I fain avoutch it, and of manners good,
Spottles in lyf, of mynd sencere and sound,
In whoam a world of vertues doth abowend,
And sith besyd yt ye lycens giv withall
Set doughts asyd and to some sporting fall,
Therefoor, suspysion, I do banyshe thee"

Then follows a line I cannot decypher, and at the bottom of the page is

"You will be clear of my suspysion."

Are these verses from some old poet, or are they composed as well as
written by the royal tyrant? for no other would, I think, have addressed
such lines to "Kateryn the Quene."

I have only to add that the volume was given me by the sister of the
late President of the English college at Valladolid, and that he
obtained it during his residence in Spain. It is not unlikely it may
have been carried thither by some of the English Catholics, who resorted
to that country for education. In 1625 it seems to have belonged to John
Sherrott.

I should be glad of any information about the verses.

E. Charlton, M.D.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 18. 1850.

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