[^CORPUS OF EARLY ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE SAMPLER
                      CEECS
(C) SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE HISTORY PROJECT TEAM
                         1998
                  DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
                  UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI^]
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[^ORIGINAL LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY; INCLUDING
NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS: FROM AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
AND ONE OR TWO OTHER COLLECTIONS. VOL I. 2ND EDITION. ED. BY
ELLIS, HENRY. LONDON: HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD. 1825.^]

<Q OR1 1418? HCHICHELE>
<A HENRY CHICHELE>
<P 3>
[} [\LETTER II. ARCHBISHOP CHICHELE TO KING HENRY THE FIFTH.\]
}]
   Sovereyn Lord, after moost humble recommendacion with hele
bothe of body and of sowle, as zour selfe
<P 4>
and alle zour liege men desire, lyke zow to wyte that the first
Soneday of Lenton the dwk of Excester zour huncle sent for me to
the Frer Prechours, wer I fond with him zour preest and bedeman
Thomas Fyshborn, and ther he tok to me zour Lettre wryten with
zour owne hond in zour hoost be fore zour town of Faleys, be the
wich I undirstood, as I have at alle tymes, blessud be Almyzty
God, understonde, that a mong alle zour moost wordly occupacions
that any Prince may have in herthe, ze desire principaly
vertuous lyvyng and zour sowle heele; and for as myche as my
brother of Seint David as was zour confessour is in his best
tyme go to God, ze desire that I shold be the avys of zour uncle
a forseyd send zou in his stede a gode man an a clerk of
divinite to ocupie that offis til zour comyng into zour lond of
ynglond. And whan I hadde red zour honurable letter zour uncle a
forseyd seyd to me that he hadde comunyd with Sir Thomas
Fyschborn a forseyd be zour comaundement of this same matier,
and whow it semed to hym, if it lyked me, that Thomas Dyss a
frer prechour, mayster of divinite of the scole of Caumbrygge,
wer a good man and a sufficient ther to, and whow thei hadde
comunid with him ther offe, and al so with frere John Tylle the
provincial of the same Ordre ther offe; and considereng his good
name and fame as wel in good
<P 5>
and honest lyvyng as in clergie, I assentyd in to the same
persone, and so comuned with hym ther offe, and toold him owre
comun avis; and he hath ziven his assent ther to and ordeyneth
hym in alle hast to come to zour presence, so that I hop he
schal be with zou at the same tyme that zour chapel schal come:
and be the grace of God ze schol fynde hym a good man and a
spirituel, and pleyn to zu with owte feyntese. Forthermore
towchyng that ze desire to have licence to chese zou a confessor
&c. I sende zu a letter ther offe a seelyd undir my seel, with
sufficient power to do in that caas al that I myzt do my self in
caas I wer my self in zour roial presence. Towchyng al odr
things, I wol wel my lord your brother sendyth to zu pleynlych:
and ther fore undir zour Grace it semeth to me no more to vexe
zour Hygnesse with myche redyng: prayeng ever almyzty God suych
speed to graunt zou on zour moest ryal Journe that may be to his
plesaunce, and hasty perfourmeng of zour blessud entent, and
pees to cristen pepul. Amen. Wryten at Lamhyth xvj day of Febr.
   zour preest and bedeman
   H.C.

<Q OR1 1420 RWATERTON>
<A ROBERT WATERTON>
<P 6>
[} [\LETTER III. ROBERT WATERTON TO KING HENRY THE FIFTH.\] }]
   Ryght excellent hegh and ryght myghty Prynce, and most dredde
sovereyne Lorde I recomaunde me to zour heghnes als lowely as
any symple trewe liege man and sugette kan best thynke or
devyse, thankyng all myghty God of zour graciouse spede and
right grete conquest wyth the prosperite of zour awne persone,
my lorde of Clarence, my lorde of Exetre, and all my lordes
beyng there in zour worshipfull servyce, wyth all the remenaunt
of zour right worshipfull oste. Os I have conceyvid by zour
right honorable lettres wrytin at zour Cytee of Rouen the xij.
day of Marche, the whych I have receyvid ryght late syth Pask,
wyth othir zour lettres undir zour Pryve Seale, chargyng me to
assaye by all the menesse that I kan to exyte and stirre sych as
been able gentilmen wythin the shyre and the contree
<P 7>
that I dwell in, to kome ovyr to zowe at zour Wage, armyd and
arayde as langys to thaire astate, to do zowe servyce, and for
to certifie als wele to zowe os to zour Counsell of thaire
answere and thaire will, the whych zour hegh comaundement I have
bygunne to labour apon and sall trewely forthe dayly wyth all my
myght till I have perfourmd zour forsayde comaundement. And upon
Wedynsdaye next sall zour Justice sitte at Zorke opon the
deliverance of the Gaole there and a Cession of the Pees also,
at which tyme I suppose to speke with many of the gentyls there,
and als sone aftyr as I maye be answerd I sall certifie os zowe
hase lykid to comaunde me, wyth all the haste possible. Ryght
excellent, hegh, and ryght myghty Prynce and moste dredde
sovereyne Lorde I beseche the blissid Trinite to spede zowe and
kepe zowe, and all zour worshipfull oste, and sende zowe sone in
to zour roialme of Inglande wyth a joyouse maryage and a gude
pees for his mykill mercy. Writin at zour awne logge of
Metheleye the xij daye of Aprill
   zour trewe liege man and subgitte
   Robt. Wat'ton.

<Q OR1 1450S? EDWARD4>
<A EDWARD IV>
<P 9>
[} [\LETTER V. EDWARD THE FOURTH WHEN EARL OF MARCHE, AND HIS
BROTHER THE EARL OF RUTLAND, TO THEIR FATHER RICHARD DUKE OF
YORK.\] }]
   Ryght hiegh and ryght myghty Prince, oure ful redouted and
ryght noble lorde and ffadur, as lowely with all oure herts as
we youre trewe and naturell sonnes can or may, we recomaunde us
un to your noble grace, humbly besechyng your nobley & worthy
ffaderhode daily to yeve us your hertely blessyng: thrugh whiche
we trust muche the rather to encrees and growe to vertu, and to
spede the bettur in all matiers and things that we schall use,
occupie, and exercise. Ryght high and ryght myghty Prince, our
ful redouted lorde and ffadur, we thanke our blessed Lorde not
oonly of your honourable conduite and good spede in all your
matiers and besynesse, and of your gracious preuaile ayenst
thentent & malice of your evilwillers, but also of the knowelage
that hit pleased your nobley to lete us nowe late have of the
same by relacion of Syr Watier Deureux knyght, and John
<P 10>
Milewatier squier, and John at Nokes yemon of your honorable
chambur. Also we thonke your noblesse and good ffadurhod of our
grene gownes nowe late sende unto us to our grete comfort;
beseching your good lordeschip to remembre our porteux, and that
we myght have summe fyne bonetts sende un to us by the next
seure messig', for necessite so requireth. Overe this, ryght
noble lord and ffadur, please hit your highnesse to witte that
we have charged your servant William Smyth berer of thees for to
declare un to your nobley certayne things on our behalf, namely
concernyng and touching the odieux reule and demenyng of Richard
Crofte and of his brother. Wherefore we beseche your graciouse
lordeschip and full noble ffadurhood to here him in exposicion
of the same, and to his relacion to yeve ful feith and credence.
Ryght hiegh and ryght myghty Prince, our ful redoubted and ryght
noble lorde and ffadur, we beseche almyghty Jhu~ yeve yowe as
good lyfe and long with asmuche contenual perfite prosperite as
your princely hert con best desir. Writen at your Castill of
Lodelowe on Setursday in the Astur Woke.
   Your humble sonnes
   E. Marche and
   E. Rutlonde.

<Q OR1 1452 RICHARDY>
<A RICHARD DUKE OF YORK>
<P 11>
[} [\LETTER VI. RICHARD DUKE OF YORK TO THE CITIZENS OF
SHREWSBURY.\] }]
   Right worshipful friends, I recommend me unto you, and I
suppose it is well known unto you, as well by experience as by
common language said and reported throughout all Christendom,
what laud, what worship, honour, and manhood was ascribed of all
Nations unto the people of this Realm, whilst the Kingdom's
Sovereign Lord stood possessed of his Lordship in the realm of
France, and Dutchy of Normandy; and what derogation, loss of
merchandize, lesion of honour, and villany, is said and reported
generally unto the English nation, for loss of the same; namely
unto the Duke of Somerset, when he had the commandance and
charge thereof: the which loss hath caused and encouraged the
King's enemies for to conquer and get Gascony and Gyanne, and
now daily they make their advance for to lay siege unto Calais,
and to other places in the Marches there, for to apply them to
their obeisance, and so for to come into the land with great
puissance; to the final destruction
<P 12>
thereof, if they might prevail, and to put the land in their
subjection, which God defend. And on the other part it is to be
supposed it is not unknown to you, how that, after my coming out
of Ireland, I, as the King's true liege man, and servant, and
ever shall be to my life's end, and for my true acquital,
perceiving the inconvenience before rehearsed, advised his Royal
Majesty of certain Articles concerning the weal and safeguard,
as well of his most royal person, as the tranquillity and
conservation of all this his realm: the which Advertisements,
how be it that it was thought that they were full necessary,
were laid apart, and to be of none effect, through the envy,
malice, and untruth of the said Duke of Somerset; which for my
truth, faith, and allegiance that I owe unto the King, and the
good will and favour that I have to all the Realm, laboureth
continually about the Kings Highness for my undoing, and to
corrupt my blood, and to disherit me and my heirs, and such
persons as be about me, without any desert or cause done or
attempted on my part or theirs, I make our Lord Judge.
Wherefore, worshipful Friends, to the intent that every man
shall know my purpose, and desire for to declare me such as I
am, I signify unto you that with the help and supportation of
Almighty God, and of our Lady, and of all the Company of Heaven,
I, after long sufferance and delays, not my will or intent to
displease my sovereign Lord, seeing that the said
<P 13>
Duke ever prevaileth and ruleth about the King's person, that by
this means the land is likely to be destroyed, am fully
concluded to proceed in all haste against him, with the help of
my kinsmen and friends; in such wise, that it shall prove to
promote ease, peace, tranquillity, and safeguard of all this
land: and more, keeping me within the bounds of my liegeance as
it pertaineth to my duty, praying and exhorting you, to fortify,
enforce, and assist me, and to come to me with all diligence,
wheresoever I shall be, or draw, with as many goodly and likely
men as ye may make to execute the intent abovesaid. Written
under my signet at my Castle of Ludlow, the 3rd day of February.
Furthermore I pray you, that such strait appointment and
ordinance be made, that the people which shall come in your
fellowship, or be sent unto me by your agreement, be demeaned in
such wise, by the way, that they do no offence, nor robbery, nor
oppression upon the people, in lesion of justice. Written as
above, &c.
   Youre good Frend
   R. York.
   To my right worshipful Friends, the Bailiffs, Burgesses, and
Commons of the good Town of Shroesbury.

<Q OR1 1492? HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 18>
[} [\LETTER X. KING HENRY THE VII=TH=. TO THE EARL OF ORMOND.\]
}] 
   By the King.
   Right trusty and right welbeloved Cousin we greete you wele,
and have tidings that our Rebelles landed
<P 19>
the vth daye of this Moneth in our land of Irland. Wherfore, and
forasmoche as we have sent for our derrest wif and for our
derrest moder to come unto us, and that we wold have your advis
and counsail also in soche matiers as we have to doo for the
subduyng of our said Rebelles, we praie you that, yeving your
due attendaunce uppon our said derrest wif and lady moder, ye
come with thaym unto us; not failing herof as ye purpose to doo
us plaisir. Yeven undre our Signett at our Castell of Kenelworth
the xiij daye of Maye.
   To our right trustie and right welbeloved Cousin Th'erl of
Ormond, Chamberlan to our derrest Wif the Quene.

<Q OR1 1495? HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 19>
[} [\LETTER XI. KING HENRY THE VII=TH=. TO SIR GILBERT TALBOT,
KNIGHT.\] }] 
   H. R. By the King.
   Trusty and welbeloved we grete you wele. And not forgeting
the grete malice that the lady Margarete
<P 20>
of Burgoigne bereth contynuelly against us, as she shewed lately
in sending hider of a fayned boye, surmising him to have been
the son of the Duc of Clarence, and caused him to bee
accompanyed with Th'erl of Lincoln, the Lord Lovel, and with a
grete multitude of Irisshemen and of Almains, whoes end blessed
bee God was as ye knowe wele. And forseing nowe the perseverance
of the same her malice, by th'untrue contriving eftsones of an
othr fayned lad called Perkin Warbek, born at Tournay in
Picardy, which at his furst into Irland called himself the
bastard son of king Richard; after that the son of the said Duc
of Clarence; and now the secund son of our fadre King Edward the
iiij=th=, whom God assoille; werethorough she entendeth by
promising unto the Flemynges and othr of Th'archedukes
obeissaunce, to whom she laboureth dailly to take her way, and,
by hir promes to c'tain aliens Capitains of estrange nacions, to
have Duchies, Counties, Baronies, and othr landes within this
our Royaume to induce theim therby to lande her to the
distruction and disinheritaunce of the noble men and other our
subgiettes thinhabitantes of the same, and finally to the
subversion of this our Royaume in cas she may atteigne to her
malicious propos that God defende. We therfor, and to thentent
that we may be alway purveied and in aredynes to resiste her
malice, write unto you at this tyme; and wol and desire you that
prepairing on
<P 21>
horsbak, defensibly arraied, four score personnes, wherof we
desire you to make asmany speres with their custrelles and di.
lances wele horsed as ye can furnisshe, and the remaynder to bee
archers and billes, ye bee thoroughly appointed and redy to
comme upon a day warnyng for to do us service of warre in this
caas. And ye shalhave for every horsman wele and defensibly
arrayed, that is to say for a spere and his custrel xij=d=. a
di. lance ix=d=. and an archer or bille on horsback viij=d=. by
the day, from the tyme of zour commyng out unto the tyme of your
retourne to your home again. And thus doing ye shall deserve
suche thankes of us for your loving and true acquitaill in that
behalf as shalbe to your weale and honor for tyme to come. We
praye you herein ye wol make suche delegens as that ye be redy
with your said nombre to come unto us uppon any our sodein
warnyng. Yeven undr our Signet at oure Castel of Kenilworth the
xx. day of July.
   To oure trusty and welbeloved Knight and Conseillor Sir
Gilbert Talbot.

<Q OR1 1497 HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 32>
[} [\LETTER XIV. SECOND LETTER OF KING HENRY THE VII=TH=. TO SIR
GILBERT TALBOT. A. D. 1497.\] }] 
   H. R. By the King.
   Trusty and welbeloved we grete you wele, signifying unto you
that wher as Perkin Warbek and his wif were lately sette ful
porely to the See by the King of Scottes, and aftre that landed
within our land of Irland in the wylde Irissherie, where he had
be taken by our Cousins Th'erls of Kildare and of Desmond if he
and his said wif had not secretly stollen away. The same Perkyn
being soe upon the See, is commen to land in our Countie of
Cornewaille with ij. small shippes and a Breton prinse, wherupon
we have sent
<P 33>
our right trusty counseillour the lord Daubeney our chamberlayn
by land toward thoes parties, to arredie our subgiettes for the
subduyng of hym, and our right trusty counseillour the lord
Broke, steward of our household, by water with our armee on the
See now late retourned, to take the said Perkyn if he retorne
agayn to the See. And we shall in our owne persone, if the case
soo requir, goo soe accompanyed thiderward with our lordes mercy
withoute delay, as we shal subdue the said Perkyn and all othre
that wil take his part if eny such be. And therfore we hertily
pray you to addresse you unto us with six score talle men on
horsback defensibly arrayed, and no moo, without eny long delay.
And to mete with us at our manoir of Wodestok the xxiiij=th= day
of this present Moneth; and at your commyng unto us we shal soe
content your for your and thair conduyt money, and also wages,
as of reason ye shal holde you pleased; and that ye faille not
herof as our espesial trust is in you. Zeven undre undre our
Signet at our said Manoir the xijth day of Septembre.
   "To our trusty and welbeloved knight for our body Sir Gilbert
Talbot."

<Q OR1 1490S HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 34>
[} [\LETTER XV. KING HENRY VIITH TO THE BISHOP OF BATH AND
WELLS.\] }] [^TO DR. OLIVER KING^]
   By the Kinge
   Right reverend father in God, right trusty and welbeloved wee
greete yow well, and have received your wryteinge by the which
wee conceive how there is word that Perkin is landed. Truth it
is that hee is soe landed, and at our Commons of Cornwall take
his parte, amongst whom on Munday last the eighteenth day of
September there was not one gentleman. On Sunday the
seaventeenth of September, Perkin and his company came afore our
Citty of Excester about one, after noone; and there inranged
themselves in the manner of a battell by the space of two
howers. Within that our Citty were our couzen of Devonshire, Sir
William Courtney, Sir Jo. Sapcotes, Sir Piers Edgecombe, Sir Jo.
Croker, Sir Walter Courteney, Sir Humfrey Fulforth, with many
other noble men both of our Counties of Devonshire and
Cornewall. This Perkin sent for to have deliverance of our said
Citty, which was denyed
<P 35>
unto him by our said couzen. Whereupon Perkin and his company
went to the East gate, and to the Norther gate, and assaulted
the same, but it was soe defended (blessed bee God) that Perkin
lost above three or foure hundred men of his company, and so
failed of his intention. On the morrow after, the eighteenth
day, Perkin and our rebels made a new assalt at the said Norther
gate and Ester gate, like as by the Copy of the lettres from our
said couzen of Devonshire inclosed yee shall move to understand
more at large. The Perkin and his company, if they come forward,
shall find before them our Chamberlayn, our Steward of
Houshould, the Lord Saint Mourice, Sir John Cheney, and the
Noblemen of Southwales and of our Counties of Gloster,
Wiltshire, Hamshire, Somersett, and Dorcet; and at their backe
the garison of our said City of Excester. And wee with our hoast
royall shall not be farre, with the mercy of our Lord, for the
finall conclusion of the matter. Wee have done proclaimed alsoo
that who soe bringeth the said Perkin on live unto us hee shall
have the some of a thousand marks, and all those that give
theire offences first and last. Wee trust soone to heare good
tydings of the said Perkin. Yeoven under our Signet at our
Mannor of Woodstocke the twentith of September.

<Q OR1 1490S? HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 39>
[} [\LETTER XIX. KING HENRY VIITH TO SIR WILLIAM SAY.\] }] 
<P 40>
   By the King.
   Trusty and welbeloved, We grete you wele. And have herde to
our great displeaser, that, for a certain variance and
controversie depending betwix you on the oon partie and Sir John
Fortescu on the othr, ye entende with unliefull assembles and
conventicles of our people to be at the Sessions next to be
holden within our Countie of Hertford, to thaffraying of our
Peas, and distourbance of the same Sessions, which we ne wold,
in eschueing such trouble and inconvenients that by likelyhode
might therupon ensue. Wherfore we write unto you at this tyme,
commanding you in the straitest wise, that, leving the said
assembles, ye forber to bee at the said Sessions, and neither
doo ner procure to be doon any thing there, privately or
apertely, repugnant to the equitie of our Lawes or rupture of
our said Peas, at your uttermost perell. And also that
immediately after the sight hereof ye addresse you unto our
presence, to knowe our further mynde and pleasur in the
premesses. Lating you wite that we have writen in like wise
herein to the said Sir John. Yeven under our Signet at our
paloys of Westminster the xxiij day of February.
   To our Trusty and welbeloved Knight Sir William Say.

<Q OR1 1504? MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 41>
[} [\LETTER XX. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO HER FATHER KING
HENRY THE VII=TH=. THE LAST NINE LINES ONLY IN THE QUEEN'S
HAND.\] }]
   My most dere lorde and fader in the most humble wyse that I
can thynke I recummaund me unto your Grace besechyng you off
your dayly blessyng, and that it will please you to yeve hartely
thankes to all your servauntts the whych be your commaundement
have geven ryght good attendaunce on me at this tyme, and
specially to all thes ladies and jantilwomen which hath
accompeneyed me hydder, and to geff credence to thys good lady
the berar her off, for I have showde hyr mor off my mynd than I
will wryght at thys tyme. Sir, I beseche your Grace to be good
and gracious
<P 42>
lorde to Thomas, whych was footman to the Quene my moder, whos
sowle God have soyle; for he hath byn on off my fotemen hydder
with as great diligence and labur to hys great charge of his
awne good and true mynde. I am not able to recumpence hym,
except the favor off your Grace. Sir, as for newys I have none
to send, but that my lorde of Surrey ys yn great favor with the
Kyng her that he cannott forber the companey off hym no tyme off
the day. He and the bichopp off Murrey orderth every thyng as
nyght as they can to the Kyngs pleasur. I pray God it may be for
my por hartts ease in tyme to come. They calnot my Chamberlayne
to them, whych I am sur wull speke better for my part than any
off them that ben off that consell. And iff he speke any thyng
for my cause my lord of Surrey hath such wordds unto hym that he
dar speke no furder. God send me comford to hys pleasur, and
that I and myne that ben lefftt her with me be well entretid
such wayse as they have taken. For Godes sak Syr, oulde mea
escwsyd that I wryt not my sylf to your Grace, for I han no
layfyr thys tym, bot wyt a wishse I would I wer wyt your Grace
now, and many tyms mor, wan I wold andsyr. As for thys that I
have wrytyn to your Grace, yt ys wery tru, bot I pray God I may
fynd yt wel for my welef erefter. No more to your Grace at this
tym, bot our Lord han
<P 43>
you en ys kepyng. Wrytyn wyt the hand of your humble douter
   Margaret.

<Q OR1 1500S HENRY7>
<A HENRY VII>
<P 43>
[} [\LETTER XXI. KING HENRY THE VIITH TO HIS MOTHER, MARGARET
COUNTESS OF RICHMOND.\] }] 
   Madam, my most enterely wilbeloved Lady and Moder, I
recommende me unto you in the most humble and lauly wise that I
can, beseeching you of your dayly and continuall blessings. By
your Confessour the berrer I have reseived your good and most
loving wryting, and by the same have herde at good leisure such
credense as he would shewe unto me on your behalf, and thereupon
have spedde him in every be halve withowte delai according to
yowr noble petition
<P 44>
and desire, which restith in two principall poynts: the one for
a generall pardon for all manner causes: the other is for to
altre and chaunge part of a Lycense which I had gyven unto you
before for to be put into mortmain at Westmynster; and now to be
converted into the University of Cambridge for your Soule
helthe, &c. All which thyngs according to your desire and
plesure I have with all my herte and goode wille giffen and
graunted unto you. And my Dame, not onely in this but in all
other thyngs that I may knowe should be to youre honour and
plesure and weale of youre salle I shall be as glad to plese you
as youre herte can desire hit, and I knowe welle that I am as
much bounden so to doe as any creture lyvyng, for the grete and
singular moderly love and affection that hit hath plesed you at
all tymes to ber towards me. Wherfore myne owen most lovyng
moder, in my most herty manner I thank you, beseeching you of
your goode contynuance in the same. And Madame, your said
Confessour hath more over shewne unto me on youre behalve that
ye of your goodnesse and kynde disposition have gyven and
graunted unto me such title and intereste as ye have or ought to
have in such debts and duties which is oweing and dew unto you
in Fraunce by ye Frenche Kynge and others, wherfore Madame in my
most herty and humble wise I thanke You. Howbeit I verrayly
[{think{] hit will be ryght harde to recover hit
<P 45>
without hit be dryven by compulsion and force, rather than by
any true justice which is not yet al we thynke any convenyant
tyme to be put in execution. Nevertheless it hath plesed you to
gyve us a good interest & meane if they woull not conforme
thayme to rayson and good justice to diffende or offende at a
convenyant tyme when the caas shall so require herafter. For
such a chaunce may fall that thys your graunte might stande in
grete stead for a recovery of our Right, and to make us free,
wheras we be now bounde &c. And verrayly Madame, and I myht
recover hit at this tyme or any other, Ye be sure ye shulde have
your plesure therin, as I and all that God has given me is and
shall ever [{be{] at youre will and commaundment, as I have
instructed Master Fisher more largely herin, as I doubte not but
he wolle declare unto you. And I beseeche you to sende me youre
mynde and plesure in the same, which I shall be full glad to
followe with Goddis grace, which sende and gyve unto you the
full accomplyshment of all youre noble and vertuous desyrs.
Written at Grenewiche the 17 day of July, with the hande of
youre most humble and lovynge sonne
   H. R.
   After the wryting of thys Letter, your Confessour delyvered
unto me such Letters and wrytings obligatory of your duties in
Fraunce which hit hath plesed
<P 46>
you to sende unto me, which I have received by an Indenture of
every parcell of ye same. Wherfore eftsoons in my most humble
wise I thank you, and I purpose hereafter, at better leisure, to
knowe youre mynde and plesure further therein. Madame I have
encombred you now with thys my longe wrytings, but me thyngks
that I can doo no less, considering that hit is so selden that I
do wryte, wherfore I beseeche you to pardon me, for verrayly
Madame my syghte is nothing so perfitt as it has ben; and I know
well hit will appayre dayly; wherfore I trust that you will not
be displesed though I wryte not so often with myne owne hand,
for on my fayth I have ben three dayes or I colde make an ende
of this Letter.
   To My Lady.

<Q OR1 1490S? MBEAUFORT>
<A QUEEN MARGARET>
<P 46>
[} [\LETTER XXII. MARGARET MOTHER OF HENRY THE VIITH, TO HER
SON; SIGNING AS QUEEN.\] }] 
   My oune suet and most deere Kynge and all my worldly joy, yn
as humble maner as y can thynke y recommand me to your Grace,
and moste hertely beseche
<P 47>
our lord to blesse you; and my good herte wher that you sa that
the Frenshe Kyng hathe at thys tyme gevyn me courteyse answer
and wretyn ... lettyre of favour to hys corte of Parlyment for
the treve expedicyon of my mater whyche soo long hathe hangyd,
the whyche y well know he dothe expecially for your sake, for
the whyche my ... ly beseeche your Grace yt ... to gyve hym your
favourabyll ... thanks and to desyr hym to contenew hys
...yn.e.me. And, yeve yt soo myght leke your Grace, to do the
same to the Cardynall, whyche as I understond ys your feythfull
trew and lovyng servant. Y wysse my very joy, as y efte have
shewed, and y fortune to gete thys or eny parte therof, ther
shall nedyr be that or eny good y have but yt shalbe yours, and
at your comaundement as seurly and with as good a wyll as eny ye
have yn your cofyrs, as wuld God ye cowd know yt as veryly as y
thynke yt. But my der herte, y wull no more encombyr your Grace
with ferder wrytyng yn thys matter, for y ame seure your
chapeleyn and servante Doctour Whytston hathe shewed your
Hyghnes the cyrcomstance of the same. And yeve yt soo may plese
your Grace, y humbly beseche the same to yeve ferdyr credense
also to thys berer. And Our Lord gyve you as longe good lyfe,
helthe, and joy, as your moste nobyll herte can dessyre, with as
herty blessyngs as our Lord hathe gevyn me power to
<P 48>
gyve you. At Colynweston the xiiij=th= day of January, by your
feythfull trewe bedwoman, and humble modyr,
   Margaret R.

<Q OR1 1513 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 64>
[} [\LETTER XXV. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO KING HENRY
VIII=TH=.\] }] 
   Richt excellennt, richt hie and mithty Prince, our derrest
and best belovit Brothir, We commend ws unto zow in oure maist
hertlie wise. Zoure ambassadoure Doctoure West deliverit ws
zoure lovyng lettrez in quhiwis ze schew ws that quhare ze harde
of our seiknes ze tuke grete hevynes. Deerest brother We ar
greitly rejosit that we se ze have respect to oure
<P 65>
disese, and thairfor We geve zou oure hartlie thankis, and zoure
writing is to ws gude confort. We can nocht beleve that of zoure
mynd or be zoure command we are sa friendly delt with in oure
faderis Legacy, quharof we wald nocht have spokyn nor writing
had nocht the Doctoure now spokyn to ws of the sammyn in his
credence. Oure husband knawis it is withhaldin for his saik, and
will recompens ws safer as the Doctoure schew him. We ar
eschamit thairwith; and wald God nevir word had bene tharof. It
is nocht worth sic estimacioun as is in zoure divers lettrez of
the sammyn; and we lak na thing; our husband is evir the langer
the better to ws, as knawis God, quha richt hie and michty
Prince, oure derrest and bestbelovit brothir, have zou in
governaunce. Geven under oure Signete at oure Palace of
Linlithg=w=. the xj day of Aprile.
   Your lowynn syster 
   Margaret.
To the richt excellent richt hie and michty Prince oure derrest
and best belovit brothir the King of England.

<Q OR1 1513 TDACRE>
<A THOMAS LORD DACRE>
<P 92>
[} [\LETTER XXXIV. THOMAS LORD DACRE TO KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.
A. D. 1513.\] }] 
<P 93>
   Pleas it your Highnes to knowe I have receyved your most
honourable Lettres of your gracious thanks for my pure service
done to your Grace according to my dieuty, which is to me the
most singler comforth and rejoysing I can have; for by the same
I well perceyve yo=r= Highnes regardeth not the sinistre reaport
or rumor surmised ayenst me, ne your Grace regardeth or geveth
ony credence thereunto, wherby I am bounde the rather to doun to
your Highnes the most laudable and acceptable service I can or
may do, and so shall undoutedly at all my power: and where as by
the same your most honorable letters I understond your pleasor
and commaundment is that I shold effectually procede to the
spedy execucion of ij Roods opon the West and Medyll Marches to
the most annoyaunce of the Scotts that I possibly may, like it
your Grace to knowe
   Opon Thuresday last past I assembled your subgietts in
Northumbreland to the nombre of a thousand
<P 94>
horsmen, and rode in at Gallespeth and so to the watre of Kale
two myle within Scotland, and there set furth two foreyes; my
broder Philipp Dacre with ccc. men which burnt and distroyed the
Town of Rowcastell with all the cornes in the same and
thereabouts, and wan two towres in it, and burnt both roffe and
flores: and Sir Roger Fenwike with ccc. men burnt the Town of
Langton and distroyed all the cornes therein: which Townes er in
the hert of the countre two myle beyond Jedworth opon the watere
of Chevyot. And I come with a stale to a place called the
Dungyon, a myle from Jedworth, and so went to the Sclater furd
on the water of Bowset, and there the Scotts persewed us right
sore, ther bekered with us, and gave us hand stroks; there come
thre standards to bak theym, that is to say David Karr of
Fernehirst and the lard of Boudgedworth opon the oon side, and
the sheriff of Tevidale on the othre side, with the nombre of
dcc. men or mo. The lard of Walghope was hurt there with oon
arrowe and his hors slane; Mark Trumbill was strikken with a
spere and the hede left in hym, his hors was won, and diverse
Scotesmen were hurt there. And so we come forwards, where we saw
my broder Syr Cristofer Dacre with his oste arreyed at a place
called the Bellyng, which was to us no litill comforth, and to
hym gret gladnes seyng the small power we were of at that tyme.
   My said broder come in at Cressopbrige and there
<P 95>
entred the Medyll marches, and so come thorow Ledesdale to the
rughes wyre, xiiij myle within the ground of Scotland, and there
he put furth two forreyes: Syr John Ratclif with fyve hundreth
men in oon, which burnt the town of Dyker sex myle from the said
swyre with a towre in the same, thei layed corne and straw to
the dore and burnt it both rofe and flore, and so smoked theym
owt. Also the said Syr John and his company burnt the Townnes of
Sowdon and Lurchestrother with a towre in it, and distroyed all
the cornes about theym and toke diverse prisoners with much
insight and goods. Nicholes Haryngton, Nicholes Rydley, Thomas
Medilton, and George Skelton with othre to the nombre of fyve
hundreth in the othre forrey burnt the towne of Hyndhalghehede
and a towre in the same flore and rofe; and in likewise the
townnes of West sawsyde and Est sawsyde, with a Pele of lyme and
stane in it: and my said broder Syr Cristofer, with two thousand
horsmen and cccc. fute men with bowes for savegard of thost in
strayts come in a stale to Dykerawe; and there the said forreyes
releved to hym, and so come forward and met me. We had not
rydden above the space of a myle when we sawe the Lord
Chambrelane appere in our sight with ij M. men, and four
standerds; the othre thre standerds resorted to hym and so the
countre drew fast to theym. We put us in arreye and come
homeworde and rode no faster then nowr
<P 96>
shepp and swyne that we had won wold dryve, which was of no gret
substance, for the countre was warned of our comyng and the
bekyns burnt fro mydnyght forward. And when the Scotts had geven
us overe we retourned home and come in at the Redeswyre. I come
to Harbotill at mydnyght: my broder Syr Cristofer lay that night
at the towre of Otterburne, and opon the morne to Hexham, and
his folks in other townnes opon the water of Tyne, and, on the
thrid day at home, as many as might git.
   Sir I se not the gentilmen of the countre in a redynes for
defence of your bordoures, for certen of theym to whome I had
geven warnyng, as my Lord Ogle which promised to com to me, the
constable of Alnewike, and othre, trustyng thei wold have bene
glad to do your Grace service accordingly as thei have done to
your Wardens in tyme of werre, come not to me at the place
appoynted, wherby I was not accompayned as I thoght to have
bene. I was councelled and avised by my guyds to have rejorned
my purpose, and so wold have done, but oonly that I had
appoynted with my broder Syr Cristofer to mete hym in Scotland,
for he departed fro me to the West Merches to bryng my folks
from thens whome I might not disappoynt for I had no space to
gif him warnyng, it was xxx=ti=. myle fro me and more, and els I
had not keped my purpose which not is performed thanked be
Jhesu, and all your subgietts in savety bot a servaunt of myn,
which was
<P 97>
killed there, and two Scotts were slain and many othre hurt the
same tyme.
   Pleas it your Grace, as for the Rode to be made opon your
West marche I can not se how it can be done conveniently unto
the next light, for two consideracions, oon is bycause I dar not
be absent of this Medill March during this light, for fere the
Scotts schold distroye and burne the countrie in myn absence,
which I regard gretly; and oon othre is that my servants horses
which come to this Rode was sore labored, for thei rode
xxviij=ti= owres without any bayte. And in the next light I
shall, God willing, performe the said rode; and in the meane
tyme shall cause small Rodes be made, which shalbe as gret
annoyaunce to the Scotts as a great Rode shold be, and thus
shall yo=r= money be employed to the best I can, and for the
grettiest hurt and destruccion of the Scotts; for I shalbe as
goode a husband thereof as I wold be of myn awn, and alwey I
shalbe redy to gif accompt of the same at your pleasure.
   Also pleas it your Grace me seamnes it were necessary that
yo=r= lettres of commaundment were direct to my lord of
Northumbreland and to my Lord of Clifford, to cause their
tenaunts gif attendance opon your Wardens as thei have bene
accustomed to do in tymes passed, for as I understond my Lord
Cliffords tenaunts er warned not to ride without his speciall
commaundment.
<P 98>
   As for Newes of Scotland, like it your Grace to know, John of
Barton which passed into Fraunce in the Navye of Scotland,
launded at Kirkobrighe and ther toke seknes and disceced of the
same.
   There hase bene a gret councell at Saynt Johnstone, and all
the lords of Scotland was there with the Quene. It is determined
by theym that the Bisshop of Aberdene shalbe Archbisshopp of
saynt Andrewes: the bisshopp of Catnes shalbe bishop of
Aberdene; a broder of therl of Adthills shall have Catnes. The
Abbaye of Arbrothe is geven to Master George Douglas therl of
Anguyse son: th'abbaye of Dunfermlyn to Master James Hebburne:
the Priory of Coldynghame to the lord Chambrelane broder: and a
broder of David Karrs of Farnehirst is entred by force into the
Abbacye of Kelso and enjoyes it by intrusion.
   Also it is aggreed by the said Councell that the Castell of
Sterling shalbe vetelled and fortified in all hayst possible,
and the lord Borthwike shalbe capitane of the same, and have the
yong King in his keping there, and he not to be removed without
assent of the hole councell.
   At the same councell a communication was had, which Lords
shold haue the rewll of the lands for well and sou'te of the
realme, bot thei aggreed not thereopon; and so departed from
thens at that tyme.
<P 99>
Therl of Aren, admirall of Scotland, is commen home with the
Shippes of Scotland, and a French Knight with hym which hase
broght writtings and credence from the French King and the Duke
of Albany; what it is I know not as yit, bot I shall endevor me
to git knowlege thereof. Thre of the grettest shippes of
Scotland er left in Fraunce to the spryng of the yere, to
th'entent thei may assist the French navye as it is supposed.
   The gret Shipp of Scotland was ron on grounde, bot sho is
recovered as thei say or theire Admirall departed. The Scottishe
soldiours which be commen home makes evill reaport of the French
King, sayng thei were not well entreated there: and as newes
shalbe occurrant in thies parties your Grace shalbe advertised
by the grace of Almighti God, whome I besech to preseve your
most honorable estate. At Harbotill the xiij=th=. day of
Novembre at vj. of the clok in the mornyng.
   Your humble subgyet
   Thomas Dacre.
To the Kings Highnes.

<Q OR1 1514 WBURBANK>
<A WILLIAM BURBANK>
<P 99>
[} [\LETTER XXXV. WILLIAM BURBANK TO KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.\] }]
<P 100>
   Pleas it your most excellent Grace to witt, that, as touchyng
the cause ... deithe of my Lorde and Master my Lorde Cardinall,
your Graces late Orator,
<P 101>
because that, aswell affore his departor by the Phisecians, as
aftur by a ... man that oppynyd his body by the Popis
commandmentt, itt was juged ... he shuld have been posonyd, or
att the leste grett tokens and as some ... saide manyfest thyngs
therof apperide, the Popes said holines haith sith caused moste
diligentt and exactt examynacion to be maide uppon the same. And
by cause that it was known all most manyfestlie that the busshop
of Worcestr, now y=r= Graces Orator, was enymye unto my said
Lorde, itt was sodenlie noiside throughe the citie that he
shulde have ... auctor of this great pretendid offence. A certan
prest namyd Ranalde .. Modena was moche in my lords chamber, and
alway dere and fa ... with the said busshop of Worcestr. Uppon
suspicion he was taken by ... Popis commandment and sett in
Castill Angill. By cause that I shuld conduce home my said Lords
companye, and com unto your Grace his Holines commandide me to
be contynually at the said examynacion d ... by the Auditor of
the Chamber, the castellan, two bisshops, and the Fiscall, with
sundrie notaries; to th'ententt that I seing the ordor thereof
shuld soo make relacion unto your Grace. I taryed there whils
thre days aftur my said Lords departor wer expiride; soo that
then our company ... no house to tary in butt muste neds
departt. All this tyme the said Rainalde wold no thyng
<P 102>
graunt of his offence or knowledge commyttide in this bihalfe.
Albe itt he graunttide that mony tymes he revelate my lords
secretts unto the said busshop, and sundrie oder thynges wherby
the Juges eft ... hym worthy to suffre tortour: and delivered
unto his lernydt counsaill a ... of his said confession for his
defence, with sufficientt respett of tyme to aunswer unto the
same according to the law. Wheruppon supposing no ... confession
to have been made by the said Ranalde I tooke my leaf a ...
Popis Holines, and soo my Journey homwarde, this night being in
... of Florence. Your trewe and faithfull Servante my felow
Master Richard Pace haith sentt unto me his Lettres desiring me
to advertise Your Grace uppon ... contenttes of the same. He
writithe that the said Ranalde within ... tyme of his
deliberacion to aunswer frelie and withoutt manyshing o ... ony
creator haith oppenlie confesside that he hym self putt poson
into my said lords potage att the desire and conduction therunto
of the busshop of Worcestr; this he did soon aftur the fest of
Corpus Christi laste. He confesside that the said busshop yeve
hym for his labors in this bihalfe xv. ducats of gold, som
large, and som (\de camera\) . Item that the said busshop said
thes wordes unto hym, "If we rid nott this Cardenall of the
worlde, we shall never be in quietnes." Item he confesside ...
oon Stephan,
<P 103>
secret chamberlan unto the said busshop of Worcestr was ...
herunto. He saith he did by the said poson in a Citie namyd Sp
... nott verray farr from Rome, and kepid itt a good space in
his chambre under a tyyll stoon. All this his confession is
writen in the proctor his booke by his own hande (\in processu\)
. And sithen, the said Ranalde ... writen this his confession
[{in{] his awne hande and haith confesside the same unto my
Lorde Cardenall de Medicis your Graces protector, whom the Popis
Holines (aftire he was informyd by the saide Juges herof) sentt
purposlye to knowe the verray treuthe. Nott oonlie the said
Ranalde haith thus confesside, and writen the same of his own
hande, butt also confermyd itt with oon grett oithe. He made
this confession frelie, to thintentt itt shulde be shewide
immediatlie unto the Popes holines, supposing therby that his
said Holines shuld have grauntted hym hys lyve, and desiride the
same of my said Lorde de Medicis, who aunswerde that he shuld
have pardon of all thynges that he had confesside (whiche was
thefte and mony oder enormyties) save oonlie of killing of my
Lorde Cardinall. Uppon the morow aftur, the said Ranalde, with a
small knyff that he had secrett, smott hym self, wolfully
intending to have killed hym self, and therof is in poontt of
deithe as is supposide without recovery; and saith that he
knowth perfitelie to be
<P 104>
perpetually for this act dampnyd. My said felow writithe that
the said busshop haith obteignyd suche frendes by mean of his
monye, that he trustith to ascaipe this jeopardie of correction.
And also that som your Grace's lovers shewid hym sith my
departour from Rome that the Popis Holines wold gladlie have the
matier coloride upon the busshops partie speciallie, for that
service that the said busshop shulde have doon for his Holines
in procuring (soo farr as in him was) peax bitwixtt your Grace
and the Franshe King. Verralie I can nott bileve that his
Holines ever intendide this; remembring soo strate examynacion
as he haith causid to be made herein, and from the begynnyng
therof knew perfitelie that all suspicion herof was oonlie
ayanste the saide busshop. And I trust verralie his Holines woll
advertise your Grace right shortlie uppon the hool processe maid
in this bihalf, for in the begynning of this examynacion he
saide that if itt war possible he wolde " (\reddere rationem
Sacrae Majestati vestrae super interitu Cardinalis sui\) ." By
sids this, all the hooll College woll call for the correction
herof. He writing to me also that now all Rome is full of the
rumor of this detestable act, the forsaid Stephan is taken and
sett in the Castill. Som ther be that haith noside in Rome how
that the poson shuld have been sentt from England by som prelate
thare, being enemye unto my said late
<P 105>
Lorde, and procuride the same to be mynystrid unto hym by his
cooke. Wheruppon soundrie men hath inquyred the same boith of my
said felo and me, wherunto we aunswerde that our master had no
suche enymyes in England, ne that Prelates of Englande and
English borne wer ever disposed unto ony suche actes. My said
felow writithe that he is informyde by som, your Graces frendes,
that sithe the saide confession was shewide unto the Popes
Holines moche secret labor haith been made unto the same; that
the foresaid Ranalde shulde revooke or excuse his said
confession made ayanste the saide bushop. In his confession
making ... desiride the Popis Holines instantlie to regarde the
said busshops ... and to have compassion uppon hym. Els he said
that he muste nedes be undoon; tho itt warr butt oonlie by means
of my Lorde Cardinall Hadrian. In all haste possible, aftur that
knowlege com unto me, I did depeche this berar towards Your
Grace for to advertise the same of the premisses. My said felow
writithe no thyng what ordor is intendide for the correction
heroff. I have therfore writen unto hym that in ony wise he
shall signifye unto your Grace when and assoon as the saide
ordor shalbe determynyde. In tyme of writing ... I was soore
ceaside: as may somdeall be percevide by the rude maner of the
besechyng yo=r= Grace to have patiens therin with me. Thus I
shall duryng lyve humble bisiche our Lorde
<P 106>
Jhu~ for the preservation of your Graces mosth hygh and roiall
astate. From Florence the xxviij=th=. day of Auguste M.D. xiiij.
   Your Grace's moste lawlie,
   faithfull, and trewe subgett
   [\THE SIGNATURE BURNT.\]
To the Kinge's most noble Grace.

<Q OR1 1514 WBURBANK>
<A WILLIAM BURBANK>
<P 106>
[} [\LETTER XXXVI. WILLIAM BURBANK'S SECOND LETTER TO KING HENRY
VIII=TH=.\] }] 
   Pleas itt your moste noble Grace, aftur that I hade closid my
former Lettre unto the same, I recevide from your faithfull
servantt M. Richard Pacie, my felow, in writing, how that the
prest that posonyd my lord and master was inducyd by his
confessors, by mean of the busshop of Worcestr, that he shuld
instantly deny his confession. And the said busshop laborid to
have instrumenttes maide uppon the same. By inforsing of his
said Confessors he denyde the space of two days, being all that
tyme in poyntt of deith: butt ever he did banne and accurst the
busshop of Worcestr, and the tyme that ever he bigan to have
famyliaritie or practice with hym. Aboutt the sext hour of the
xxvj. day of this monthe the said prest dyyde of his
<P 107>
own wilfull stroke. Albe itt iiij. or v. houres affore he dyyd,
he graunttid of new unto his surgion and phisician that he
posynyde my said lorde: butt he did not shew by whoos instance
being so commandid by his confessors. The Popis Holines haith
promyttid that Justice shall be ministride in this behalf; and
that all his confessions and processe maid ayanst the said prest
shall be kepid in suretie for your Grace to looke uppon att your
pleasor; with also sundrie lettres of the said busshops which
(as he saith) be hool ayanst hym self. Their is no confession of
the said Ranald taken thayr in effectt, save oonlie his furst
confession whiche remanyth in processe of the Juges. He saith
also that my lord your Graces protector haith promyttid that the
said prests body shalbe ower bruntt or quartride. He saith that
many gret men haith offerid them self to kill the said busshop
of Worcestr for this actt: and that all Rome be inflamyde
ayanste hym for the same, boith spirituall and temporall. He
writith also that he is secretlie informyde that the said
busshop is taken, but the Popis Holines having regarde that he
is your Graces Orator, itt is thought he woll desiste of
condigne correction doyng ayanste hym, whils he shall perceve
your pleasor in that bihalf. Thus I shall besiche the blissid
Trinitie for the preservacion of your most highe and Roiall
astate. From
<P 108>
Florence the xxviij. day of Auguste att nyght M. D. xiiij. Youre
moste humble trew and faithfull subjectt,
   William Burbanke.
   To the Kings most noble Grace.

<Q OR1 1514 MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 115>
[} [\LETTER XXXIX. MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE TO KING HENRY THE
EIGHTH.\] }] 
<P 116>
   My good Brother as hertly as I can I recomaund me unto your
Grace, mervelynge moch that I never herd form you syns ... re
depertynge, so often as I have sent and wrytten to you. And now
am I left post a lone in effect; for on the morn next after ...
e maryage my chambirlayn with all other men servants wer
dischargd and in lyke wyse my mother Guldeford with other my
women and maydyns, except such as never had experiens nor
knowlech how to advertyse or gyfe me counsell yn any tyme of
nede, which is to be fered more schortly then your Grace thought
at the tyme of my depertynge, as my mother Guldeford can more
playnly schew your Grace then I cann wryt; to whom I beseche you
to gyve credens. And yf hit may be by eny meane possible, I
humbly requyr you to cause my seyd mother Guldeford to repayr
hither
<P 117>
once agayn. For ells if any chauns happe other then weale I
schall not knowe wher nor of whom to aske any good counsell to
your pleasur, nor yet to myn own proffit. I merveill moche that
my Lord of Northfolke wold at all tymes so lyghtly graunt every
thynge at ther reqwests here. I am weale assured that when ze
know the trouth of every thyng as my mother Guldeford can schew
you, ze wold full lyttyll have thowght I schold have ben thus
intreated: that wold God my Lord of Zorke had com with me yn the
rome of Northfolke: for then am I sure I schuld have bene left
moch more at my herti ... then I am now. And thus I byd your
Grace fare weale with ... as ever had Prince; and more hertis
ease then I have now. ... Abvile the xij=th=. day of October.
   ...gef gredens to my mowder
   Geldeford. Be your lowyng
   syster Mary Quene of France.

<Q OR1 1514 MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 117>
[} [\LETTER XL. MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE TO THOMAS WOLSEY, THEN
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.\] }] 
   ... I recomaund me un to you as hertly as I can, and as
schoth ... intreated as the kynge and you
<P 118>
thought I schuld have ben, for ... the morn next after the
maryage, all my servants, both men and women ... dyscharged.
Insomoch that my mother Guldeford was also dischargyd, whom as
ze knowe the kynge and zou willed me in eny wyse to be
cowncelled. But for eny thynge I myght do, yn no wyse myght I
have any graunt for her abode here, which I assure you my lord
is moch to my discomffort; besyd meny other discomffortis that
ze wold full lyttyll have thought. I have not zet seen yn
Fraunce eny lady or jentill woman so necessary for me as sche ys
nor zet so mete to do the kynge my brother service as sche ys.
And for my part my lord, as ze love the kynge my broder and me,
fynd the meanes that sche may yn all hast com hither agayn, for
I had as lefe lose the wynnynge I schall have yn France as to
lose her counsell when I schall lacke it, which is not like long
to be required, as I am sure the nobill men and jentillmen can
schew you more then becometh me to wryte yn this matter. I pray
you my Lord gyf credens forther to my moder Guldeford yn every
thyng concernynge thys matter. And albehit my Lord of
Northfollke h ... nethyr deled best with me nor zet with her at
thys tyme: zet I pray you allwayes to be good lord un to her.
And wold to God my ... had ben so good to have had zou with me
hither when I ha ... rd of Northfolke. And thus fare ze weale
<P 119>
My Lord. Wryt ... ile the xij=the=. daye of Octobr.
   My Lord I pray you gyve credens to my ... ord yn my sorows
she have delyve ...
   ... Yowr on whyl I lefe
   Mary ...
   To my lovynge frend Th'archebischop of Zorke.

<Q OR1 1515 MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 119>
[} [\LETTER XLI. MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE TO WOLSEY.\] }] 
<P 120>
   My nanne good Lord, I recomend me to yow and thankyng yow for
yo=r= kynde and lovyng Letter, dyssyryng yow of yo=r= good
contenevans and good lessones that yow hathe gyffen to me; my
lord, I pray yow as my trust ys in yow, for to remember me to
the Kyng my brother, for sowche causses and bessynes as I have
for to do; for as now I have no nother to put my trust in but
the Kyng my brother and yow.
<P 121>
And as yt shall ples the Kyng my brother and hys Counsell I
wolbe horderd. And so I pray yow, my lord, to show hys Grace,
seyng that the Kyng my howsbande ys departed to God, of whos
sole God pardon. And wher as yow a vyse me that I shulde macke
no promas, My Lord, I trust the Kyng my brother and yow wole nat
reken in me sovche chyldhode. I trust I have so horderd my
selffe so sens that I came hether, that I trust yt hathe ben to
the honar of the Kyng my brother and me, sen I come hether, and
so I trust to contenaw. Yff ther be any thynge that I may do for
yow I wold be glade for to do yt in thys partes. I shalbe glade
to do yt for yow. No more to you at thys tyme but Jh~s preserve
yow. Wretten at Pares the x. day of January 1515.
   By yowr lowyng
   frende Mary
   Quene of France.
To my Lorde of Yorke.

<Q OR1 1515 MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 121>
[} [\LETTER XLII. MARY THE FRENCH QUEEN TO KING HENRY THE
EIGHTH.\] }] 
   My most kynde and lovyng brother, I humbly reco~mand me vnto
yowr Grace, thankyng yow interly of yowr comfortable Letters;
besechyng yowr grace
<P 122>
most humbly now so to contenwe toward me and my frendes, as owr
spessyale trowst ys yn yowr Grace; and that yt may layke you
w=t= all convennynte [^GAP^] to sende for me that I may shortely
se yowr grace wyche ys the thyng that I most dissyr yn thys
world and I and all myn ys at yowr gracs commandmente and
playsayr. At Parys the vj. day of Marche.
   by yowr lowyng suster
   Mary.
To the Kings Grace thes be delivered.

<Q OR1 1515 MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 122>
[} [\LETTER XLIII. MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE TO KING HENRY
VIII=TH=.\] }] 
<P 123>
   My most derest and ryt entierly belowyde Lord ... brothare,
yn my most humble wys I recommande
<P 124>
me unto yowr Grace, shawynge unto yowr Grace that I do a pa ...
by my Lord my howsbande that y ... ar playsayde and contentyde
that he shale resorde on to yowr presence at swche tyme as yowr
Grace shale be at hys maner of Donyngton, wherby I se wele he
hys merwosly rejoysyd and moche comfortyd that yt hathe lyked
your Grace so to be playsayd; for the wyche yowr specyale
goodnys to hym showyd yn that be halfe, and for sondry and many
oder yowr kyndnes, as wele to me as to hym showed and gewyn yn
dyvers cawsys, I most humbly thanke yowr Grace; assewryng yow
that for the same I accompt my selfe as moche bonden un to yowr
Grace as ewer swster was to brother: and accordyng ther un to I
shale to the beste of my powr dowryng my lyef, endver myselfe as
ferre as in me shale be possyble to do the thyng that shale
stond with yowr playsowr, and yf it had be tyme convenyente to
yowr Grace hade be ther wythe pleassyd I wolde most gladly have
accompanyd my sayd Lord yn thys yowrnay. Bwt I trowst that
bowthe I and my sayd Lord shal se yow acordyng as yowr Grace
worte yn yowr laste Letters unto my sayde Lord, whyc ys the
thyng that I dessyr more to opteyn than all the honor off the
Worlde. And thws I beseche owre Lorde to send unto yow, my most
dereste and enterly be lowyd brother and Lord, long and
prosperows
<P 125>
lyfe with the fole accomplyshment of al yowr honorable dessyrs,
most humbly prayeng yowr Grace that I may be humbly recomanded
unto my most derest and beste be lowyd suster the Quene Grace,
and to the Quene off Scottys my welbelowyd suster, trowstyng
that she be asserteyned frome yowr Grace of the prosperows
estate and helthe of my everly beloved ny ... the prences, to
home I pray God send long lyfe. Frome Letheryng in Swf the ix.
day off Septembur, by the hand of yowr lowyng suster
   Mary Quene off France.

<Q OR1 1516? HENRY8>
<A HENRY VIII>
<P 125>
[} [\LETTER XLIV. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }]
<P 126>
   My Lord Cardinall I recommand vnto yow as hartely as I can,
and I amme ryght glade to here of your good helthe, whyche I
pray god may long contynv. So it is that I have resavyd your
letters, to the whyche (by cause they aske long wrytyng) I have
made answar by my Secretary. Tow thyyngs ther be whyche be so
secrete that they cause me at thys tyme to wrytte to yow
myselfe; the won is that I trust the quene my wyffe be with
chylde; the other is chefe cause why I am soo lothe to repayre
to London ward, by cause aboght thys tyme is partly off her
dangerus tymes and by cause off that I wolde remeve har as
lyttyll as I may now. My lord I wrytt thys vnto [{you{] nott as
a ensuryd thyng but as a thyng wherin I have grette hoppe and
lyklyodes; and by cause I do well know that thys thyng wyll be
comfortabyll to yow to understand: therfor I do wrytt itt unto
yow at thys tyme. No more to yow att thys tyme, (\nisi quod Deus
velit inceptum opus bene finiri\) . Wryttyn with the hand off
your lovyng Prynce
   Henry R.

<Q OR1 1515 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 127>
[} [\LETTER XLV. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO LORD DACRE.\] }] 
My Lorde Dakers
   I comend me to zou as hartely as I can, and I have seen zour
vryteng and ondarstande at length, and I parcayve that ze ar
nouht sykerly informyd in what stat I stand in, for ze trow yat
I may pas vhar ever I vyl vyshe, is nowht trw; but yes berrar
can schow zou ye trowht of all, and vhat my mynd is, and how I
am constraynd to doo a gan my vyl. And I pray zou gyf hm kredens
as ze valde doo to my selfe, for it is owr lang to vryt, for I
have gret trast in yes man. And send me zour uter mynd and
ansuer in all thyng: and God kype zou. Vryten vy=t= my hand yes
Monday.
   Zour frend
   Margaret R.

<Q OR1 1515 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 128>
[} [\LETTER XLVI. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO CARDINAL
WOLSEY.\] }] 
   My lorde Cardnal I comand me hartly to zou, and I am glad to
here that ze doo vell, and I have ressauet a letter from you and
a nother from my lorde Dakers vher of I beleffe you know the
effeyt. Ze vryte to me that sych parssons as he sent for my
maters in to Scotland trust to be vell ansuerd, and hath sent to
me sysch vrytengs as thay sent to hym. But my lorde I am gladar
of the tydengs that the Kyngs grace teld me of the Duk of
Albane, that he vyl com hyther, vysche I besech God may be trw,
but I dred it be not. My lorde I thynke ryght longe vyhil I
speke vyth you, for next the Kyngs grace my most trust is in
you, and you may doo me moste good of any, and I pray you my
lorde as soon as any body comes out of Scotland that you vyl
send me vorde, for I thynke long tyl I here tydengs. No more:
but God have zou in hys kypeng
   Zour frend
   Margaret R.

<Q OR1 1516 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 129>
[} [\LETTER XLVII. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO KING HENRY THE
VIII=TH=.\] }] 
   Derest broder as hartly as I can I recomend me onto you, and
let you vyt that yesternyght I cam hyther, soo beyng confortted
of you in my jornay in many and soondry wyses that, lovyng be to
our Lorde God, I am in ryght good heal, and as joyous of my sayd
Jornay towarde you as ony woman may be in commyng to her broder,
as I have gret cause, and am moost desirous now to com to your
presens and to have sight of your person, in whom next God, is
myn oonly trust and confydens: advertissing you derest brotder I
have reseved thys day a Letter from my soons ambassadors, now at
London, which Leter I send on to you heryinne closed, and have
adressed on to them myn ansuer severally in twoe sondery
lettres, copy wher of I all so sende on to you, that apon notice
had of the same it may lyke you to comand whether of the said
letters ye seme besst at your plessur shall be delyverd. And the
Holy Trenyte have you my most derest broder in tuycion and
governance. At Stony Stretford the xxvij. day of Apryll.
   Zour loveng suster
   Margaret.
Unto my dereste broder the King's Grace.

<Q OR1 1516 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 130>
[} [\LETTER XLVIII. QUEEN MARGARET TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
   My Lorde Cardinal I comand me to you, and I vould fayne have
spokyn vyth you but ye var gon or I coud cam to you and therfor
I most vryt to you my mynde. My Lorde I beseche you to schw your
gud mynd to me, as ye have doon ever, but specyaly now, for now
ys the tyme. Me Lorde I pray you hartly to get me som monne
aganst ... yr day for ye knaw vell I moust gyf part of rewards
and other nedful thyngs both for the kyng my brothers honour and
myne: and I schal not put you in no more troubul but I be sysch
you hartly my Lorde that I may have it to morow at nyght at the
farest: for ells I vyl be dysapointtyd. But I put my hooll trust
in you, and thys berar schal wayt apon you for your ansuer as
our Lord knouth wham kype you
   Margaret R.
On To my Lorde Kardenall.

<Q OR1 1516 MTTUDOR>
<A MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND>
<P 130>
[} [\LETTER XLIX. QUEEN MARGARET TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
   My Lorde Cardnal I comand me to you as hartly as I can and
vyt ze my lorde that I have spokyn vy=t=
<P 131>
James Aborrow and he hath schwn to me that ze and the lordys of
Cownsel vould not that I schuld cam to Bayners castel to day. My
Lorde I wyl doo as ze thynke best but I pray you my Lorde as
hartly as I can gyf ther be no trubyl to day to lat me com to
morow. I trust to God the schal be noo lych trobyl but that I
may cam to morow for and it be vell thys nyght I trust to god
the varst be past. And my Lorde I have I part of thyngs to doo
that I most nedes have doon that vyll be nedfol to me. I pray my
lorde to lat me have your aunsuer vyth thes berar and God have
you in hys kypeng.
   Yours 
   Margaret R.
To my Lorde Cardnal.

<Q OR1 1517 CTUNSTALL>
<A CUTHBERT TUNSTALL>
<P 134>
[} [\LETTER LI. DR. CUTHBERT TUNSTALL TO KING HENRY THE
EIGHTH.\] }]
   Plese it your Grace to undirstond that besids al other maters
contenyd in our Lettres jointly written at thys tyme to your
Grace, oon is in them untowchyd by cause I wold not make my
clerke privey to the secretie theroff, which yff I shold not to
longe have taried the last curror save thys, I shold then have
written. But by cause then we wer sent for to come to th'emperor
commissionars, and our Lettres wer redy written contenyng a
longe discurse and declaration off many mattres shewyd by the
Cardinal Sedunensis which was necessary your Grace shold know in
al haste, we therfor not knowinge how long th'emperors
commissioners shuld lete us, dispached that poste, reservyng
thys to
<P 135>
be written by my selff at laysor which then I had not. The
thinge is this. The said Cardinal Sedunens. in makinge his long
discurse hertofor by us written, emongest other things shewyd me
that oon off the secrete mater stretyd betuyx th'emperor and
your Grace was that th'emperor entendeth to resigne the Empire
unto your Grace, and to obten your Election by hys procurement
and sollicitinge off the Electors therunto, which th'mperor
entendyd to do for the avancement of your honor and the love
which he berith you. Which mater when I herd I lete as I
nothynge had marked it, and lete hym passe on in tellynge off
his tale which endyd in thys, that thys thynge shold be oon off
the secrete maters treatid by hym betwix th'Emperor and your
Grace. Sire besids that I am your Graces subject and servant,
and sworn off your counsel thoff unworthi, your Grace hath also
shewyd so largely your bounteousnes and liberalite anenst me
that I ougth mo to desire the incresement and augmentation off
your Graces honor then any servaunt to your Grace belonginge.
Which I assure your Grace I doo tendre as moch to my symple
powar as any subjiet in your realme or ellys it wer pitie I
shuld lyve. And lykwyse yff therbe any thynge soundinge to your
Grace's damage or hynderaunce iff I shold concele it; ther coud
no pain be to great for me. Wherfor I most humbly besech your
Grace to accepte graciously and favorably the
<P 136>
thinge which now I write both for the ardent love which I bere
unto your Grace, and for the accomplishment off my dutie. Surly
yff it lyke your Grace I thinke the said Election off your Grace
to th'empire cannot be brogth aboute by no means, for diverse
considerations. Fyrste that lyke as in the Election off the Pope
a certain forme is to be kept which not observed makith the
Election to be voyd, so off auncient tyme and ordinaunce off the
universale churche a certain forme must be observyd in chesinge
off th'emperor, which ometted, the Election is voyde. Oon of the
cheffe points in the Election off th'emperor is that he which
shal be electyd must be off Germanie subgiet to [{the{] Empire;
wheras your Grace is not, nor never sithen the Cristen faith the
Kings of Englond wer subgiet to th'empire. But the Crown of
Englond is an Empire off hitselff mych bettyr then now the
Empire of Rome: for which cause your Grace werith a close Crown.
And therfor yff ye wer chosen, sens your Grace is not off
th'empire the Election wer voide. And iff your Grace shuld
accepte the said Election therby ye must confesse your realme to
be under subjection off th'empire to the perpetual prejudice off
your successor, or ells the said Election wer voyde as made off
a person not eligible. Besids that the forme off the Election
contenyth that the first he must be Kinge of Romains and the
coronation at Rome makith hym have the name off the Emperor,
wher befor he is callyd but
<P 137>
Kinge off Romains. Over thys yff th'emperor which nou is remain
stil Kyng off Romains as I understond he entendeth to doo, then
yff your Grace wer eligible and undir th'empire, yet ye coud not
be chosen Emperor, by cause ye were never Kinge of Romains. And
also he remanyng ye could not be chosen Kynge off Romains,
bycause the Kingdome is not voyde, and noon can be chosen therto
but when it is voyd edyr by dethe or ellys when the Kinge off
Romains is crownyd Emperor, wherby undir hym may be chosen a
Kinge off Romains. The said Empire also (as it is now
establyshed) may not have two Emperors at oon tyme, but oon as
cheff, and the odyr as here apparaunt, which is callyd the Kinge
off Romains, wher he must begyn that wyl come to th'empire. For
which considerations I repute it impossible (the laws theron
made stondinge) that your Grace may be chosen. And I am afferd
lest the said offer beinge so speciouse at the first heringe was
oonly made to get therby sum money of your Grace: Which they
move to have kepte secret lest the publyshynge off it shuld make
their intent to be knowen, and frustrate them off thir purpose
befor they coud acheve it. Surly yff it lyke your Grace my
simple advise is that your Grace interpretinge al to the beste,
and the said offer to be made rather off th'emperors good mynd
and grete benivolence then for odyr purpose, yff the mater shal
herafter be set forward or
<P 138>
movyd to gyff most exquisite thanks to th'emperor for his good
mynd therin: which peraventure may procede off good benivolence,
and so to withdraw your fote bake out off that mater, and to
make good interpretation opon so grete an offer, which shal be
most honorable. Thus in thys mater I have shewed my simple
advise and mynd; which, I thougth, my dutie savyd, I could not
kepe close from your Grace, wherin I trust such as be lernyd in
the law far bettyr then I wil afferme the same if it lyke your
Grace to make them privey to it. And iff I doo erre, as I
suppose I do not, I submitte to reformation besechinge your
Grace graciously to accepte my trew mynde and rygth meanyng in
thys mater, which I have touchyd for my discharge lest heraffter
it mygth be imputyd to me not to have shewyd it in tyme when it
came first to my knowlege. In al other maters at thys tyme we
have written at large how her we find not al persons inclyned at
it was thougth they shold be. And thus Almyghty Jhu~ preserve
your Grace to his plesur with encrese off mych honor. From
Machlyn the xij=th=. day of Februarie
   By your most humble subjecte and servaunt
   Cuthbert Tunstal.

<Q OR1 1519 RWINGFIELD>
<A SIR RICHARD WINGFIELD>
<P 139>
[} [\LETTER LII. SIR RICHARD WINGFIELD TO KING HENRY THE
EIGHTH.\] }]
   Please yt your Highnesse to understand that the xiiij=th=.
day of this Month I wrote to your Grace my last Lettres, and as
yesterday, at afternone the Great Master came from Saynt
Germains there as the King lieth, hither to this Town, and as
soon as I hard that he was come I went to him to his lodging
where I found with him the Chaunceller, the bishop of Paris,
Robertet, and Vyl Roy, wher he toold me that he had commoned
with the King his Master of the Meeting and Entreview that shuld
be betwixt your Highnesse and hym, and made me to sytt down with
them and sayd I shuld have aunswer to every Article of myn
Instructions
<P 140>
concernyng the said Entreview and Meeteng. And first told me
that as to the tyme of the meting the King here is content, and
thinketh it convenient to be in the myddest of the moneth of
July, as your Grace hath devysed.
   And as to the place of the first meting which they think
necessarye is to be in a place neutrall, which place I have
rehersed to them hath been viewed by th'Erle of Worcester and
the Captayn of Bolayn, he sayth the King here is content with
that if better can nat be founde. Howbeit the Great Master
sayeth that if it pleased your Highnesse to be lodged at
Guysnes, and the King here to be lodged at Arde which is but a
league asonder he thinketh it most convenyent. Orels if good
serch were made by some oon of Calais such as it would please
your Highnesse t'appoint, and the King here t'appoint another,
there mought be found, upon the borders there, more convenyent
place than that, seing that there is noo houses nor village nere
it.
   And as to the next article of myn Instructions, which is that
both your Highnesse and the King here, the Queens, and all the
nobles shuld mete on horsebacke, and after th'imbracyng of eche
other familiarly they shuld repaire streyt to Calais; as to the
meting and embrasyng one an other a horsback without discendyng,
he sayth the King here thinketh it very good, and is content
therewith, whersomever the Meting shal be;
<P 141>
but to repaire strayt from thens to Calais and specially at the
first tyme, he sayeth the King his Master will not consent
therto, and thinketh it were not convenient, but sayth it were
better that your Highnesse were lodged in somme village within
the Englysh pale if any may be found there according, and if nat
in your tents and pavyllions, seeing that it is in summer, and
he to doo so likewise for his part within his ground uppon his
... whither ich of you might repaire to other after your first
[{meting{] at your plesures: and sayth that after the first day
of meting ... of good congruence must nedes be in a place
neutrall both for your honnors and in contentation of your
Pepull, the next day after the King and the Quene here shal be
content to come and vysyte your Highnesse and the Quenes Grace
wheresomever your lodging be, so that it be without Calais. And
to induce them that the King Highness might come to Calais I
have shewed them all the considerations which bee recyted at
lenght in myn Instructions: shewing them [{that{] without his
comming to Calais as in my said Instruccyons moch of the honnor
of the said Meting shal be lost: and that it cannot bee soo
honorably doon as it shuld be if it pleased hym to come to
Calais. Also for their further contentation and to meve them to
come to Calais without stoppe or difficultie I have shewed them
as is in th'instruccions: that inasmoch as your Grace shall not
<P 142>
oonly ... and take a right great journey before you come to the
See, but also must passe the See which is painfull, laborous,
and duangerous: and after so long passage to mete with the Kinge
[{here{] at a place syted in the confynes of his own Realme
having his hoole power at his backe, where as your Highnesse
commyth with a small companye, your puissaunce being seperate
from you by the mayn See, who so ever shall see or considre
thesame must judge that by your said comming over the See to hym
and m[{eting{] first in the place newtrall, by reason whereof
your Highnesse commytteth your noble personne to the trust,
confidence, and a ... of the King here. In consideration whereof
if the King here [{come to{] Calais at youre Graces desire, the
honnor and the preemynence [{shall be{] his as of reason it
ought so to be. And as your Grace is the ... aggre`able
accordingly, and for an equall corespondent I have [{told{] the
great Master that your Highnesse woll not stycke to v[{isit
him{] here in his town of Bolayne if your Grace be therunto
req[{uired{] . Whereunto they made me aunswer in making as great
dyf[{ficulty that{] your Grace shuld come to Bolayn as they doo
that the King here shuld come to Calais, sayeng that by reason
of the deth that has been there and is there yet, and also that
the Towne [{is{] so ... lykening it to a Dove hows, with many
other
<P 143>
excuses so that I perceyve well it is not their mynd to have
your Highnesse to Bolayn sayeng that the King here woll nat
comme there hymself.
   Also the great Master, the Chaunceler, and the bisshop of
Parys saye that if your Highnesse and the King here shuld bee
both lodged owther in Calais or in Bolayn with both your
traynes, which is at the lest a vj. thousand persones besides
them of the Towne where myght by the reason of a varlett, or a
page, or by a casueltye of fyer come any occasion of debate, or
whereby myght ryse any alarm, it mought be to th'inquietness,
disturbaunce, and daunger of you both. In example whereof the
bisshop of Parys rehersed of a great fraye of fyer that was at
Cambray at the great meeting there, which he sayth my lord of
Norfolk can well tell of. Also the great Master consideryth that
in July the time of the meeting shal be the hottest season of
all the year, and whan folks drynk most, and thinketh that
amongs such a multitude of pepull some dronken personne myght
cause inconvenience. In eschewing whereof the great Master, the
Chancellor, and the bishop of Parys be in the mind that nother
the King here shuld come to Calais, nor your Grace should not
come to Bolayn to lodge there. How be it, the great Master sayth
that he thinketh verrily that if your Highnesse lye at Calais
that the King his Master woll come, with a certain with him, and
see your Grace in Calais in maskyr, and saith that after your
<P 144>
Grace and the King here have seen oones togyther he puttyth no
doubte but that ye shall mete oftyn by your owne accorde.
   Also they thinke it good and convenient that when it shall
fortune your Highnesse and the Queen's grace with your trayne to
be uppon his ground and in his domynion, that your Grace, the
Queens Grace, and your trayn shall have the sovereignty, honnor,
and the right hand, as they think that your pleasure shalbe to
give the King here and his trayn the same, whan they shalbe in
your grounde and in your domynyon.
   And as to the nombre that shall come with your Grace to the
meting that is comprised in a Rolle; wherof they have the copye;
they think it very good, and woll order the Kings nombre here
according to the same.
   And also as to an Article in the said Instructions concerning
the ... of Apparell of every astate and personne, they think it
... like it very well, and say that they woll drawe a booke of
[{the same{] . Howe be it the great Master tellyth me that for
all the Princes of the Sangue Ryall, which be Mess=rs=
Delaunson, de Burbon, de Vandosme, de Seynt Poll, de la Rosche
Furyon, and the chief Officers, as the Constable, the iij.
Mareschalls, the great Master, th'Admirall, with divers other,
can in no wise bee comprised in any [{Rolle{] for Array; but
they to were at their pleasure.
<P 145>
This aunswer at ... this time, as touching your Meting and
Enterview I have of the Great Master, which he hath promysed me
with his furthur devise he woll delyver me in writing this day
or to morrow.
   He toold me also that he was specially charged by the King
his Master, that he shuld speke to me to wryte to your Highnesse
with diligence that when he sayth it was agreed betwixt your
Highnesse and the King here that what tyme it shuld please God
to send the Queens Grace a Prince or a Princesse, that the King
here shuld be godfather to the Prince, or the Quene here to be
godmother if it were a Princesse, and to bere the name after
them. Soo the King here desireth your Highnesse at this tyme
that if the Queen here shall have a sonne that it wold please
your Grace to be godfather, and that it may be named after your
Highnesse Har[{ry, and{] if it be a doughter that it may be
named after the Quene Kateryn; whereof he prayed me to wryte to
your Grace and ... that the King here shuld wryte to his
ambassador in E[{ngland{] of the same. Also he tellyth me that
the Quene is at Sain... and is mery for a woman being in her
case so nere her [{time{] and loketh every day to be delivered
before th'ende of this [{month{] of March. And as to th'aunswer
that I have for the ... of the Marchaunts I wryte at this time
more at length [{to{] my Lord Legat and Cardinall of England.
Beseching
<P 146>
... Trinite long to preserve your Highnesse. From Parys this
xvj=th=. day of March.
   [\THE SIGNATURE BURNT OFF.\]

<Q OR1 1519 TBOLEYN>
<A SIR THOMAS BOLEYN>
<P 146>
[} [\LETTER LIII. SIR THOMAS BOLEYN TO KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.\]
}]
<P 147>
   Pleasyth it your Highnesse to understand that yesterday I
delyvered your lettre to the Kyng here with as harty and
affectuous recommendacions from your Grace as I cowlde devise.
And after he had at lenght and with good laysure read over your
said lettre, I declared to hym for my credence, according to
<P 148>
the Instructions which your Grace late sent me. First the
effecte of your said Lettre. And after I shewed hym how great
desire your Grace hath for the increase of his honnor, and what
pleasure and consolation your Highnes taketh in the same,
consideryng the unfeyned amytie and aliance that is established
betwixt you, both which your Grace belevith to bee soo rooted in
your hartys that what high honnor or advauncement shall fortune
to come to hym, the fructe thereof shuld redonde to your
Highnesse, wherfore to advaunce hym to the preferment of this
Imperiall dignitie, your Grace, uppon knowledge of his further
intent and mynd shalbe glad to employe your self as well by
worde and writing as by acts and dedes to the best of your
power, wheruppon he may assuredly trust. Wherunto, he, taking of
his bonett thanked hartely your Highnesse, and sayd that the
great love and favour which he well perceyveth that your Grace
beryth towardes him is the greatest comfort that he hath upon
erth. And for the great honnor that your Grace shewith to hym in
advauncyng hym to th'imperiall dignitie which is his most
desire, he sayth he knoweth nat how nor by what meanes he may
recompence your Highnesse in doing any thing so moch for your
Grace, but he sayeth as long as he lyveth, in any thing that he
may doo that shalbe to your pleasure, he shall always bee as
redy and as glad to doo yt as he wold be to doo for hymself, and
desireth
<P 149>
no thyng moore than to have knowledge wherein he might employe
hymself to doo your Highnesse some pleasure. Rehersyng to me
that by the reason of the perfecte love and aliaunce betwixt you
both he rekeneth your Highnesse to bee of great mygth and power,
sayeng that what with your owne puissance and with his help,
which he sayeth your Grace shall alwayes have redy at your
commaundement, there is nother honnor, dignytie, nor other thing
in Crystendome but that your Highnesse shall y... and ordre yt
at your own pleasure, and tolde me that he cowlde not expresse
to me with his tonge the due thanks that he t[{hinketh{] to your
Grace in his hart for the loving kindnesse that he fyndeth in
your Highnesse: and sayd that, whan ye both mete, which he
trusteth shalbe shortly, your Grace shall knowe his hart, no man
lyving soner. Wherunto I sayd that your Highnesse thanked hym,
specially consideryng that amongs all his other things and great
affaires, he is so moch desirous to mete, visite, and see your
Grace; and toolde hym of your conformable mynd therunto, shewing
to hym the tyme, place, fourme, and maner as is at lenght
expressed in th'instructions that I have. Wherunto he sayed that
he is determyned to see your Grace though he shuld come but
hymself, his page, and his lakaye: and that noo buysenesse shall
lette yt: how be it, for the tyme, place, and order of
<P 150>
the Meeting he said he wold common with the Great Master, and
within ij. or iij. dayes he wold send hym to Parys, wher he
shuld make me aunswer of every article concernyng the said
Entreview and Meting. And bicause that the Quene here hath been
very sycke thies ij. dayes, and in great daunger, as I have more
at large wryten of the same to my lord Legat and Cardinall of
England, which I am sure woll shewe your Grace thereof, I can as
yet have no aunswer what order shalbe taken for the Marchaunts
matiers. Beseching the holy Trynyte long to preserve your
Highnesse. From Parys this xiiij=th=. day of March.
   [\THE SIGNATURE BURNT OFF.\]

<Q OR1 1519 TBOLEYN>
<A SIR THOMAS BOLEYN>
<P 150>
[} [\LETTER LIV. SIR THOMAS BOLEYN TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }]
   [{Pleasyth it youre{] Grace to understand that the xxj=th=.
day of this moneth I wrote my last Lettres to your Grace, and as
yesterday, which was our Lady's day, I was at Seynt Germayns,
where the Quene and my Lady lyeth; but the King roode on our
Ladye's even viij. leges hens, and as my Lady tellyth me it is
in a dowte whether he comyth ageyn before the
<P 151>
Quene here be brought in bedde or nay; for she lookyth her tyme
every howre. Also my Lady hath commaunded me, now while the
great Master is away, that I shuld resorte to her for any thing
that I shuld have to doo for the King my Master. And she hath
promysed me that she woll make me pryve of such newes as she
shall here of from any place: and toold me that the King her
sonne whan he departed willed her to shew me a Lettre that came
now streyt out of Spayn from his Ambassadour there, and
therewithall she called to her the tresourer Robertet and bad
hym shewe me that Lettre, wherein was wrytten by the said
Ambassador whose name is de la Roche Beauconot, that the King's
Highnesse had late sent a Lettre to the King Catholique
advertysyng hym how the King here had desired the King's
Highnesse by his lettres to wryte to th'Ellectowrs of th'Empire
in his favour, the rather to atteyn the dygnyte of th'Empire;
the which the King's Highness hath refused bicause of the Amytie
betwixt the Kings Grace and the King Catholique, and how the
Kings Highnesse had rather that the King Catholique wer Emperowr
than the King here; which Lettre he wryteth is in th'andes of
the Bishop of Bourges oon of the great Counsell of Spayn. Whan I
had redde this clawse in the Lettre sent out of Spayn, I prayed
my Lady that she wold gyve noo credence to yt, and shewed
<P 152>
her how I thought that the said Ambassador wrote this by
Informacion of some maliciouse personne that wold sett discord
bitwixt Princes; and that I assured her it was not trew. She
toold me that she had soo perfecte trust in the Kyng my Master's
honnor that she beleved, nor wold beleve, noo such thing; and no
more she sayeth woll the King her sonne: sayeng that whan the
King here redde the same clause in the Lettre wrytten to hym by
his Ambassadour in Spayn he did but lawgh at it, and gave no
credence thereto. And she saied it cowlde nat be trew, for the
... the Kyng's Highnesse desyring him to wryte to th...
th'Empire for hym. So that as farre as I can perceyve neyther my
Lady nor the King her sonne gyve noo credence to yt. And as moch
as I cowld instaunce her I have desired her not to beleve this
nor noo such thing that shuld be contrary to any thing that the
Kings Highnesse hath promysed or wrytten to the King her sonne.
My Lady also desireth that likewise as I woll make me pryve of
every thing that shall touch or arr... to the Kings Grace to
th'intent I shuld advertise the Kings Highnesse and your Grace.
She likewise desireth to bee advertised of any thing
apperteynyng to the King her sonne. She talked with me also of
the Meeting of the Kings Highnesse and the King her sonne (which
she moch desireth) wherein I shewed her according to myn
Instructions
<P 153>
that if it pleased her to m... the King her sonne that he wold
be content after they had mett a horsbak to repaire streyt to
Calais where they myght be honourably receyved, well and easely
lodged, it shuld be convenient for their estates. Whereto she
aunswered that when they had oones mett, she putt noo dowtes but
they shuld ... well enough, sayeng that after they had ones seen
togyther his Highnesse shuld desire hym to nothing but he wold
gyve thereto assent. She sayeng allwaies that it shalbe more ...
and triumphant to be lodged in sommer in the fields in tents and
pavilions than it shuld be in any Towne. She often [{asked{] me
of my Lady Princesse and of hir helth, if she hath been syck
lately or not. Also Madame la Duchesse the Kings syster, the
Duke of Alaunson's wief, lately hath been and yet is very sycke.
When I shall have knowledge of any other Newes I shall ... to
your Grace of them: beseching the holy Trinite long to preserve
your Grace. From Poyssy a leege from Saint Germains this
xxvj=th=. day of March.
   Yowres m...
   Th...

<Q OR1 1519? TBOLEYN>
<A SIR THOMAS BOLEYN>
<P 154>
[} [\LETTER LV. SIR THOMAS BOLEYN TO KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.\] }]
   Pleasith yt your Grace to understand that the first day of
this moneth I wrote my last Lettres to your Grace, and as yet
the King is nat retorned from Melun, there as he hath been
almost thes fortenyght a huntyng. But hither is come Lettres
with great dylygence to the King Catholiques Ambassadour from
Frankford, and from my lady of Savoye, specefieng how the King
his master the xxviij. day of the last moneth, at x. of the
clocke afore noon, by th'assent and hoole voyce of all the
Electours was chosen Emperor. And bicause there is yet noo
lettres commen out of Almayn to the King nor my Lady here of
this matier my Lady marvayleth moch, and sayth she feryth that
Mons=r=. L'admiral is letted or evyll intreatyd bicause she hath
no word from hym, or elles their Post with lettres is taken or
stopped by the way. Neverthelesse my Lady sayth yf this be trew
seyng the King her sonne may nat be Emperor she is ryght glad
that the King Catholique is chosen. Sayeng that though the Kyng
her sonne is nat Emperor, yet it is a comfort to her that the
King her sonnes son in
<P 155>
lawe is Emperor. How be it the trouth is that both the King and
my Lady, and all this Contre had rather any other had been
chosen Emperor than the King Catholique. My Lady tellyth me that
she is assured it hath cost hym a greyt good to atteyn to this
Empire; in so moch she sayth she knoweth for a trouth oon of the
Electours hath had of hym two hundreth thowsand crownes, and
namyng hym of Coloigne. She sayth also that the Electours amongs
them all hath not had of the King her sonne past a hundreth
thowsand Crownes, and moch she ma... and fereth lest the
Admirall be nat well, and sayth that the Letter that she had
from hym was wrytten the xxvj. day of the last moneth, wherein
by his wryting he had as great trust that the King here shuld be
Emperor as ever he had. And now Mons=r=. le Bastard and they of
the Counsell here say yt is a good torne for the King here, and
a great weale for his reaulme that he is not Emperor, for they
say yf he had been it shuld have putt hym to an infante
busyness, and impoverychyd and undoone his subgietts. Here is
also of late a new Ordenaunce made by the King and his Counsell,
and gyven to all them that have any horses for Posts or Currors,
both here at the Cort and at Parys, that payn of their lyves
they delyver no horse nor horses to any man, ambassador or
other, except at the Court he have a bill from Robertet
<P 156>
in Parys from the first President there. I have been, too,
assuryd by my Lady that this is nat doon for any Lett of L...
that goyth in to England, but as farre as I can knowe that
resortyth in and owt of Spayn, and my lady hath ... whan so ever
I woll depeche any lettres by Post. I shall stre... a Bill of
Robertett and of the first President of Parys ... whan I woll.
   Besechyng the holy Trinite long to preserve your Grace from
Poyssy this iiij=th= day of July.
   Yours T...

<Q OR1 1519? RPACE>
<A RICHARD PACE>
<P 156>
[} [\LETTER LVI. RICHARD PACE TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }]
<P 157>
   Pleas itt your Grace I have thys daye visite my Lady
Margarite, and have hadde off herre verraye large thanks for
that I have doon in Almayne for the Kynge Catholike in the late
Election. And all the noble men off thys Courte haith yevyn unto
me lyke thanks, and interteignydde me here in moste kynde and
lovynge maner, wythoute ony question made unto me off eny thynge
that I had doon in the sayde late Election for the advauncement
of the Kynge our soverayne Lorde, as your Grace thoght they
wolde have doon, as itt apperidde bi your laste Lettres
directidde unto me. And in verraye deade they have no cause to
complayne uppon me, for I dydde nevyr speke agaynst the Kynge
catholike in the sayde Election, considerynge that itt was
sufficient to me to have the Electors speke agaynst hym, and
allege reasons whye he schulde nott be electidde; ande suerly
they wolde nott have electidde hym yff fere off there persons
hadde not dryven them thereunto, and evident ruine off all there
nation yff they hadde electidde ony othre Kynge. And I forseynge
suche thyngis (as itt apperith bi diverse my Lettres sent to
your Grace in that cause, I ordrede my self there aftre wyth the
orators off the sayde Kynge Catholyke,
<P 158>
in suche maner that he, yff he obteignedde, schuld bi reason yff
sum thanks to the Kyngis Grace therfore. Master Hesdyng haith
wretyn to my Lady verraye acceptable Lettres concernyng the
Triumphe made there for the exaltation off the Kynge Catholyke,
and also off the Kyngis Grace's and your lovyng myndis towardis
thys House, to the grete rejoyse off all thys Courte. He haith
also wretyn to me a kynde Lettre offrynge unto me hys house and
all that is therin at my pleasure, and whyche commoditie I
intende not to use, but to take my voyage towardes Calice
tomorrowe. My Lady, with diverse lordis here, wolde have me tary
here bi the space off ij. dayes in continuall fests and
drynkyng, but itt is not for my purpose to be syke (\ex
crapula\) . Itt is not yet knowen whatt the army beynge at this
tyme in Gelderlande intendith; no hedde doeth appere emongist
them as yitt. Thus Jesu preserve your Grace in long helth and
continuall prosperitie. Writtyn at Mechlyne thys xxvij. off
July. 
   By your Graces most humble and feythfull servant
   R. Pace.
To my Lord Cardinalls Grace and Legat in England.

<Q OR1 1519 TBOLEYN>
<A SIR THOMAS BOLEYN>
<P 159>
[} [\LETTER LVII. SIR THOMAS BOLEYN TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }]
   Pleasith yt youre Grace to understand that the first day of
this moneth I wrote my last lettres to your Grace; and on Sonday
last past about x. of the clocke at nyght, the Kings yong sonne
whos title is Henry of Seynt Germayn Duke of Orleans, was
crystened, the Duke of Alaunson was the second godfather, and
the duchesse of Denamours the god mother. And bicause York, this
berar, was there present who can shewe your Grace all the maner
and order of the crystenyng I leve to wryte to your Grace of the
same; saving that
P 160>
according as your Grace hath here a fore tyme wryten to me I
presented to the Quene here in the name of the Kings Highnesse
the Salt, the Cuppe, and Layar of gold, which was very much
praysed; and also the Quene and my Lady gave to the Kings
Highnesse for the same their loving and harty thanks. And after
all was doon the King came to me and sayd he thanked the King's
Highnesse of the great honnor that he had doon hym in crystenyng
of his chyld, sayeng that when so ever yt shall fortune the
Kings Highnesse to have a Prince he shalbe glad to doo for hym
in lyke maner, and that he is mynded after his said sonne shall
to age and be able to ... he purposyth to send hym to the Kings
Grace into Englande to doo hym service.
   And the hundreth pounde that your Grace sent to gyve in
reward, is bistowed as folowith. First the Noryce, oon hundreth
crownes; to iiij. rockers of the yong Dukes chamber, ij.
hundreth crownes; to iij. gentlewomen of the Quenes Pryve
Chamber called (\femmes de Ret...\) a hundreth and fyfty
crownes; and at the Offryng xx nobils, which amounteth in all to
the some of oone hundreth pounds sterling and xv. crownes over.
All which money was paid and delyvered by the hands of York this
berar and Richmount, which can shewe your Grace well inough
therof.
   Furthermore, as this berar can shewe your Grace, there hath
been with me at my lodging the Kings Porters, the T... and
Officers of Armys which with
<P 161>
importune manner asked reward saying that the Duke of Urbyn at
the crystenyng of the Dolphyn rewarded them, and wyth the best
answer that I could make them nothyng given they went away
miscontent. Neverthelesse it is ... by honorabull folks here
that the gyftes to the Quene, and the money that is gyven in
rewardes was sufficiently honorable, and largely inough for the
Kings honnor.
   I have also laid out xj=li=. xij=s=. in sendyng dyvers tymes
myn own folks and other that I have hired to your Grace in to
England, and to Calais, with Lettres in post and otherwise, the
which xj=li=. xij=s=. and xv. crownes that I have layd out now
more than hundreth poundes that your Grace sent me by York to
gyve in reward, is owing me. And forasmuch as the last money
that your Grace sent me for a hundreth dayes ended the
xxviij=th=. day of May last past I besech your Grace both to
send me such dyett money as shall best please your Grace, and
that the said xj=li=. xij=s=. and xv. crownes that is owing me
may be also delivered to my prest which shall attend upon your
Grace for yt.
   Also I receyved yester evyn from your Grace, a Letter dated
the xxviij=th=. day of May, concernyng the Marchaunts matiers
and divers other things, whereof after I have spoken with the
King, my Lady, or the Counsell here I shall wryte to your Grace
such answer as I shall have of them with diligence.
   Here is moch speking in the Court and more at
<P 162>
Parys of many straunge bouts, whereof this berar can shewe your
Grace by mowth as he hath hard, and as I have shewed hym.
Besechyng the Holy Trinite long to preserve your Grace. From
Poyssy this vij=th=. day of June
   Youre ...
   To my moste especial and singular Lord; my Lord Legat
Cardinall, Chauncellar of England.

<Q OR1 1523 T2HOWARD>
<A THOMAS HOWARD 2>
<P 214>
[} [\LETTER LXXVII. THE EARL OF SURREY TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
   Plesith it your Grace to be advertised, that upon Fridaye at
x. a clok at nyght I retorned to this towne, and all the
garnysons to their places assigned, the busshopriche men, my
lorde of Westmerland, and my Lord Dacre in likewise, every man
home with their companys, without los of any men thanked be God
saving viij. or x. slayne, and dyvers hurt at skyrmishis and
saults of the towne of Gedworth and the forteresses; whiche
towne is soo suerly brent, that noo garnysons ner none other
shalbe lodged there, unto the tyme it be newe buylded: the
brennyng whereof I commytted to twoo sure men, Sir William
Bulmer and Thomas Tempeste.
   The Towne was moche bettir then I went it had been, for there
was twoo tymys moo howses therein then in Berwike, and vell
buylded with many honest and faire howses therein, sufficiente
to have lodged M=l= horsemen in garnyson, and six good towres
therein; which towne and towres bee clerely distroyed, brent,
and throwen downe. Undoubtedly there was noo jorney made into
Scotland in noo manys day, leving
<P 215>
with soo fewe a nombre, that is recownted to bee soo high and
enterprice as this, bothe with thies contreymen and Scottishmen,
nor of truthe somoche hurt doon; but in th'ende a great
mysfortune ded fall, onely by foly, that suche order as was
comaunded by me to bee kepte was not observed, the maner wherof
herafter shall ensue.
   Bifore myn entre into Scotland I appointed Sir William Bulmer
and Sir William Overs to be marshallis of th'army: Sir William
Bulmer for the vangard, and Sir William Overs for the reregard.
In the vangard I appointed my lord of Westmerland as cheif, with
all the busshopriche, Sir William Bulmer, Sir William Overs, my
Lord Dacre with all his company; and with me remayned all the
rest of the garnysons and the Northumberland men. I was of
counsaill with the Marshallis at th'ordering of our lodgings,
and our campe was soo well envirowned with ordynaunce, carts,
and diks, that hard it was to entre or issue, but at certain
places appointed for that purpoos; and assigned the mooste
commodious place of the said campe for my Lord Dacre company
next the water, and next my Lord of Westmerland. And at suche
tyme as my Lord Dacre came into the feld, I being at the sault
of th'abbay, whiche contynued unto twoo houres within nyght, my
said lord Dacre wold in nowise bee contente to ly within the
campe, which was
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made right sure, but lodged hymself without, wherewith at my
retourne I was not contente, but than it was to late to remove.
The next day I sente my seid Lord Dacre to a strong hold called
Fernherst, the lorde whereof was his mortall enemy, and with him
Sir Arthure Darcy, Sir Marmaduke Constable, with vij c. of their
men, one cortoute, and dyvers other good peces of ordynaunce for
the feld. The seid Fernherste stode marvelous strongly within a
great woode. The seid twoo knights with the moost parte of their
men, and Strikland your Graces servaunte, with iij C. Kendall
men, went into the woode on fote with th'ordynaunce, where the
seid Kendall men were soo handled that they found hardy men that
went noo foote bak for theym. The other twoo Knights were alsoo
soo sharply assayled that they were enforced to call for moo of
their men, and yet could not bring th'ordynaunce to the
forteresse unto the tyme my lord Dacre with part of his horsemen
lighted on fote, and marvelously herdly handled hymself; and
fynally with long stikmyshing and moche difficultie, gut forthe
th'ordynaynce, wan the howse, and threwe downe the same. At
whiche skyrmyshe my seid Lord Dacre and his brother Sir
Cristofer, Sir Arthure, and Sir Marmaduke, and many other
gentilmen, ded marvelously hardly, and found the best resistence
that hath be seen sith my comyng to thies parties, and above
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xxx=ti=. Scottis slayne, and not passing iiij. English men; but
above sixty hurt. Aftir that, my seid Lord retornyng to the
campe, wold in nowise bee lodged in the same, but where he laye
the furst nyght: and he being with me at souper about viij. a
clok, the horses of his company brake lowse, and sodenly ran out
of his feld in suche nombre that it caused a marvelous alarome
in our feld; and our standing watche being set, the horses cam
ronnyng along the campe, at whome were shot above one hundred
sheif of arrowes and dyvers gonnys, thinking they had bee Scotts
that wold have saulted the campe. Fynally the horses were soo
madde that they ran like wild dere into the feld above xv. C. at
the leest in dyvers companys; and in one place above l. fill
downe a great rok and slewe theymself; and above two hundred and
fifty ran into the towne being on fire, and by the women taken
and caried awaye, right evil brent; and many were taken agayne;
but fynally by that I can esteme by the nombre of theym that I
sawe goo on fote the next daye, I think there is lost above
viij. C. horses, and all with foly for lak of not lying within
the campe. I dare not write the wonders that my Lord Dacre and
all his company doo saye they sawe that nyght, vj. tymys, of
sprits and ferefull sights. And unyversally all their company
saye playnely, the Devill was that nyght amongs theym vj. tymys.
Whiche mysfortune hath blemyshed the best Jorney that was made
in Scotland
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many yeres. I assure your Grace I found the Scotts at this tyme
the boldest men, and the hotest that ever I sawe any nation: and
all the Jorney, upon all parts of th'army kept us with so
contynuall skyrmyshe that I never sawe the like. If they myght
assemble forty thousand as good men as I nowe sawe fifteen
hundred or two thousand, it wold bee an herd encounter to mete
theym. Pitie it is of my lord Dacres losse of the horses of his
company. He brought with hym above four thousand men, and lodged
one nyght in Scotland in his moost mortall enemys contre. There
is noo herdyer ner bettir knyght, but often tym he doth not use
the most sure ordre; whiche he hath nowe payed derely for.
Written at Berwike the xxvij. of September.
   Your most bownden
   T. Surrey.
To my Lord Legats goode Grace.

<Q OR1 1523 T2HOWARD>
<A THOMAS HOWARD 2>
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[} [\LETTER LXXX. THE EARL OF SURREY TO CARDINAL WOLSEY. A. D.
1523.\] }] 
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   Plesith it your Grace too be advertised, that this Day at x.
a clok I received one Lettre of newes from Sir William Bulmer
sente hym fro the Priores of Calestreme, and one other sente to
me fro the Lord Ogle from Wark of such newes as he hath fro the
Priores of Ocles in Scotlande. I beleve right moche that the
contents of the Priores of Calestremys Lettres bee trewe; and
thoder doo not moche vary fro the same. Alsoo by dyuers other
wayes I have advertisments that the Duke prepareth all that he
can t'invade this realme with the light of this nexte newe Mone,
and by his words doo right litle esteme the poure of England.
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Wherefor to theffecte of yo=r= Graces late Lettre I shall
tomorrowe send lettres to all the noble men and gentilmen
dwelling withen the Shiris conteyned in my commyssion too bee
here in this Towne the xx=ti=. daye of this Moneth, trusting
that and all men come accordingle the seid Duke shall fynd more
sharp recistance than he doth loke for. And notwithstanding that
the weder hath bee here soo foule with mervelous greate rayne
dyvers dayes, and mooste specially yesterdaye with rayne and
this daye with snowe, soo that the opinion of many wise men is
it shalbe very difficile for the seid Duke to cary any greate
ordynance onles it bee to Berwike, yet forasmoche as he myght
doo enfynyte hurte in over rynnyng the Contre onles he were
recisted, I shale cause all my seid poure to come forewards, and
to bee here at the daye prefixed. And if I shall see that the
Duke shall altre his purpoos in setting furth I shall
contermawnde theym, too thentente the Kingis Highnes shalbe put
too no more chardge shalbe requysite; whereunto I shalhave the
beste regard I can, the daunger of distruccion of the contre by
thennemys provided for.
   Mooste humble beseching your Grace too helpe that some
noblemen and gentilmen of the Kingis hous and the south parties
maye be sente hither though they bring no greate nombres with
theym. God knoweth if the poreste gentilman in the Kingis hous
were here, and I at London and were advertised of
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thies newes I wold not faile to knele upon my knees bifore the
kings grace too have licence to come hither in poste too bee at
the daye of batayle. And if yong noble men and gentilmen be not
desierous and willing to be at suche jorneys, and to take the
payne and yeve the adventure, and the Kingis highnes well
contented with thoos that woll so doo, and not regarding others
that wolbe but dauncers, disers, and carders, his Grace shall
not bee well served when he wold bee; for men withoute
experience shall doo small servyce, and experience of war woll
not be had withoute it be sought for and the adventure yeven. Of
likelihode no man leving shall ever lyve to se the Scotts
attempte t'envade this realme with the powre of Scotland if they
may bee well resisted nowe. And by many wayes I am advertised
that the Duke of Albany is a mervelous wilfull man, and woll
beleve noo mannys counsaill, but woll have his owne opinion
folowed. And bicause the Frenche King hath be at soo greate
chardges by his provoking, having his wiffs inherytance lying
within his domynyons, dare not for no Scottish counsell forbere
t'envade this realme. I am also advertised that he is so
passionate that and he bee aperte amongis his familiers, and
doth here any thing contrarius to his myende and pleasure, his
accustumed manner is too take his bonet sodenly of his hed and
to throwe it in the fire; and no man dare take it oute, but let
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it to be brent. My Lord Dacre doth affirme that at his last
being in Scotland he did borne above a dosyn bonetts aftir that
maner. And if he be suche a man, with Gods grace we shall spede
the bettir with hym. Fynally, mooste humble I beseche your Grace
to send more money, at the leeste viij M=li=.; and t'advertise
me of the Kingis pleasure and yours howe I shalbe further ordred
in any thing ye woll commaunde me, whiche too the beste of my
poure I shall fulfill, trusting that the gonners be well on the
waye hiderwards. And sory I am that the Kingis Highnes and your
Grace be nowe so fer in sondre, whiche I perceive is th'occasion
that my Lettres sente to your Grace from tyme too tyme bee the
lenger un answered, and also moche slouth is used by the Posts
wiche maye be amended if it woll pleas your Grace to write one
open Lettre too all the Posts, chardging theym to make such
diligence nowe in riding that your Graces Lettres fro London to
this towne, and my Lettres fro this Towne to London, maye bee
conveyed in xlviij. houres at the leeste, whiche they maye well
doo. And thanked be God, this nyght and this daye I have ben
well amended of my diseases. Written at Newcastell the viij=th=.
day of Octobr. 
   Your's most bownden
   T. Surrey.
To my Lord Legats good Grace.

<Q OR1 1523 T2HOWARD>
<A THOMAS HOWARD 2>
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[} [\LETTER LXXXI. LORD SURREY TO CARDINAL WOLSEY. THE LAST
SIXTEEN LINES ONLY OF THIS LETTER ARE IN LORD SURREY'S HAND.\]
}] 
   Pleaseth it your Grace to bee advertised that I have forborne
to write to your Grace sith the xviij. of this moneth, having no
verey certain tydings what the Duke entendeth to do unto this
day that I have received dyvers Lettres as well fro the Quene of
Scottis, fro Sir William Bulmer, and others, all which Lettres I
send herewith unto your Grace. And where in one Lettre is
conteyned that she doth send her servant unto me for peace
comprehending Fraunce, I truste this night or tomorrow to be
advertised fro your Grace of the Kingis pleasure and Yours howe
I shalbe ordred in aunswering any offre to be made to me fro
truse or peace, and shall defer making any answer unto the tyme
I shall knowe the same. And as towching the comprehension of
France, onles your Grace do write to me what answer I shall make
therein, I shall saye that I have none auctoritie to speke
therein; and that I beleve verely the Kingis highnes woll not be
content therewith, and that I believe his Highnes woll think the
Duke of Albany to be too meane a personage to medle with soo
high a matier: notwithstanding I woll advertise his Grace
thereof, and when
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I shall knowe his mooste graciouse pleasure I shall advertise
your Grace of the same.
   And as touching her comyng awaye I shall shewe her that I
have commandemente to receive her if she come, notwithstanding I
think she might both doo more good in Scotland to the Kingis
highnes and to the King her son, then she shuld do being in
England. Assuering her that she shall lak no good helpe of the
Kingis Grace, she contynuing in her good mynde towards his
Highnes.
   Also pleaseth it your Grace to be advertised that upon
Tuysdaye last my Lord Marquise with all the gentilmen of the
Kingis hous came hither: and the same day came my lorde of
Northumberland, my lord Clifford, my lorde Latymer, my lord
Darcy, my lord Scrope. And sith that time is come all theire
powere, and all other gentilmen of Yorkshire hooly, and in
likewise Lancashire, and dyvers of Cheshire, Notingham, Derby,
Staff. and Shropshire, and all your Grace's retynue. And this
daye is come your Grace's treasourer Sir William Gascoyne. I
assure your Grace, God willing, we shall have men inoughe; and
the beste willed men unyversally fro the higheste to the loweste
that ever I sawe. And bicause all bee not yet come asfer as
Duresme, and also that the wether hath bee soo mervelously reyne
whiche hath so raysed the waters that noo man maye pas from hens
northward.
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And also for that I was not advertised that the Duke was set
forewards, nor knowing whiche waye he wold hold, I have stopped
thos that came furste in this towne and bitwene this and Morpath
and Hexham, and th'oders abouts Duresme. And tomorowe my Lorde
Marques shall marche to Anwike, and with hym my lord Darcy and
many others, to th'entente that and the Duke wold send in any
good nombre to overrun the contre they maye be redy to defend
the same. And I with the reste woll not marche past Morpath
myself, and thos nowe that bee at Duresme unto this towne, unto
the tyme I shall suerly know whether he woll goo to
th'Esteborder or the Weste. For if I shuld goo any further I
shuld bee compelled to retorne for lak of vitell: for I can get
no cariage in maner for money too cary any with me. Assuering
your Grace that I think it not possible the Duke can bring his
Ordinaunce unto Norham, Wark, or Carlizle before Mondaye, though
it reyned no more unto that tyme, the waters bee nowe soo
marvelously greate that no man leving hath seen them greatter;
but unto Berwicke he maye well com upon the ferther side of the
water. Praying God to send hym thither, where I truste he shall
not onely consume his tyme in vayne, somany good men nowe being
within the Towne, but alsoo we comyng thidder shall have some
reasonable store of vitell, and shalbe
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able to geve batayle at our advantage. Fynally assure your Grace
I and all others here bee all aferde of one thing that he shall
not dare abide us. And grete pitie it were that the Kingis
Highnes shuld spend thus moche money withoute batayle. And, as I
think if he abide us we shall mete about Tuysdaye nexte.
   He doth make grete booste off the londyng off Richard de la
Pole in Scotlond assewryng the Lords off Scotlond that he shall
have gret help in this realme, wherfor after my poure opinion it
wer well done Sir Riz ap Thomas wer warned to be in a redynes,
for the seid Duc seith he shall londe in Wales. Iff your Grace
know any man suspect I dout not ye woll provyde that he shall
not shyp away. I know no man lyvyng that I shuld mystrust, but
he hath spoken so largely and dayle doth, that I know not what
to thynk.
   Most humble besechyng your Grace that and I fortewne to
myscary in this Journey, to be gode lord to my poure chylderne,
assewryng your Grace that without the Kyng's gracious favour and
your Grace's shewed unto them, they shalbe undone. For I have
spent somoch to serve the Kyng's Hyghnes, that, iff God do now
his plesure off me, I shall leve them the pourest noblemanny's
childerne that died in this realme thes xl. yers; havyng neyther
goods nor fote off londe to put in feofment to do them gode
after me. And therfor most humble I beseche Your Grace to be
gode and gracious Lord to them, for my poure
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service done in tymes past. Scribled the xxiij. day off October
at xj. at nyght.
   Yo=rs=. most bownden
   T. Surrey.
To my Lord Legats good Grace.

<Q OR1 1523 T2HOWARD>
<A THOMAS HOWARD 2>
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[} [\LETTER LXXXII. LORD SURREY TO KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.\] }] 
   Plesith it your Highnes to be advertised that upon Satirdaye
at night the Duke of Albany with a greate puysance brought his
ordynaunce unto Werk, on the fer side of Twede, upon Scotland
side, and began to shote right sore upon Sondaye by the breke of
daye, and so contynued all that daye and Mondaye. And whiche
tyme I being at Holy Island, vij. myles from Berwike, was
advertised of the same at seven a clok at night the said
Sondaye; and incontynente sent Lettres to my lord Cardynalls
company, my lord of Northumberland, my lord of Westmoreland at
Sainte Cutberts baner lying at Anwike and thereabouts, and in
likewise to my lord Dacre and other lords and gentilmen lying
abrode in the countre, too mete me at
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Barmer wood, fyve myles from Werk on Mondaye, who so ded. And
the seid Monday at iij. a cloke at aftir none, the water of
Twede being soo high that it could not be riden the Duke sent
over ij M. Frenche men in bootis to gif assault to the place,
who with force entred the bas courte, and by Sir William Lizle
captain of the Castell with a hundred with him were right
manfully defended by the space of one houre and an half, without
suffring theym t'entre the Inner Ward; but fynally the seid
Frenchemen entred the Inner warde, whiche perceived by the seid
Sir William and his company frely set upon theym, and not onely
drove theym oute of the Inner warde, but alsoo oute of the Uttir
warde, and slewe of the seid Frenche men x. personys. And so the
seid Frenche men wente over the water; and incontynent the seid
Sir William advertised me of the said assaulte, desiering too
have reskue this daye, or els the place wold be no lenger kepte:
whereof I being advertised by thre a clok this mornyng, avaunced
foreward with the hole army by the breke of daye. And the Duke
hering that I cam towards hym toke away his ordynance, and in
likewise departed hymself with his hoole company, but as yet I
cannot advertise your Grace of trouth howe fer he is goon, but
tomorrowe I doubte not I shall knowe the certentie. Sir I doubte
moche that if he here that I breke this army that he woll
retorne with his
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ordynance unto Werk, whiche I feare woll not hold long againste
hym; for and if I had not made newe fortifications of bulwerks
of erthe, it had not be tenable one half daye. I wold it were in
the See, for I knowe not how to get men to remayne in it. Sir
undoubtedly ther was never man departed with more shame nor with
more feare than the Duke hath doon this daye: and
notwithstanding the greate Assemble that he hath made in
Scotland he hath not doon x=s=. worth of hurte within your
Grace's realme, nor never durste hymself entre the same. Sir I
feare me it shall not be possible for me to kepe this Army no
longer togidder; for suche as come oute of the bisshopriche,
this contre, and other places, at their own costs, have spent
all that they have; and with moche difficulte and faire words
have kepte theym here thus long. Notwithstanding I shall doo my
beste to kepe theym togidder unto the tyme that I shall knowe
the Duks army bee perspoiled. Assuering your Grace that maister
Magnus hath but iij. M. marks lefte; and if th'army shuld be
discharged tomorrowe next, I think x M. marks woll not paye that
is owing and conduyte money home. And considering howe
paynefully and with howe good will they have served, it were
pitie they shuld departe withoute having that was promysed
theym, wherfore mooste humble I beseche your Highnes that
convenyent money maye be sente hither with diligence. And if it
come not bifore the departing
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hens of th'army, to th'entente they shuld not goo hens groudging
and speking shrodly, I shall delyver theym asmoche as is here
with asmoche more as I maye borowe. And also I shall bynd myself
by my bill signed with myn hand to paye theym asmoche as shalbe
due for the reste; mooste humble besechyng your Highnes to see
me dischardged of the same with convenyente diligence, or els I
shalbe uttirly undoon for ever. Also I beseche your Grace to
send thankfull lettres to suche as have doon good servyce at
this tyme, whos names be conteyned in a bill herein closed: also
lx. iiij=xx=. blanks to be written here to suche as I doo not
remembre the names of: assuering your Grace that in all my lif I
never sawe somany Englishmen in none army nor so well willed as
thees were fro the higheste to the loweste, nor never was
gentilman so moche bounde as I have been this Jorney to all
noblemen, gentilmen, and souldiors; whiche favor they have
shewed me for the greate love they bere to your Highnes, and the
desierous myende they have to doo your Grace service. Written in
the Campe ij. myles from Wark this Tuysday at night.
   Your most humble subject and servant
   T. Surrey.
To the Kings most noble Grace.

<Q OR1 1524 TDACRE>
<A THOMAS LORD DACRE>
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[} [\LETTER LXXXV. LORD DACRE TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
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   My Lorde pleas it your Grace to knowe that this present hour
I am advertised by my secrete espiall out of Scotland that the
Lordes of the same contynueng
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to giddres all Witson Weke in Edinburghe were in the Tolbothe of
the same Monday, Tewisday, Wednisday, and Thurysday laste paste
in counseill, and there the Duke of Albany demanded of theim by
his writing certein things articulerly as your Grace may
perceive by theim, with the Lordes aunsweres ensewing; that is
to saye
   Furst the said Duke deasired thre monthes licence of the King
and Lordes to th'intent in that tyme he mought departe in France
and retorne in Scotland again for certain considerations moving
the King and Wele of Scotland, specially for the making of
provision for the defence and susteignyng of the Warres anempt
and against the Kings Highnes our Soveraign Lorde and his
realme, and to knowe what the Frenche Kings parte shulde be, to
the supple of Scotlande; and to that effect deasired a
Commission with Servants of the Kings to passe with hym in
Fraunce for his aunswere, good counseill, and supple to be had
and knowen towards Scotlande. 
   The Lordes aunswered sayeing it was not tyme now for hym to
remeve furth of the Realme, remembring the grete damagies that
the realme and pore subjects had susteigned in his absence past,
and considering that towards the King and Realme apperauntt
grete warres, and also, as they were advertised, the Realme by
all lyklyhode wolde in shorte tyme be preserved by
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the Kings Highnes our soverain Lorde and his realme, and seing
the King now at nonage, and he having governaunce of his Realme,
it were not his honor to be absent fro the defence of it. He
aunswered and said he had suche secrete busynes to do with the
Frenche King concernyng the same that he must nedes in his owne
person speke with hym. The Lordes hering the same, graunted hym
the said licence with a commission to oon Maister David Beton, a
clerke, and a harrolde, to departe with hym in Fraunce; which
thre persones ar delivered with powier and departed with him
accordingly.
   Secundely the Duke desired the bande that was maide in Rowane
by the bishop of Dunkelde, the secretary, and the bushop of Ross
to be kept by the King and the Lordes to the Frenche King, and
no peas to be takin with this Realme of Inglande during the time
of his licence; and further in his absens, without the advice of
the French Kyng and hym.
   The Lordes aunswered that the bande made in Rowane they were
contented shulde be kept, so that the Frenche King wolde in the
mean season kepe the bande maide to the King of Scotts; and in
likewise the lordes of Scotlande ar contented to contynew the
warre enduring his licence, and further, unto they had the
Frenche Kings advice, except that the King's
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Highnes our Soverain lorde be his maigne power in the mean
season fortuned to invade and pursue Scotland, whiche Scotland
were not able to resiste, that then he being absent, (of force)
they must neds take peas with our said Soverain and his Realme.
   Thirdly the Duke desired the Quene and the Lordes to holde
the King in the Castell of Strivelying, and boundes divised for
hym afore, to his retorne in Scotland again, binding the Quene
neither to confederate with the Kings Highnes our said Soverain
lorde nor to consent to peas.
   To the which deasires the Quene denyed hym in a parte, saing
if he yode awaye she must neds do for her self: and inlikewise
the lordes said, promising to do their best to cause hym kepe
in, so farr as they might solicite hym.
   Fourthly the Duke deasired that Grisels, a Frenchman, his
servant, might remaine in Scotland as Treasourer of the same,
having th'auctoritye of his office whiles his retorne again in
Scotlande, and nothing to be done or consented unto in any
greate mattiers unto they had his advice.
   The Lordes aunswered, saing, what servant so ever he pleased
to leif theim shulde be welcum, but they thought not suche a man
mete for that office.
   Fiftly the Duke deasired that the Quene shulde be obeyed in
all her rights.
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   The Lordes aunswered and said the pleasure and service that
they might do shulde be at her commandement.
   Sextly and laste of all the Duke deasired to have and borrow
of the Lordes forty thousand Crownes of the Son to furnishe hym
certein wages, and for the furnishing of his Shippes, and he to
deliver the same again to the merchands of Scotlande in the
Towne of Deipe.
   The Lordes maide aunswer herunto they coude not make hym any
siche som of money: and said, if he wold remaigne with them to
the suppleying of the warres, thay shulde ware with hym their
bodies and goodes.
   Wherupon the same Duke having all the Lordes afore hym on
Fridaye last paste tooke leve of theim and rode that night to
Lithguo: on Satturday to Stryveling, and there remaigned
Sondaye, taking his leif of the King and Quene: and determined
to be in Glasgue yesterdaye: and this Tewisday to Dumbretain,
where as he wol take shippe if the wynde wol serve hym.
   Immediatly aftre he be entred ship, and sailed out of sight
frome Dumbretayn, I am promised to be surely and diligently
advertised therof; and if there be any retorne of hym your Grace
shalbe certefied accordingly,
<P 246>
God willing, who preserve your Grace. At Whittingham this last
daye of May at iij. of the clok in the mornyng.
   Yowrs to hyes serves
   Thomas Dacre.
To my Lord Legats Grace.

<Q OR1 1524 TDACRE>
<A THOMAS LORD DACRE>
<P 246>
[} [\LETTER LXXXVI. LORD DACRE TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
   My Lord, pleas it your Grace to be ascerteyned, according to
my former advertisements made unto your Grace of the Duc of
Albanies departure out of Scotland; so it was at his said
departure the Lordes of Scotland and he did not aggre verey
well: for his intente and purpose was to have gone with a
certein nombre unto the Isle of Man, and had viteilled his
shippes and made all other provisions for the same accordingly.
And whan it came to the poincte of his departing, all those that
had promised to go with hym satt downe and refused the Jorney.
Albeit of trouthe, the lordes of Scotland ar strately bounde and
sworne to stik still at the said Duks opynyon and the League
<P 247>
of France unto the laste daye of Auguste next comyng, at which
daye he hath promised to retorne into Scotland; and, if he fale
therof, he shalbe clerely exempted from all his auctoritie in
Scotland. And I am surely enformed that the said Lordes of
Scotland woll kepe their promisse to the said Duc, and nothing
do contrary the same for the tyme, except it be by force and
compulsion. Albeit I am inlikewise enformed, and verely truste,
that if it so fortune that the said Duc breke his promisse, and
cum not again at his appoincted daye, the said Lordes and
counseill of Scotland woll not onely leave his wayes, and
exclude hym clerely from all his auctoritie which he hath in
Scotland, but also semblably provide so that they may have peax
with the Kings Highnes by their owne meanes; and geve over all
bands, leages, and promises that are confermed betwene theim and
the Frenche King.
   Wherfore seyng that the said lords of Scotland woll make
persuyte to the King's Highnes for peax or treux now in the Ducs
absence, without it be for a surceace of warre to be taken
betwixt the wardeins upon the Bordors for a season, (which is
only for their and the Duks commoditie,) right necessarie and
requisite it is that the Kings Highnes and your Grace devise a
substanciall order what is beste to be done for their annoyance
now in the moste commodious tyme of the yere: for, according as
I have declared unto your Grace in my former writings, it is but
small exployt
<P 248>
that I can do with the nombre of men that lie now here in
garnyson, remembring how the Bordors of Scotland have bene
contynually destroyed sens the warres beganne. So that there is
no rode that can be made upon the said Bordors with so small a
nombre to the Kings honor. Howbeit I assure your Grace, for it
that we might do, I have holden them in quik occupation, making
of excourses contynually. And for proif that the frontors of the
Bordors of Scotland ar in maner destroyed, now lately the
viij=th=. day of this present monthe Sir William Evre lieutenant
of the Middill Merchies, accumpanied with one thousand men and
moo, made a Jorney into Scotland, and did verey well, and seased
and brought awey above viij=c=. nowte with many horses and othr
catall, as shepe, and gate to a great nombre, and miche insight,
which I assure your Grace they did fetche xvj. myles within the
grounde of Scotland. And in likewise my son, and my broder Sir
Cristofer Dacre (accumpanied with a parte of the Weste marchies)
the same tyme made an oder Jorney into Scotland, and there
seased and gat nigh upon a thousand nowte, and miche oder
catall, whiche they did fetche xx. myles within the grounde of
Scotland. And so your Grace may perceive that it is litill that
we can do but only kepe the Bordors from excourses, though the
Kings Highnes be at grete charge; seing that litill or nothinge
is lefte upon the
<P 249>
frontors of Scotland without it be parte of ald Howses wherof
the thak and covereings ar taken awey, bireason wherof they
cannot be brint as my lord Treasurer can shew your Grace. And
therefore under correction of your Grace if it be the Kings
pleasure and Yours (as I trust it is) that sharp warre be made
upon Scotland, provision must be made for the same now in tyme;
and not only the number of five or six thousand men to be putt
in arredines as nighehande the Bordors as may be conveniently,
to cum forward at diverse tymes whan they shalbe called upon,
for making of certen grete rodes; and alwey, after a grete rode
made to have wagies for that tyme only and to departe, and
retorne to an order as they shalbe called upon; but also
ordinance and horses to drawe the same with all oder necessaries
therunto belonging to be made redy accordingly. For surely to
dryve the tyme as we do, leving in defense, and doing but small
hurt to the Kings enemyes, it is nothing to the honor of his
Highnes, and far lesse to his prouffite as your Grace may well
perceive. And if the Kings Highnes and your Grace woll not take
this ordre, or othr like ordre, for oppressing of the said
Scotts, then (under your Grace's correction) best it is that a
surcease of Werre be taken by the wardeins for a season, which I
am sure the Lordes of Scotland woll specially deasire, because
it is for their owne commoditie, and after
<P 250>
that, I trust, the Chauncellare of Scotlande (with whome the Duc
hath left his hole auctoritie) wolde be contented to mete at the
bordors any honorable person that the King's Highnes and your
Grace wold appointe, for to common and speke of peax and
tranquillitie to be had betwene thes two realmes, whereunto he
hath alwey allegied that he is right well affectionate and
mynded. And if a surceace of werre were taken wherby that the
bordors of Scotland might be plenisshed, and the estats of the
realme gete prouffite (which they now lak), percaase they shuld
fynde it so swete that they wold be wel advised or they brak
agian aithr for the pleasour of the Frenche King, the Duc of
Albany, or of any oder. As knoweth the Holy Trinite who preserve
Your Grace. At Hexham the xj=th=. day of Junii.
   Yowrs with hys serves
   Thomas Dacre.

<Q OR1 1520S HENRY8>
<A HENRY VIII>
<P 269>
[} [\LETTER XCII. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }]
   Myne awne good Cardinall, I recomande me unto you with all my
hart, and thanke yow for the grette payne and labour that yow do
dayly take in my bysynes and maters, desyryng yow (that wen yow
have well establyshyd them) to take summe pastyme and comfort,
to the intent yow may the longer endure to serve us; for allways
payne can nott be induryd. Surly yow have so substancyally
orderyd oure maters bothe off thys syde the See and byonde that
in myne oppynyon lityll or nothyng can be addyd; nevertheles,
accordyng
<P 270>
to your desyre, I do send yow myne oppynyon by thys berar, the
refformacion whereoff I do remytte to yow and the remnante off
our trusty consellers, whyche I am sure wyll substantyally loke
on hyt. As tochyng the mater that Syr Wyllyam Says broght answar
off, I am well contentyd with what order so ever yow do take in
itt. The Quene my wyff hath desyryd me to make har most harty
recommendations to yow, as to hym that she lovethe very well,
and both she and I wolde knowe fayne when yow wyll repayre to
us. No more to yow att thys tyme bot that with God's helpe I
trust we shall dysspoynte oure enymys off theyre intendyd
purpose. Wryttyn with the hand of your lovyng master
   Henry, R.
To My Lorde Cardinall.

<Q OR1 1520S MYTUDOR>
<A MARY QUEEN OF FRANCE>
<P 304>
[} [\LETTER XCIX. MARY THE FRENCH QUEEN TO HER BROTHER K. HEN.
VIII=TH=.\] }] 
   My most derest and best belowyd brother I humbly recommend vn
to yowr grace. Sir so yt tys that I have bene very seke and eke
atons for the wyche I was fayne to sende for Master Peter the
fesysyon for to have hoplen me of the dessays that I haue. Howbe
yt I am rathar wors than better. Were for I trowst showrly to
come vp to Londone with my Lord. For and yf I shold tary here I
am sowr I shold never asspeare the sekenys that I haue. Wer for,
Sir, I wolde be the gladther a grete dele to com thether, by
cawse I wold be glad to se yowr grace, the wyche I do thyncke
long for to do; for I haue bene a grete wyle out of yowr syte:
and now I thowst I shal not be so long agene: for the syte of
yowr grace ys to me the grettys comforte to me that may be
possybel. No
<P 305>
more to your grace at thys tyme, bwt I pray God send yow yowr
hartys dessyr, and showrly to the syte of yow.
   by yowr lowyng suster
   Mary the Frenche Qu ...

<Q OR1 1528 ABOLEYN>
<A ANNE BOLEYN>
<P 305>
[} [\LETTER C. ANNE BOLEYN TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.\] }] 
   My Lord, in my most humblyst wyse that my powuer hart can
thynke I do thanke your Grace for your kynd Letter, and for
youer rych and goodly present, the whyche I shall never be able
to desarve wyth owt your gret helpe, of the whyche I have
hetherto hade so grete plente that all the dayes of my lyfe I am
moaste bownd [{of{] all creators next the Kyngs Grace
<P 306>
to love and serve your Grace, of the whyche I besyche yo[{u
never{] to dowte that ever I shalle vary frome this thought as
long a[{s ony bre{]the is in my body. And as tochyng your Graces
troble with the Swet [{I thanke o{]wer Lorde that them that I
desyerd and prayed for ar sca[{pyd, and th{]at is the Kyng and
you. Not doughthyng bot that God [{has preser{]vyd you bothe for
grete cawsys knowen allonly of his hy[{gh wysdom{]e. And as for
the commyng of the Legate, I desyer that moche; [{and yf it be
Godds{] pleasor I pray hym to send this matter shortly to [{a
good ende{] : and then I trust my Lord to recompence part of
your gr[{ete panys the whych{] I must requyer you in the meane
tyme to excepte [{my good wyll in t{]he stede of the power, the
whyche must prosede partly f[{rom you as ower Lo{]urd knoweth to
whom I be syche to sende you lon[{ge lyfe with continew{]ance in
honor. Wrytten wyth the hande of her th[{at is most bound to
be{]
   You[{r humble and{]
   obed[{yent servante
   Anne Boleyn.{]



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