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[ 1515 ] My lord cardinal, I recommend unto you as heartily as I can, and I am right glad to hear of your good health, which I pray God may long continue. So it is that I have received your letters, to the which (by cause they ask long writing) I have made answer by my secretary. Two things there be which be so secret that they cause me at this time to write to you myself; the one is that I trust the queen my wife be with child; the other is chief cause why I am sloth to repair to London ward, by cause about this time is partly of her dangerous times, and by cause of that, I would remove her as little as I may now. My lord, I write thus unto you, not as an ensured thing, but as a thing wherein I have great hope and likelihood, and by cause I do well know that this thing will be comfortable to you to understand; therefore, I do write it unto you at this time. No more to you at this time, nisi quod Deus velit inceptum opus bene finire. Written with the hand of your loving prince, HENRY R. 1 MS. Cotton Vesp. F. iii. fol. 34, b. This letter is not dated in the original MS., but is stated by Howard to have been written in 1510. On the first day of the following year, Katherine of Arragon gave birth to a prince, named Henry after his royal father. This child, unfortunately for Katherine, expired on February 22d, 1511. This date, however, does not agree with the title given to Wolsey, who was not named Cardinal till September 11th, 1515. The Princess Mary was born on February 18th, 1516. Source: Letters of the Kings of England. Vol I. J. O. Halliwell, Ed. London: Henry Colburn, 1846. 234-5.
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