6. Edward Earl of Oxford, to Lord Burghley; urging him to remind the Queen of her promise to set him at liberty, as she is not so ready to deliver as speedy to commit, &c. 1581.
7. The Earl of Huntingdon, to Lord Burghley; that if the Secretary to the Council, Mr. Blythe (now very ill), should die, a man of equal worth should succeed, Aug. 6, 1581.
8. The E. of Huntingdon desires of Lord Burghley that Mr. H.Cheek may speedily come to him at York., and that Campion is in those parts, Aug. 18, 1581.
9. The Earl of Derby and others, to Lord Burghley; that the rents of the tenants of Manchester College be advanced, for better hospitality and preaching there, Aug. 20, 1581.
14. William Overton, Bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, shows to Lord Burghley the necessity of the High Commission, to cheek the Recusants in his diocese, April, 1581.