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This letter is from Henry Grey (1517–1554), Duke of Suffolk, the English nobleman and father of Lady Jane Grey, to Heinrich Bullinger, chief minister of the Zurich church. Grey apologises that Bullinger has received no letter from him before, explaining that the business of the commonwealth had required all his effort if he was to satisfy his duty to God, his rank and the expectations of many. He asks Bullinger to bear with the delay and assures him that his affection cannot be diminished by anything, least of all by time.
He then thanks Bullinger, for his own sake and for that of the whole Christian church, for the book Bullinger had published under his name, and acknowledges God’s loving-kindness, quoting Paul’s word in Greek, toward his church. The book is the fifth of Bullinger’s Decades, dedicated to Grey. The letter, about 260 words, shows the links between Zurich and the Protestant nobility of Edwardian England, which were cut short by the accession of Mary I and Grey’s execution in 1554.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universität Zürich. The online edition is based on the cited book…), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.