Footnote 618: When all your majesty's pieces on this side make account to be furnished of victuals and other necessaries from hence, it is so that of victuals your highness hath presently none here, and the town hath none; by reason that the restraint in the realm hath been so strait, and the victuallers as were wont to bring daily hither good quantities of butter, cheese, bacon, wheat, and other things, might not of late be suffered to have any recourse hither, whereby is grown a very great scarcity.—Wentworth to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 619: Sir Arthur Grey.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 620: Grey to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 621: He was held up by the Earl of Warwick, who sprang from his own horse, and "did lift a firkin of ale" to Grey's mouth. Life of Lord Grey of Wilton, by his son.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 622: Grey to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 623: Wentworth and Grey to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 624: The Queen to Wentworth: Ibid.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 625: "Surely," Wentworth wrote to the queen, "if your majesty's ships had been on the shore, they might either have letted this voyage, or, at the least, very much hindered it, and not unlike to have distressed them, being only small boats. Their ordnance that comes shall be conveyed in the same sort. It may therefore please your majesty to consider it. I am, as a man may be, most sure that they will first attempt upon Rysbank, and that way chiefly assail the town. Marry, I think that they lie hovering in the country for the coming of their great artillery and also to be masters of the sea, and therefore I trust your highness will haste over all things necessary with all expedition."—Wentworth to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 626: Grey to the Queen: Calais MSS. The letter was dated January 4, seven o'clock at night. The messenger was to carry it to Gravelines under cover of darkness. It is endorsed, "Haste, haste, haste! post haste for thy life, for thy life."[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 627: Rutland to the Queen: Calais MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]