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| 32 | <FONT size=+1>Letter from Katharine of Aragon to her husband,
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| 33 | King Henry VIII<br> 16 September 1513</FONT></b></p>
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| 34 | <p><FONT size=-1><b>Background </b> <br>This letter concerns the great English victory
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| 35 | against the Scots at Flodden Field. Henry VIII was busy at war in
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| 36 | France, along with most of his great nobles and councilors. Katharine
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| 37 | was Queen Regent in his absence, but she tactfully credits the victory against
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| 38 | the Scots to Henry himself. Along with letter, she sent a piece of King
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| 39 | James IV of Scotland's coat. Though he was married to Henry's older
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| 40 | sister Margaret, James remained at odds with the English and was killed at
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| 41 | Flodden Field.</FONT> </p>
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| 45 | <p>Sir, <BR>My Lord Howard hath sent me a letter open to your
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| 46 | Grace, within one of mine, by the which you shall see at length the great
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| 47 | Victory that our Lord hath sent your subjects in your absence; and for this
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| 48 | cause there is no need herein to trouble your Grace with long writing, but,
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| 49 | to my thinking, this battle hath been to your Grace and all your realm the
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| 50 | greatest honor that could be, and more than you should win all the crown of
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| 51 | France; thanked be God of it, and I am sure your Grace forgetteth not to do
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| 52 | this, which shall be cause to send you many more such great victories, as I
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| 53 | trust he shall do. My husband, for hastiness, with Rougecross I could
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| 54 | not send your Grace the piece of the King of Scots coat which John Glynn now
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| 55 | brings. In this your Grace shall see how I keep my promise, sending
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| 56 | you for your banners a king's coat. I thought to send himself unto
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| 57 | you, but our Englishmens' hearts would not suffer it. It should have been
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| 58 | better for him to have been in peace than have this reward. All that
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| 59 | God sends is for the best. <BR>My Lord of Surrey, my Henry, would fain know
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| 60 | your pleasure in the burying of the King of Scots' body, for he has written
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| 61 | to me so. With the next messenger your Grace's pleasure may be herein
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| 62 | known. And with this I make an end, praying God to send you home
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| 63 | shortly, for without this no joy here can be accomplished; and for the same
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| 64 | I pray, and now go to Our Lady of Walsingham that I promised so long ago to
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| 65 | see. At Woburn the 16th of September. <BR>I send your Grace herein a
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| 66 | bill found in a Scotsman's purse of such things as the French King sent to
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| 67 | the said King of Scots to make war against you, beseeching you to send
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| 68 | Mathew hither as soon as this messenger comes to bring me tidings from your
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| 69 | Grace. <BR>Your humble wife and true servant, Katharine.</p>
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