CP 138, 29b

CP Volume 138 Folio 29(b)

HMC Volume 1 Page 209 Number 669

Haynes Page 290 Number 277

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

15 April 1560 From my Lord his Grace to Mr. Secretary

From the Duke of Norfolk's Book of Entries.

ALTHOUGHE, good Mr. Secretarie, I have hered nothinge yet from the Campe worthe Advertisemente, sins my last Lettres unto you, yet I thought good to wryte thes few Lynes, wherbye ye might perceave this longe Distaunce betwene my Lettres hath rather proceaded for lack of Occasion, then for any slackenes in me. I have received this Daie the Quene's Majesties and your Lettres of the 9th of this Moneth, by the whiche I do gather the good Will that the Quene's Majestie hathe to accorde thes greate Matters with an amycable Peace, for whiche cause here Majestie wisshethe Sir R. Sadlyer to be sent thyther, who alredy is gonn; of whom the Quene's Majestie doth gather no frustratt Opynyon, in chusing hym as the metest Instrument to serve here Majestie there; who making no Comparyson is best estemed with the Scotts, of any Englisheman, and with his Credytt ther is hable to doo moste for the Quene's Majestie's Service. I have neverthelesse, althoughe I had alreadye at his departure gyven hym Instructions according to the Quene's Majestie's Determynacion, yet nowe for the more Sewertie, and the better executing of here Highnes Pleasure therein, I have sent hym the Artycles drawn out of here Majestie's Lettre, the Accomplyshment whereof I do no more mystruste, then if I were present ther myself. This Daie ther is past by here twenty seven or twenty eight Sayle of Ships; we are in good hope that it is the Ordynance, whiche, if yt be so shall muche availe the Quene's Majestie's Servyce here: For I doubt not bat you do well consider, that ther is no Peace that cann fall out, for our Purpose here, except it be made, to the Frenche Men's grete feare, with immynent Danger of the Hazard of all before their Eyes. Thus hoping shortely to be hable to wryte unto you of better Newes, eyther by Peaxe or Warr, I bydd you, &c.

POSTSCRIPT. You neade not to feare any hurte that cann fall to us by the Bishop's Man, for he went no further then the Scottishe Campe.

Tho. Norffolk.