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ritee and feare, in the which when on? mai Ipekc boldlie and 

 undangerd, everie thinge is wittie, in feare and unquietnes, a 

 good wit faintelh, and a harebrained witt femeth ftarke mad, 

 for y' which fingular difobediens he hathe bene and is yet in the ' 

 towre, a place y' hath longed for him, fins y' biHiop of romes 

 abrogacon, or rather expulfion. In the whiche doinge y" fear of 

 treble is taken awaie, the trueth of religion goeth forwarde, the 

 waveringe me be confirmed, y' papiftes be aftonied, and everie 

 thinge is wel mended. Of doutful Haddington, and fkottiflic 

 matters, we wil write more in our next letters, the governemet 

 of y= realme is deliverd bi parliamet there to y" frenche kinge, (f) 

 y' flieptre bi y" crle of argile, y" crowne bi y' erle of anguifhe, 

 y' fwcrde bi therle of worth, y" fkottifhe quene to be maried 

 to y' dolphin of France, and embarked as it is fuppofed to take 

 iornej into francc. God fend grace and y' plentifullie, y' even 

 as haddington, was builded of great and neceffarie confideracons, 

 even fo bi his pleafore we maie defende it from there violence 

 whiche is yet likely inoughe to be kept. Fare ye moofi; hartelie 

 wel, y' XVII of Julie 1548. 2. Ed. 6. from hampton courte. yo' 

 affured frcndes. 



Thomas Wrothe. 



Joan Cheke. 



Postscript, 



(/) This circumftance is probably mifreprefeiited through prejurflce. I can find 

 no account of it in Buchanan, and though the French intereft was great it is very 

 unlikely that fuch a furrender fliould be made. With refpeft to the ceremony of 



tleliveiing 



