Ruy Gómez de Silva a Francisco de Eraso

London,

I wish to hear that you have arrived safely, and the King wants to know what his Majesty thought of the messages you had to deliver to him, and what he means to do about it all. The people here are all pestering us, most of them about their own suits, and the Queen in order to come to a conclusion touching Cardinal Pole's mission.

The latest news I have to write to you are that, as his Highness is writing to the Emperor, the Queen is with child. May it please God to grant her the issue that is so sorely needed to set affairs here to rights and make everything smooth! His Highness has come to London, and a good thing too; for the longer he put it off the more disorderly people became, but now he is here they are quieting down. Yesterday he went to the ladies' hall and danced with the Admiral's wife, and the Admiral with the Queen. Afterwards there was a torch-dance, and the King took out the Queen as a partner. All is on the right road, and that which is to come from over there had better not be delayed, for this pregnancy will put a stop to every difficulty.

Holograph. Spanish.