Right Honourable, I thought it my duty to aduertise yo{r} ho: of dyw{r}se misdemeano{rs} comytted against her Ma{te} in and about the Tower, when yo{r} lo{p} shall please to command me to attend yo{u} in the meane tyme I hold it most fytt to give yo{u} to vnderstand that vnderstandinge of Mr. Anthonie Paynter should make his vawnt of his playnes and truth of thencising of his fathers place being deputye vnto him thus much I am able to averr that in false entryes false debentes ymbeseling of powder, and other deceipte as come XVc{Ii} as by informand re{cd} to be put in against him the last term begonn by hogg who had mistaking the daye ffor his father I send yo{r} lo{p} matter of XXVIj m{ll} Against him It is uery fitt if it may stand w{th} yo{r} ho: good liking all booke and recorde ap(per)teying to her Ma{e} be taken into the costody of some whom yo shall think mete to kepe them to her Ma{te} vse And so leaving the same to yo{r} honourable care I doe humbly take my leave the Tower this XXj{th} of february Y{r} ho: most humbly Att Commandme{t} N. Raynberd. _Endorsed_ 21 Feb. 1594 M{r} Rainberd steward of y{e} Tower to my l: Informac͠on against M{r} Paynter of abuses in his office. ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. [In the following notes, _Source_ refers to the origin whence Painter most probably obtained the tale; _Origin_ to the earliest appearance of it in literature: these often coincide. I have included all the information given by Haslewood.] I. HORATII AND CURIATII. The Romaines and the Albanes being at warres, for iniuries mutually inferred, Metius Suffetius, the Albane captaine, deuised a waye by a combate to ioygne bothe the cities in one. Victorie falling to the Romaines, the Romaine victor killed his sister and was condemned to die. Afterwardes, upon his father’s sute, he was deliuered. [_Source and Origin._--Livy, i. 26. _Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Cicero, _Pro Mil._ 37; Dionys. Hal. iii. 21, 22; Plutarch, _Par. Min._ 16; Valerius Max. vi. 36; Florus, i. 3; Zonar, vii. 6. II. _Mediæval_: Holkot, _Moral._ 12. III. _Modern:_ Wolgemuth, ii. 74; Kirchhof, _Wendenmuth_, i. 13, vi. 61; Albertinus, _Lusthauss_, 1619, 191; Corneille, _Horace; Acerra Philologica_, 1708, ii. 15. _Painter_, Ed. I. (1566) i. 1; II. (1575)[65] i. 1; III. i. 1; IV. i. 15.] [Footnote 65: The reprint of 1569 is not taken into account in giving the pagination.] II. THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. Sextus Tarquinius ravished Lucrece. And she, bewailing the losse of her chastitie, killed herselfe. [_Source and Origin._--Livy, i. 57-60.