London and the Kingdom - Volume 3: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
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London and the Kingdom - Volume 3: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.
Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
London (England) -- History
Our most dred most soveraign lord and noblest kyng to the soveragn
highnesse of your kyngly mageste with all maner of lowenesse and
reverence mekly we recomende us Nat oonly as we oughte and shulde but
as we best can and may with alle our hertes thankynge your soveraign
excellence of your gracious lettres in makyng gladsom in understondyng
and passyng confortable in favoring of our poure degrees which ye
liked late to send us from your hoost afore the cite of Roan. In which
lettres after declaracõn of your most noble entent for the refresshing
of your hooste ye recorde so highly the redinesse of our wille and
power at alle tymes to your plesaunce and thankyn us therof so hertely
that treuly save oonly our preier to hym that al good quiteth never
was it ne mighte it halfe be deserved. And after suing in your forsaid
gracious lettres ye praye us effcuelly [_sic_] to do enarme as mani
smale vessels as we may with vitaille and specially with drinke for to
come up as fer as they may in to the river of Seyne. And nat only this
but in the conclusion of your soveraign lettres forsayd ye fede us so
bounteuesly with behest shewyng of your good lordship to us in tyme
comyng as ye have ever don that now and ever we shulle be the joyfuller
in this life whan we remembre us on so noble a grace. [O how may the
simplesse of pouere lieges better or mor clerly conceyve the graciouse
love and favorable tendresse of the kyng her soveraign lord than to
here how your most excellent and noble persone more worthi to us than
alle wordly richesse or plente in so thynne habondance of vitaill homly
disposed so graciously and goodly declare and uttir un to us that ar
your liege men and subgitz yor plein luste and plesaunce as it is in
yor sayd noble lettres worthily conteyned. Certein trewe liege man is
þer non ne feithful subgit coude þer non ne durste tarie or be lachesse
in any wyse to the effectuell praier or comaundement of so soveraign
and high a lord which his noble body peineth and knightly aventureth
for the right and welfare of us alle].[841] Oure most dred most
soveraign lord and noblest kyng plese it your soveraign hignesse to
understonde how that your forsaid kyngly praier as most strait charge
and comaundement we willyng in alle pointes obeye and execute anon fro
þe resceit of your of your [_sic_] sayd gracious lettres which was þe
xix day of August nigh none unto þe makyng of þese symple lettres what
in getyng and enarmyng of as many smale vessels as we myght doyng brewe
boþe ale and bere purveing wyne and oþer vitaillee for to charge with
þe same vessels we have don our besie deligence and cure as god wot. In
which vessels wiþoute gret plente of oþer vitails þat men of your cite
London aventuren for refresshing of your host to þe costes where your
soveraign presence is Inne we lowely send wiþ gladdest wille unto your
soveraign excellence and kyngly mageste by John Credy[842] and John
Combe poure officers of your sayd cite bringers of these lettres tritty
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