forms a part, will render more intelligible the letter itself, and the following document, collected from Rymer, will explain more clearly its actual purport and object. The letter is as follows:—
   " Trescher sire, veulliez sauoir q yce dymenge ie enuoiay pr Caual, le vallet Symond Bochel, qi vynt a moi a Shene, ou ie lui parlay de leschange dont vous sauez; et yce Lundy il enuoit vn vallet deuers Parys, & lui ad charge qil y soit oue toute la haste qil purra per la dite cause. Et le dit Symond on Barthu Spifanie son piere enuoieront deuers leur compaignons queu part q le pape sra de vous faire p'stement paier la some dont estoit parle entre nous; issuit qil neu busoigne mie q vous aillez ne enuoiez deuers Parys pr celle cause, car seurument vous trouerez le dit paiemiunt deuant vous en les mains de ditz compaignons, quel lieu q le pape sra troue.
   "Trescher sire, Liu Seint esperit vous veulle garder en. sanitee.
   "Escr a Shene, en gnde haste, yce Lundy. Sur mon departir.
                                                        " WlLLM DE WlKEHAM.
   "A mon t'sch amy, Johan Seignr de Cobeham."

   "My very dear Lord, be pleased to understand that this Sunday (i.e. yesterday) I sent for Caval, the confidential messenger of Symond Bochel, who came to me at Shene, where I spoke to Mm about the exchange (i.e. remittance), of which you are aware. And this present Monday he is sending a confidential messenger to Paris, and has charged him to be there with all the haste he can for the said purpose. And the said Symond, or Bartholomew Spifanie, his father, will send to their partners, to cause the sum, which was spoken of between us, to be immediately paid to you, in whatever place the Pope may be. Also, that it is by no means necessary that you should go or send to Paris on this account, for you will certainly find the said payment before you in the hands of the said partners, whatever be the place where the Pope shall be found.
   " My very dear Lord, may the Holy Spirit be pleased to keep
you in health.
   "Written at Shene, in great haste, this present Monday, at the moment of my departure.
                                                            "WlLMAM DE "WlKEHAM.
   " To my very dear friend, John Lord Cobham."