YOur servant Jenny arrived here yester-day, with your Letters of the first day of September; by which the Queen was greatly satisfied, for that we had received divers brutes of the troubles of France, where∣unto we know not what credit to give; and now considering the Ice is thus broken, you must think we shall daily be molested with uncertain reports.

The Queens Majesty advertised the French Ambassador, and Monsieur de Pasquiers, of as much as she heard from you, who were not a little troubled before, by reason of strangers news spread abroad, and more dangerous; for otherwise they had heard no manner of thing of credit out of France, although of late time they had sent three several Mes∣sengers; so as I do guess that the passages be stopped to them, and I wish they be not also to you too.

I finde her Majesty disposed, upon the next hearing from thence, to send some special Gentlemen thither; before which time, her Majesty being moved by me according to your desire, yet will not agree to send to you any Currier.

My Lady, your Wife, was ready to depart towards you upon Wednesday last, and would not be stayed from her journey by any perswasion; what she will do now upon your servants coming, I know not; but, in my opi∣nion, she shall do well to forbear the venture.

This Letter which I do write, I do send by your Footman, wherein I dare, as the time is, write nothing but that which may be seen of all sorts.

That which you wrote of late to me touching Jenny your servant, I assure you ought not to be imputed to him, but to such in Scotland, to whom being uttered for their good, they could not use it as was meet.

We have nothing in Scotland, but all things therein be quiet since the last of September, at which time the Castle of Dunbar was rendred to the Earl of Murray; and one name the Lord Wawghton, follower of the Earl Bothwell, which kept the Castle as long as he could, was adjudged Page  121 to pay for the charges of them which besieged it; and the charge of the Carriage of the Ordnance back to Edenburgh, a new kind of punish∣ment, sufficient enough for such a beggar. And so wishing that we may hear often from you; I end with this also, that it shall behove you, to take good heed whose reports you credit in this variety.