To Queen Katherine Parr, the king’s letter congratulatory, upon her marriage with the Lord Admiral

We thank you heartily, not only for the gentle acceptation of our suit moved unto you, but also for the loving accomplishing of the same, wherein you have declared, not only a desire to gratify us, but also moved us to declare the good will, likewise, that we bear to you in all your requests. Wherefore, ye shall not need to fear any grief to come or to suspect lack of aide in need, seeing that he, being mine uncle, is of so good a nature that he will not be troublesome by any means unto you, and I of such mind, that, for divers just causes, I must favour you.

But even as without cause you merely require help against him whom you have put in trust with the carriage of these letters, so may I merely return the same request unto you, to provide that he may live with you also without grief, which hath given him wholly unto you; and I will so provide for you both, that if hereafter any grief befall, I shall be a sufficient succour in your godly and praiseworthy enterprises.

Fare ye well, with much increase of honour and virtue in Christ.

From St James, the 25th day of June

Edward

Letters of the Kings of England: Now First Collected from the Originals in Royal Archives, and from Other Authentic Sources, Private as Well as Public · Volume 2 By James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps · 1846

Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence By Katherine Parr, editor Janel Mueller · 2011, pg 147