Lettre autographe

2. Un « Mr. Lile » figure dans une lettre écrite le 9 mars 1600/1 par le capitaine Christopher Levens to Sir Robert Cecil: « Asking for rewards for services done on the occasion of the late rebellion. The most deserving were Sir Francis Darcy, Sir William Woodhouse, Captain Price, Captain Lovell, Captain Selby, Captain Malbye, Captain Riche, Captain Chatterton, Captain Gilbert, Mr. Lile, one of her Highness’ servants, and Mr. John Wells » (Historical Manuscripts Commission : Calendar of the Mss. of the Marquis of Salisbury, Part xi, 117). Il se pourrait que ce « serviteur de la Reine » fût notre auteur. 11 faut cependant faire remarquer qu’au seizième siècle l’on trouve assez souvent le nom de Lile ou Lyle.

not so impudent as to intreat yo' Ho : a motioner, but a favorer, yf happily it be moued y‘ after 13 yeres servic & suit for y° Revells, I may turne all my forces & frends to feed on y° Rebells. In all onely I end, wishing the end of all ther lives to be suche as goe about untimely to seek an end of her hignes and yo. Feb, 27 1600.

Yo’ H : to be disposed Jh= Dyry.

Au dos :

For y° right Ho : Syr Robert Cecil Knight Principall Secretary to her Maïi, Februar 1600 Mr Lilly to my M".

(Manuscripts preserved at Hatfeld House, vol. Ixxvii, f. 14.)