Your own assured
Tromas CANTUAR.
To my especial and singular good friend,
Mr Crumwell
[crown of this realm mentioned and contained, and tion of the same, or of any thing therein contained.]
[not to any other within this realm, nor foreign au- And this ye shall do against all manner of persons,]
[thority or potentate. And in case any oath be of what estate, dignity, degree, or condition soever]
[made, or hath been made by you, to any person or they be; and in no wise to do or attempt, nor to]
[persons, that then ye to repute the same as vain and your power suffer to be done or attempted, directly]
[annihilate. And that to your cunning, wit, and or indirectly, any thing or things, privily or apartly,]
[uttermost of your power, without guile, fraud, or to the let, hinderance, damage, or derogation there-]
[other undue means, ye shall observe, keep, main- of, or of any part of the same, by any manner of]
[tain, and defend the said act of succession, and all means, or for any manner of pretence. So help you]
[acts and statutes made in confirmation, or for execu- Burnet’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. 1. pp. 294——297.]]
Cvh. To Crumwell
Ruaur worshipful Mr Crumwell, in my right hearty wise I commend me unto you. Likewise praying you to have in your good remembrance such suit as I heretofore, as well by mouth as writing, made unto you for my kinsman Henry Hatfilde, surveyor of my lands. So it is that, by agreement lately taken between him and the prebendar[ies] of Southwell, he shall exchange certain lands of his for certain lands in mortmain belonging to the said prebendaries. And amongst other things of the said agreement it is condescended, that the same my kinsman shall procure the said lands, which the said prebendaries shall have of him, to be mortmained by a certain day, for the same lands which he shall have of the said prebendaries out of mortmain. Wherefore I heartily pray you, that my said kinsman may have your favourable expedition as soon as it may be: for surely, unless the same lands which the said prebendaries shall have of my said kinsman may be mortmained afore the day shall be expired, the said agreement shall stand void, and much inquietness shall continue in these parties, as have continued already there this hundred years; whereof hath grown great occasion of manslaughter divers times, as well to my said kinsman’s grandfather of his father’s side, as to his grandfather of his mother’s side, and to divers other: and it is to be feared, unless this agreement take effect now, that the same variance shall continue still, which God forbid. Wherefore I pray you to be his good master for the expedition of his suit, as my special trust is in you.
Mr Roodd hath also been with me at Croydon, and there hath subscribed the book of the king’s grace’s succession, and also the conclusion “quod Romanus Episcopus non habet majorem. auctoritatem a Deo sibi collatam in hoc regno Anglie quam quivis alius externus episcopus;” and hath promised me, that he will at all times hereafter so conform himself as shall be always to the king’s grace’s contentation, and that he will at no time hereafter preach in any doubtful case, but that he will first counsel with me therein. Wherefore, if it may stand with the king’s graces pleasure, I would that he might have licence again to preach; wherein I pray you to know the king’s grace’s pleasure. From Croydon the 28th day of April.
Your assured ever
THoMAS CANTUAR.
To the right worshipful and my very loving
friend, master Crumwell, of the king’s
graces most honourable council.
CVIII. To
IN my most hearty wise I commend me unto you. And forasmuch as I [am7] credibly informed by this bearer, John Hutton, that the same hath a certain suit unto you; to whom for many considerations, as my friend, I owe as special favour as to any man else of his like state and degree; I heartily require you therefore, that he may for my sake obtain your lawful favour in such his said suits and requests, as in that behalf at this time shall be by him declared unto you: for the which, when it shall lie in me, I will likewise be ready to requite and recompense the same unto you accordingly.
[[! Dr Jenkyns thinks that the mention of sub- that in this case the evidence for the date derived]
[scribing the book of the king’s succession, proves that from the address clearly fails; and has therefore]
[this letter could not have been written earlier than disregarded it, as he has done in some other letters,]
[1534. Yet Crumwell,” he says, is not addressed where, in his opinion, there are reasons, though not]
[as secretary, though he was appointed to that office so conclusive as in the present instance, for sus-]
[before the 12th of April of this year. See Note to pecting it. Remains of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I.]
[State Papers, Vol. I. p. 425.” He therefore supposes p. 104. n. q.]]