as toward as was in all France, is slain, with twenty-four gentlemen and nobles of France, and some say 4000, some 5000, horsemen and footmen. The Queen here doth mourn, and the last day made a dole; the voice goes that it is for the Cardinal of Bourbon, lately deceased, who was uigh kin to her, but it is to be thought that she rather mourns for the death of that nobleman, and great overthrow of the French party. The Duke of Ferrara is Lieutenant-General of the French King's army in Italy, the Duke of Guise+ Lieutenant during the other's absence; the Duke of Nemours is, or was, the Chief Captain of the horsemen. Mons. Dosé, the French Ambassador, told me that he had news that the said Duke was wounded, how he could not tell; that the Duke of Alba waxes strong in field; that the Duke of Guise arrived in Rome in peace, and there received of the Pope with great gladness; that the Duke of Ferrara leads the army, and marches towards the enemy; of any meeting he heareth nothing, but very shortly thinks to have

news.

The Dowager complaineth much of the rebels, that there is no redress made on my Lord Dacre's side; I answered agreeing to your memorial. Of your honour she complains not at all. Sir Robert

*The alms distributed at funerals, or, as it appears from this passage, on other mournful occasions, were so called. The Cardinal of Bourbon here spoken of was Louis, Cardinal and Archbishop of Sens; maternal uncle to the Queen Dowager of Scotland, and third son of Francis, Count of Vendome. He died March 11, 1556-7.

+Francis Duke of Guise, afterwards the most conspicuous character in France. He was assassinated in 1563.

Carnegie* is sent, as she said, to complain that my Lord Dacres makes no redress; and carries with him all that passed between the Commissioners, to declare to the Queen's Majesty, my Sovereign, that on the Scots' part all justice is done. I hear say that the three ships which your Honours heard should have been scattered from those seven ships which came to Holy Island have returned into Scotland for new victuals. Thus most humbly I take my leave of your Lordship, desiring the same to have me humbly recommended to my good Lady, your Honour's bed-fellow. From Edinburgh, the 12th of April, 1557.

Your Lordship's most humbly to command,

LAURENCE HUSSEY.†

On Saturday came to Leith a ship of war of

This gentleman had a principal share in the administration of Scottish affairs during the Regency of the Duke of Chatelherault, who is said to have resigned his high office to the Queen Dowager at Sir Robert's request. He was frequently employed in important foreign negotiations; and died, very old, Jan. 5, 1565.

† We find, in a journal of the proceedings of the Privy Council in this reign, among Haynes's papers, that a Laurence Hussey, doubtless the same person, was apprehended on the 20th of July, 1553, with letters from Lady Jane Grey's Council, then sitting in the Tower, to the Duke of Northumberland. This slight circumstance, with the hints in the preceding letters concerning his business in Scotland, are all the intelligence that I can procure of him.

I have since met with the following monumental inscription in Charlewood Church, Surrey. "His jacet Guelms Jordan, de Gatwick Armig. qui obiit 7 Maii, 1625, et Katherina, uxor ejus unica, Filia et Co-Hæres Laurentii Hussey, Legum Doctor, Cancellaræ Magist. et Legati ad Reginam Scotia: Qui Lau. fuit Filius et Hæres Antonii Hussey, Agent. propter Reginam Angliæ infra Germania, et in Negotiis Mercatorie Angliæ apud Belgas et Muscovitas prefectus: Quæ Katherina obiit 30 Jan. 1626."

two tops; he is a Frenchman. I hear that the Dauphin of France is very sick.

*

No. XXVIII.

(Talbot Papers, Vol. D. fol. 6.)

LORD WHARTON

TO THE KING, QUEEN, AND COUNCIL.

PLEASETH it your Majesties, that I have called before me Sir John Forster, Ralph Grey of Chillingham, and George Heron, and have taken them, bound with sufficient sureties in good sums to your Highness's use, that they shall keep the peace, attend upon your Majesties, or my Lords of your Highnesses' most honourable Council, and else where they shall be commanded, according to your Majesty's letters of the 5th of April, sent from your Highnesses' city of York unto me. And as to your Highnesses' garrison of Berwick, such as were at Ford (to my knowledge, as I learned myself) I had committed for their being there before your Highnesses' letters came to my hands. I trust your Majesties, nor said Council, shall not find my service otherwise done than to my duty appertains, whatsoever any persons say of me untruly thereof.

And, having received five of your Highnesses' several letters from your Highnesses' city of York, (two of them to myself, the three others to the Justices of Peace and to me) according to the same,

Afterwards Francis II. and husband to the celebrated Mary Queen of Scots. This Prince, who was extremely weak both in body and mind, died in 1560, aged 17.

and upon others your Highnesses' commissions, I wrote letters, in your Majesties' names, to the Sheriff and said Justices, to have brought before them and me the other party, whose names were written in a schedule therewith; which they have disobeyed, and not appeared accordingly, to the no little marvel of the obedient subjects in these parts. They have kept in great bands, in armour, together; and, for that the Herons, and their party, say that the Sheriff and said Justices bear with them in their unlawful doings, I have forborne to stir men for the apprehension of such as have disobeyed, until I may know your Highnesses' pleasure, and said Council, what shall be done therein. Please your Majesties and said Council, that Giles Heron, late Treasurer, and Robert Barrowe, late Major, of your Highnesses' town of Berwick, riding in peaceable manner, (whatsoever was otherwise done) were most cruelly killed; the Major after his stroke never spake word; the Treasurer had fifteen bloody wounds upon him; the killers were in armour; powers of men have maintained them, and three of them have been conveyed into Scotland, where they are at Robin Carr's house of Graydon, and have with them the Treasurer's hat, a brooch, and a dagger. Others, who were at that cruel killing have been received by the Carrs and Collingwoods, as the other party say to me they will prove. Howsoever the cause of either of these parties has been, or shall be, I humbly beseech your Majesties to command and give order that obedience may be preserved, according to

your Highnesses' laws and commissions; wherein my service to your Highnesses shall appear to be truly and dutifully done.

It will also appear that John Carr and Thomas Carr, brethren, and others, have made untrue reports of my service and doings in the said causes; whom I trust your Highnesses and said Council will cause to be ordered as appertains. And, as I am most bounden, I shall pray to Almighty God to send unto your Majesties most long and prosperous reigns. At your Highnesses' castle of Berwick, the 14th of April, 1557.

No. XXIX.

(Talbot Papers, Vol. D. fol. 28.)

LORDS OF THE COUNCIL

TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

AFTER our right hearty commendations to your good Lordship. We have received your letters of the 23rd of this month, and do thereby perceive the order by you taken, as well for the sending of the 500 men unto Berwick, as for the appointing of an army of such able men as have been, or may be, mustered within your commission, according to the King and Queen's Majesties' letters lately addressed unto your Lordship for that purpose; your diligence used in which matters their Highnesses take in acceptable part, and have willed us to give you hearty thanks for the same. And where you write that there are but very few corslets to be gotten in those parts; albeit their