486 ELIZABETH STUART: (1596-1662) Queen Consort of Bohemia 1619-20, wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine. Often referred to as The Winter Queen, Stuart was the granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and sister of King Charles I of England. A.L.S., Elizabeth, one page, 4to, n.p., 19th February n.y. (annotated in pencil in another hand 1636), to ‘My Lord’. The Queen thanks her correspondent for sending news from the King that ‘he will give way that my sonne may seeke his fortune by sea’, further adding that ‘all heere are verie well satisfied with it and by this honnest bearer you shall know what the Prime faith to it’, also informing her correspondent that all is well (‘if the fishing business were laide aside’) and that she has written to the King that ‘since he hath shewed that he can maintaine his right and did doe it the last yeare, that he would now lett it be laide aside, which can be no prejudice to him, since he can take it upon againe when he will…..the King doth them that favour, I pray doe in it all you can’. The Queen also states ‘I need not write to you further this expedition of my sonns by sea, since I am sure you will doe all that is in your power and that you will doe your best to have others follow your example in it, I ame so confident of this as I will say no more of it….’ . A few light stains, one partially affecting one line of text and two areas of paper loss to the top right corner and edge, causing the partial loss of text of a few letters, G £800-1200