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Sept. 5.
Paris. |
560. Sir William Pickering to Sir William Cecil. Sends him
some books, which, if time had served, should have been bound; but
his messenger may attend no longer, and his own foot is in the
stirrup to return to the Court, from which he has been absent six or
seven days in taking order for the payment of 2,300 crowns, which
eat him to the hard bones in interest amongst those Paris bankers.
Urges Cecil to procure his revocation, as his affairs at home stand
so far out of joint that no man can remedy them but himself; and
hopes Cecil will put to a helping hand to rid him hence, or else
send him word, and bid him go hang himself. Beseeches speedy
payment of his next diet, which should be to his great advantage if
he might once receive it at the day. [One page. Indorsed by
Cecil.] |
Sept. 6.
Ulm. |
561. The Emperor Charles V. to King Edward VI. In favour
of Philip James Greck, general merchant of Ulm, for licence to him
and his heirs to export annually from England 1,000 bales of cloth
of all kinds, and 1,000 bales of the kind called kersey. [Latin.
Signed with the Emperor's cachet. One page.] |
Sept. 7.
Margenburg. |
562. Sigismund-Augustus, King of Poland, to same. The
citizens of Dantzic complain of the intolerable burdens and exactions to which they are undeservedly subjected in England, contrary to their old rights and privileges. His Majesty therefore
requests that the same liberties as formerly shall be conceded to the
Dantzic merchants in England, and, if any individual should have
offended, that others who are entirely innocent shall not be made
to suffer because of such offence. Complains that the goods of John
Brands and Matthew Czimerman, the Consuls for Dantzic in London,
have been arrested at the instance of Thomas Bannister, an English
merchant there, and that for no fault of theirs, who never did
Bannister any injury, but because a suit between him and Henry
Frise and other seamen of Hamburg vessels impledged in Denmark
had been transferred to the Courts of Dantzic, where judgment as
seemed right had been given. These goods Bannister will not release
except upon fidejussory caution, and even now does not cease from
annoying them. Begs that they may be released from this lien and
farther trouble, and His Majesty will do equal justice to the subjects
of England. [Latin. One page.] |
| Sept. 19. |
563. Information of Thomas Stukeley, gentleman, detailing his
private conversation with the French King, who apprized him of his
intention to invade England as soon as he had made peace with the
Emperor; his plan being to attack Calais, and land near Falmouth,
the Duke of Guise at same time landing at Dartmouth with supplies,
and the Scots entering into Northumberland. [Three pages. Printed
in "Literary Remains of King Edward VI.," Vol. ii., p. 455.
Roxburghe Club, 1857.] |
Sept. 19.
[Windsor.] |
564. Copy memorial for the instruction of Sir Richard Morysine,
Ambassador with the Emperor. He is to express his Majesty's
willingness to join the Emperor and other states of the empire in a
league against the Turk and his confederates, but the same to be
kept secret from the French King. [Seven pages. Printed in
Burnet's History of the Reformation, Vol. ii. Records, No. 57.] |
Sept. 29.
Spires. |
565. Sir Richard Morysine to Sir William Cecil. On all sides
Cecil overwhelms him with most friendly deeds, and fills him with
comfort by gentle and most friendly letters. He did take counsel of
his wife's cumbers, when he chose rather to come home in the spring
than to make his suit out of hand. Thanks God she is past her first
pains, and doubts not that, by good governance of herself, she will
pass such dangers as are wont to follow. God has sent him a pretty
tanakin, a fauson girl, as two of his friends at Augsburg sent him
word yesterday. Is sending to her who does, he dares tell, deserve
to be made of and to be pitied for that she has been forced to abide
since coming into Germany. He shall do her a good deal of wrong,
if he takes from her any part of his good chances that was so willing
to bear her portion of any his troubles. She is bound to Cecil, and
will confess it to the last of her life; as his letters have from time to
time eased a good piece of her sorrows. He found few better
medicines than letters when he was driven to dwell in mountains
and she to mourn in Augsburg. Would make these his best trifles
no piece of a letter, did he not see that in greatest throng of business
Cecil does not forget to add somewhat in his letters that may carry
gladness to her heart. His letters could not go ere she was brought
to bed, but now they shall to her with great speed. Knows whose
procurement the other letters were, and expresses his great obligation
for so singular a benefit. A King's hand commended Cecil's work,
and he cannot but love the root and honour the flowers which
brought such taste of a King's favour with them. Mr. Ascham
thinks himself much bound to Cecil, as his letters will show; and
this adds to the weight of Morysine's obligations. |
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P.S. "I would at no time forget to pray you to commend me to
my lady your bedfellow, but that I know she is seldom in Court. It
shall suffice me that she thinketh I wish her health and heart's ease."
[Two pages. Indorsed by Cecil.] |
