, or poysoninge of his wife, as it is here avowed, have I spoken. I have forborne here, in respect of the Lord THOMAS [HOWARD], and cheifly because of Master Secritory, who, in his love to my Lord THOMAS, hathe wisht mee to it. Butt I will not indure wrong att so pevishe a foole's hands any longer. I will rather loose my life And I thinck that my Lord Puritan PERIAM1 doeth thincke that the Queen shall have more use of roggs and villayns then of men, or els hee would not, att BYNDON'S instances, have yeilded to try actions agaynst mee, being out of the lande. Addressed: To the right honorabell my singuler good Lorde, the Lord COBHAME, 1 Sir William Peryam, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, from Feb. 1581 until Hilary Term of 1593; and Chief Baron of the Exchequer, from the latter date until Oct. 1604. |