CORRESPONDANCE DU COMTE DE LEYCESTER. 143 
XXXIII. 
Patrick, Master of Gray '), au Comte de Leycester. 
Sur les affaires d’Ecosse et la levée de troupes. 
DumrERLINE, 8 sept. 1586. 
Please Your Excellencie, I shall mak all the expedition I can 
to heast over men to you, bot the(y) oft deleyhit heynce and maid 
all to retir themselfis. I never haid desyr to be vithe you til 
nov, vould to God I ver, bot I sweir ye fault is not in me. If 
it be possible to releive Berges ?), I hoype all shalbe veit, for 
ve see that God doethe dayly is vorking for his aim. Your Excel- 
lencie hes hard better than I can informe you of the lait con- 
spiracie agenst His Majestie. I suppose, that many heir ar deip 
in that maiter as I shall more particulairly let Your Excellencie 
know vithin a day or tvo. J] am bot a poor vraitche and yit a 
man hes confessit yt by a Jesuist, he ves corruptit to have schot 
me. The maiter is disclosit to ye king, my souveraine, and schortly 
ordour shalbe takin vith it for that it hes a forder tail. Men be 
verie bissie in this vourld. God help all, who ar persecutit iniustly *). 
Your Excellencie shall, God villing, have all the nombre he 
craveit compleit and seven companis more vithin a monethe, vind 
serving, for what ye have to do presently. Bot for cavallerie, I think, 
they can not be so soun redy, bot about that thym I shall do 
good vil to have at you a thre hunder gentlemen; all the rest 
shalbe so soun as I may. I have desyrit of m" secretary Valsing- 
hame to borow a thousand pound more upon my obligation to 
be comptable to Your Excellencie, for I am alredy besyd, that I 
1) Pırrıck Gray, autrefois gentilhomme de la Cour de Marte Srvarr, jouait 
un röle double dans les intrigues autour de la Reine et pendant sa longue cap- 
tivité. Il la trahit plusieurs fois comme il le fit après Erısagenn et James I. 
Il avait promis de lever pour le service anglais dans les Pays-Bas 2000 Ecossais 
et plus. Il était déja longtemps dans cet emploi (Leycester Correspondence, p. 179, 
186, 220, 223, 292, 348, 396). 
2) Rijnberk. Voyez Bor, II, p. 739 (L. XXI, fol. 44). 
3) Sur les affaires d’Ecosse et le rôle de Gray: Froude, History of England 
XII, p. 47, 294 fi. 
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