horses, chose the worse way coming; and so by
certain waggons called coaches, very shaking and
uneasy to my judgment, came to Padua upon Saturday
at night. Of whose coming being advertised, I went
to visit him on the morrow after, and found him
very weak; and since that time he began to appear
every day worse and worse, avoiding friends'
visitations; and drew himself to the counsel of two
of the best physicians of this town, and entered
into a continued hot ague, sometimes more vehement
than at another; and as I have seen and heard, he
hath been always diligently attended. I have
charged his servants in your name, and as they will
avoid your displeasure, that a true inventory shall
be made of such small movables as he had here, and
that especially all kind of writings and letters
that he had either here or at Venice, shall be put
in assurance, abiding for your commandment. I am
now about to see the order of his burial, with as
much sparing and as much honour as can be done; for
the merchantmen on whom, by your Grace's
commandment, he had a credit of 3 or 4 thousand
crowns, are not as yet willing to disburse any
money without a sufficient discharge of my Lord of
Devonshire's hand, the doing whereof is past. I
shall shift to see him buried as well as I can;
notwithstanding, I beseech your Grace not to be
discontented with me that I am at the next door to
go a begging.

"My said Lord of Devonshire is dead, in mine
opinion a very good Christian man; for after that I
had much exhorted him to take his communion and
rites of the Church as a thing most necessary, and
by whose means God giveth unto His chosen people
health, both bodily and ghostly, he answered me, by
broken words, that he was well content so to do:
and in token thereof, and in repenta