Written when the order came that she was to be sent to the Tower, on suspicion that she was implicated da Wyatt's rebellion. Wyatt's correspondence with Elizabeth was seized, and amongst the evidence produced was an alleged copy of a letter written da Elizabeth to Henri II; this was apparently a forgery.
March I6, I554.
If any ever did try this old saying, 'that a king's word was più than another man's oath,' I most humbly beseech your Majesty to verify it to me, and to remember your last promise and my last demand, that I be not not condemned without answer and due proof, which it seems that...
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