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

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LETTERS OF JAMES IV
[1512
Tournay which, at the King’s command, he paid as follows:
1510 livres to Adonet Legendre, captain of the ship called
La petite Loyse, on November 1 last for the voyage to
Scotland of Charles de Tocques, Sieur de la Mothe, Martin
Peguineau, the King’s valet-de-chambre, and Jehan Piefort,
gunner, according to the bargain made with the said
Adenet by Thomas Bohier, Comptroller-General of Finance,
which de la Mothe, Peguineau and Piefort has sent to his
very dear cousin and ally the King of Scotland, on his
secret concerns, with a hundred puncheons of new wine,
of which he is making him a present, along with eight
hundred iron cannon-balls and fifteen thousand [pounds]
of gunpowder; 1502 livres, 15 sous, to several merchants
who sold and delivered the hundred puncheons of wine
and eight others which he knew them to have for ullage ;
85 livres, 1 sou, 6 deniers to Jacques le Fevre for the cost
of the transport of the 800 cannon-balls and powder from
Rouen to Honfleur, where they were delivered to de la
Mothe and Peguineau. He asks that on receipt of these
presents, signed with his hand, along with the attached
record of the bargain, the certification of expenses, etc.,
sealed with the counterseal of the Chancellery, the expenses
should be allowed, in spite of any regulation to the con¬
trary, for such is his pleasure.
Signed, Loys. Countersigned, Par le Roy Robertet.1
French.
498. Dacre to Henry VIII, Ford Castle, December 10. 1512.
b.m., CALIGULA, B, iii. 27 ; BRODIE, 1504.
Received his letters on November 22, with a copy of
those sent to the King of Scots by Unicorn. . . . De la
Mothe anchored at Leith last St. Andrew’s Even in a great
storm. He shot two guns and then eight and alarmed
Edinburgh ; the common bell was rung for three hours,
and every man got into harness. The ship was driven up
1 The wine arrived on or shortly before February 5, 1513, on which day
£220 was paid ‘ to the patrone of Delamotes schip that brocht in the
wyne ’ (Treasurer's Accounts, iv, 405).