Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Procedures
- Introduction
- Part I Roots 1548–1562
- Part II Youth 1562–1571
- Part III Emancipation 1571–1574
- Part IV Exploration 1574–1576
- Part V Alienation 1576–1579
- Part VI Intrigue 1579–1580
- Part VII Sedition 1580–1581
- Part VIII Release 1581–1585
- Part IX Reiteration 1586–1591
- 58 Maintenance for his Nobility
- 59 No Enemy can Envy this Match
- 60 Another Grissel for her Patience
- 61 Rid of my Lord Oxford
- 62 City House, Country House
- 63 I Have not Had my Health
- 64 Weary of an Unsettled Life
- Part X Renewal 1592–1595
- Part XI Re-engagement 1595–1599
- Part XII Decline 1600–1604
- Part XIII Aftermath 1604–1613
- Notes
- Appendix: Oxford's Letters and Libel Documents
- Bibliography
- Index
- Liverpool English texts and Studies
64 - Weary of an Unsettled Life
from Part IX - Reiteration 1586–1591
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Procedures
- Introduction
- Part I Roots 1548–1562
- Part II Youth 1562–1571
- Part III Emancipation 1571–1574
- Part IV Exploration 1574–1576
- Part V Alienation 1576–1579
- Part VI Intrigue 1579–1580
- Part VII Sedition 1580–1581
- Part VIII Release 1581–1585
- Part IX Reiteration 1586–1591
- 58 Maintenance for his Nobility
- 59 No Enemy can Envy this Match
- 60 Another Grissel for her Patience
- 61 Rid of my Lord Oxford
- 62 City House, Country House
- 63 I Have not Had my Health
- 64 Weary of an Unsettled Life
- Part X Renewal 1592–1595
- Part XI Re-engagement 1595–1599
- Part XII Decline 1600–1604
- Part XIII Aftermath 1604–1613
- Notes
- Appendix: Oxford's Letters and Libel Documents
- Bibliography
- Index
- Liverpool English texts and Studies
Summary
On 6 January 1591 Thomas Churchyard, now in his seventies, wrote to Julian (or Julia) Penn, mother of Baptist Hickes and of Michael Hickes, Burghley's private secretary. Mrs Penn was both a money-lender and the owner of a house on St Peter's Hill in London described thus by Stow:
a large House of antient Building, sometime belonging to the Abbot of St. Mary in York, and was his abiding House when he came to London.
Churchyard's letter concerns rooms he had taken on behalf of Oxford and his men:
good Mrs Pen I haue lovyngly & truelly dealtt with youe ffor the earll off Oxfford, a noble man off sutch worth, as I wyll employe all I haue to honor hys worthynes, So towtchyng whatt bargayn I maed & order taken ffrom hys own mowth ffor takyng som rowlms in your howse by quartter, afftther the raett [=rate] off a hondreth pownds a yeer, (wyth sutch nessesaryes as I can naem) I stand to thatt bargayn, knowyng my good lord so noble (& off sutch greatt consytheracyon) thatt he wyll perfform whatt I promesed, in the hyghest degre off hys bowntty & becawse I allways syckly & reddy to partt ffrom thys vayn lyeff, wold neyther quyck nor dead se youe a lozar [=loser] by any off my dryfftts bargayns or doyngs, I absoluettly heer ffor the love & honor I owe to my lord, bynd mye selff & all I haue in the world vnto youe, ffor the satyesffyeng off youe ffor the ffyrst quartters rentt off the rowlms my lord dyd taek, & ffurther ffor the coells [=coals], bylletts, ffagotts, beer, wyen, & any other thyng spentt by hys honorable means, I bynd my selff to answer, yet conffessyng thatt napery & lynnen was nott in any bargayn I maed wyth youe ffor my lord, whych indeed I knoe my lords nobullnes wyll consyther, so Mrs Pen to sho[w] my selff honest in all my accyons, I yeld my bodye goods & lyberte ffreely vnto youe whyells [=whiles] youe do lyve, to vse by lawe & ryght as reason is tyl my good lord do satyesffye youe in all resonable poyntts &
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- Monstrous AdversaryThe Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, pp. 328 - 335Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003