Source:
Original letters illustrative of English history, series 1, volume 1, page 130, edited by Henry Ellis, 1825
Above: Margaret Tudor, queen consort of Scotland, artist unknown.
Above: Thomas Wolsey, later Cardinal, artist unknown.
The letter:
My Lorde Cardinal I comand me to you, and I vould fayne have spokyn vyth you but ye var gon or I could cam to you and therfor I most vryt to you my mynde. My Lorde I beseche you to schw your gud mynd to me, as ye have doon ever, but specyaly now, for now ys the tyme. Me Lorde I pray you hartly to get me som monne aganst .. yr day for ye knaw vell I moust gyf part of rewards and other nedful thyngs both for the kyng my brothers honour and myne: and I schal not put you in no more troubul but I be sysch you hartly my Lorde that I may have it to morow at nyght at the farest: for ells I vyl be dysapointtyd. But I put my hooll trust in you, and thys berar schal wayt upon you for your ansuer as our Lord knouth wham kype you
MARGARET R.
On To my Lorde Kardenall.
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