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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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