moveit him factiously to fil the Chancellars rume. He indirectly deallis vith Huntly and fume of his fo[lloweris] ; fo, that appeirand to be ennemie, quhatever he fayeth it tendethe for Huntlyis avantage;-to the King he feimethe to fpeik it for the Kings veil, and veil of estait auin difpofitioun inclyning thairto. In forte he is in a maner the vphoulder of Huntly reght. This fare I doubt if it be plainly your men heir, for your Embaffadour is accomptit fumquhat fimple for our estait; and when men [fette] one a ground, if it tuitche the King his Maieftie in co[nfcience, it] defolves him from it, vitche I haue not of for that I nauer as yet haue practiquet the m . extremitie of bote of the Chancellar, and a nombre of vther [veill] villars, vho vould be glaid, from thair that fume man of countenance ver fend hither juftice nou can not be haid, that pointes refoluit by eftaites micht be vitche vithout doubt fhalbe grantit, for the K[ing] is futche, that at this tym he vill not refufe her Maieftie your fouveraines reasonable petition befyd this, the Chancellar vill advyse your L[ordfhip] and the King bothe, in maiters he can not propone himfelf, crauit to be by reafoun, as I haue faid, he is greu directly and indirectly, for futche a propo noe man fitter then Mr Robert Boues, for [one knowin] in our affaires is requifit, and for fo fcho imployement fmall moyens for a great good M[after] his inhabilitie. Remitting aluayis the choise of that to your Lordships vyfdome, bot one is neceffarely requifit vitche any thing to be performed. As for the In it that I could durft not haue medlit in it, for the day befor this toun, the holl merchandis in concurrence maid [head] and boftit my Lord Hamiltoun and Chancellar, because they oppofit them felfis to the marriage; fo that I am lothe to fpeik in it, and I think I fhall affectuat, for the King craueis fo great maiters bo[the in this] and vther pointis, that I doubt if they to performe it, and in this country thair be verie [few] noble men inclynable to it. I vould haue vrytten to her Maieftie particulairly quhat the King haithe faid to [me in] that maiter, bot I forbear, for that I haue not delt in vther pointis vith him, bot by Mr Hudson, vho shalbe defpetchit towardis her Maieftie. Vithin fyue or fix [days], I fhall, God willing, aduertis her Maiestie of all thingis, and more particulairly then goodly, I may at this tym by reafoun of fume heaft. I feare her Maieftie tak not veil that the money fche fend to the King for [the] greater pairt, is deftyneit to th' Earle Marchall for [defraie of] his voyage in Denmark, bot sche fchall not blam [the] Chancellar for it, nor haithe fche any caufe. Ref[talrig will] aduertis your Lordship, that all the jaloufies conceiuit of me proceedit of fume opinioun they haid that I ves go[verned] by Mr Archibald Douglas. And thairfor I pray your Lordship, the treuthe wer to schau how, when for malice Mr Archibald vould haue calumniat the Chancellar, I told your Lordship the fimple treuthe. This I pray your Lordship vryt to Mr Mr Afchby, whither from negligence or fume fauorably of me, he neuer vtterit the fame bot I am not to be a fore accufer of it, for [I] hoyp, God willing, to be able to do my awin turn. In the particulaire of Dumfermling, albeit pairtie as yet, I truft I fhalbe be half Thus haueing to long troublit your Lordship, I [commit you] to Godis holy protectioun. From Edinborrou, [the iiij day] of Junij, 1589. Your Lordships to do you [feruice], 2. of Grow: To the Right Honourable PATRICK MASTER OF GRAY TO LORD BURGHLEY.' MY LORD, efter this uther letter wes wrottin, Mr Afchby, hir Maiefties embaffador, fend me on from your Lordship, bot, befor the receyt of it, I had taikin leiue of his Maieftie to go viffie my father and my hous, fo that presently I think I can answer it in litle, forther then is alredy conteinit in my other letter for thair is futche unuorthy men about the Kings Maieftie that honeft men can nether do nor fpeik bot is mifconftructed. Yet within a day or tuo I am to retourne, and then I fhall concur with the Chancellar; bot I knou he wilbe lothe to deall ether directly or indirectly in ftay of the mariage with Denmark; for, as I had wrottin the verie day befor I came to this toun, thair arofe a great agenft my Lord Hamiltoun and him; for he, all noble men and gentlemen, fave a verie feu particulairs, be altogither inclyning to Navarre. So that my opinion is, bothe for that and other maiters, that Mr Robert Bowes fould be fend hither, and indirectly, the Chancellar and my felf fhall advyfe him hou to stay the maiter, and her Maieftie never to acknowledge it; nor yet fhall it be knowin in Denmark the maiter to proceed from her. And in the mid tym I fhall deall quhat I can with his Maieftic, according to the reafouns fete doun in your Lordfhips letter, and by Mr Hudfone fhall mak you advertifit hou fare I proffit. Bot as I wrot, th'Erle Marefchall hes alredy receavit a great pairt of the money her Maieftie fend to the King, for defraie of his voyage. The charge of this mariage is one Mr Peter Young, [Mefter Almowfer to his] Maieftie, who ves first imployed in the fame. As for my actiouns, fo fare as they may extend, fhall ever be to doo her Maieftie fervice, nixt my auin Master, and I hoyp the Chancellar will do the fame, fo that bothe propter iftud our auin particulair weilles as your Lordship co ter it fhalbe agenst my will if we [quar]reil amongst our selfis. I have hard [nothing] from Mr Archibald Douglas of newis, nor wifch I to heir from him. Bot wold be glaid to [hear] from your Lordship if From the original in Cott. MSS. Caligula, D. 1, fol. 381. any be good. So let me comit your Lordship to Godis holy protectioun. [From] Edinborrou, this 5 of Junij, 1589. My Lord, it shalbe, in my opinion, verie pertinent [that the] Secretary wryt a letter to the Chancellar, conteining fome argumentis fett doun by your Lordship, and futche a letter [as the] Chancellar may veil schaw to his Maieftie, as proceding from Mr Secretars felf. Your Lordships to comand, Ms of Gray. THOMAS FOWLER TO LORD BURGHLEY. acc Kings maryage, and the refolucyon upon the fame, I fynd ftyll to holde, and the Erll Marshall preparyng in haft to goo with the next wynde, for his inftruccyon is not drawne to a poynt, but fum of them agreed a I fynd that the Kinge is caryed by Coronell Stewerd, but fpecyally by Peter Yonge, in this matter of his maryage, frome the Chauncelour, and all other, fo far as he comends the delying of the towne of Edenbroroghe, and alowes [it to] procede of zeale and affeccyon they beare him, and to avoyde an extremety lyke to fawle upon themselves for theyre trade, yet he condemnes them for unreverent speches that the baser fort shold use against the Lady of Navar. And fum other the and theyre raylings agaynft Ingland, which he wold have had fum ponifhed for, but there was no partyculer men charged, 1 Cott. MSS. Caligula, D. 1, fol. 379. X it was fo generall. The fayd Stewerd and Yonge hathe put in his hed that the fyster of Navar is olde and croked, and fumthing worse if all were knowne; and fettes forthe the vther. So that it aperes the Kinge hathe conceaved a diflykinge by imagynacyon, which makes the Chauncellor yeld, and allow of his procedinges that way, but is forry for it in his hart, and hathe told me in fecret, that there hath none but fooles dealt in that negocyacyon as yet, fuche as ar vayne and hoepes to gayne to them felues by it; regarding not the good of theyre Mafter, and even now tuo fuche lyke, but of a higher degree, for the Marshall and the Lord of Dingewell, that goe with him, will not bothe make a wyese And their inftruccyons fhalbe fuche as the Chauncelour thinkes they in Denmark will never agree unto: one is, that they fhalbe bound to furnishe the Kinge ten thou[fand] men, payd and armed for fyx monthes, if he [fhould nede] to use them, for the obteyninge of Ingland after hir Maiefties defeafe. It was once agreed on fo longe as he fhold nede them. I thinke to get all the wh fone as they be drawne perfect, man. but non is prefent The fayd Peter Yonge determined to goe with the [Erll] Marshall, and the Kinge comends it, and it that Yonge inftruccyons to himselfe that shalbe more be not lyked, fo that they will haue no ft matter, but hoopes to brynge hir home with the at his returne, and make no moe fendings whea It was fet downe that the Erll fholde have but the couenants of the maryage, and the Lord Chancellar fhold haue gon for her, the Erll Marshall is perfuaded by fum frends, of which in truthe I am one, that Peter [Yonge] will robbe him of all the honour, havynge byn there before, and havinge fecret inftruccyons. And now he will not goo at all if Peter Yonge goo, and tells the [King] fo playnly yesterday; fo that yet the matter is not agreed upon. It is wifhed here by the well [willers] to Ingland, that the Cowncell of Denmarke myght be wrowght to anfwere, they wold conclude no maryage with the Kinge, without the Quene of Inglands confent; and that the forward |