(109.) Sir Christopher Hatton to Sir William More. The Queen is coming to Loseley for four or five days; he is to see every thing in it well ordered, &c. S', I pceave by her matie that she hath an intention about ten or twelve dayes hence to visite yor house by Guylforde, and to remayne there some foure or fyve dayes, wch I thought good to advertise you of, that in the meane whyle you myght see every thinge well ordered, and your house kept sweete and cleane, to receave her hygnes whensoever she shalbe pleased to see it. I have ben hertofore informed that you had some sycke of the infectione the last yeare, and of other dangerous diseases of late in it, w'ch is now reported here as a misinformation, and far otherwyse than the brute [bruit] declared, whereupon her matie is now the willinger for her recreacio' to spende some fewe dayes there, as you shall more pticularly understande from tyme to tyme, as I shall finde her to contynewe her determynatio'. In the meane whyle, wishinge you all prosperitie and comfort, I comitt you to God Fro' the Court at Otlands the 4 of Aug. 1583. Yor very lovinge assured frend, To the right. w'shipll my very good frende Sr Will'm Moore, knight. The same to the same. her intended journey. (111.) The Queen has determined to abridge Will sleep a night at Loseley. Sir William is to make due preparation, and to send away his family. Sr, Her matie fyndynge the could seazon of the yeare to growe on faster than she thought of, is now pleased to abridge the jorney w'ch first her highnes intended. In w'ch respect, she is at this present resolved, uppo' tewsdaye next, w'ch shalbe the xxvijth of this moneth, to dyne at Okynge, and that night to go to bed to yor house, w'ch I have thought good to geav you notice of, to th❜ende you may take order to see it made sweete and meete to receave her matie, and that in the meane tyme you may avoyde yo' famely, and prepare every thinge ready agaynste the daye prefixed as to yo' owne discreto' shall seeme most needefull for her matis good contentatio' at her repayre thether. And so I comitt you to God. Fro' the Court at Otlands the xxiiijth of Aug. 1583. Yor very lovinge assured frende, Her Matic meaneth not in this jorney that the Sheriffe of the Shere shall attende on her; nevertheles, for that I take it she wyll passe through Guylford, it shall not be amisse that yourself, accompa ned wth Mr. Lyfeild and some oth' gentilme' there aboute, doo prepare at that tyme to geav yor attendance there on her ma'tie. To the right worshipful, &c. Sr Wm More, knight. ( 112.) Lord Hunsdon to the same. The Queen is determined on a progress to Portsmouth. Will be at Loseley on a certain day. Lord Hunsdon desires to know where she can lie between Sir William's house and Cowdray, &c. After my harte comendac'ons, I have thought good to let you understand that her Ma'ty is resolved to make a progresse this yere as far as Portesmouth, and to begin the same ye 22nd or 23rd of this monthe, and to come by yor house. She is verie desyrous to go by Petworth and Cowdry, yf yt be possible; but none of us all can sett her downe anie wher to be at betwene yor house and Cowdry. And therefore I am to require you that you will set this berer some way for her to passe, and that you will let some one of yor owne men, who is best acquaintyd wth those wayes, to be his guyde, that he may see whether they be fit for her Ma'tie or noe. And whether yt be best goeing from yor howse to Petworth and so to Cowdry, or els from yor howse to Cowdry. And yf you can set her downe anie place betweene yor howse and Cowdry that may serve for one night, you shall do her a great pleasure, and she will take it very thank fullie at yor hands. But I have thought good to let you understand that, though she cannot passe by Cowdry to Petworth, yet she will assuredlie come to yo howse, and so towards Portsmouth such other waye as shall be sett downe to her, and therfore I pray yo' advertize me by this berar of yor full knowledge and opinion therein. And so I commit you to God. In hast this xth of Julii 1591. Yor lovinge ffrende, To ye right worshipfull my verie loving ffrende Sr William Moore, knight, theis. ( 113.) J. HUNSDON. Draft by Sir William More of his Answer to the preceding. A visit of Edward VI. to Cowdray House, in Sussex, incidentally noticed. With remembrance of my dewtie unto yo honorable Lordship. Understandinge by yo' letters her Mats good pleasure in purposinge to visite my poore house, I am most hartelie glade thereof, and accompte myselfe infinitly bounde to her highnes favor therin. And whereas yor Lo. doth require to be adv'tised from me of some fitte place betwene my howse and Cowdray for her Ma'tie to lodge in one nighte, yt maie please you to understande that ther is not anie convenient howse for that purpose standinge neare the way from my howse towardes Petworth or Cowdrey. Onlie ther is a little howse of Mr. Lawrence Elliott's distant three miles from myne,* the direct waie towards either of the said plac's and wthin tenne miles of Petworth and eleaven of Cowdray, to w'ch howse I directed Mr. Constable by a servaunt of myne, who hath viewed the same and canne make reporte to yo' Lo. thereof. From thence ther is another, the like howse, in Shillinglie, of one Bonner's, distant five myles the direct way to Petworth, and about a myle out of the waie to Cowdrey, where King Edwarde dyned in his waye from Guildford Parke to Cowdrey. Indorsed, "To the Lord Cham berlyn, concerning her Mats Purveyance for the Royal Household. (114.) By this paper it appears that the provisions necessary for the Royal Houshold were taken up in counties adjoining to the Court, at a stipulated price, sanctioned by the Lords of the Council. The justices of peace directed the quota to be supplied by individuals in their districts; and the requisition, it will be seen, was peremptory. Extract from articles of agreement and composition had and made the iiijth day of Aprill, ao xxxvto Elizabeth, betwene the right honorable the Lordes of her Mats most honorable P'vie Councell, being authorized by commission * Busbridge near Godalming. Now the seat of the Earl of Winterton. At that period it belonged to the Earl of Arundel; and Bonner was probably his tenant. |