WILLM KYNGSTON.
LETTER VI.
Sir William Kingston to Lord Cromwell, apparently May 18th 1536.
[MS. COTTON, OTHO C. X. fol. 223.]
Syr,
Thys shalbe to advertyse you I have resayved your lettr wherin yo[u wolde] have strangerys conveyed yowt of the Towre and so thay be by the [meanis] of Richard Gressum, & Will-m Loke, & Wythepoll, bot the n̄mbr[229] of stra[ngers past] not XXX. and not mony; Hothe and the inbassitr of the emperor had a [servaunt] ther and honestly put yowt. Sr yf we have not an owre[230] serten [as it may] be knowen in London, I thynke he[re] wilbe bot few and I thynk [a resonable] humbur[231] ware bes: for I suppose she wyll declare hyr self to b[e a good] woman for all men bot for the kyng at the or of hyr de[th. For thys] mornyng she sent for me that I myght be with hyr at [soche tyme] asshe reysayved the gud lord to the in tent I shuld here by[r speke as] towchyng her innosensy alway to be clere. & in the writy[ng of this] she sent for me, and at my commyng she sayd, M. Kyngston, I he[ar saye I shall] not dy affore none, & I am very sory ther fore; for I thowth [than to] be dede [an]d past my payne. I told hyr it shuld be now payne it w[as so sottell. And then she said I] hard say the executr. was very gud, and I have a ly[ttle necke, and put he]r hand abowt it lawyng hartely.
I have sen[e mony men &] also wemen executed and at they have bene in gre[te sorrowe, and to my knowle]ge thys lady hathe meche joye and plesur in dethe. [Sir, hyr Amner is conti]newally with hyr, and hasse byne syns ij of the clo[cke after midnight. This is] the effect of hony thyng that ys here at [thys tyme, and thus fare yow] well.
Your . . . . . .
WILLM̄ KYNG[STON.]