61. Lord Robt. Cecill, to Mr. M. Hicks; on the Queen's sending 1000l. to the King of Scots; he wishes a blessing on Mr. Hicks's son, and merrily declares he hopes the mother will amend in the child, what has been impaired by the father.
62. Lord Robt. Cecill, to Mrs. Penn; that he will try to get her son Skynner released, and his fine mitigated, but that he must be more submissive to the Lords of the Council.
71. Mr. Henry Courtney desires Mr. M. Hicks to get for him the Clerkship of the Signet, and he will give to Lord Burghley 100l. and to himself 100 angels.
92. The form of a recommendation, to be signed by Lord Burghley, of John Gerarde, as a fit person to plant the gardens of the University of Cambridge. Drawn up by Gerarde himself.
101. The copy of a letter to some unnamed person, and probably from Mr. Stubbs, as it is stated to have been written with the left hand; in which the writer laments his lost time for the space of forty years, and professes that his remaining comfort is in the Scriptures, &c.