CP, 152, 172

From Waalt

CP Volume 152 Folio 172

HMC Volume 1 Page 231 Number 732

Haynes Page 324 Number 329

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

8 June 1560 Mr. Secretary Cecyll and Mr. Doctor Wootton to the Counsell

From the Original.

IT may please yowr honorable Lordships, we have spent all this Afternoone in talk with theis Frenchmen, and have entred into many Matters; but Randon affirmeth precisely that he may not treate of any Matter of Scotland, without speche with the Quene Dowager: Much hath bene sayd this Daye on both Parts, but, consideryng we have resolved nothyng, we thynk not mete to molest your Lordships, but only for the Quene's Majestie's Satisfaction, have thought convenient to wryte Part of the Procedings. We perceyve that the Quene Dowager is in great Perill. The Towne maketh some Apparance of lack of Victell; but we feare the lack commeth not nere the Soldior, but the superfluose People. I the Secretory meane for dyvers respects, as it wer by stelth, to mete to morrow in the Night with my Lord of Norfolk at Alnwyk; and so retorning on Monday in the Morning, we woll conclude with the French for there going or tarryeng. And so we humbly take our leave of your Lordships, prayeng yowr Lordships to excuse our short wryting, which we doo at this present for hast. From Newcastle the 8th of June in Night, 1560. Your Lordships bumbly at Commandment,

W. Cecill, N. Wotton.

To the Right Honorable the Lords and others of hir Majestie's Privee Coun-sell, attendant on her Majestie's Person.