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LETTERS OF JAMES IV
[1510
336. Andrea de Bor go to Margaret of Savoy, Blois,
December 21, 1510.1 Lettres de Louis XII, ii. p. 84 ;
brodie, 645.
There has arrived an ambassador of the King of Scotland,
a bishop, who has been well received in Blois, and has been
despatched and goes to Rome to see the Pope. The King
of Scotland is eager for a firm union of the princes of
Christendom and for war against the Infidels, and if the
Pope will not do his duty, he will be ready, with the
Emperor and the King of France, to challenge him (Vinter-
peller) before the Council.
French.
337. Andrew Forman to Louis XII [Blois, December —,
1510]. Flodden Papers, pp. 6-10. James IV’s
Requirements for his Crusade.
338. James IV. to Ferdinand, King of Aragon, [1510?].
n.l. 230 ; b.m. 97 ; R. 98 ; brodie, 1542.2
James is very grateful for the permission given to John
Mathieson to select horses and procure anchors and ropes.
On the strength of Ferdinand’s letters he authorised
Mathieson to publish the indulgence of St. James of
Compostella anywhere in Scotland, although there had
been a strong rumour there of indulgences for the building
of St. Peter’s in Rome. This detained Mathieson at home,
and prevented him from procuring horses in Spain. Would
Ferdinand renew permission to the officer who is the bearer
1 Abstract of passage from a long letter (Lettres II, pp. 81-85). This
information is repeated in a second letter, December 29, 1510, with the
addition that Forman professes to be acting on behalf of both James and
Henry, and that James wishes to command the fleet. (Le Glay : Negoc.
entre la France et L'Autriche, i, 373.) H.
2 Places end of December 1512.