ABSTRACT
We require you to traveyll by fayr meannes eyther openly with the hole world, or els apart with the ringleaders by all the best ways yow can devise to induce them to retyre to ther howses, putting them and especiall the cheff doers amonges them in remembrance whatt an onnaturall dealing this is of subjectes to rise against ther soveraigne lord. What onkindness his Majesty may herafter justly conceyve herof sens these thinges be attempted in his mynorite. Whatt dyshonor and onsuertie to the hole realme may grow by these attemptates. Whatt courage the hearing therof shall administer to the Frenchmen, Scots our enemyes, to putt them in remembraunce thatt the partes of good and obedient subjectes hadd byn ffyrst to have sued for remedie att the handes of ther soveraign lord, and nott to take uppon them selfs the swerd and authorite to redresse as they list, especially those maters which being allredye establisshed by a law and consent of the hole realme can nott (if anything was to be reformed) bee otherwise altered then by a law agayn. By these or such other good wordes yow may fyrst assay to asswage then wherin if yow shall not be hable to satisfie them, yett shall yow by these meannes somewhat mitigatt their furor, and use the meannes you possibly can best devyse to stay the commyng of gretter nombers un to them, and in the mean tyme putt your selfes with such of your tenauntse and servantes as yow best trust, secretly order t’attend such further direction as our very good lord, the lord pryvey seall, who is now in jurnay towards yow, shall furthar prescribe. As for the delay of a tyme for th’execution of the statute for the liev [Ievy] of the sheep and cloth we have wryten more amply to you by our former letters, and thus eftsones requiring yow to joyn wysely and manly together in these things, we bydd you hartely farewell. From Syon.
