+Source.+--_Paston Letters_, Vol. III., Letter 943. March 20th, 1500 A.D.
HENRY VII. TO SIR JOHN PASTON.
_To our trusty and well beloved knight Sir John Paston._
BY THE KING.
"Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well, letting you know that our
dearest cousins, the King and Queen of Spain, have signified unto us
by their sundry letters that the right excellent Princesse the Lady
Catharine, their daughter, shall be transported from the parties of
Spain aforesaid to this our Realm, about the month of May next coming,
for the solemnization of matrimony between our dearest son the Prince
and the said Princess. Wherefore we, considering that it is right
fitting and necessary, as well for the honour of us as for the honour
and praise of our said Realm, to have the said Princess honourably
received at her arrival, have appointed you to be one among others to
give attendance for the receiving of the said Princess; willing and
desiring you to prepare yourself for that intent, and so to continue
in readiness upon an hour's warning, till that by our other letters we
shall advertise you of the day and time of her arrival, and where ye
shall give your said attendance; and not to fail therein as ye tender
our pleasure, the honour of yourself and this our foresaid Realm.
"Given under our signet at our Manor of Richmond, the xxth day of
March."