"RIGHT HO{able}--Your comfortable favours towards me proseding from your noblle disposition in ordering a means for my relefe (being plunged in distresse) by aucthoritie of yours and the rest of the Lords letters to the Sherife of Buck. incytith me to yeld and duly too acknowleg by thes my most humble thankes; for w{ch} favor I shall ever ho{r} your Lo{p} and praye to the ---- allmighti for your greatest hapines and with all humbllenes remayne to "Your ho{r} devoted "MARY DIGBY." As usual, in a lady's letter, the pith is in the postscript. "_Pos._ Being most fearfull to ofend you ho{r} yet enforced out of the dutifull love towards my wofull husband, I humbly beg pardon to desier your Lo{ps} consent and furtharance for such an unspeakable hapines as that out of your worthy and noblle disposition you would purchase merci for my husband's life, for w{ch} you should tie us our posteritie to you and your howse for ever and I hope his ofence agaynst his Ma{tie} is not so haynous in that excrable plot, as is sayd to be contrived by som others, which in my hart I cannot conceve his natuer to give consente for such an ackt to be committed." [Endorsed] "To the Right Hono{ble}. the Earlle of Salsbery, Principall Secretary to the King's most excelent Ma{tie}." [356] S. P. Dom. James I., 1606, Vol. 18, n. 36. Lady Digby did not find Lord Salisbury's orders for her relief so availing in practice as in theory; for, a little later, she wrote to him again. I will not weary my readers by giving her exact spelling--such words as "pertickellers," for particulars, "shreife," for sheriff, "reseved," for received, and "howsold" for household, soon become troublesome and vexatious--but I will endeavour to transcribe her letter according to modern orthography and punctuation. [357] "MARY DIGBY TO LORD SALISBURY.