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ayde iij ml angelots. Whereunto the said Richarde answered, he durst not moue the kings maiestie therein and therefore desired answer to the two articles. Wherein for the peax he made the answer before mentioned, with a little qualification, that he cold not tell, how his friends, that had laboured in it, wold be content, that his grace shuld be arbiter, desiring him and his fellow to know the state of this contention between him and the Lubeckers of the Hamburgenses and of the same to advertise his majestie; and for the three sheppes said, he wold wryte to his highnes in suche sorte, as shuld be to his satisfaction, to which resolution he stycked notwithstanding any thing that could be spoken for the present delyvery of them. Then the duke asked, how it stood between the kings highnes and the French king, declaring that he hath in wages xij ml lavnce knights, ij ml horsemen, and 75 good shippes upon the sea, inferring that though they agreed not yet, they might per case come to a neirer pointe, meanyng that rather then to faile he wold be content with lesse moneye, again desiring the said Richarde to advertise his grace hereof accordingly, with request to tarry dynner, saying that after dynner he wold speak with him again. And so withdrawing into a chamber, the chancellour there delyuered him a cheyne for his reward of the valewe of thirty pound, desiring him to accept the same etc., with whom albeit he priuately laboured for the present delyverance of the three shippes, yet he cold obtain no other thing than as specified. At dinner he sut upon the dukes right hand, who used him very familiarly, carping still in his conference the Lubeckers, declaring the captiuitie of G. Wolueuer, whom it appered he loved not, to haue only ensued by their meanes¹ without any his knowleage, demanding also of the state of the castle of Werberge and of m Mayers, sayeng that he (had) donne a foule dead. Whereunto the said Richard answering declared the castle to be in good furniture of victual and of the self very strong, sayeng in case he would haue that house, he must first take him to mercy. And here came one of the duke's counsail in with letters in his hands, of whom he asked: whatt newes? He answered: strange newes, and thereupon delyvered the duke thre letters, who red the same. The one was written to the grave of Oldinburgh from a servant of his, whom he sent into Burgoyn, the ijde from the palsgrave, the iijde from themperor. The first declared, that he had obteyned his desires in th'obteyning of a letter to Lubeck to prepare xx ships for the vittailing of Copmanhaven and Elbowe, that he had obteyned iijxx ml yochomdales sent to the said grave, and that themperor had written to the pallesgrave to prepare himself with all his force to delyuer Christiern, wherein he shuld neither want men nor moneye, desiring 1 ensued by their meanes. Wurm: been caused by their (?) enemies.
