=Source.=--Ellis's _Original Letters_, second series, vol. i., pp.
17-19. (London: 1827.)
[_French._]--Our most redoubted and sovereign Lord the King, I
recommend myself humbly to your Highness as your lowly creature and
continual orator. And our most redoubted and sovereign Lord, please
you to know that from day to day letters are arriving from Wales,
containing intelligence by which you may learn that the whole country
is lost, if you do not go there as quick as possible. For which reason
may it please you to prepare to set out with all power you can muster,
and march day and night for the salvation of these parts.... Written
in great haste at Hereford, the 8th July.