CP 138, 30c

CP Volume 138 Folio 30(c)

HMC Volume 1 Page 213 Number 680

Haynes Page 296 Number 287

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

21 April 1560 From my Lord his Grace to Mr. Secretarye

From the D. of Norfolk's Book of Entries.

YOU shall receive herewith suche Lettres as cam to me this Mornynge from the Campe. Wherbye ye shall perceave, that albeyt at the Skyrmysshe on Monday last, it was thought that the Losse of our Side was greete, yet nowe it shall apeace unto you, the Frenche was greater; and that the Enterprise to Lythe, is supposed to be more feasible then before. For the Corn-Powder my Lord Gray desirethe, I have allredy sent hym som Part thereof, and woll send hym the rest with what speede I maye. Levinston the Scott, whom I have stayed here uppon certein Suspycion, I intende according to the Lord of Lethington's Advise, to send to the Duke of Chastellerault, and the remanent Lords with hym, at the next Convoye with the Treasure, which I trust wolbe within thes three or four Daies. Thomas Randall's Lettres addressed to me, with also the Bishop of Amiens, the Lord Huntley's Brother, wryten in his excuse, I have included in this Pacquet; with also the seid Erle of Huntler's Requests to the Lords of the Congregacion, and their Annswer to the same. I pray you by the next, send me an Alphabet of the Ciphre, whiche was by Sommer lately deciphred; the rather, for that ther was latelye certein Lettres in Cipher intercepted, which cam from Lythe to the Dowagier; upon the Sight of the seid Alphabet I might perchaunce deciphre them here, I trust you woll by the next send me the Quene's Majestie's Resolution touching the beseeging of Edingburgh Castell and Incheskyeth; which both be thoaght feasible and easye to be donn, without hindring any Part of the Purpose to Lythe, and that within a shorte Tyme. Yesterday about three a Clocke at Affternowne, my Cousyn Sir George Howard arrived here, whom with this next Convoye I woll depeche to the Campe to his Chardge ther; in whose Companye, to thintente I may knowe the better the State of Lythe, Edinburg, Incheskyethe, and prick our Men forwarde to the achieving of their intended Enterprise ther, I woll send in Sir R. Lee, whose Presence and Advise I doubt not, shalbe a grete furtheraunce to the Queen's Majestie's Service ther. And thus, &c.

Tho. Norffolk.