Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

MARY OF LORRAINE
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yowr grays trowle and desayres hot yowr grays wel
exsayp thar serwes and be master to ows ; and that we
may gar yowr grays ken owr lawte and trow serwes,
wel God I sal be at yowr grays betewyx and Sonday and
soner as yowr grays commandes me with sek tayandes.
As for the saym qwayr I doel, thar es an schep comen in
Clayd afor the castel of Dombartan anent the Nowork
on Saterday last was, and qwat schow es or qwayr fra
schow com fra I can not gat wet at the wrayten of thes.
Part sayes, an Necol of Rowen 1 es in her qwa was send
be the erl of Lenayx to the kenges grays of Frans afor
Lenten. I say thes to yowr grays for na warete becawes
I am not sower herof. God be yowr grays kepar. Of
Bendalo.2
Be yowr grays sarwand
of Glengarnock.
Yowr grays pleses to lat nayn wet I send ther tayandes
exsayp me lord cardnal for cawses as I sal schaw yowr
grays.
LYI
Maxwell to the Queen Dowager
Hamilton, 21st April [1544].
TO THE QUENIS GRACE.
Mydame, plesit your grace I rasavit your gracis writyne
this xx day of Aprile. I thank your grace that hes
writyne to my lord governour in my fawyr, and als sayand
me in your gracis writyne that ye will be my gud and
gracius lady sa that I be trew and serff the quenis grace
your dochter and the autorite lyke as I haiff promist to
your grace and your grace hes promist the samyn in my
name. Mydame, or your grace faund it utherwaiis nor
1 Nicol Ruthven ; see No. LXI.
2 Bendalo is probably Ballindalloch in Stirlingshire ; and the date of writing
between 17th and 20th April 1544.
The letter is holograph.