The baptism on the 12th day of July, 1596, of Francis, son of Christopher Wright, of Newbie. And furthermore, on the 3rd day of February, 1601, the baptism of Marmaduke, the son of Christopher Wright, of Skelton. Now, when we recollect that _a_ Marmaduke Warde was certainly brother-in-law to _a_ Christopher Wright; and when we recollect that we have proof that _a_ Thomas Warde and _a_ Marmaduke Warde were, respectively, of Mulwaith (or Mulwith) in the Parish of Ripon, and that _a_ Christopher Wright was of Bondgate, Newbie, and Skelton, all likewise in the Parish of Ripon; and when we further recollect that these three gentlemen were of these several places in the closing decades of the years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, only one conclusion is forced upon the mind of even the most sceptical, namely, that the said three gentlemen must have known, and been known to, one another personally, without the shadow of any reasonable doubt. And again; that between those years, 1589 and 1590 inclusive, the said _Thomas Warde_ and the said _Christopher Wright_ had known each other intimately, by meeting within the bounds of the Parish of Ripon,——nay even within the chapelry of Skelton——is surely one of the likeliest things in the world. Furthermore, it is possible that the Thomas Warde, of Mulwaith (or Mulwith), was in the diplomatic service of Queen Elizabeth in the Netherlands, along with Queen Elizabeth’s well-known diplomatist and Treasurer of the Chamber, Sir Thomas Heneage, the step-father of Lord Southampton, Lord Mounteagle’s friend, as well as Shakespeare’s patron. For I find that the great Sir Francis Walsingham, in a letter dated from “the Court,” the 24th of March, 1585——six years _after_ the marriage of Thomas Warde, of Mulwaith, to Marjory Slater, and five years _before_ her lamented death——that the great Sir Francis Walsingham, in a letter to the Earl of Leicester, “Lord Lieutenant-General of Her Majesty’s Forces in the Low Countries,” speaks of _a_ “Mr. Warde.”[A] [Footnote A: See the “_Leicester Correspondence_” (Camden Soc.), p. 187.] Now we know for certain from Winwood’s Memorials[B] that a Mr. Walter Hawkesworth, of the Hawkesworths of Hawkesworth Hall, in the Parish of Otley, in the County of York, was in the diplomatic service of King James I., and that, according to Foster’s “_Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families_” he was poisoned at Madrid when on an embassy there. [Footnote B: See also Sir Ralph Sadler’s Papers. Edited by Sir Walter Scott.]