154 CORRESPONDANCE DU COMTE DE LEYCESTER. 
Hir Majestieis affairs shall requyr. Bot oneis I deliberat, I must 
see your thair, bothe to satisfie the desyr I have to do you ser- 
vise and to range in good ordour thois of my natioun, vho be in 
your service, for I know sume misordre vil thair be for primaise, 
if I be not thair my self. The Kings Majestie sendis me in England 
cheilly for tvo causis. The one that in tryell of his mother or 
rather in punising of hir, that His Majesteis honour be respectit, 
bothe for naturall obligation as also for the striet amitie nov 
betvene him and the Queens Majestie. The second point is that 
hir fact sumever be not preiudiciable to His Majestie in the title 
he pretendit to have throv hir by blood to ye croun efter the 
Queen Majesteis deceis. Bot 1 have as vit in a pairt refusit the 
commission, for that I have not hard, how it vilbe acceptit by 
Hir Majestie, bot oneis knowing, lest the maiter shalbe acceptable, 
I shall not stay heir five dayis, efter it shall please His Majestie, 
my souveraine, to give me instruction. The king is verie cairfull 
his mothers lyf should be save bot vit strictly keipit from all 
intelligence. No man can blaime him in this maiter, for natur 
moveis him; yit I think, he could verie veil content him self, if 
maiters ver commingly handelit and he not acquent vithe them. 
Mr Secretairy Valsinghame villit me in Hir Majesteis name for 
to essey to move ye king to concur for hir accusation in respect 
of the hard measur his father resaveit of hir and intendit for him 
self; bot befor I delt plainly vithe him, that it ves a wenche, that 
he should pas maiters vith oversicht as he is villing to do. 
No thing occurris heir vorthy of vryting bot al thois, vho ar 
papistis in this realme, leiveis in great hoyp. Vhat the maiter 
meinis fully. as yit I knov not, bot so fare as I can learn thay 
luk, that this yeir the king of Spainge shall invad Hir Majesteis 
aivin dominions. Of this I have maid advertisment to Hir Majestie, 
for I have it from a verie sure pairt. Captayne Halkerstoun !) is 
to be at Your Excellencie vithin ten dayis or so soun as vind 
servis, instructit from His Majestie vith commission for ansver of 
that he brocht from you and sume forder. I understand sume of 
my foot compainis, vhom I send to Your Excellencie, to have 
haid hard fortune by the sea and cheifly one oncle of my aivin, 
bot all must be takin in pacience that God sendethe. Restis only 
to recommend unto Your Excellencie the poor men, vhom I send 
1) Voyez sur lui, p. 144. 
