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MARY OF LORRAINE
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the resett of thame be yow ;1 and this fair ye weill. At
Codebek 2 the xxij day Aprile 1544.
Maister George, all tithandis heir I haif writin to my,
lord of Paslay at leinth. The king heir hes wyn ane feild
agane the emprour in Pyemont.3 We ar weill tane with
as ony men can be ; traistis in God to do guid service to
the realme and to my lord governour. I pray yow write
me all newis as every schip cumis betuix. Commend me
to Maister James ; and God keip yow at ane guid point.
Youris
Painter.4
I had na lasour to write for the haisty departing of the
berar of ther letteris to Diep, therfor ye sail schaw the
samyn tithandis to Maister Laurens and excuis me that
I wrait nocht to him at this tyme.
{Endorsed : D. Paniter.]
LVIII
Otterburn to the Queen Dowager
Edinburgh, 28th April [1544].
TO THE QWENIS GRACE.
Plesit your grace that upoun Setterday that last wes 5
my lord govemour direckit ane writing under the signet
and his subscriptioun to charge me to warde quhilk
1 These despatches were received by the Governor on, or before, 25th May.
(T.A. viii. 296.)
2 Caudebec, on the Seine ; formerly capital of Pays de Caux.
3 Battle of Ceresole, fought on Easter Monday, 14th April 1544. It was
not, however, a victory of the magnitude which Paniter seems to have believed.
Francis had almost immediately to recall troops to protect his northern frontier,
and in August the Emperor penetrated to within twenty miles of Paris. Peace
was made by the treaty of Crespy on 18th September. See Lavisse, Histoire
de France, v. (2).
4 David Paniter, Chief Secretary of Scotland. Sir John Campbell of Lundy
and the Secretary were sent on 31st March as ambassadors to France, to renew
the old treaties and alliances, and to make a representation of the state of
Scotland. (Epistolae Reg. Scot. ii. 195.)
A holograph letter.
6 26th April.