CP, 152, 165

CP Volume 152 Folio 165

HMC Volume 1 Page 228 Number 725

Haynes Page 320 Number 323

Transcribed by Samuel Haynes in “A Collection of State Papers . . . 1542 to 1570” London, 1740

2 June 1560 Mr. Secretary Cecill to Sir William Petre

From the Original.

SIR,

I AM come to my Howse here at Burley, rubbyng on betwixt Helth and Sicknes, and yet my Hart serveth me to get the Mastery. At this present I have receaved this Lettre included, wheruppon I see it necessary that my Lord Treasoror be called uppon for to depeche Mony awey. If nede shalbe, to encorradg Men to fight, Mony must serve; if by Peace they shall retorne, it may not be spared, to cass the Bands. As for Munition, I mervell that, at my Lord of Norfolk's wryting, the Shippes wer not arryved in the Frith: I besech yow speke with Bromfeld the Lieutenant of the Ordnance, and inquire of hym what he hath observed, sence there departure owt of the Thamise, whyther they might be there or no by this Tyme. I praye yow, Sir, speake with Mr. Tresoror to quicken my Lord Tresoror, and to trust as St. Thomas did, with Prooffe, that Mony is sent downe in dede. I pray yow, Sir, doo my humble Commendations to all my Lords and the rest; and send my Wiffe Word that I have my Helth very well, and in the Morning doo depart hence. We trust to be at Newcastle by the 6th or 7th. This 2d of June, the Daye of Comfort by the impartyng to us all of the Holy Ghost, 1560. Yours assuredly at Command,

W. Cecill

To be delyvered to Sir William Petre Knight, Chauncelllor of the Ordre and one of her Highnes Pryvie Counsaile.