CP 152, 131

CP Volume 152 Folio 131

HMC Volume 1 Page 209 Number 670

Haynes Page 292 Number 279

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

16 April 1560. The Queen's Majesty to the Lord Gray

From a Minute of Secretary Cecill.

TRUSTY and welbeloved we grete yow well. Understanding that the Lords of Scotland be brought to some perplexite, by Meane of Conference lately had with the French, wherin they doubt they shall not be sufficiently provided for there suerty; and also uppon Intelligence gyven them, that it was not lykely for lack of Mony and such lyke, that the Purpoose shuld be prosequuted by our Army to the End; We be sorry to understand that, by any such Devise, the Cause shuld be hundred. And therfore we ernestly require you to haue Consideration hereof, and helpe to remedy all this, and to recomforte them with this Assurance, that we meane to keepe our covenants with them, and to make no Accord but for there Suerty, nother to spare any Thing that maye reduce this Purpoose to good End. And therfore in the approchyng of the Towne, we require yow to omitt nothyng that maye tende to the Compulsion of them, ether to come to Treaty or Accord, or to depart, or to be surprised: For we will not lightly pass over so weighty a Mattres as this is. As for the Treaty, we thynk Sir Raff. Sadler shall better attend it than yow, and therfore we committ this Seruice to yow, that ye doo your best to conftrayne the French to come to Treaty and Accord, which if they will doo, we wold wer not refused; otherwise we doubt not but they shall understand of our Force, being under your Governance. We trust suerly the rest of the Battery is with yow before this Tyme.