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1921 IN 1562/3 AND 1566 517 is to deale in the limitacione of Succesione. at this present yt is not conuenient nor neuer shalbe without some perrill unto you and certaine daunger unto me. but were yt not for your perrill at this tyme I would giue place noyb withstandinge my daunger. Your perrills ar sundry wayes, for some maye be touched who rest now in such tearmes with us as yt is not meet to be disclossed ether in the common house or in the upper house. But as sone as they maye be in conuenient tyme and that may be done with lese perrill unto you, although neuer without great daunger unto me, I will deale ther in for your safetie and offer yt unto you as your Prince and Head without request, for yt is monsterous that the feet should direct the head. And therfore this is my mind & answeare which I would haue shewed in the two houses. And for the doeing ther of you my Lord cheefe Iustes are meetest to doe yt in the uper house And you Cecill in the nether house. And ther with speakinge of the speaker that the lower house would haue had ther speaker ther, wher in they did not consider that he was not ther to speake ; Shee said she was a speaker indeed and ther ended. II The following manuscript is a draft of what in the foregoing article I have called the second model of the preamble to the subsidy bill proposed by the commons in 1566. 1 It is written on paper in the regular manner of bills in their first stages, and is now amongst the lords' manuscripts at Westminster. Like two other manuscripts in the same bundle, it is essentially a com- mons' manuscript, which was probably overlooked — and so preserved from the fire of 1834 — when in January 1657/8 the commons' manuscripts were separated from the lords' after a period of joint custody. 2 I print it because the preamble, as finally decided on in committee and shown to the queen, was based on this model, and we have no other complete text : furthermore it contains an interesting resume of the flattering message which accompanied the queen's remittance on 27 November of a third of the subsidy which the commons intended to grant. Trie manu- script is endorsed, ' The preamble to the Subsidye Vacat quia noua '. We your maiesties most humble subiectes hauing an uniuersall full intention to yeld unto your most excellent maiestie some portion by waye of a Subsedy to the relief of your maiesties great and extraordinary charge susteyned in the defence of your realmes and dominions against manny extraordinary dangerous attemptes euidently seene : before we do present the same are prouoked to accompany or rather to sett before it' our most humble thankes to your maiestie for three speciall thinges besides a great many of others proceding from your maiestie in this our assembly. 1 Supra, p. 512. 2 Cf. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc., 4th series, vol. iii, ubi supra.