Archaeologia Volume 32 Section X. It was determined, therefore, to place the Queen under his care. The determination appears to have been taken as early as the month of October, for in the private correspondence of the family we find a report of a conversation with Queen Elizabeth in that month, in which she spoke in terms of high regard of the lady whom the earl had recently taken to wife, originally Elizabeth Hardwick, a daughter of the family of that name, to whom Hardwick [Map] belonged, and widow successively of Robert Barley, Sir William Cavendish, and Sir William Saint Loe, and expressed much solicitude to know when the earl might be expected at court; and again, a letter from the earl himself to his countess, written in November, wherein he informs her that he had been at court, and that the Queen had intimated to him that "ere it were long he should well perceive she did so trust him as she did few." He understood this to mean that he was to have the care of the Scottish Queen; and finally, in a third letter, which is dated on the 13th of December, he writes—"Now it is certain the Scots Queen comes to Tutbury [Map], to my charge^a."

Note a. Hallamshire, fol. 1819, p. 64. These and other letters, the private and, as to some of them, the very confidential correspondence of Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, passed, by some means and at some unknown time, out of the archives of the Cavendish family. They lay for half a century buried in a mase of antiquarian collections made by a Yorkshire antiquary of the last century, John Wilson, of Bromhead, where they were discovered by me in 1806. The whole collection was sold by auction a few years ago.

The River Dove rises on Axe Edge Moor [Map] after which it travels broadly south past Longnor, Saffordshire [Map], Pilsbury [Map], Hartington [Map], Milldale, Derbyshire [Map], Thorpe, Derbyshire [Map], just before whic it is joined by the River Manifold, Mapleton, Derbyshire [Map], Mayfield, Staffordshire [Map], Norbury, Derbyshire [Map], Rocester, Staffordshire [Map], Sudbury Hall [Map] and Tutbury Castle [Map] before joining the River Trent at Newton Solney [Map].