Edward VI: April 1552 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI 1547-1553. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1861.

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'Edward VI: April 1552', in Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI 1547-1553, ed. William B Turnbull( London, 1861), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/foreign/edw-vi/pp213-214 [accessed 22 November 2024].

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April 1552



April 9.	544. Sir Richard Morysine to Sir William Cecil. If there be no other way to relieve him, begs Cecil that suit shall be made for him to have in loan 1,000l. upon gage of 100l. by year. He made Stephen Hales his proctor, to sell and do all other things for him in his absence, but by no entreaty can he bring Hales to sell half as fast as he would. Would God the Lords of the Council did sometimes think of his bareness, and either would call him hence, or make him able to be here! Has wished a hundred times some of them would tell Stephen Hales he shall lie by the heels, in case he does not his best to sell some of the land. Whether he comes away or not, this is no time for a fearful woman to travel in, no time for her to lug a great belly through Germany. God send them some comfort, or no life! Would he beg it where he can so hardly speed, if there were any way of his own to help himself withal? Shall never take so much pleasure by land kept, gotten, or given, as he takes sorrows for that he cannot get Hales to despatch some piece of that little that is left. Prays Cecil to say that he will entreat others to stir Hales to it, if neither of them are able to make him fall to the sale of it. If Hales will sell no land for him, what will the Lords have him to do? Shall he in Italy seek to borrow, that so hardly can find any here in Germany that dare lend him? If he puts his men away, if he leaves his wife a sojourner, without board wages, the shame may fall to his share, but some others must part blame with him. Who can make provision where they look every hour to remove? How must they buy things, where men know their stuff is ready trussed up, and they fleeting every day? He would once again send Weston, but that he has sent already more than he wishes he had. He has no such plenty of money, nor they at home such store of pity, as he can make them feel any parcel of his misery. Cecil's friendship has not wanted, and yet is he a miser. Will nevertheless hope the Lords do not mean he should still be quite without help. If they will he be, it must be so still; for unless they bestow relief or Cecil forces his brother to sell land, he finds no third way. Wishes Cecil never to be an Ambassador, for which wish Cecil is bound to owe him a good deal of good will.
April 9.	P.S. If these letters tarry by the way, he cannot do withal; he is fain to send them by Venice. [Two pages.]
April 12. Paris.	545. Charles du Moulin, lawyer of Paris, to King Edward VI., presenting his Majesty with a copy of a work composed by him and dedicated to his Majesty's father-in-law, King Henry II. of France. (fn. 1) [French. Two pages. Indorsed erroneously as from Claude du Moulin.]
April 23. Inspruck.	546. Sir Richard Morysine to Sir William Cecil. Spends money once again, in hope that some will come in lieu of it. If not, he shall shortly to the hospital. His wife is driven from him; her belly is too great for to welcome great fear. His man is his letter, and therefore he will in this protest a memory of Cecil's gentleness and a lack of time in himself. Wishes him health and heart's ease, an herb that grows not in gardens in this naughty country; and therefore they that want it, and are in small hope to come by it, may largely wish it to others. [One page.]