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THE WARRENDER PAPERS
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Holines doeth exhort yow to persever causing to be brocht
to effect that which yow promese, and to the end yow
may the more be holpen by that gud spreit which hath
moved you therunto his Holines doeth grant you plenar
indulgence and remissione of all your sinnes according to
your request assuring you that besyds the mereit that yow
shall receave therfore in heaven his Holines will forther
make him self debitor to acknowlege and requit your
deserving by all the best means he may; and that so
muche the more in that thou use the more modestie in not
pretending ony thing. Put therfore to effect your holie
and honorable determinations and attend your health.
And to concloud I offer my self unto you hartelie and vish
you an gud and happie succes.1 From Rome the third of
Januare 1584.
at your commandement
Cardinal of Como.4
He wes arrayned and condempd the 24 of Februarie
anno 1584.2
Copy, 1 p. Vol. B, 60.
A representation of a coat of arms, drawn on a paper shield and illumin¬
ated in colours, is affixed to the blank page beneath the signature. On
the right-hand side, upon the page of the document, is written :
‘ The armes of Mr. Rouse, Justice of peace in Ingland, with quhom I
Mr. Johne Cowper wes in the tyme of my banishement anno 1583 1584.’
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Castlenau to James VI.
9 February 1584-5.
Castlenau is in receipt of a letter from the Queen of Scots, who expresses
herself pleased with her new quarters at Tutbury and with the hopes held
1 This is probably one of the ‘ letters from the Cardinall of Como, wherein
my enterprise was commended, and myself absolved in the Pope’s name. These
letters I imparted to the Queene.’ (Parry’s Confession, Camden, 274.)
2 William Parry, a graduate in law of Paris, was a discredited courtier who
trafficked in the treasons and conspiracies of the time, and in the end ‘ underwent,
in Palace Yard, Westminster, the appalling sentence for high treason on the
2nd of March 1585.’ (Queen Mary and the Babington Plot, xxviii.) His career
can be traced in Father Pollen’s book. (See, also, Calderwood, iv. 350-351 ;
Spanish Papers, 1580-1586, pp. 534 n., 535.)