Beschreibung:

Letter signed and subscribed ("Your lovyng assuryd ffreend/ Thomas Crumwell"), to Dr Nicholas Wotton, English delegate to Cleves, expressing considerable impatience on behalf of both the King and Council and urging him to secure an answer from the Duke of Cleves ratifying the marriage between the King and Anne of Cleves; telling that the King and his Council "doo not a lytle muse and marvayl" that he has secured no answer from the Duke as to how he and the Ambassadors from Cleves [already in England] take "the conclusion of the Mariage", now that the "the tyme of the ratification approcheth", the text in the secretary hand of a Royal Chancery scribe, 2 pages, trace of seal, address leaf detached, holed, paper-losses with later restoration to the lower third section, affecting the last seven lines of text and subscription and touching on the signature, further dust- or damp-staining, traces of former sewing into a volume, folio, London, [8 November, 1539]