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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 171 it, nor hetherto he hath not taken or inprisoned any man of cure partie by any sochc occasion. And Thomas Scales hathe sente me worde that he hopithe to mowe gete by the meanes of my lord senycshall a saiif cotiduete for you, and elles my lord of Kendale caniie fynde the meanes howe ye mowe passe soche parties of Gyawne, Langdok and other where, as most (in parte ?) is as ye shull be in no perille : my lord of Somerset that nowe is and his brother come frome Britayne by Parys through Fraunce unto the quene with xvj horses, and no man rescuyded (?) ham in there way. And so didde I frome Paris into Barroys, but yet this is no verrey surete to you. Wherefore youre aune wysdome most gyde you in this case, not trustinge myne advise that knawe not the manner of this countrey as ye do. But yet I wote welle that a bille, signed withe my lord senyschall is hand, shalle be sufficiant unto you to passe thorough oute alle Fraunce. My lord, here huthe withe the quene the dukes of Excestre and Somerset, and his brother, whiche and also sir Johne Courtenay buthe discended of the house of Laneastre. Also here buthe my lord prive seale, M(aster) John Morton, the bischop of Seynte asse,^ Sire Edmond Mountford, Sir Henry Roos, Sir Edmond Hampdene, Sir William Vane, Sir Robert Whityngham and I, Knyghtes; my maistre, youre brother, William Gi-inmesby, William Josep', Squiers for the body, and many other worshipfull squiers, and also clercqs. We buth all in grete poverte, but yet the quene suste3'neth vs in mete and drinke, so as we buth not in extreme necessite. Wherfore I coun- saill you to spende sparely soche money as ye have, for whanne ye come hether, ye shall have nede of hit. And also here buth maney that nede and well desire to parte with you of youre awne money and in all this contrey is no man that woll or may lene you any money haue ye neuer so grete nede. We have here none other tithyugs but soche as buth in youre instruccion. Item, yf ye fynde the kyng of Portingale entretable in oure materes, sparith not to tarie longe with hym, and yf ye fynde hym all estraunge, dispendith not youre money in that contrey in idill, for after that ye come hither, hit is like that ye shull be putte to grete costes sone upon, and peradventure not longe tarie there. Item, my lord prince sendith to you nowe a letter writyn with his awne hande, and another letter directed to the king of Portingale, of whiche I sonde nowe to you the double enclosed hereyn, I write at seynte Mighel in Barroys, the xiij. dayc of Dccembre. — Your servant, J. Fohtescu. [Postsci'ijyt.) My lord, bycause we knewe not verrely the kynge of Portingale is name, the Quene is letter hath no superscripteon, nor the letter fro my lord prince, but ye mowe knawe ham also well by the seales as by this, that in the syde where the seale is sette of the Queue's lettre is writyn these words — pro regina, and in like weyse in my lord's lettre is writyn — pro principc. And I sonde to you hereyn soche words of supcrscripsion as ye shall sette upon both lettres ; which wordcs buth writyn w' the hande of the clcrke that hath writyn both lettres. Item, the berer hereof haddc of vsbut iij. Scuts/' for all his costs towards you, by cause wee hadde no more money. ^ Of Thomas, Bishop of St. Asaph, who 28, 1462, and the temporalities, on account succeeded Reginald Peacock in 1450, little is of his rebellion, were committed to the Bishop said by Godwin. His adhesion to the cause of Rochester. Rymer, xi. p. 539. of Henry VI. caused him to be deprived of his 6 French crowns,— ec«s, in Latin Scuta or see, which appears to have been vacant, Jan. scuti.