_To our Brother of Clarence._
Brodir, we pray you to yeve feight [_faith_] and credence to our
welbeloved Sir Thomas Montgomery and Morice Berkly, in that on our
behalf thei shal declare to you. And we truste ye wole dispose you
accordyng to our pleser and comaundement. And ye shal be to us right
welcome. At Notyngham the ix. day of Jull.
_To our Cosyn Th’erl of Warr’._
Cosyn, we grete you well, and pray you to yeve feight and credence to
Sir Thomas Mongomery and Morice Berkley, &c. And we ne trust that ye
shulde be of any suech disposicion towards us, as the rumour here
renneth, consederyng the trust and affeccion we bere in yow. At
Notyngham the ix. day of Jull. And, cosyn, ne thynk but ye shalbe to us
welcome.
_To our Cosyn Th’archbyshop of Yorke._
Cosyn, we pray you that ye wul, accordyng to the promyse ye made us, to
come to us as sone as ye goodely may. And that [ye] yeve credence to Sir
Thomas Mongomery and Morice Berkly, in that un our behalve thei shal sey
to you; and ye shalbe to us welcome. At Notyngham the ix. day of Jul.
[Footnote 35-1: [From Fenn, ii. 40.] The dates of Edward the
Fourth’s privy seals show that he was at Nottingham in July 1469.
He was not there in 1470, the year to which Fenn assigns these
letters; and both Clarence and Warwick were then in France. It
would appear, therefore, that these letters were written at the
time of Robin of Redesdale’s rebellion, which the King was going
northwards to suppress.]
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