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Kinges Grace wold be glad to have hym in his fervice. He hathalso brought letters from Duke Ferdinand un to the KingesGrace, which lettres .1 fend unto Your Grace, wherin he defireththe Kinges Highnes to take in to his fervice and to reteyne withfome convenient yercly pention Ducem Mechelburgensem;of which requeft the Kinges Grace greatly merveileth, and ve-ryly thinketh that this fimple felow, which brought the lettres,lykewise as he caused Murner to cum hither, and perfuadedthe Barons fone, that the King would he glad to have his fer-vice, fo hath by fome fimple ways brought the Duke of Mechel-borough in the mynd, that the Kinges Grace wold, at the con-templation of Duke Ferdi nandis lettres, he content to reteign theDuke of Mechelborough with a yerly pention. The felow hathbrought alfo fro the Duke of Mechelborough lettres of credencewritten in the Duche tong. He bare hym felfe in Almaign forthe Kinges fervaunt and hofted that he had a yerely pention offiftie markes, and that the King had fent him thither to takeupp fervauntes for hym ; and now he faith he is fervaunt un tothe Emperours Mnjefte, and is going into Spaigne with lettresto hym; and in dede he hath diverse lettres to His Magestie,and fo it was easie for hym to gete, if he entend to deceiveand mocke; as the Kinges Grace thinketh that he doth. ForHis Grace never faw hym byfore, hut he underftandeth now,that byfore this tyme he was in England, when th Emperourwas here 1 ), and flew a men and efcaped his way. Wherfor HisGrace requyreth Yours to gevc hym your prudent advice, aswell in a convenient answere to he made both to Duke Ferdi-nand and the Duke of Mechelborough, as also in what wyfe hitfilial be convenient to ordre this fimple felovve, that fo hath de-ceived menne in the Kinges name.

1. Kaiser Karl V. war 1522 26. Mai zu Dover gelandet, und blieb inEngland bis zum 1. Juli.