National Archives
SP 14/37/96, fols. 192v-193
Letter,
Sir Thomas Lake
to the
Earl of Salisbury
, 27 Nov. 1608, Thetford. One folded sheet, two leaves: the
letter occupies pp. 1-3; p. 4, subscription. (Note: this letter may refer to
Beauty
.)
[fol. 192v]
His highness commanded me further to aduertise your lord That where he had by my former lettere sent your lord a warrant for ye maske with a blanck[fol. 193]but limited the same to a thowsand pounds. he was pleased if it were not alredy filled
your lordship with opinion of ye rest of ye lords mentioned in ye warrant might inlarge it to some
reasonable encrease as you should thinke meet. I moued his majestie thereuppon that if it pleased him there might be a new Warrant made without limitation of a somme but left to such byls as by your lords should be signed and allowed His majestie seamed to like it well. and if it please your lordship to thinke yt a fitt way it may be don.
Bibliography
CSPD 1603-1610, 470
H&S, 10.491-2
Sullivan (1913), 201