LES IMPÔTS DE LYLY

Ward of Farringdon Without.

John Lyly, gent. rated to pay 8 s. on property of the value of 3 1. in the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Less (Oct. I. 1598).

Ibid. im Oct. I. 1599. & I Oct. 1600 (Record Office. Subsidy Rolls. Lay Subsidies 146/369 ; 146/394 ; 145/260) d’après Bond, édition des Œuvres de Lyly, I, 72.)

LYLY NÉGOCIE LE MARIAGE DE CALVERLEY Anne, Lady Cobham to Sir Robert Cecil.

There is a marriage intended between my daughter Philippe and Mr. Coverley, of Coverley; and for that I am loth to deal in so weighty a cause without my Lord Cobham’s advice and yours, I have thought good to send Mr. Lyly 1 to you, who can declare all his estate to you. Likewise I have sent another gentleman unto my Lord Cobham to desire him to impart it unto you. I beseech you (who hath been always a father to my children) that you will so deal with Mr. Lyly that if you find it fit it may be brought to pass (which gentleman is kin to Mr. Lyly’s wife, who is the first well-wisher of this match towards my daughter). I understand by Mr. Lyly that he is in wardship till April next to the Lady Gargrave, of Yorkshire, who hath tendered unto him her daughter, and is willing to give £. 1500 in marriage with her. But he hath taken some liking of my daughter, that he is content to take her with a lesser portion.

From Durham House, this 30 May, 1599.

1. Le Mr. Lyly dont il s’agit ici est, évidemment, notre auteur; Calverley était, en effet, du Yorkshire, comme Beatrice Ly1y, et la famille des Calverleys était alliée aux Savilles et aux Danbys (Cf. Publications of the Harleian Society, xvi, 47 et plus haut, p. 133).

Au dos :

To my verie honorable good nephew.

(Historical Manuseripts Commission. Calendar of the Mss. of the Marquis of Salisbury, part 1x, 186.)