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on the Osborne side, but, as Judge Parry points out, on the Dangers side. The Judge is wrong, | however, in saying that Sir Thomas's mother was i Elizabeth Danvers, sister to Dorothy's mother. ' She was Anne Walmesley, daughter of Eleanor i Danvers, sister to Dorothy's mother. He was , therefore Dorothy's first cousin once removed. See F. N. Macnamara, 'The Danvers Family.' i Sir Thomas and his mother are again in question on p. 34, bottom, and on p. 38 (second paragraph). |

P. 49, Letter 9. The Judge writes : " Temple's i sister here mentioned was his only sister Martha." "The pedigrees and ' D.N.B.' give him another sister, not mentioned in these letters, Mary Temple, married first to A. Yarner, and secondly to Hugh Eeles.

P. 49. ' Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus ' is divided into ten parts, each of which is sub- divided into three books.

D. O. mentions in Letter 24, which I date May 8, 1653, that she has sent tae first " tome," or part, -bo T.

In Letter 25 (June 19) she has sent another ? tome.

In Letter 36 (Sept. 4) she says " My lady has received those parts of Cyrus I lent you. Here is another for you. There are four pretty stories in it, ' L'Amant Absent, <fcc.' " These stories are -contained in Part III., Book I.

In Letter 38 (Sept. 11) she comments on the four

stories ' L'Amant Absent,' &c., and adds : " if you have met with the beginning of the story of Amestris and Aglatides [Part I., Book HI. was ' L'histoire d'Aglatidas et d' Amestris 'J you will find the rest of it in this part I send you now/' She is sending Part IV.. the second book of which is about Aglatidas and Amestris.

In Letter 37 (Sept. 18) she says : " I am glad you are an admirer of Telesile " [a character in 'L'Amant Absent']....! know you will pity poor Amestris strangely when you have read her story."

In Letter 42 (Oct. 23,) she says : "I sent you a part of Cyrus last week where you will meet with one Doralize in the story of Abradate and Panthee." The story referred to forms the first book of Part V.

In Letter 57 (Feb. 5, 1654) she speaks of having " a piece of Cyrus by me that I am hugely pleased with. . . .I'll send it you."

P. 61. I have expressed my opinion in the Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 23, 1920, that the " old knight " was Sir William Briers or Bryers of Upbery, Pulloxhill, Beds. The information based on his monument in Pulloxhill Church was kindly sent me by the Vicar of Pulioxhill.

P. 54. Letter 10. Dorothy's cousihship to ' Henry Molle and to the Chekes (Thomas, Mrs Franklin, &c.) is rather indefinite, though there was a double connexion between the families.

Dr. Blyth^=Alice Cheke

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Peter Osborne Anne Blyth

Sir John Osborne 'Sir Peter Osborne Dorothy Osborne

Sir John Cheke Henry Cheke

Mary Cheke=pWm. Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Thos. Cecil, 1st E?of Exeter

Catherine Osborne (l)=Sir Thos. Cheke=f=(2) Essex Rich,

dau. 1st E. of Warwick

Robin Thos.

Cheke Cheke

Elizabeth, m. Mr. (afterwards Sir Rich.) Franklin

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Frances, m. E.of

Manchester

Elizabeth, m. John Molle

Henry Molle

It \vill be seen that H. Molle was first cousin to Thomas Cheke, Mrs. Franklin and the Countess of Manchester, but he and they were only third cousins of Dorothy's father, Sir Peter. Sir Thomas Cheke's "first mar- riage to Dorothy's great-aunt was without issue. But Dorothy seems to have looked on Sir Thomas as 'her great-uncle, and on his children by his second wife as her father's first cousins.

Thejpedigree throws, however, some new light on the tragic history of John Molle, 'Henry's father.

Born, as Fuller tells us on Henry Molle's .authority, at or near South Molton in Devonshire, John Molle spent his early life, in the public service. 'The State Papers iDomestic ' (vol. ccxxxix.) show him on June 5, 1591, in service under Sir Thomas .Sherley, Treasurer at War. On Sept. 26, 1593, he is said to have been serving in

Brittany as vice-treasurer and to have been paid off for 600Z. (vol. ccxlv.).

On Mar. 26, 1595, he has given a receipt as Sir Thomas Sherley 's deputy (vol. ccli.) for money for soldiers serving against Brest and not expended.

On Mar. 28, 1597, as paymaster of the forces in Picardy he has had to raise money in Rouen. On Apr. 27, he writes to Lord Burleigh that he is in fear of being arrested by the merchants for the debt (vol. cclxii.), and still more urgently on June 5 (vol. cclxiii).

On Aug. 31, 1597, Secretary Cecil writes to Arthur Savage in command before Amiens: "From henceforward you shall have as paymaster Molle an honest and proper man " (vol. cclxiv.).

In 1598, after the death of his father, William Lord Burleigh, Thomas Cecil, Lord Burleigh, afterwards Earl of Exeter, became President of the Council of the North.