_To my Lorde Nevyll, in hast._
[Sidenote: 1483 / JUNE 11]
My Lorde Nevyll, I recommaunde me to you as hartely as I can; and as
ever ye love me, and your awne weale and securty, and this Realme, that
ye come to me with that ye may make, defensably arrayde, in all the hast
that ys possyble, and that ye wyll yef credence to . . . . . Richarde
Ratclyff, thys beerrer, whom I nowe do sende to you, enstructed with all
my mynde and entent.
And, my lord, do me nowe gode servyce, as ye have always befor don, and
I trust nowe so to remember you as shalbe the makyng of you and yours.
And God sende you goode fortunes.
Wrytten att London, xj. day of Jun, with the hande of your hertely
lovyng cousyn and master,