V. Letter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, of Shelford, co. Notts., to Lord Treasurer Burghley, respecting the Funeral of his Mother, Anne Lady Stanhope. Communicated by Richard Almack, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Albert Way, Esq. M.A., Director

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In the valuable collection of Original Letters edited by Sir Henry Ellis (Vol. II. second Series), I observe two in 1569 and 1570 from Lady Stanhope to Sir William Cecill, respecting the unhappy marriage of her daughter with Mr. afterwards Sir John Hotham of Scorborough in Yorkshire, and also Sir John's letter to Cecill, as “Master of the Wards and Lyveries,” defending himself, and in which he expatiates on the “Stanhopes eville delinge many wayes,” but with less asperity than the lady, who not only reviles him, but, in fact, the whole county of York, and says “especially in Yorkshire, where he may suborne men and women to say what he listeth to serve his devilishe purpose.” The lady had purchased the wardship of Hotham, and married him to her daughter, but it appears that after all it was a bad bargain, as she had not purchased his love.