Farewell to you, Sir Hugh de Cressi, and to you, Captain Richard the Archer.
When all this game is played, return and make report to us of your adventures, and of how de Noyon died.

The Queen will love to hear the tale, and your nuptials and Red Eve's shall be celebrated at Westminster in our presence, for you have earned no less.

Master Secretary, get your tools, I will dictate the letters.

After they are signed to-morrow, see them into the hands of Sir Hugh, with others that I will give him for safe carriage, for alas I have creditors at Venice.

Make out an open patent also to show that he and this captain travel as our messengers, charging all that do us service to forward them upon their journey." Three days later Hugh and Grey Dick, in the character of royal messengers from the King of England to the Doge of Venice, took passage in a great vessel bound for Genoa with a cargo of wool and other goods.
On board this ship before he sailed Hugh handed to his father letters for Eve and for Sir Andrew Arnold.