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 1570.] THE RISING OF THE NORTH. 217 more pleased me. It likes me not a little that with a good testimony of your faith there is seen a stout cour- age of your mind that more trusted to the goodness of your quarrel than to the weakness of your numbers. But I can say no more. ' Beatus est ille servus quern cum Dominus venerit inveniet faciendo (sic) sua man- data/ And that you may not think you have done nothing for your profit, though you have done much for your honour, I intend to make this journey some- what to increase your livelihood, that you may not say to yourself, ' Perditum quod factum est ingrato/ 1 ELIZABETH/ x It is pleasant to be able to say that the cruelties which had followed on the main rebellion were not repeated. So many poor fellows had been killed in the fight that, at Hunsdon's suggestion, a general pardon followed to all who would submit, and in the trials of the prisoners who were not included in the amnesty, mercy also for the future prevailed. MSS. Border, Rolls House.
 * Your loving kinswoman,