EooK 11] EDWARD VI. Sr 



Respecting" this present of horses several documents 

 are preserved in the Pubhc Record Office, from which 

 it appears that certain instructions were drawn up 

 and furnished to Sir Jaques Granado, Knight, one of 

 the esquires of the stable, who was entrusted to con- 

 vey the racers to " the French king and the dolphin 

 of Fraunce and the constable of Fraunce, as tokens and 

 presentes from his Ma''^ to every of them." Formal 

 despatches were drafted by the council, minutes passed, 

 and warrants issued in connection with this business, 

 which assumed the aspect of some momentous affair 

 of state. At Paris there was also much ado. Sir 

 William Pickering writes from the British Embassy 

 there, to the council here, describing the reception of 

 the horses by the French king. Sir Jaques was duly 

 presented, delivered his credentials and the horses, 

 which Henry II. willingly accepted, and said, "that his 

 good brother had somewhat prevented him, for he 

 hadde longe agoo appointed a lyke present and of the 

 same commodities his country bare, which he wolde 

 also shortly sende unto his highness." 



In another despatch Sir William wrote as follows : 

 " Mr. Granado hath taken his leave, and hath in reward 

 three cheynes,* one of the king, the queue, and dol- 

 phin, in valeue by estimacion viij. C. f crownes. The 

 Kinges ma''^ shalle have sent him from hence vj. cor- 

 talles, iij. Spanishe horses, one torke,J a barbery, one 

 cowerser, and ij. lyttel mewles." § The " cowerser " 

 seems to have been the same which King Edward in 



* Chains. f 800 crowns. % Turk. 



§ Sir W. Pickering to the Council, from Melun, December 8, 1551. 



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