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 1921 IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 431 afore [in that] I had a] hys doctors of Wytemberg on my syde, wyche wrote [letters] to hys grace, hose leters I send yow here. I thynke yt wyl greue the Kynge of franse very sore, in so much that here is word comyn that Langius x shal come in al haste to feche phylype, but I haue provydyd for hym al redy. Here I send your h[igh] goodnesse the copy of the Kynge of fransys leter sent on to phylype, 2 wheryn yow mae know the Kynges mynde. More, I send yow the copy of the elector's leters 3 sent to the Kyng of franse denyyng phylyps comyng in to franse. So that I trust your h[onorable] goodnesse shal persayve my faythful dilygense in my pryncys cause. Your h[onorable] goodnes knowyth (no man beter) ho that I desyre no thyng more in erthe than to be found faythful to god, and treu to my prynce, notwythstandyng how untreuly that men hath reportyd of me in thes causys, your honourable] M[astership] knowyth also. But yf they intendyd as treuly to ther prynse as I do, we shuld haue no nede to fere owre outwerd enemysse, god shal iudge bothe them and me. But to my purpose. Al thyng is brought to passe that my prynse hath recuyryd of me ; wherf ore I desyre your h[onorable] Mfastership] that Master almener mae come shortly, and none other but he, for in the handlyng of thos artycles that he shal bryng hyth al to gether the stablessyng of al christendome, and the stoppyng of al owre aduersaryse mouthes, and I know no man so fyt to do thes thynges as he. Neus. The elector dothe take hys jorney to Kynge Fardinandus on S. denyse day 4 with 300 horse wel a parellyd. Fardinandus desyreth gretly his frenshyp. What the matter ys, I thynke to know at hys returnyng. The popet of Kome hathe sent hys legate 5 into garmany, he hathe not been with the elector nor with any of hys lege, wherfor I can not wryte what hys matters be, but I have layd wayt to know. The elector of Brandenburgh ys comyn home and hys bryde the Kynges doughter of pole 6 wyth hym on sonday last past. The Kynge of franse and his adherents hathe put forth certen articles 7 in martyns phyly[pus and] pomerans 8 namys a genst whome merten 9 hathe wry[ten a reply which I send] yow here. Duke George 10 dyd wryte a letter on to the [King of France which I send in as] moche as he makyth mention in yt of owr prynse, th[e King of England.] Christofer n the ducheman came to gene 12 owt of Franse t[o me. I saw him on] fryday was 8 days, and ther I left 1 De Langey, the French ambassador in Saxony. 2 Dated 23 June 1535 {Corpus Reformatorum, ii. 879). 3 18 August 1535 (tbid. 905). 4 9 October. 5 Peter Paul Vergerio (see Smith, pp. 303-7). 6 Joachim II, elector of Brandenburg 1535-71, took as his second wife a daughter of Sigismund I of Poland. 7 The forged articles, see above, p. 428. 8 Pomeranus, or John Bugenhagen, priest at Wittenberg. 9 Luther, Werke, xxxviii. 386. 10 Of Albertine Saxony, an enemy of Luther. 11 Mont, or Montaborinus, a German in English service. 12 Presumably the place that appears as ' Jainvil ' in Mont's own letter of 7 Septem- ber, i. e. the principality of Joinville, then an imperial fief.