LETTER VI.

_Sir William Kingston to Lord Cromwell, apparently May 18^{th} 1536._

[MS. COTTON, OTHO C. X. fol. 223.]

SYR,

Thys shalbe to advertyse you I have resayved your lett^r wherin yo[_u wolde_] have strangerys conveyed yowt of the Towre and so thay be by the [_meanis_] of Richard Gressum, & Will-m Loke, & Wythepoll, bot the [=n]mbr[229] of stra[_ngers past_] not XXX. and not mony; Hothe and the inbassit^r of the emperor had a [_servaunt_] ther and honestly put yowt. S^r yf we have not an owre[230] serten [_as it may_] be knowen in London, I thynke he[_re_] wilbe bot few and I thynk [_a resonable_] humbur[231] ware bes: for I suppose she wyll declare hyr self to b[_e a good_] woman for all men bot for the kyng at the o^r of hyr de[_th. For thys_] mornyng she sent for me that I myght be with hyr at [_soche tyme_] asshe reysayved the gud lord to the in tent I shuld here by[_r speke as_] towchyng her innosensy alway to be clere. & in the writy[_ng of this_] she sent for me, and at my commyng she sayd, M. Kyngston, I he[_ar saye I shall_] not dy affore none, & I am very sory ther fore; for I thowth [_than to_] be dede [_an_]d past my payne. I told hyr it shuld be now payne it w[_as so sottell. And then she said I_] hard say the execut^r. was very gud, and I have a ly[_ttle necke, and put he_]r hand abowt it lawyng hartely.

I have sen[_e mony men_ &] also wemen executed and at they have bene in gre[_te sorrowe, and to my knowle_]ge thys lady hathe meche joye and plesur in dethe. [_Sir, hyr Amner is conti_]newally with hyr, and hasse byne syns ij of the clo[_cke after midnight. This is_] the effect of hony thyng that ys here at [_thys tyme, and thus fare yow_] well.

Your . . . . . .

WILL[=M] KYNG[_STON_.]