[Sidenote: 1468 / APRIL 18]
Trusty and welbeloved, we greet yow well. And where it is accorded
betwixt us and our cozen the Duke of Burgundye that he shall wedde our
derrest sister, Margaret, and that in shorte while we intende to sende
her into the parts of Flanders for the accomplishment and solempnizacion
of the marriage so concluded; at the which time it behoveth her to be
accompanied with great nobility of this realme, for the honour thereof,
of us and our said sister: We therefore, wele understanding and
remembering the good affection ye bere towards us all, our pleasure is,
and our said sister, whereupon we greatly trust, desire and pray yow
right effectuously that, every excuse or delaye laide aparte, ye will
dispose yourselfe to the saide intent and purpose against the first day
of June next cominge, according to your honour and degree, and that ye
faile not so to doe, as we singularly trust yow, and as ye intend to do
us justys, pleas^{s}.[297.1] Yeven under our signet at our mannor of
Greenwich, the xviij. day of Aprill.
[Footnote 296.1: This letter is reprinted from Mr. Worship’s
article on Sandford’s genealogy of the Paston family in the
_Norfolk Archæology_. The original was transcribed by Sandford,
but is not now to be found. Margaret, sister of Edward IV., was
married to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, at Bruges, on the
3rd July 1468.]
[Footnote 297.1: So, as printed in the _Norfolk Archæology_.]
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