Now this receipt, in conjunction with, the Letters Patent, dated 19th February, 5 Hen. VII., proves that (supposing even the King had seized her possessions, of which, however, there is no proof on record), Henry VII. granted her an annuity of £400 for life, equal to at least £4000 a year of the present money.
   In addition to this document, two others, bearing the signature of the Queen, are extant in the Public Record Office: one, a letter in Latin, addressed to her husband, Bang Edward IV.; the other, addressed to Sir William Stoner, and dated from her manor of Greenwich, in Kent, is here given as a specimen of a royal letter of that period.—

                                         "By the Quene.
  "Trusty and welbeloved, We grete you wel. And where as we understand, by report made unto us at this tyme, that ye have taken upon yow now of late to make maistries withynne our Forest and Chace of Barnewod and Exsille, and there, in contempt of us, uncourteisly to hunt and slee our Deer withynne the same, to our grete mervaille and displeasir, We wol ye wite that we entend to sew suohe remedy therynne as shall accorde with my Lordes lawes. And where as we ferthermore understand that ye purpose, under color of my Lordes Commyssionne in that behalf graunted unto you, as ye sey hastly to take the vieu and reule of our game of Dere withynne our said Forest and Chace, We wol that ye shew unto us or our Counselle, yor said Commissionne, if any suche ye have, And in the mean season that ye spare of huntyng withynne our said Forest or Chace, as ye wol answere at your perille. Yeven under our
signet, at our Maner of Grenewiche, the first Day of August.

                                        " (Signed) ELYSABETE.

"Addressed: To our trusty and welbeloved Sir William Stoner, Knight."