Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

I call to minde the good and assured affectyoune that somtyme was betwene your brother the Laird of Lyddington and me, whome I protest I loved as derely as ever I loved man not born in England, and not many in England better.

I doe assure your lordship since Queen Mary's time the papists were never in that jollity they be at present in this country.

The more I love her, the more fearful am I to see such dangerous ways taken. God of his mercy help all, and give us all here about her grace to discharge our duties; for never was there more need, nor never stood this Crown in like peril. …

I stand on the topp of the hill, where I knowe the smallest slipp semeth a fall.

These my lord be good warnings to all those that be professors of the true religion to take heed in time [...] seeing it to fall out as we do, we are to look more narrowly to our present estate. We cannot but stand in no small danger …