CP 138, 31c

From Waalt

CP Volume 138 Folio 31(c)

HMC Volume 1 Page 215 Number 685

Haynes Page 299 Number 292

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

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

From the Duke of Norfolk's Book of Entries.

YOU shall receive herwith a Lettre sent unto me, from the Lord Graye; wherbye you may understand, that, as yet, the French gaynethe nothing at our Handes. The taking and overthrowing of the Dunbarr Men shall make our Lettres passe nowe in more Safftie: And I wold hope that we shuld quycklye make an Ende of Lythe, and be readye, to goo in Hand with Dunbarr; whiche woll not be longe in doinge, if this abusing dissembling Treatye, were quytt shaken of. One Thing ye may be sure of, They woll never conclude to none, before the Quene's Majestie woll releaxe here Pledgs, and Covenaunts taken betwext the Scotts and here Majestie: And whensoever it shalbe brought to that passe, the Quene's Majestie shall have a faire catche, in Recompense of here great Chardgs. And if Lythe were not easye to be wonne, then yt were good treating; but if it be, as my Lord Gray wrytythe, ther is no weye so sure for us, as the Sworde. I have sent thither Sir Richard Lee, who, I thanke hym, at my Request was contented to take the Payne, althoughe he was not so well hable, as I wold have wisshed; and I doubt not but with his Experience and Understandinge, he shall prycke them forwardes to make an Ende: It is a shame to lye so longe, at a Sand Wall. I durst not send in the Treasure by Lande, for that it was in suche cumbersum Moneye, that it wold not be caried but in Carts, for the whiche the Countrey serveth not; and also for that the Borderers, even nowe of late, are appointed to be readie at one Howres warnynge: Their Meaning I cannott judge, except it were, with the Succors of Dunbarr, to have sett upon the Convoye; thinking yt to have ben, the best aide they could have shewed to them in Lythe, to have distressed the Treasure: But I do send Valentine Broune this Night in by Sea with a Wafter, and the Elisabeth of Hull. For God's Sake, whensoever you send us more Moneye, lett it be sent in Gold, or els in newe Silver: This was in Pence, Two-pence, and old Testones. Thus trusting you shall finde no Wante of good Will in our doings here, to do all Things for the best, I bydd you most, &c.

Thomas Norffolk.