Original Letters, Illustrative of English History

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: liigh words, and suddenly in a fury she departed from him into her Privy Chamber, and shut the door. He, seing that, brake all the order of the Queen's court, and discharged a great sort of her household servants, and yet left there a convenient number to serve her like a Princess. There was great...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: liigh words, and suddenly in a fury she departed from him into her Privy Chamber, and shut the door. He, seing that, brake all the order of the Queen's court, and discharged a great sort of her household servants, and yet left there a convenient number to serve her like a Princess. There was great lamentation among them that departed, but there was no remedy. Then they that remained to serve her were sworn to serve her as a Princess Dowager, and not as Queen. Some said they were sworn to her as Queen, and otherwise they would not serve, and so they departed. Other that were sworne to serve her as Princess, and remained there, she them utterly refused for her servants: wherefore she remained with the less number of servants. a LETTER CXI. The Princess Mary to Secretary Cromwell. ms. Cotton. Vesp. F. ni. fol. 18. Orig.] MARYE PRINCESSE. Maister Cromewell I commende me to you, and hertely thanke you for your kyndenes and favor lately shewed at my desyre unto my servante Richard Wil- bram in the bihalfe of his father. I nowe eftsones desire and hertely praye you to shewe your laufull favor and goodnes unto Sir Rice Mauncell this beirer, in suche matters and buysenes as he is a suter unto you; .for the said Sir Rice hathe maried oon of my gentil- women, whome, for her long and acceptable service to me done, I myche esteme and favor. Wherfore if ye wolde, at this my desyre, extende your goodnes and Hall, Chron. ut supr. pp. 807, 808. chapter{{Section 4favor unto him in that bihalfe, so that he myght perceive his said suit th'rather therby to take good ef- fecte, ye theryn shulde mynestre unto me veraye acceptable pleasor, whiche I shall herafter remembre accordingly. From Otforde the xxvij daye of June. LETTER CXII. King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Steward ...