1. The young Earl of Essex, from Cambridge, to Lord Burghley; that he is pleased with his return to the University from Keiston, where he had retired for a time from the plague, March 31, 1578. (Latin.)
4. The Earl of Rutlana, to Lord Burghley; concerning his contest with Mr. Markham, about the lease of Mansfield, the cause of Thexton's confinement, and requesting his favour to Thexton, July 18, 1578.
6. The Earl of Huntingdon, Lord President of the North, to Lord Burghley; that according to the power he and others had by their commission, they had visited the church of Durham, examined the Dean, and found he bad no ordination but at Geneva, Nov. 3, 1578.
8. A copy of the Earl of Rutland's letter to Mr. secretary Walsingham; thanking him for suspending his judgement in his affair with Markham, Nov. 1578.
10. The Earl of Essex, to Lord Burghley; to release Mr. Harcourt from imprisonment, who had helped him to procure the Stewardship of Tamworth, and to pay his father's legacy of forty pounds to Mr. Lloyd Nov. 11, 1578. (Latin.)