[Sidenote: 1500 / MARCH 20]
Trusty and welbeloved, we grete yow well, letting yow wete that our
derest cousins, the Kinge and Queene of Spaine, have signified unto us
by their sundry letters that the right excellent Princesse, the Lady
Katherine, ther daughter, shal be transported from the parties of Spaine
aforesaid to this our Realme, about the moneth of Maye next comeinge,
for the solempnization of matrimony betweene our deerest sonne the
Prince and the said Princesse. Wherfore we, consideringe that it is
right fittinge and necessarye, as well for the honor of us as for the
lawde and praise of our said Realme, to have the said Princesse
honourably received at her arriveall, have appointed yow to be one
amonge others to yeve attendance for the receivinge of the said
Princesse; willinge and desiringe yow to prepare yourselfe for that
intent, and so to continue in redynesse upon an houres warninge, till
that by our other letters we shall advertise yow of the day and time of
her arrivall, and where ye shall yeve your said attendance; and not to
fayle therin, as ye tender our pleasure, the honor of yourselfe, and of
this our foresaid Realme.
Yeven under our signet at our manner of Richmount, the xx^ty day of
Marche.
[Footnote 161-1: [From the _Paston Genealogy_, compiled by
Sandford, and printed by Mr. Worship, in the _Norfolk
Archæology_.] Catherine of Arragon was expected in England in the
spring of the year 1500, although she did not actually arrive till
October 1501, owing to some alteration of plans.]
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