SIR,
YOu must think, that seeing all the parts of Christendom are intentive to hear of the maters of France; we cannot be careless, to whom the same belongeth next of all, whatsoever the end thereof shall be.
Your last letters brought hither came with good speed; being dated the 28. of December, they came the fourth of this January. Of the news therein contained, mentioning the encounter betwixt Mountgomery and the Kings Vantguard, about the 23. of December. I had letters dated in Paris the 20. which did express the same more particularly, but I dare not credit them.
Your good advice given to her Majesty in the said letter, is well to be commended. Of the state of our things here, there is no new thing to write; all things, thanked be God, are quiet.
In Scotland they have ended their Parliament; wherein, as I hear, they have Enacted the Coronation of the King, the Authority of the Re∣gent to be good, and have noted the Queen to be privy to the murther of her husband.
My Lady, your wife, hath been a little sick, but is now well recovered, and hath instantly required me to send away this bearer, because she had writings to send you; otherwise I would have had him stayed two days to have heard some more news from thence.
I thank you for the Articles which you last sent me; but lacking the