Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley; March 25, 1595.

Cecil Papers 31/45, Oxford to Burghley; 25 March 1595. [Click here for modernized spelling.]

My very good Lord to sett downe that which showlde be fytt for yowre satisfactione, wowld requyre a longe wrightinge, which showld be to combersome, at this present. and moreover I wowld gladly deliuer my knowlege of the quantety of Tynne by mowthe, for yat I thinke yt not convenient by letter. wherfore when yowr Lordship shall have best tyme and leysure yf I may know yt I will attend yowre Lordship as well as a lame man may at yowre house.

Those articles of my Lord of Buckhursts offer I have allredie answered in my last letter. yet for more assurance I have sent myne answer agayne, vnto every poynt.

And wheras yt hathe bene sayd as I vnderstand that he was the fyrst yat moved thys swte, I confes that he was the fyrst that delt in yt to cosine her Magestie but not to profite her, as at my comminge to yowre Lordship I will fully satisfis yow.

for the 40 hundred thowsande l weyght of Tyne, yf he had put in 60 hundred and 70 hundred thowsand yet I was the fyrst as I cane prove by good testemonie that gave her Magestie warninge to loke well therto before she made any gravnt, and gave inclinge of those sumes.

And at what tymes he made his offer of 10 thowsand poundes ^custome^ and now the 40 hundred thowsand l weyght, when I shall have speache with yowre Lordship yow will iuge therof a great deale better.

Wherfore least I troble yowre Lordship I most hartely thanke yow for yowre most honorable delinge towards me, and ernestly crave that yowre Lordship will not suffer this matter so swyftly and hastely to pase, tyll I have fully aduertised yowre Lordship of my knowlege of the 40 hundred thowsand pound weyght. And what other meanes I know necessarie for her Magestie to compas her intent, and withowt which beinge knowne, yt wilbe overthrowne, and prove nothinge to that which her Magestie expectes and I doo wishe.

Yowre Lordships to Command.

(signed) Edward Oxenford

Addressed (in Oxford’s hand): To the ryght honorable & his very good Lord the Lord Thresorer of England.

Endorsed: 25 Mart. 1595; Erl oxford Tyn workes

 

 

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