Series 3 > Letters of James the Fourth, 1505-1513

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LETTERS OF JAMES IY
[1509
required. Relying upon the kindliness of James, he
appeals to him for counsel and assistance. H.
248. John of Denmark to James IV, [Viborg, May ? 1509].
w. i. 25.
Expresses eternal gratitude to James for the couches
(lectulos) which he sent him ; intimates that his envoy
has bought horses, to which John adds a gift of six, and
that he has gone on to Poland to transact the business
entrusted to him.
249. Julius II to James Betoun, Rome, June 1, 1509.
r.o., r.t., ser. 1, no. 1, f. 133 ; brodie, 55.
Licences him, as long as he remains Archbishop of Glas¬
gow, to depute a priest, with water blessed by a bishop,
to reconcile churches, churchyards, and other ecclesiastical
places polluted ‘ sanguinis vel seminis ejfusione, seu alias
qualitercumque.’
250. James IV to Henry VIII, Edinburgh, June 11, 1509.
b.m. vesp. f. iii, 36; ellis, 1st series, vol. i, p. 63;
nat. mss. of Scotland, part iii, no. 9; brodie, 69.
James has received the loving letters of his dearest
brother and cousin, written with his own hand. The bond
of kinship makes him welcome Henry’s expressions of good¬
will. He promises to ‘ here the sam good hart ’ to Henry,
as Henry will discover should he put him to the test.
Signed, ‘ with the il hand of your cossyng.’
Scots.
251. Henry VIII: Confirmation of Treaty with Scotland,
Westminster, June 29, 1509. rymer, xiii, p. 257;
brodie, 88.
Since it was expressly provided in the Treaty concluded
between Henry VII and James IV, October 31, 1502, that