Excerpt from Letters of the Kings of England, Vol. 2: Now First Collected From the Originals in Royal Archives, and From Other Authentic Sources, Private as Well as Public; Edited With an Historical Introduction and Notes Most honourable and entirely beloved mother, I have me most humbly recommended unto your grace with like thanks, both for that your grace did accept so gently my simple and rude letters, and also that it pleased your grace so gently to vouchsafe to direct unto me your loving and tender letters, which do give me much comfort and encouragement to go forward in such things wherein your grace beareth me on hand,2 that I am already entered. I pray God I may be able in part to satisfy the good expec tation of the king's majesty, my father, and of your grace, whom God have ever in his most blessed keeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.