Harboringe Howses for Maisterles Men, and for such as lyve by theifte and other such lyke Sheefts: vizt. Richard Waterward at the Fawcon in Grace streate. Wottons howse at Smarts Keye. The Gunne att Byllingsgate. London. The Crowne at Byshopsgate. Mayden heade, by the Towre dyche. The Harrowe in Bedlem. The Rose at Fletebrydge. The Styll in the Saynturie. The Beare and Ragged Stafe at Charinge Crosse. Westm. (The Redd Legge in the Pallace. Midd. Surr. The Blacke Lyon in Shordytche. Mugglestons howse in the White Chaple. [Pressinge Yron in Sowthwarke. The Roose at Newington Butts. Memorand. That in Wotton's howse at Smarts Keye are wrytten in a table divers Poysies, and among the rest one is this Si spie sporte, si non spie, tunc steale. Another is thus Si spie, si non spie, ffoyste, nyppe, lyfte, shave and spare not. 1 Note that ffoyste is to cutt a pockett, nyppe is to cutt a purse, lyft is to robbe a shoppe or a gentilmans chamber, shave is to ffylche a clooke, a sword, a sylver sponne or such like, that is negligentlie looked unto. Nota, that mylken ken is to commytt a roborie or burgularie in the night in a dwelling howse, &c. To the Right honourable and my synguler good Lord the Lord Highe Treasorer of England. LETTER CCXVII. Sir Francis Drake to Lord Burghley upon his missing the King of Spain's Treasure. [MS. LANSD. 51. art. 14. Orig.] The following Letter of Sir Francis Drake, partakes of that spirit which, since the reign of Queen Elizabeth, has been so uniformly characteristic of the English seaman. He missed the treasure of the Indies, by only twelve hours sail; "the cause best known to God." The gap said to have been opened, so little to the liking of the King of Spain, probably alludes to the cities of St. Jago, S. Domingo, Carthagena, and St. Augustin, taken by him a few months before. RIGHT honorable, having yeat in remembrance your Honors wyshe in your last Lettre, that the receat of my Letter which I had written unto your Honor a lyttel before had bynn dated rather from Cape Vemestera then from Plymoth, I cannot omytt to geve your Honor now to understand that as we then slaked no possyble travell or dyllygence which myght any way belong to the handlyng of so great a dyspatche, so lett me assure your good LL. that I will make it most aparent unto your honor that it skaped us but twelfe owers, the hooll treasure which the Kyng of Spayne had out of the Yndyes this last yere. The cawse best knowen to God. And we ha at that in My very good Lord ther is now a very great gappe Finisterre. opened, very lettell to the lykyng of the Kyng of Spayne. God worke it all to his Glorye. These Gentlemen, the bearers hereof, have byn actors and eye wyttnesses of all that is passed and can fully certtyfye your Honor of all particullaryte better then can be written: for which cawse I thowght it most meett to send them, as also more especyallye to declare the present estatt of our Shippes, munycyon, and men, being as I judge of no small vallew to parforme any good servis, yf her Majestie be offerred the occasyon of further imployment. It restethe therfore in your wysdoms to consyder and in lyke sort to derecte spedelley what coorse we have to follow. And further I most humbly beseche your good Lordshipe to affourd us your honorable good favoure, that som monyes may be had with suche exspedycyon for the present dyspatching of our powerer sort of men, whose travell and long absence desyreth a spedy dyspatch. The Some reqwyset for this dyspatch would be no Jesse then syxe thowsand pounds: and in lewe therof ther shalbe, ether by land or sea, sent to the Tower, or wher or when your LL. shall take order, bollyon for it. And so humblye taking my leave of your good Lordshyp untyll suche tyme as your Lordship shall command me to waytt one your Lordshipe, when I shall geve your Honor som thing to understand, I VOL. II. X hope in God, to your Lordshippes good lykeng. From a bourd Her Majesties shipe the Elisybethe Bonaventure this 26th July 1586. Yor Ho. most bounden To the Right honorable the Lord High Treasorer of Yngland, one of Her Majestie's Prevye Councell. With speed. FRA. DRAKE LETTER CCXVIII. Serjeant Fleetwood to Lord Burghley, upon an Insurrection of the Apprentices of London. [MS. LANSD. 49. art. 4. Orig.] The Apprentices of London in early times were considered a formidable body. Our chronicles represent them as being either the authors or abettors of almost all the slighter Insurrections of the Metropolis. For an Account of Evil May Day mentioned in this Letter, an Insurrection of the Apprentices of a more serious description, the reader is referred to the old editions of Hall's Chronicle, fol. 61. 9th Hen. VIII. Grafton, fol. 1021. and Stow's Annals, under the year 1517. RIGHT Honorable and my singuler good Lord, this present daye from two of the clocke until syx, my Lo. Maior, with some of his bretherne th'Aldermen and myselffe, dyd examyne certene Apprentices for conspiringe an insurrection in this Cittie agaynst the Frenche and Dutche, but speciallie against the |