CP 138, 31a

From Waalt

CP Volume 138 Folio 31(a)

HMC Volume 1 Page 213 Number 682

Haynes Page 296 Number 288

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

23 April 1560 From my Lord his Grace to Mr. Secretarie

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

Mr. Secretarie,

WE have received from the Campe thes Letters, this present Daie, which we thought good to send you. For your better Satisfaction of the Discourse of all the Affaires there, the Particularyties whereof to wryte were but a doble Trouble. And yet as I am wont alweis, to be playne with you, I must tell you my Fantasie in ne Thinge, and that is this; I do no way like, that, if the Scotts shuld relent in any Parte of their Demandes, as my Lord Gray wrytethe, they wold soonest give Place to have a certein Nomber of French leffte in Dunbarr; whiche I think to be over nyer a Neighbour to Barwyckes cheff Ennemye, being Aymowtbe. I speke not this, as thoughe the Thinge were thus agreed, but for that I wold be lothe to speke to late: For if Lythe be, as it seamethe by my Lord Gray's Lettre, lyke shortly to be taken, ther woll no waye fall out so suer for the Safftie of the Englishe and the Scottes, as to wynne it by Force. All this is but my folisshe Opynyon, and I praye you take it so. Ther is too Things in Randall's Lettres unto you and me chieffly to be considered; the one in your Lettre of the Lord Erskin's warnyng to the Lord James, the other in myne, of the dissembling Bisshop's venemous Wordes. Thus being in hope shortelye to wryte unto you of sum good Successe, I bydd you, &c.

Thomas Norffolk.