53. I. Ryvers, Lord Mayor of London, to Lord Burghley; that the City is unable to grant his request that two of his Lordship's friends should have City offices in. reversion, because a law of theirs precluded them, March 31, 1574.
56. Rod. Gualther, to the Bp. of Ely; that the Queen's Ambassador had assisted in the Council, at Frankfort, for the drawing up a common Confession of all the Reformed Churches. And that the sad times were predicted by comets and monsters, March 4, 157. (Latin.)
61. The Bp. of Hereford, to the Lord Treasurer; that some of the Exchequer were rashly suppressing parsonages in his diocese, on pretence of their being colleges, Jan. 24, 1574.