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LETTER CCXXX.

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2    Our bounden dutie in most humble wise remembred.
3Whereas we intend for the exercise of yonge
4gentlemen and scholers in our Colledge, to sett forth
5certain Comoedies and one Tragoedie. There being
6in that Tragoedie sondry personages of greatest astate,
7to be represented in auncient princely attire, which is
8no where to be had but within the Office of the Roabes
9at the Tower, it is our humble request Your most honorable
10Lordship would be pleased to graunte your
11Lordships Warrant unto the chiefe Officers there, that
12upon sufficient securitie we might be furnished from
13thence with such meete necessaries as are required.
14Which favor we have founde heretofore upon your
15good Lordship's like honorable Warrant: that hath
16the rather enbouldened us at this time. And so cravinge
17pardon for this presumption, with remembrance
18of our dayly prayers unto God for the preservation of
19Your Honor's health to his owne greate glory we humbly

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20take our leave. From Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge,
2128^o Januarij 1594
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