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of Justice may b3 made within this Realm on the persons comitters of sic an 

 horreble offence to your grace hye honor and forth-showing of your grace mynde 

 to the punyssion of sic trespassers sen never sic like hais been don in your grace 

 Eealm, and ferder the eternall God mot presyi-ve your grace highnes. At New- 

 castle this VI day of December. 



" Yo' grace humble servants 



George of Cassells 

 Maxwell_ 

 Lord Somvell 

 Lord Gray." 



XI. 1554, Jan. 13tli. Queen Mauy to Sir John Thynne. 



Instructions for receiving Philip of Spain in case he should 



Land at any Port in the West of England. 



" By the Quene. 

 "Marte the qtjene. 



" Trustie and welbeloved we grete you well. And where the right high and 

 excellent, our good Cousin the prince of Spajme is resolved within short tyrae to 

 come into this our Realm : Forasmuch as we doo much desier to have him both 

 at his landing and in all other places of his passage well and honorably used and 

 enterteyned as to the estate of so great a Prince, and the propinquitie of bloud 

 and straite alliaunce betwene us apperteynith. Albeit we thinke his best oper- 

 tunity of landing shalbe about Southampton or Portesmouth, yet doubting how 

 the winde and wether may sei-ve and that therefore it may chaunce him to land 

 at Bristow or in some other our portes in the west countrey, we have thought 

 good to pray and require you to putt yourself in order with suche gentlemen of 

 your neighbours and friends as you may to give attendance upon him yff he doo 

 land in any of the said western portes, as sone as he shall come nere the borders 

 of that our Countie of Wiltes, and for that purpose to barken diligently where it 

 shall chaunce him to land attending upon him continually untill you shall perceive 

 other personages of honour to repaire unto him for the same effect, And during 

 the tyme of your attendaunce upon him, we pray and require you to take order, 

 that things necessarie for him and his trayne may be supplied in all places as 

 honorably as may be whereby you shall administre unto us right acceptable 

 pleasure which we will not faile to reteigne in our good remembraunce to be 

 considered towards you as occasion may serve. Yeven under our Signet at our 

 pallace of Westminster the xiiij* day of January the first yere of our Reign. 

 " To our trustie and welbeloved Sir 



John Thynne Knight." 



\_The seal used is that of K. Edio. FZ] 



XII. (1 p. & M.) 1554, Dec. 6th. The Pope's Supremacy 

 REVIVED. A Letter of News from: London. 



Richard Roberts to Sir John Thynne. 



"6 December 1554 



" We say here and it is so published openly, that the supremacy is lefte and 



by common consent restored again to the Pope's Holynes as to our Supreme Head 



