nerall of Normandye to speke with the President of Parlement, fader of the said Electe, to aggree for the said recompence; wiche they wold doo without fawte this day or to morowe at the furthest and also ther shall goo another Letter to his Ambassadour to Rome; and the said King badde me to sende him word that without faille the said Electe shall make al suche releas or writing as ye can desire for your suertye therof. Or ever I deperte I woll knowe a perfaite ende theryn, and after the advyse and counsaill of master Dean of Wyndesore I woll cause to be made writing, if he thinke that any may be made, for your suertie, before ye sende to Rome; or else I woll order the mater soo that at altymes whan ye wol sende for them that ye shall have theym. My good Lord, the King here hathe desired me to write to you that he hertely desirs you that in his name ye desire his good brother and cousin, if God sende hym a sonne, that he may be godfader as he was last; for in soo doing he shall do hym a right great plessour. And he wol sende a good and honorable personage to be ther ageinst the Quenes delyverance, to represent his personne, and to do the acte in his name; also the said personne shal have auctorite to speke, comune, and conclude for ther metyng, and of other secrett maters. And of this he desires you that he may be ascertayned of his good brothars mynde and plesier be your writing; for assone as he hathe answer he woll dispache his said ambassadour.

My Lord the Frenche Quene tould me that she loved my Lady Gilford well, but she is content that she come not, for she is in that case that she may well be without hur, for she may do what she wolle. I pray God that soo it may ever contynue to his plessour, whom I pray to have you, myne especiall good Lord, in his blessid keping. Wrettyn at Saint Denyse the vjth daie of November.

Assurly yours to my power

C. WORCESTER.

Myne especiall good Lord my

Lord Archebusshop of Yorke.

LETTER LXXII.

The Duke of Suffolk and the other Ambassadors in France to the King, giving an account of their Negociations, the Coronation of the Queen, &c.

[MS. COTTON. BRIT. MUS. CALIG. D. VI. fol. 203. Orig.] ·

PLEASE it your Grace, Sir, the last day of October the Kyng and Quene came to Sainct Denys, and send to Parys to us the Tresourer Robertett, prayeng us to remayn there the furst and seconde day of November for the great Solemnitie of the Feastes of Alhalowes and All Soules, and on Friday the third day of No

vember he prayed us to com to Sainct Denys aforesaid, and then my Lord of Suffolke and my Lord Marques might deliver there your moost honourable letters and shewe their credence, which the Frenshe Kyng wold be glad to here, and then we shuld also know his determinate mynde aswell for the Coronation of the Quene as for her Entre into Parys. The said Friday aboute x. of clok we came to Sainct Denys according to the said appointement, and imediately we wer sent for into th'Abbey, and conveyed into a chaumber wher we dyned; and after dyner we wer brought into the Kynges presence, wher after your moost herty recommendations and deliverence of your moost honorable letters by my said Lord of Suffolke in due forme made, the Lordes, according to their instructions, gaf thankes, aswell for the honorable recevyng and metyng of the Quenes Grace at her furst arryvaill at Bolayn, and specially in his own person at Abbeville, as also for the lovyng and honorable entertayneng of her ever sithe, and for the good recuoila doon to your Ambassadours late beyng with the Quene at Abbevile aforesaid.

Item, they shewed hym that by your ambassadours letters, that wer here befor, your Grace understode how well mynded and desirous he was for th'Enterview to be had, betwixt your Highnes and hym; and therfor ́ to th'entent that he might understand that ye wer

a regale, welcome.

of no lesse mynde towards the same then he, your Grace had geven speciall comaundement to theym and to my Lord Chaumberlayn, and us that wer here bifor, to commune, treate, and conclude of the tyme and place most convenient for the same; and also of the maner and form therof, and with what noumbre either partie shuld com. And as touching this point, he hertely thanked your Grace, sayeng that his Counsell shuld forthwith goo with us to comune therupon: and after som comunication had with his Grace for the Quenes Coronacion, which he said shuld be upon Sonday folowing, and th'Entree into Parys upon Monday, we wer brought into the Duc of Longuevilles chaumber, wher was the Cardinall of Pree, the said Duc of Longuevile, Mons". Bussaige, the Tresourer Robertett, and the Generall of Normandie; and after som comunication had there, we made overture of the said metyng to be at your Town of Calys, persuading, by all reasons that we coude devise, that place to be most convenient therfor. Howbeit they wold in nowise agree therto, sayeng that it was not convenient for divers consideracions, and specially the weyknes of their Maister considred. They said they trusted that your Grace wold not desire hym to labour so fare; and after som replication to the same, we lefte that matre undertermyned, and fell to Comunication of the tyme, and astouching that poynt, forsomuch as Esterday fallethe the viij th day of April, the nigh

nesse of the said Feast and your passaye over seye considred, we thought it might not be before the xxth of the said Monyth, wherunto they wer somwhat agreable for that tyme; and therwith they fell into comunication agayn of the place, desiryng of the place, desiryng us to make overture of some other place; and seyng that they wold in nowise agree upon Calys, we made overture of Sainct Peters, sayeing that that was the furdest place that we had in Commission to treate upon, to th'entent we might the rather induce theym to condescend upon the same; and albeit they wer not contented with that place, yet they said they wold comune with the Kyng bothe of the place and tyme by us mensioned, and know his pleasur, and therupon commune with us agayn, and at this poynt we departed for that tyme.

Item, Sonday the v.th. day of November, the Quene was crowned, and bifore she came to the Churche, the space of an hour, Mons". de Mombrancy a came to my Lord of Suffolkes logyng, wher we were all toguedre, and desired us to come to the Church, to take up our places ordened for us or the presse came, and soo we did. The said place was ordened at the on ende of the Quere, on the right side of the highe aulter, right afore the place wher the Quene shuld be anoynted; and within an hour after she came in, accompanyed with a great companye of noblemen and ladyes; the Duc of Bretaign led her, and bifore her came the Duc

a Montmorency.