Finally, I here send unto you a bill for the bank of four ducats de largo, which sum I would you should not take it up before you have need thereof, and therefore I send it for your commodity and necessity; for it 1s none of the king’s graces money, nor his said grace knoweth nothing thereof, but aloncly of my benevolence to serve your purpose, in case, as I said, you should lack the same. And thus fare ye well. From my manor of Croydon, the xvii. day of June, [1533.]
XV. TO THE MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE AND HIS bRETHREN.
IN my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, and to each of you. And where of late I wrote unto you in the favour of one of mine ally, called Humfrye Stockewith, concerning his liberty in absenting himself from the offices of your town, the reasonable causes whereof I declared unto you in my other letters to you directed in that behalf, and since that time I have no understanding ne certification of your minds in that behalf: in consideration whereof, and forasmuch as I am some deal desirous to be advertised of your towardness therein, I heartily desire you to send me word by this bearer in writing, what you intend to do concerning the same. And if I herein may perceive any kindness in you for the obtaining of my request, I will at all times be ready to shew you like pleasure. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the xxv. day of June.
To Master Mayor of Cambridge and
his brethren. XVI to the Master of Jesus College”, Cambridge
IN my right hearty wise I commend [me] unto you, &c. And so certifying you
that I send you here a buck to be bestowed amonges your company within your college. d:. And forasmuch as you have more store of money, and also less need than I at this season,.. therefore I bequeath a noble of your purse towards the baking and seasoning of him.
And whensoever I have so much money before hand as I am now behind hand, I shall repay you your noble again. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the xxvi. day of June”.
To the Master of Jesus College in Cantabrige.
[8 “On the death of Dr West, bishop of Ely, not attained the age of twenty-three, and before he]
[his nephew and godson, Dr Nicholas Hawkins, had been admitted into holy orders. In about a]
[archdeacon of Ely, at that time the king’s ambas- year after his marriage his wife died. Such was]
[sador in foreign parts, was designed tosucceed him; his character, and such the regard of his former]
[but he dying before his consecration could be college for him, that he was immediately restored to]
[effected, the king granted his licence to the prior the fellowship he had forfeited.—Todd’s Life of]
[and convent, dated March 6, 1534, to choose them- Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. pp. 3, 4, 8.]]
[selves a bishop; who immediately elected in their ΠῚ This letter is placed by Mr Todd under the]
[chapter-house, the seventeenth of the same month, year1552. Dr Jenkyns says he gives no conclusive]
[Thomas Goodrich.” Chalmers, Biogr. Dict. art. reason for his arrangement; and that the book of]
[Ed. Lond. 1716.) been wholly written before 1536. Vid. Remains of 1 Cranmer (about 1510, or 1511,) was elected Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 34.]
[fellow of Jesus College. He married when he had]
XVII. To
Ricur hearty and well-beloved, I commend me unto you, &c. letting you to understand, that by the great suit and instance of my special friends I have overcharged my house with servants. Wherefore I desire you, that your son W. may be with you at home unto such time as my business be something overpast. I can put none of my servants from me but such as have some friends to take unto, for else I think they should be greatly hindered thereby; therefore I intend to put none away but such as be my friends’ children. For lether I had be bold of my own friends than of strangers, by reason that strangers will peradventure take it more displeasantly and unkindly, than I am sure my own friends will. Surely and unfeignedly I do like your son singularly well, and therefore I intend to send for him, God willing, again, as shortly as I may conveniently. Moreover, I have spoken with doctor Elyston in your favour, and he hath taken day with me to St James’ day next, to the intent he may be sure what the Chapel of St Marget is worth by the year: that done, I trust that matter will come to good effect, and that ye need not to doubt therein by God’s grace; and thus fare ye well. From my manor of Croydon, the xxvi” day of June.