CP, 153, 7

CP Volume 153 Folio 7

HMC Volume 1 Page 241 Number 753

Haynes Page 333 Number 339

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

25 June 1560. Mr. Secretary Cecill to the Duke of Norfolk

From the Original.

IT may please your Grace. I am bold for excuse of wryting to referr to this Berar the Report of Thyngs here. We grow nigh appoyntment, onely diffidence maketh strangnes. Our travell, and specially myne, is more with the Lords of Scotland, than with the French. I fynd some so depely perswaded in the Matter of Relligion, as nothing can perswade them, that maye appear to hynder it. My Lord of Ledyngton, whose Capacite and Creditt is worth six others, helpeth much in this, or els suerly I see folly wold hazard the whole. This Afternoone will trye I think the issew; and yet, untill I here answer of John Binks's Message from the Court, we can not fully conclude the Treaty. I trust to here of hym by Thursday at Night, or Frydaye by twelve a Clock; and so I take my Leave of your Grace. From Edenburgh the 25th of June, 1560. Your Grace's at Command,

W. Cecill.

To the Duke of Norfolk's good Grace, Lord Lieutenant General in the North.