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LADY KATHERINE SCROPE TO THE FIRST EARL OF CUMBERLAND,
314 OCTOBER (1536)

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4    My dewty promysed unto your Lordship in my most humbliest maner;
5advertysyng the same that yesterday the commons off Richmontshir
6did meat at Richmond, wher undoubtedly they dewydet them in thre
7partyes, wheroff one company there was commandet to come this day
8for my Lord my bedfelowe ore his litell boy & myn, Sir James Metcalff
9ore his sone Cristofer, & Richard Sigiswik, and to brynge them with
10them or elles to pull downe their housses and spoill them off their
11goodes. A nother company goth fore my Lord Latymer ore his sone,
12Mr. Danby, with other in thosse quarters. And the third company
13goth to Barnard Castell to bryng to them my cousyn George Bowes
14& his two uncles. My Lord my bedfelow is this nyght at Helbek Hall
15& wulbe with your Lordshipe at Skypton in as convenyent spead as
16he can maik, to tak suche parte as your Lordshipe dothe. And I wull
17come this mornyng towardes Katelwell & tary there off my bedfelowe,
18and wold come with hym to Skipton, iff ye thynk it good. And this
19nyght I have sent my litell boy with his nursse unto one poore mans
20housse, to be kept privy there to we knowe forther. And what your
21Lordshipes mynd is in the premysses I wull hertly besuche you to
22send it to Catelwell with this berere. Thus tholy Gost preserve youre
23good Lordship with my Lady my mother & all youres in comfort. At
24Bolton, this Setterday before day,
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