LETTER II.

_Sir William Kingston to Secretary Cromwell, on Queen Anne's behaviour in Prison._

[MS. COTTON, OTHO C. X. fol. 222.]

After your departyng yesterday, Greneway gentilman ysshar cam to me, & . . . M. Caro and Mast^r Bryan commanded hym in the kyngs name to my [_Lord of_]

Rotchfort from my lady hys wyf, and the message was now more . . . . . se how he dyd; and also she wold humly sut unto the kyngs hy[_nes_] . . . . for hyr husband; and so he gaf hyr thanks, and desyred me to know [_at what_] tyme he shuld cum affore the kyngs counsell, for I thynk I s[_hall not_] cum forthe tyll I cum to my jogement, wepyng very . . . . . . . . I departed from hym, and when I cam to the chambr the [_quene heard_] of me and sent for me, and sayde I here say my lord my [_brother is_] here; it ys trowth, sayd I; I am very glad, said sh[_e that we_] bothe be so ny together; and I showed hyr here wase . . . . Weston and Brerton, and she made very gud countenans . . . . I also sayd, M. Page and Wyet wase mo, then she sayd he ha . . . . on hys fyst tother day and ye here now bot ma . . . . . . I shall desyre you to bayre a letter from me [_to Master_] Secretory; and then I sayd, madam, tell it me by [_word of mouth & I_] will do it, and so gaf me thanks saying, I ha[_ve moche marvell_] that the kyng's counsell comes not to me; and thys [_same day she_] sayd we shuld have now rayne tyll she ware [_delivered owt_] of the Towre. I pray you it may be shortly by [_cawse of the_] fayre wether. You know what I mayne. The quen[_e sayd this_] nyght that the kyng wyst what he dyd wh[_an he put soche_] ij abowt hyr as my lady Boleyn and Mestres [_Cosyns, for_] thay cowd tell hyr now thyng of my [_lord her father nor_] nothyng ellys, bot she defyed them all. B[_ot upon this my lady Bolen_] sayd to hyr, seche desyre as you heve ha[_d to soche tales_] hase browthe you to thys. And then sayd [_Mrs. Stoner, Marke_] ys the worst cheryssht of heny m[_an in the howse, for he_] wayres yernes, she sayd that was [_becaws he was no_] gentleman. Bot he wase never in m[_y chamb^r but at Winchestr, and_] ther she sent for hym to ple[_y on the virginals, for there my_] logyng was [_above the kings_] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for I never spake with hym syns, bot apon Saterday before May day, and then I fond hym standyng in the ronde wyndo in my chambr of presens, and I asked why he wase so sad, and he ansured and sayd it was now mater, and then she sayd, you may not loke to have me speke to you as I shuld do to anobull man, by cause you be aninferer persson. No, no, madam, aloke sufficed me; and thus far you well . . [_s_]he hathe asked my wyf whether heny body maks thayr bed . . . . [_m_]y wyf ansured and sayd, nay, I warant you, then she say . . . . . . . y myght make baletts Well now bot ther ys non bet . . . . . . . . d that can do it, yese sayd my wyf master Wyett by . . . sayed trew.

. . . . my lord my brod' will dy.} . . . . ne I am sur thys was as } WILL[=M] KYNGSTON. . . . tt downe to den^r thys day.}

. . . . . thys day at diner I sent M. Nores hys diner & sent hym . . . . . . . . a knave to hys prest that wayted apon hym withe . . . . . . . . . . . t unto hym, and he ansured hym agayn . . . . . . . . . . . . ny thyng of my confession he ys worthye to have . . . . . . . hyt I defy hym; and also he desyreth to hav . . . . . . . . . [_ha_]lf anowre yf it may be the kyngs plesur .

WILL[=M] KYNG[STON.]