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INTRODUCTION.
because my mother was born there. I remember you told me you had been at Brewerton Green. I like Stoak as well—you will find my Lady Brewerton and her daughters at the good old house on Brewerton Green—the young ladies live there like nuns. I wish Queen Mary would make them courtiers, and I wish your Lordship would incline to do what is reasonable by me, that I might go into Cheshire and there end my days. I should enjoy more happiness in one month in Cheshire than I have done in all the twenty-five years I have misspent in London.
do than sit still and starve, or be any longer a laughing-stock for any of Mr. Kirke's bastards. This you may sincerely believe from her who is, my Lord, the humblest of your servants,
" Grace Worthley."
On another occasion she treats certain warrants with which he had threatened her with singular disrespect. She tells him "I will make madder work than ever I have done yet, and, if it must come to that, I shall not be afraid of your taking me up with your own warrant, by virtue of your being a Privy Councillor, as your man, George Watson, every quarter, when he pays me your plentiful allowance of £12. 10s., sends me word you will; but, if you please, you may send your warrants to the common Countess of Oxford and her adulterous bastards, to be employed as all such warrants ought to be, and which, for good manners' sake, I omit to tell you how."
