CP, 152, 166

CP Volume 152 Folio 166

HMC Volume 1 Page 245 Number 766.

Haynes Page 344 Number 347

Transcribed by Samuel Haynes in “A Collection of State Papers . . . 1542 to 1570” London, 1740

3 July 1560 Sir Thomas Parry to Secretary Cecill, with a Letter from Mr. Carew, to the Quene's Majesty; and Valentine Brown's Certificate of the State of the Army

From the Original.

SIR,

HER Majestie prayseth God for yowr Helthe, and prayethe for the good Contynewance therof, and hather commandid so to write with her moste harty Commendacions. Her Majestie sends herewith unto yow Sir Pater Carews Advertisements of the State of Things about Leethe, to thintent ye may consider therof, and to conferr for the Reformation, &c. Her Highness wollde in ony wise, that ye kepe then saufe for her. Ye have allso therwith Valentyne Browne's Certificat, certified to her Majestie, bothe at ones; I praye ye kepe bothe very saufely for her Majestie. My Lord Sussex is dispached, and so shall Mr. Sydney, God willing: My Lord goes within thes two Dayes, and Mr. Sydney upon Monday. This Day sevenight my Lord of Bedfford hathe taken his leve and is gone. As sone as the Harkebusyers, being three hundred, appoynted to come thither with Farnehind, and under his leding, shall be taken up here at London, the Mayor shall be spoken with all, and the Cyty understanded; and therupon Musters to be taken and shewed, as the Thing shall fall owt. Ther ar arryved at London diverse Peces of Velvets, besides a good Nomber of Ells of Crymsyn Velvet; I pray you by the nextt assuryd Post advertise me how to understand the one and the other, ontill ye come, for keeping Officers in good order. My Lorde Tresorer Answers, as bothe ye may perceve by Mr. Peter's Letter to you, and by his to me. His Letter, with many sendings for, came to me this Monday Mornyng, and so to my Lords, and another to the Queen. Ye shall have, I think, two Spanyards come into those Partes by the Request of the Bishop of Aquyla; considder well least they be practisers. My Lord Admyrall is at last come up the Sees with a good Wynde towards Portsmouthe. God spede him well to retorne. I have not harde of my Lady since ye went, and therfor I have even nowe sent onto her to know how and what she wants. It shall pleise her to here of Burley, but moche more to here from you of your Helthe; which I pray God preserve and increase well evermore in you. Her Majestie wollde in ony wise ye kepe Mr. Carew's Letters, and these Advertisements sauffe and secrett. Thinke me not long thus in scribling, for I longue to write and to here from you. All my Lords commend them unto you, and pray for your Helthe: And so do I and all your Frends here. In hast the third of Julie 1560. at the Court. Your faithfull during lief,

Tho. Parry.

Commend to Mr. Wotton, to my Lord Norfolk Ledingtoune, Carew, Persye, and the rest.