Among the general correspondence are letters from the following: 1. Sir John Puckering,...

Among the general correspondence are letters from the following:

1. Sir John Puckering, Sergeant-at-law and aft. Lord Keeper: (a) that he is unable to visit him as the Queen has commanded him and the other Counsel of the Law to attend her at the Star-Chamber: 25 March, 1587. f.37: (b) recommending to Mr Thynne (whom her Majesty has appointed Sheriff of Wilts) an Under Sheriff, one "Mr Alford": Windsor, 25 Nov. 1593. f.249.

2. [ ---- ] Stafford to "Mr Justis Tounshend", calling him his "open cankard enymy" these 13 years, and saying that when he saw him at Bridgenorth assizes "it would have eased my stomacke rather to have met your peevishe brother Thyn and you a myle out of town with my sword in my hand" etc: "Castle of Caws" Co. Montgomery, 27 July, 1587. f.48.

3. Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor: (a) asking Mr Thynne to agree with Lord Stafford on a place for the meeting of the Commissioners to try the cause between them, "as Shrewsbury is nowe visited with the plague": "From the Court at Theobaldes" 27 July, 1587. f.50: (b) recommending to him Edmund Gastrell to be his under sheriff: London, 9 Nov. 1588. f.74: (c) in favour of "one Corbett for a lease of certaine landes": "Eelye Place, in Holborne", 6 Feb. 1588[9]. f.98.

4. Sir Walter Mildmay, on the alteration of a lease of lands in Steeple Ashton for Richard Spencer: "From my house at Great St Bartholomewes", 16 Oct. 1587. f.54.

5. Sir Francis Walsingham, to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of Wales, requiring him to certify the musters of his Lieutenancies, in view of the threatened invasion of his realm: Greenwich, 19 June, 1588. Copy. f.62.

6. Sir Henry Knyvett to the Justices of Co. Wilts, on the raising of 2000 "armyd footmen out of our shier .... to attend her Maties person": At "Nubrie" [Newbury] 25 July, 1588. f.68.

7. Sir James Mervin, enclosing letter from Sir J. Danvers summoning, on behalf of Lord Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant, the Justices to meet him at Devizes on urgent business: Fontell, 25 July 1588. f.70.

8. H[enry Herbert, Earl of] Pembroke, requiring him to "be in redynes and prepared" with his "horses and other furnyture fytt for service" at New Sarum, "the collour of the coates muste be Read and garded with blewe and white": Sarum, 10 Jan. 1588[9]. f.80.

9. Sir Matthew Arundell, recommending a keeper of Sturton Park: Wardour, 12 Apr. 1589. f.102.

10. Sir John Perrott, asking him to send the "crappell stone which I had seen with my good frend your late father": "From the Court," 1 June, 1589. f.104.

11. Caru Rauleigh: (a) asking Mr Thynne if he purposes to "sitt in commission with "the writer's cousin Mr Souch at Warminster: Corsley, 28 Sept. 1589. f.112: (b) on the subject of the same commission: [1589]. f.124: (c) to his "sonne in lawe John Thynne", that he has shot a buck for him which he sends to furnish his "parlor and the Hall also": Gilingham, 25 July, 1592(?) f.212.

12. Thomas South to Richard Mompesson, on the quarrel between Sir James Mervin and Mr John Thin and asking him to use his favour with the Lord Chamberlain and the "Lord Admiral" as he is "persuaded that no ende wilbe made except it be done by her Majties honorable Councell": Swallowcliff, 6 Oct. 1589. f.113.

13. Francis Walsingham to J. Thynne, informing him that "there delivered to Lords and others of her Majesty's privye Counsell certen informacions against" him: Richmond, 2 Nov. 1589. f 118

14. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, to the Remembrancer of the Exchequer requesting him to redeliver to Mr John Thynne some Books, Courtrolls and accompts brought into the Court of Exchequer by Sir J. Thynne his father. Signed: with a holograph note, "take bond yt whan ye same wrytyngs shall be required for her Maty the same may be retorned": 4 Feb. 1589. f.135.

15. Sir Robert Cecil, requesting him "to stay any of" his servants from further dealing in his manor: "From ye Cort": 11.Sept. 1590. f.154.

16. H[enry Stanley, Earl of] Derby, to Sir Rowland Hayward, asking for all depositions in the matter of Jewels "conveighed and stollen from" his daughter Mrs Thynne: Battershey, 19 June, 1591. f.180.

17. E[dward Somerset, Earl of] Worcester, in favour of Morgan Jones a servant of his uncle Sir Charles Somerset who desires to become the Tenant "of a weare and fishinge at Monmouth" belonging to Mr Thynne: Raglan Castle, 29 Mar. 1592. f.187.

18. Ge.... Audelay, asking Mr Thynne to send him a Doe and to charge his keeper "that she maye be very good for those whoe muste have the eatinge of her have dayntye mouthes": Warminster, 15 Oct. 1592. f.227.

19. W[illiam Cecil, Lord] Burghley: (a) in favour of Thomas Lynton in connection with a copyhold belonging to Lanthonie Nr Gloucester: 7 May, 1593, f.241: (b) on the same subject: 23 Nov. 1593. f.247.

20. Sir Robert Willoughby to the Lord High Admiral of England touching the charges and expenses of his services to Her Majesty in France: 6 July, 1594. f.274.

21. The Privy Council, to J. Thynne: (a) summoning him to Court on the matter of controversies with Lord Stafford: 28 Feb.1594[5]: Signed by Sir John Puckering, W. [Cecil, Lord] Burghley, H[enry Carey, Lord] Hunsdon, W[illiam Brooke, Lord] Cobham, Lord C[harles] Howard, T[homas Sackville, Lord] Buckhurst, Sir T[homas] Heneage, Sir John Wolley, Secretary to the Council: f.296: (b) reprimanding him for sending a "frivolous and contemptuouse answeare" to their letter and commanding his "repair h hether to the Courte": 16 March, 1594. Signed by Sir J. Puckering, Lord Burghley, Lord Charles Howard, Lord Hunsdon, Sir Robert Cecyll and R[obert Devereux, 2nd Earl of] Essex: f.302: (c) requesting him to restore to "Christian Daniel, a very poor widdow" the farm of Horningham, Co Wilts. and her goods which he [Mr Thynne] has wrongfully detained: 16 Nov. 1591. Signed by Jo[hn Whitgift, Archbishop of] Canterbury, Sir J. Puckering, Lord Buckhurst, Sir John Wolley and Sir John Fortescue. f.317.