BL La 102, 24

BL MSS Lansdowne 102, 24
Wright: Queen Elizabeth and her Times Vol 1, 1838, No. 45 Page 109
Cecil to Sir Thomas Smith. Nov. 19, 1562

Transcribed by Thomas Wright

Sir, This morning your servant Barlow departed from hence, and to gyve occasion for the French ambassador's servant to come to you, I required hym to carry this symple letter. This daye he had bene satisfyed by my Lord Admyrall, Mr. Petre, and Mr. Mason to all his complaynts. The gretest odd that is unanswered, is this, that the French of Newhaven send over much wares hyther, and sell the same as there owen, which I dowt may belong to Parysiens, &c.
We are about borrowyng a somme of mony lyke to Quene Marye's first lone, which shall be repayd we trust with the subsidy which the Parlement I trust shall gyve. The sheriff in your shyre is Mr. Baventyne (1), 19th Novemb. 1562.
Yours assured,

W. Cecill

(1) In Fuller's lists there is no sheriff of this name in any shire, at this period.