CCXVII. To
ArrER most hearty commendations to your lordship: forasmuch as I am informed, that your lordship intendeth to depose the prior of the Charter House within the Isle of Axholme, this shall be to desire you to permit the said prior still to continue in
[5 Lord Darcy was executed on Tower-hill, tefract, surrendered November 26, A.D. 1538, ( Bur-]
[June 20, A.D. 1537, for taking part in the Lincoln- net’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. I. Part 11. Appendix.]
[shire insurrection, which was denominated by the Book 111. No. 3. p. 230. Ed. Oxon. 1829.) 1t was]
[rebels the pilgrimage of grace.” It broke out at granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to W. Clifford and Mich.]
[Louth, Monday, Oct. 2, 1536, on the day that the Wildbore. Tanner’s Notitia Monast. Yorkshire.]
[ecclesiastical commissioners were to hold their visi- xcvi. Pontefract. Ed. Camb. 1787.]]
[tation in that place. The original documents refer- [7 The address of this letter is wanting. It was]
[ring to this insurrection are preserved in the State in all probability written to Crumwell. ]]
[Paper Office. ( In Lincolnshire.] [5 A priory of dominicans or black friars at Pon-]
his room; for I am about, through the help of such friends as I have in those parties, to procure that the said prior shall willingly resign the same into the king’s hands. Thus Almighty God preserve your lordship! From Ford, the viith day of March. [1538.] Your own assured ever,
T. Cantuarien
CCXVIII. To Crumwell
Mv very singular good lord, I heartily commend me unto you; and thank you in like manner for your pains taken with my folk and my letters divers and many Hen, times; and now I am driven to desire you to take further pains. So it is, that one Symone Cornethwaite, dwelling with my lord Russell, did sue a cause of matrimony in the Arches against one Anne Barker, daughter to William Barker of Cheswicke, and brought the mother, and divers other witness, with the confession of the maid, to justify his intent; and then the maid was sequestered, lest any violence should be used towards her, unto the house of master Vaghan in Chepe side; and in very deed, at the special request of my lord of Sussex, I heard the matter myself one day at Lamebethe, and thought it necessary that the maid should continue still in sequestration till the matter were tried. And this suit depending, one William Bridges, brother to sir John Bridges’, took out the maid from the sequestration, and married her before day without any banns asked, or any licence or dispensation obtained, and in the time forbidden, within three days afore Christenmas last, and hath ever since lien by her, and keeps her in a secret corner in master Ambrose Barkers house; and she is declared accurst for violating of the sequestration, and is so denounced at Poules Cross, and at divers other places, and so hath continued forty days: and this notwithstanding, he keeps her still, more like a rebellion than an obedient subject to the laws and good order of this realm; and swears great oaths, that he will keep her in spite of any man. Now my desire is, for the zeal I do know that you bear unto justice and the evitation of notorious sin, it may please you to send for the said Willian Bridges by privy seal or otherwise, commanding him to bring the woman with him: and then you to sequester her to some honest indifferent house, till the matter be tried whose wife she is; and otherwise to correct him for his misdemeanour in this behalf, as shall be thought good to your lordship. In which doing I doubt not but you shall please God highly; and cause other to beware of such misdemeanour in the king’s realm. As knows our Lord, who preserve you as myself. Amen. At Ford, the 14th day of March. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my lord
privy seal, these be given. CCXIX. To Crumwell
My very singular good lord, in most hearty wise I commend me unto your lordship. ^ And whereas there is suit made unto me for one sir William Chevenay, parson of Kyng- [! This was probably sir John Bridges, created from Ascension-day till Trinity Sunday. Comber. lord Chandois” by queen Mary, April 8, A.D. 1554, Quando clauditur tempus nuptiarum, et quando for the more honourable reception of the prince of aperitur, nota in his versibus sequentibus: Spain” Strype’s Eccl Mem Vol III p 86 Ed. Aspiciens veterem, circum, qua, quis, benedicta. Oxon. 1822.] Conjugium vetat Adventus, Hilariusque relaxat.
[? ‘The times forbidden to matrimony by old Septuagena vetat, octavum Pasche relaxat.’ canons, and by the custom of England, were from Missale ad usum Sarum. 1529.” Advent Sunday till a week after Epiphany; from Jenkyns’ Remains of Abp. Cranmer. Vol. I. pp. Septuagesima Sunday till a week after Easter; and 236, 7, m. m.]
ston besides Canterbury, which being a very impotent man, above fourscore years of age, and also blind, is not able in his own person to discharge his cure, and would very gladly have licence to abide with his friends and kinsfolks, and would find an honest priest in the meantime to discharge his cure; forasmuch as he is not able, besides the finding of the priest, to keep house of the same, the benefice being of so small value, as I am credibly informed that it is: these shall be, therefore, to desire you to be good lord unto the said parson in this his suit unto your lordship, that he may be discharged of the act concerning residence’, if it may be. And he shall pray during his life, which is not like to pass one year, for the preservation of your good lordship. Thus right heartily fare you well. From Canterbury, the 16th of March. [1538.]
Your own assured everT. Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. CCXX. To Crumwll
My very singular good lord, in my most hearty manner I commend me unto your lordship: and where I am informed, that one Sandwich, a monk of Christ’s church in Canterbury, and warden of Canterbury college in Oxforth?, doth sue for the preferment of the prior’s office in the said house of Canterbury; these my letters are most effectuously to desire your lordship, if any such alteration be, to bear your favour and aid to the warden of the manors of the said house, a man of right honest behaviour, clean living, good learning, good judgment, without superstition, very tractable, and as ready to set forward his prince’s causes, as no man more of his coat; and in that house, in mine opinion, there is no meeter man. I am moved to write to your lordship in this behalf, inasmuch as I consider what a great commodity I shall have, if such one be promoted to the said office, that is a right honest man and of his qualities; and I insure your lordship the said room requireth such one; as knoweth God, who ever preserve you. From Canterbury, the 17th day of March. [1538.7]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. CCXXI. To Crumwell
My very singular good lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto yOUF lordship; signifying to the same, that according to the effect and purport of your letters to me directed concerning friar Forest, the bishop of Wurceiter and I will be to-morrow with your lordship, to know farther of your pleasure in that behalf. For if we should proceed against him according to the order of the law, there must be articles devised beforehand, which must be ministered unto him; and therefore it will be very well done,
[[ Stat 21 Hen VIII. c 13.] was under the jurisdiction of the Benedictine priory]
[[ At the period of the dissolution of Christ’s of Christ Church, Canterbury, and was “an habi.]
[Church, Canterbury, William Gardiner, alias Sand- tation chiefly for the student monks of Canterbury.”]
[wich, who was afterwards a prebendary of Canter- It was granted A.D. 1511, to the dean and chapter]
[bury, and canon of Christ’s Church, Oxford, a violent of Canterbury, but A. n. 1547, it was transferred to]
[enemy of the Reformation, and of the archbishop, the new foundation, consisting of the dean and]
[was warden of the college. Vid. Somner’s Antiq. of chapter, and is now part of Christ Church Col-]
[Canterbury, p 127 Ed. Battely, Lond. 1703.] lege,” Oxford. Tanner’s Notit. Mcnast. xxiii, 8.]
[E [’ Canterbury College in Oxford, A.p. 1538, Oxford. Ed. Camb. 1767.]]
that one draw them against our meeting’. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the 6th day of April. [1538.]
Your own assured ever,
T. CANTUARIEN. To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. CCXXIL to Crumwell
My very singular good Lord, in my right hearty wise I commend me unto you. And ^ whereas my servant Fraunces Bassett, this bearer, was, by the mean of your good lordship, put in possession of the granges of Musden and Caldon, and is dispossessed the earl of Shrewsbury that now is, to his great hurt and hinderance, forasmuch as he not able to contend with him in the law; these therefore shall be to desire your lordship to sign these letters inclosed, directed unto the said earl in his behalf, or to alter them any thing mislike you, or else to direct such other letters to him as may stand most with your lordship’s pleasure in the preferment of this bearer, which only hath and must depend upon your goodness; whom I am the more bold to name your kinsman, cause I would the said earl should more earnestly tender your lordship his letters and request. And thus I pray God long to preserve your lordship in health. From Croydon, the viiith day of April. [1538.7]
Your own assured ever,
T. Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal.
CCXXIII. To Crumwell
“s
[Dr John Forest, a friar observant, was appre- Portiforium secundum usum Sarum, noviter im-]
[hended, for that in secret confession he had declared pressum et a plurimis purgatum mendis, in quo]
[to many the king’s subjects, that the king was not nomen Romano pontifici falso ascriptum omittitur,]
[supreme head of the church, whereas before he had una cum aliis quz christianissimi nostri regis sta-]
[been sworn to the same supremacy. Upon this point tuto repugnant. Excusum Londini. per R. Graf-]
[he was examined, and answered, that he took this ton et E. Whitchurch, 1541, per Edvardum Whyte-]
[oath with his outward man, but his inward man never church, cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum;]
[consented thereunto: then being further accused of in which the alterations were too inconsiderable]
[divers heretical opinions, he submitted himself to to satisfy the reformers, and much more sweep-]
[the punishment of the church, but having more ing changes seem to have been in contemplation,]
[liberty than before, to talk with whom he would, when, on Cranmer’s announcement of the king’s]
[when his abjuration was sent him to read, he utterly pleasure, it was ordered by the convocation in]
[refused it. Whereupon he was condemned, and 1543, that the examination and correction of the]
[afterward on a pair of new gallows set up for that service books should be committed to the bishops]
[purpose in Smithfield, he was hanged by the middle of Sarum and Ely, [Salcot and Goodrich, taking to]
[and armpits quick, and under the gallows was made each of them three of the lower house, such as]
[a fire, wherewith he was burnt and consumed, on the should be appointed for that purpose: but this the]
[22nd day of May, [A.D. 1538.]”— Also a pulpit lower house released.” Although the bishops of]
[was there set, in the which M. Hugh Latymer, Salisbury and Ely were not hearty in the prosecution]
[bishop of Worcester, preached a sermon, confuting of the work allotted to them, Cranmer mentions “in]
[the friar’s errors, and moving him to repentance,” the minute of the king’s majesty’s letters to be]
[but all availed not. Stow’s Annals, p. 574. Ed. addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury,” ap-]
[Lond. 1615. Vid. also Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, pended to his letter to Henry VIII., dated Jan. 24,]
[p. 1100. Ed. Lond. 1583.] [A.D. 1546.] that the king with himself had ap-]
[[^ Dr Jenkyns thinks it possible that the prepa- pointed the bishops of Worcester, [Hethe,] and]
[ration of the church service upon which Dr Malet Chichester, [Day,] ”with other chaplains and]
[was engaged, might have been an amended breviary, learned men to peruse certain books of service;”]
[which was printed a.p. 1541, and 1544, entituled: and there is every probability, from the following]
— the writing up of so much as he had to do, came by me here at Croden to know my further pleasure and commandment in that behalf; I shall beseech you, my lord, that after his duty done in seeing your lordship, he may repair unto me again with speed, for further furtherance and final finishing of that we have begun. For I like his diligence and pains in this business, and his honest humanity declared in my house for this season of his being therein so well, that I can be bold so to commend him to your lordship, that I shall with all my heart beseech the same to declare your goodness and favour to him by helping his small and poor living. I know he hath very little growing towards the supporting of his necessaries; which is much pity, his good qualities, right judgment in learning, and discreet wisdom considered. Thus fare your good lordship heartily well. From Croden, the 11th of April. [1538.]
Your own assured ever
i: T. CANTUARIEN. To the right honourable and my very good
lord, my lord privy seal. CCXXIV. To Crumwells
My lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto your lordship. This shall:: be to desire you to be good lord unto certain men of Smarden and Pluckeley in Kent, whose names shall be delivered unto your lordship herewithal, which are indicted for unlawful assemblies at the last sessions at Canterbury, and (as they report unto me) of none occasion or ground else, but for by cause they are accounted fauters of the new doctrine, as they call it; beseeching your lordship therefore, that if it cannot be duly proved that they are worthy thus to be indicted, they may be released of this their indictment. For if the king’s subjects within this realm which favour God’s word, shall be unjustly vexed at sessions, it will be no marvel though much sedition be daily engendered within this realm. Wherefore I pray you, my lord, that some remedy may in time be devised for the redress of such indictments. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the 29th day of April. [1538.7]
Your own assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my singular
good lord, my lord privy seal.
CCXXV. To Crumwell
My lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto you. And whereas I moved… 5. you to write in the favour of sir Thomas Lawney unto young Mr Parre, for the resign-
[quotation from the petition of Edward VIth’s first this effect: « Persons indicted within the county of]
[convocation, that it was in the end completed: Kent. Pluckley: Henry Harte, John Stanstrete.]
[Whereas by the commandment of king Henry Smarden: Gervis Golde, John Hynkesell, ‘Thomas]
[VIIL, certain prelates and other learned men were Baker, Richarde Lucke.”’]]
[appointed to alter the service of the church, and to [ Amongst the presentments at a visitation held]
[devise other convenient and useful order therein, by the archbishop, about the month of September,]
[who according to the same appointment did make A.D. 1540, was a Vincent Ingeam, (a justice of]
[certain books, as they be informed; their request is, peace), who had commanded on Easter- Monday,]
[that the said books may be seen and perused by 38 of the king, that no man should read, or hear]
[them, for a better expedition of Divine service to be the bible read, upon pain of imprisonment, and]
[set forth accordingly,” Vid. Collier’s Eccl. Hist. cast two into prison, the one for speaking against]
[Vol V p 106. Ed. Lond. 1840—41; Strype’s him therein, and the other for shewing him the]
[Eccl. Mem Vol. I. p. 580. Ed. Oxon.1822; Ames king’s injunctions concerning the same.” Strype’s]
[Typog Antiq. Vol. I11. pp. 449, 485. Ed. Lond. Mem. of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. pp. 143, 4. Ed.]
[1810—19. Jenkyns’ Remains of Abp. Cranmer, Oxon. 1840; Vid. Letters CCII. ἄς. pp. 349—356.]]
[δὴ Vol I pp 241, 2.] [^ This Lawney was a witty man, and chap-]
[A [ Within the folds of this letter a paper is lain to the old duke of Norfolk, and had been one of]
[pasted, written in the same hand as the letter, to the scholars placed by the cardinal in his new]
tion of the vicarage of Royden in Essex, belonging unto his chaplain; I faves unto your lordship letters devised for that purpose, beseeching you, my lord, to assign them if you like the draught of them, or else that they may be amended according to your mind. In accomplishing whereof you shall prefer a right honest man, worthy to have a much better thing than this is. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the first day of May. [1538.]
Your own assured, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. CCXXVI. To Crumwell
My lord, in my hearty wise I commend me unto your lordship. And wheras this ^ bearer, my friend and kinsman, hath certain suits before you, I pray you, my lord, that ye will be so good lord unto him in these his suits, if it may be, that he may have a short end of them, according to justice and equity, with your reasonable favour, and the rather at this my request and instance; wherein ye shall both shew unto me singular pleasure, and bind him to be your daily beadsman. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. From my manor of Lambhyth, the 2nd day of May. [1538.]
Your lordship’s assured, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. Ccxnvii. To Crumwll
My very singular good lord, after most hearty recommendations: so it is, as 1 am informed, that there is an office founden before the late excheator of the county of Lincoln, after the death of one Thomas Tamworth; in the which office, amongs other things, it is founden, that the said Thomas Tamworth should be seized and die seized of one mese and fifty-eight acres of land and pasture, lying in a town called Lecke, in the said county of Lincoln; which lands, as I am credibly informed, is the true inheritance of this poor gentleman John Tamworth, this bearer; and he that is heir of the said Thomas Tamworth is now the kings ward, and was in the custody of sir William Musgrave, knight, and dame Elizabeth his wife, by the king’s letters patents to the said dame Elizabeth made; who having the custody of the same ward, by colour of the said office so founden, both against the due order of law and good conscience, hath, since the death of the said Thomas Tamworth, not only taken the profits of the said mese and fifty-eight acres of land, but also of forty acres more of other lands lying in the said town, in the said office not contained, which also is the inheritance of this poor gentleman; and forasmuch as his counsel doth inform him, that he can have no traverse to the said office during the minority of the said John Tamworth, son and heir of the said Thomas Tamworth; therefore for restitution of the other lands in the said office not comprised, he hath sued to the master of the king’s wards, who, upon his long suit, did direct a commission to certain worshipful gentlemen of the said county of Lincoln, to inquire of the truth of the premises; who, by authority of the said commission, hath sitten and inquired by the oath of twelve men duly of the same, and which twelve men have given their verdict to the said commissioners, and put thereunto their several seals; and, as I am informed, there is so
[college at Oxon: where he was chaplain of the (! Osias le Moyne held the vicarage from March]
[house, and prisoner there with Frith. In the time A.D. 1523 to his death, A.D. 1541, so that it is]
[of the six articles he was a minister in Kent, placed certain the resignation referred to by the archbishop]
[there, I suppose, by the archbishop.” Strype’s did not take place. Newcourt’s Repertorium, Vol.]
[Mem. of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. 1. p. 49.] -. 1. p. 508. Ed. Lond. 1763.]]
: 1538. ] LETTERS. — 869 affection in Thomas Browne, one of the said commissioners, (who, by the consent of other his fellows, had the commission delivered unto him to make certificate thereof at the day of return specified in the said commission,) that as yet he hath made no certificate of the same, saying it is the commandment of some of your lordship’s counsel, that he shall keep it out and make no certificate, which is great hinderance and cost to this poor gentleman, and loss of his inheritance: wherefore I beseech your good lordship to give in commandment to the said Thomas Browne, who hath the custody of the said commission, to make certificate thereof to the master of the king’s wards; either else that the matter may be heard by your counsel, and, upon certificate thereof made to your lordship, such direction and order may be taken in the same, as shall stand with the king’s laws, right, and good conscience; and you shall bind this gentleman during his life to do you such service as may lie in him for to do. Thus Almighty God long preserve your lordship in honour! From my manor of Croydon, the xxixth of May. [1538.]
Your own assured everT. Cantuarien
The said John Tamworth is a near kinsman of mine; wherefore I pray you be good lord unto him.
To my singular good lord, my
lord privy seal.
CCXXVIII. To Crumwell?
AFTER my most hearty commendations unto your good lordship: these shall be to signify unto the same, that this bearer, John Robynson, is one of my lord of Wiltshire servants, for whom I spake unto your lordship to accept into your service, beseeching your lordship, inasmuch as he daily giveth attendance to know your pleasure herein, that you will be his good lord in this his suit, and I trust that he shall do unto you his true and faithful service; and as for his honesty and other qualities, I doubt not but that the experience of my lord of Wiltshire’s service is a sufficient testimony for him in that behalf. Thus, my lord, most heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the vth day of June. [1538.]
Your own assured evr, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord,
my lord privy seal.
CCXXIX. To Crumwell
My singular good lord, after most hearty wise I commend me unto your good lordship; signifying unto you, that about a twelve months past, as I was in my journey towards the king’s highness, I lodged at my house in Croydon; where certain of my chaplains by chance went into the church there, and as they looked in certain books, they found the names of bishops of Rome not put out according unto the king’s commandment: wherefore I sent for all the priests of the church, and their books
[rre MARRE VRAT ARN eh]
[L [ἢ This paragraph is in the archbishop’s hand.] And wher as heretofore, as ye know, both upon]
[Ll. [> This letter seems to have been written on the most just and vertuouse fundations, grownded upon]
[E.: breaking up of the earl of Wiltshire’s establish- the lawes of Almighty God and holly scripture, and]
[hs ment by his death in 1538. Jenkyns’ Remains of also by the deliberate advice, consultation, consent,]
[D. Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 246. n. y.] and agreement, as well of the bishops and clergie,]
[Po jn Mss. [ The following is the letter against the pope’s as by the nobles and comons temporall of this our]
[214 authority here referred to: realme, assembled in our high court of parliament,]
[Muse: Hexry R. and by auctoritie of the same, the abuses of the]
[rig nal. TnvsTY and right welbeloved, we grete you well. bishop of Rome his auctoritie and jurisdiction, of]
[P. [ cnaxwER, τι. 24]
also, and shewed them the place where such names were, and also commanded them that they should amend their said books; and I discharged the parish priest of his
[longe time usurped against us, have been not only and furderaunce, that ye may do in these matters in]
[utterly extirped, abolished and secluded; but also the parties about you, and specially at your being at]
[the same our nobles and comons, both of the clergie sises and sessions; in the declaration of the pre-]
[and temporaltie, by another severall acte and upon misses, have thought it good, necessary and expe-]
[like fundation, for the publique weale of this our dient, to write these our letters unto you; whom we]
[realme, have united, knyt and annexed to us and esteem to be of such singuler zeale and affection to-]
[the corone imperiall of this our realme, the title, wards the glory of Almighty God, and of so faith-]
[dignitie, and stile of supreme hed in earthe, im- full and loving harte towards us, as ye woll not only,]
[mediatly under God, of the church of England, as with all your wisdome, diligences and labours, ac-]
[undoubtedly evermore we have been: which things complish all such things, as might be to the prefer-]
[also the said bishops and clergie, particularly in ment and setting forward of Godes worde, and the]
[their convocations, have holly and entierly consent- amplification, defence and maintenance of our said]
[ed, recognised, ratified, confermed and approved interests, right, title, stile, jurisdiction and aucto-]
[autentiquely in writing, both by their speciall othes, ritie, apperteyning unto us, our dignitie, preroga-]
[profession and wryting, under their signes and tive, and corone imperiall of this our realme, woll]
[seales; so utterly renouncyng all other othes, obe- and desire you, and nevertheless straitely charge]
[dience and jurisdiction, either of the said bishop and command you, that laying aparte all vain af-]
[of Rome, or of any other potentate: we late you fections, respects, and carnal considerations, and]
[witt, that perpendyng and consideryng the charge setting before your eyes the mirror of truth, the]
[and commission in this behalf geven unto us by glorie of God, the right and dignitie of your sove-]
[Almighty God, together with the great quietnes, raigne lord; thus sounding to the inestimable unitie]
[rest and tranquillite, that hereby may ensue to our and commoditie both of your self, and all other our]
[faithful subjects, both in their consciences, and loving and faithfull subjects, ye do not only make]
[other wise to the pleasure of Almighty God, in case diligent search within the precinct of your commis-]
[the said bishops and clergie of this our realme sion and auctoritie, whether the said bishops and]
[should sincerely, truly and faithfully sett forth, de- clergie do truly, sincerely, as before, preach, teach,]
[clare and preache unto our said subjects the very and declare to the people the premisses, accord-]
[true word of God, and without all maner color, ing to their duties, but also at your said setting in]
[dissimulation, hipocrisie, manifest, publishe and sises and sessions ye do persuade, shewe, and de-]
[declare the great and innumerable enormities and clare unto the same people the very tenor, effect, and]
[abuses, which the said bishop of Rome, as well in purpose of the premisses in such wise, as the said]
[title and stile, as also in auctoritie and jurisdiction, of bishops and clergie may the better, not only do]
[long tyme unlawfully and injustly hath usurped upon thereby, and execute their said dueties, but that]
[us, our progenitors, and all other Christen princes, also the parents and rulers of families may declare,]
[[we] have not only addressed our letters generall to teache, and informe their children and servants in]
[all and every the same bishops, straitly chargyng and the specialties of the same, to the utter extirpacion]
[commanding them, not only in their proper persons, of the said bishop’s usurped authority, name, and]
[to declare,teach and preach unto the people, the true, jurisdiction; for ever shewyng and declarying also]
[mere and sincere word of God, and how the said to the people at your said sessions the treasons tray-]
[title, stile, and jurisdiction of supreme hed apper- terously commytted against us and our lawes, by]
[teyneth unto us, our corone and dignitieroyall; and thelatebishop of Rochestre, and sir Thomas Moore,]
[to gyvelike warnyng, monition and charge, to all knight, who thereby, and by diverse secrete prac-]
[abbots, priors, deanes, arche deacons, provosts, par- tises of their maliciouse mynds against us intended,]
[sons, vicars, curats, scole masters, and all other ec- to semynate, engender, and brede amongs our peo-]
[clesiastical persons within their dioces, to do the ple and subjects most mischievous and sediciouse]
[semblable in their churches, every Sunday and opynyon, not only to their own confusion, but also]
[solem feast, and also in their scoles; and to cause of diverse others who lately have condignely suf-]
[all maner of prayers, orisons, rubrics and canons in fered execution according to their demerites, and in]
[masse books, and all other books used in churches, such wise dilating the same with persuacions to the]
[wherin the said bishop is named, utterly to be abo- same our people, as they may be the better fixed,]
[lished, eradicate, and rased out in such wise, as the established, and satisfied in the truth, and conse-]
[said bishop of Rome, his name and memorie for quently, that all our faythfull and true subjects may]
[evermore (except to his contumelly and reproche) therby detest and abhore in their harts and deeds,]
[may be extinct, suppressed and obscured; but also the most recreant and traiterouse abuses and beha-]
[to the justices of our peace, that they, in every veours of the said maliciouse malefactors as they be]
[place within the precint of their commissions, do most worthy, and fynding any defaulte, negligence,]
[make and cause to be made diligent serche wayse, or dissimulacion in any manner of person, or per-]
[and especially, whedder thesaid bishops and clergie sons, not doyng his duetie in this partie, ye imme-]
[do truly and sincerly, without any maner cloke or diately do advertise us and our counsel of the]
[dissimulation, execute and accomplish their said defaulte, manner, and facion of the same; lating]
[charge to them commytted in this behalf; and to you witt, that considering the greate moment,]
[satisfie us and our councill of such of them that weight, and importance of this matter, as wherupon]
[should omytt or leave undone any parte of the pre- dependeth the unity, rest, and quietnes of this our]
[misses, or ells in the execution therof should coldely realme, yf ye should contrary to your dueties, and]
[or fainedly use any maner of synister addition, our expectations and trust, neglect, be slake, or]
[interpretation or cloke, as more plainly is expressed omytteto doe diligently your dueties in the true per-]
[in our said letters. We, considering the great good formance and execucion of our mynde, pleasure, 4]
J. serviee at the same time. Now, if it please your good lordship, it chanced in these holidays the dean of the arches to say mass with a book belonging to one of the chantry priests of the said church; which book is nothing amended since that time of my being there, and yet then I myself shewed the places in the same book, and the said chantry priest promised to put them out: and whether this be a maintenance of the bishop of Rome his authority or no, I will not determine, but remit the matter wholly to your good lordship; yet in the mean season I have called him before me, and have taken certain honest men, which be bound that he shall be ready at all times to come before any of the king’s council, there to make answer unto all such things as shall be laid to his charge concerning the same. I desire your good lordship that I may have an answer by this bearer, what I shall do herein; and I desire Almighty God to have your good lordship continually in his preservation. From my manor of Croydon, the 12. day of June. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To my singular good lord, my
lord privy seal.
CCXXX. To Crumwll
ArrER most hearty commendations to your good lordship: these be to certify you,
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that I will not fail, God willing, to meet you at London to-morrow, accordingly as I perceive by your letters it is the king’s pleasure. And forasmuch as I have no manner of stuff nor provision at Lamehyth as now, so that I am not in no wise provided to receive the ambassadors’ thither as to-morrow; therefore I beseech you to appoint some other place where we may have conference with them, and to send me word by this bearer as well of the time as of the place, wbere and when ye will appoint me to meet with them; and at our meeting I shall be right glad to have your counsel, what provision is meet that I make for them, which I shall be right glad to do to my power: as knoweth our Lord God, who long preserve you to his pleasure! At my manor of Croydon, the xiiith day of June. [1538.
Your own assured evr, Cantuarien
The bishop of Canterbury to my
CCXXXI. To Crumwll
My very singular good Lord, after my most hearty commendations: these shall be.. ‘; to signify unto your lordship, that as yesterday Franciscus? the duke of Saxon’s chancellor, was in hand with me and the bishop of Chichester very instantly, to.
rens
[and commandment as before, or wolde halte or bounden: and therefore fail ye not most effectually,]
[stumble at any person, or specialtie of the same, be ernestly, and entierly to see the premisses done and]
[ye assured that we, like a prince of justice, well so executed upon paine of your allegeance, and as ye]
[punish and correct your default and negligence woll advoyde our high indignacion and displeasure,]
[thereyn, as it shall be an example to all others, how at your uttermost perills: given under our signet at]
[contrary to their allegeance, othes and dueties, they our manor besids Westminster, the xxvth day of]
[do frustrate, deceive, and disobey the just and June. Burnet’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. III. Part]
[lawfull commandment of their soveraign lord, in ir. App. Book ii. No. 32, p. 100. Ed. Oxon. 1829.]
[such things as by the true hartie and faithfull exe- Wilkins’ Concilia, Vol. III. p. 772. et sqq.]]
[cucion whereof, they shall not only prefer the honour [! Probably the German protestants’ ambassa-]
[and glory of God, and sett forth the majesty and dors, who arrived in England in May, 1538. Todd’s]
[imperial dignitie of their soveraign lorde, but allso Life of Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 249, 50. Vid. Letters]
[importe and bringe an inestimable unitie, concorde, CCXXXVII. CCXXXIX. pp. 377, 379.]]
[and tranquillitie of the publique, and common state [^ Franciscus Burcardus, ( Burckhardt,) vice-]
[of this realme, whereunto both by the lawes of God chancellor to the elector of Saxony, was at the head]
[and nature and man they be utterly obliged and ofthe Germanembassy.” Vid. Letters COXXXVII. 94—2]
have Atkynson’s penance altered from Pauls unto the parish-church of the said At-kynson: whereunto we made him this answer, that forasmuch as that error of the sacrament of the altar was so greatly spread abroad in this realm, and daily increasing more and more, we thought it needful, for the suppressing thereof, most specially to have him do his penance at Pauls, where the most people might be present, and thereby, in seeing him punished, to be ware of like offence; declaring farther unto him, that it lay not in us to alter that penance to any other place, by cause we were but commissaries appointed by your lordship; and therefore, without your advice and consent, we could not grant unto him any thing in this behalf. He then, perceiving that we nothing did incline unto his request, answered and said, that if any person coming from the king of England unto the duke his master should require a greater request than this was, it should be granted unto him; alleging that the bishop of Hereforde’ asked of his master one that was condemned to death, and he was liberally delivered unto him. Howbeit, said he, 1 do not require such a thing, but only that this Atkynson his penance may be altered from one place unto another. Then I promised him that I would consult with your lordship therein as this day, touching his request. Wherefore I beseech your lordship to advertise me by this bearer, what answer I shall make unto him in this behalf. “Thus Almighty God preserve your good lordship! At Lambeth, the 22nd day of June. [1538.]
Your own evr assured, Cantuarien
“My lord, I pray you have in your good remembrance sir Edward Ryngelay?.
To my very singular good lord, my
lod pry seal. CCXXXII. To Crumwll
AFTER my most hearty commendations unto your good lordship; these shall be bi hd.. ”’ to beseech the same to direct your letters unto my commissary at Calise, giving him power and authority to take away as well such images now being within the priory of the black Friars at Calise, to whom any pilgrimage appertaineth, as all other images of like estimation within my jurisdiction there. And whereas my said commissary hath written unto me concerning this bearer, Adam Damplippe’, desiring to have certain requests accomplished, as farther shall appear unto your lordship by his letter herein inclosed; I right heartily desire you, my lord, so to tender the said requests, that this said bearer may return again thither, and there to proceed with quietness as he
[CCXXXIX. pp. 377, 379. Seckendorf, Comment. offence of idolatry, forthwith take down, and [with-]
[Hist. Apol. de Lutheran. Lib. 111. Sect. 16. $. Ixvi. out] delay, ἄς.” This injunction not having been]
[x p 180 Ed Francof. et Lips. 1692.] issued at the date of this letter, it required such a [’ Edward Fox. Vid. Seckendorf, Comment. special authority from Crumwell to remove the]
[Hist Apol de Lutheran Lib. 111. Sect. 13. $. xxxix. images as that which is here asked for. Burnet’s]
[Add. p 111] Hist. of Reformat. Vol.I. part ii. Appendix. Book [? This paragraph is in the archbishop’s hand.] 111. Nos. vii. and xi. pp. 250, 281. Stow’s Annals, [ Vid. Letters OXCVI. CCXIV. pp. 345,361.] p. 574. Ed. Lond. 1615.] [ Besides this, to the intent that all supersti- [^ For a full account of the persecutions at]
[tion and hypocrisy, crept into divers men’s hearts, Calais, in which George Bucker, alias Adam Damp-]
[may vanish away, they shall not set forth or extol lip, was concerned, vid. Foxe’s Acts and Monu-]
[any images, relics, or miracles, for any superstition ments, p. 1223. et seq. Ed. Lond. 1583. Vid. also]
[or lucre.” Injunctions given by authority of the Stat. 32 Hen. VIII. cap. 49; Letters CCOXXIX.]
[king’s highness to the clergy of the realm, 4.p. CCXXX.; Strype’s Mem. of Abp. Cranmer, pp.]
[1536. This was a positive command to remove the 96,7; Todd’s Life of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 174,]
[images. But a more forcible injunction is found to et seq.; Partof “a Letter from the deputy of Calais]
[that effect in those to the clergy by Crumwell, Sept. and others, touching the examination of one Damp-]
[A.D. 1538: f Item, that such feigned miracles as lip and Stevens, touching cardinal Poole,” anno 30]
[ye know in any of your cures to be so abused with Hen.VIII. Harl. MSS. 283, f. 89. Original. British]
[pilgrimages, or offerings of any thing made there- Museum.]]
[unto, ye shall, for avoiding of that most detestable]
hath begun; assuring your lordship, that he is of right good knowledge and judgment as far as I can perceive by him: and therefore, if it would please your lordship to direct your favourable letters unto the council there in his behalf, you should do a right meritorious deed; and surely I will myself write to like effect, but I know your letters shall be much more esteemed and accepted than mine. In accomplishing í whereof you shall deserve of Almighty God condign thanks for the same. “Thus our Lord have your good lordship in his blessed tuition! At Lambeth, the 24th day of July. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my singular
good lord, my lord privy seal.
[The following is the letter above referred to:
John Butler, Commissary at Calais, to Cranmer.] 4
IN most humble wise please it your grace to be advertised, that Adam Damlippe, bearer hereof, is purposely come over to declare his mind unto your grace. For it is perceived that certain, which favour nothing the truth, would gladly hinder him, if it were in their power, that he should neither teach nor preach the word of God; as in their large writing, not only against him, but also against other persons; which their writing will not be justified no more than was their false suggestion, saying, that there was in Cales which openly and manifestly did deny Christ. Their saying is now, that here are certain which deny Christ to be put in the sacrament of the altar. I trust they shall take little honour of their so writing. This bearer will declare more unto your grace. I will not write what I have seen, but I marvel that men will write of malice; saving that they utter what they are from within forth. God send them a better spirit!
Humbly requiring your grace to be good and gracious lord unto this bearer, Adam Damplippe, and that he may shortly return to Cales again with your grace’s favourable letters, and my lord privy seal’s, if it be possible they may be obtained of his lordship, to be curate of our lady’s church in Cales; and that the council here may assist him in reading and preaching the true word of God; for by his long absence the poor commonalty, which is very desirous to hear him, shall have great hinderance.
Your grace might do a right meritorious deed to aid the prior of the friars hence; for I assure your grace he doth much harm here, and that secretly. God send him grace to turn unto the truth, as he promised to do in Lent last past, knowledging himself to be in the wrong: saying to be sorry that he had so long erred from the truth. Further to advertise your grace, that I have declared to the prior that his third article is not lowable; and he answered me again, that whosoever did say the contrary of his third article is an heretic, and will so prove him Those words spake he to me upon Sunday, the 21st of this month, in the presence of one Richard Bennet, alderman of Cales. And as touching the other two articles, the said Adam and the prior do agree in their sayings. God send light where darkness is. ‘Thus Jesus preserve your grace in health! From Cales, the 22nd day of July. [1538.]
Your humble servnt, John Butlares
To my lord of Canterbury’s good grace.
CCXXXIIL to Crumwll
My very singular good lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto YOUF lordship. And whereas I wrote unto you about this time? twelvemonth of one Robert Antony, subcellerar of Christ’s church in Canterbury, declaring how that he was run away, and had left a very suspicious letter in his chamber unto the prior of the house, the copy of which letter I sent at that time unto you, if your lordship can call it unto your remembrance: so it is, that the said Robert Antony, being all this year forth out of this realm without the king’s grace’s licence, and, as I am informed, at Rome, and is now come home unto Christ’s church again; and, since his coming (as I hear say by such persons as both favoureth God’s word and the king’s majesty there) the prior hath called a chapter, and hath admitted him again into the convent, as he was before; which in mine opinion is not well done, unless he had been first
[τε or PR, oe tr Eb Pu i RR 6:]
[my το με ont of John Butlar, the writer of Strype. He speaks of Sunday the 21st of July.]
[1055 eem S Foxe s Acts and Monuments, pp. He wrote therefore in 1538; for in that year the 3151]
[I 9o, s Strype’s Mem. of Abp Cranmer, Vol. of July fell on a Sunday.” Jenkyns’ Remains of]
[: p. 125. An expression in his letter is of great Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 252.]]
[use in fixing the date of these proceedings, respect- [^ Vid. Letters CLXXXIII. CLXXXIV. pp.]
[ing which there is much confusion in Foxe and 333, 4.]]
examined by some of the council, where he hath been, and upon what occasion he so departed. Therefore, as a thing appertaining unto my duty towards my sovereign lord, I thought it expedient to advertise you thereof, to the intent his highness may have knowledge of the same: and of this I am sure, that I had letters from a scholar beyond the seas, which met him in a company going to Rome-ward; but whether he hath been there or no, I am not sure.
Besides this, my lord, I beseech you to be good lord unto my servant Nevell, this bearer, concerning his suit unto you for his farm at Bowghton under the Blayne, which he had of the abbot and convent of Feversham’. The truth is, that at the feast of Easter last past, or thereabout, he was a suitor for the same unto the abbot and his convent: notwithstanding, they could not agree, for certain considerations which he can declare unto your lordship; insomuch that tendering his preferment to the same, I both spake to your lordship, and obtained your favourable letters unto the said abbot and convent in that behalf, by means only whereof he had a lease of the same under the convent seal for a term of fifty-one years; and so since the feast of St John Baptist last past, he hath occupied and been in possession thereof, until now (as I am informed) that by information of such as of late were the kings commissioners, the king’s grace’s commandment by you is, that he should be dispossessed, unto such time as his grace’s farther pleasure be known: which will be no little to his loss and hinderance, except your goodness be extended unto him in this behalf; assuring your lordship, beside his hinderance herein, it is a great disquietness unto me to perceive my servant and officer, which hath not only done me good service in my household, but also [hath been] very towards and ready at all times to apply such business as hath been committed unto me by the king’s majesty, as in the last commotion and otherways, should thus suddenly be expelled for so small advantage. Howbeit, considering that he obtained this thing only by your lordship’s letters and favour, I trust you will be no less good lord unto him now, than you have been heretofore; and if by your wisdom and discretion it shall be thought good to reform any thing in his said lease, I doubt not but that he will abide your lordship’s direction in that behalf. But to have him clearly excluded, it were too much extremity, considering that he came to the same by his open and honest suit. “Thus, my lord, as well in this suit as in all other, both for myself and mine, I have no refuge but only unto your lordship, which to recompense I shall never be able as my mind would give me; beseeching your lordship in this suit that you will be so good lord unto him, as to maintain him in this his just cause. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the iiid day of August. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my very special
good lord, my lord privy seal. Ccxxxi1v. To Crumwell
My very singular good lord, after most hearty commendations unto your lordship; Ibid. ἢ ” N Ye — I likewise thank the same for your goodness toward the bringer hereof, William Swerder, desiring you to continue the same. I have intended, as I shewed you when
[[! The abbey of Feversham was surrendered to to fix Letters CLXXVII. CLXXVIII. (Letters]
[Henry VIIL, July 8, A. n. 1538, by whom it was CLXXXIII. CLXXXIV. of this edition, pp. 333,]
[granted to sir Thomas Cheyney on March 16, A. D. 4.) to the year 1537. Remains of Abp. Cranmer,]
[1540. Vid. Lewis’s Hist. of Feversham Abbey, pp. Vol. I. p. 254. n. 1.]]
[20 22. Ed. Lond. 1627. Tanner’s Notitia Monast. [2 This might have been the William Swerder,]
[Kent. xxiv. Feversham. Ed. Camb. 1787. The master of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury, men-]
[date of this letter is assumed to be A.D. 1538, by tioned by Abp. Parker in his statutes for that]
[Dr Jenkyns, from the probability of its having been hospital, as nuper magistri hospitali predict.”]
[written soon after the abbey came into the king’s Strype’s Life of Abp. Parker, Appendix. No. lviii.]
[possession; and on similar grounds he was led Vol. III. p. 174. Ed. Oxon. 1821.]]
I spake with you last, to send him into France or Italy, except you be otherwise minded to set him forward, as truly I would be right glad it might please you so to do; and therefore I have sent him unto you, that he should inform your lordship of his mind, desiring you to be good lord unto him for his passport.
Also I heartily require your lordship to be good lord unto master Statham, and mistress Statham, my lord of Worcester his nurse, as touching the suit that the bishop of Worcester had unto you for them; and although I doubt not but that your lordship will be good unto them, yet I pray you that my suit and request be not without place, but that for my sake you will be much the better unto them.
Moreover, I beseech you most heartily to remember master Hutton, now absent in Flanders, and having none to trust unto and that is able to help him but only your lordship. If you could make him an abbot or a prior, and his wife an abbess or a prioress, he, were bound unto you, as he is nevertheless most bound unto you of all men: but if you would help him to such a perfection, I dare undertake for him that he shall keep a better religion than was kept there before, though you appoint him unto the best house of religion in England. “Thus Almighty God long preserve your lordship. At Lambeth, the third day of August. [1538.]
These houses of religion be in master IHutton’s country, Combe Abbey, Merevale, Eytun, and Polysworth. I beseech your lordship to remember him with one of these in special or any other in general.
Your own assured everT. Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my singular
good lord, my lord privy seal.
Ccxxxyv. To Crumwell
My very singular good lord, after my most hearty commendations unto your lordship: these shall be to advertise the same, that I have sent for Robert Antony^, late cellerar of Christ’s church in Canterbury; and when he cometh, I shall order him according to your instruction and advice, and so to get out of him what I can, conceruing his progress to Rome-ward, and the same to send unto you with expedition. As concerning Adam Damplip of Calice’, he utterly denieth that ever he taught or said that the very body and blood of Christ was not presently in the sacrament of the altar, and confesseth the same to be there really; but he saith, that the controversy between him and the prior was, by cause he confuted the opinion of the transubstantiation, and therein I think he taught but the truth. ^ Howbeit there came
[[? Hugh Latymer.] spondence in the State Paper Office. Vid. State [ It appears that John Hutton was employed Papers, Vol. I. p. 741.]]
[as an agent in the Netherlands A. Ὁ. 1538, having [^ Viz. in Warwickshire.]]
[been sent over to negociate a marriage between the [6 Vid. Letter COXXXIII. p. 373. ]]
[duchess of Milan and Henry VIII. Kennet’s Hist. [^ Vid. Letter CCXXXII. p. 372.]]
[of England; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII. [8 The following event is probably that here re-]
[Vol. II. p. 214. Ed. Lond. 1706. He merely ferred to by the archbishop. ‘l’here came a com-]
[opened the negociations for the marriage, which mission from the king to the lord deputy (De Lisle),]
[Wryothesley and Vaughan were commissioned to M. Grendfield, Sir John Butler, commissary, the]
[conclude: he died Sept. 5, A.D. 1538. Several king’s mason and smith, with others, that they]
[letters from Hutton to Henry VIII. and Crumwell should search whether there were.three hosts]
[are found in the Cotton MSS. Galba, B. x. f. 329, lying upon a marble stone, besprinkled with blood;]
[333 335, and Vespasian, C. xiii. f. 340. British and if they found it not so, that immediately it]
[Museum. In a.p. 1542, Hutton was king’s servant, should be plucked down; and so it was. For in]
[and governor of the adventurers in Flanders, as ap- searching thereof, as they brake up a stone in the]
[pears by a letter from the “” council of London to corner of the tomb, they, instead of the three hosts,]
[Henry VIII.” by a minute endorsed from Stepney, found soldered in the cross of marble lying under]
[which letter is preserved in the Cotton MSS. Galba, the sepulchre three plain white counters, which]
[B. x. f. 342. British Museum; and the date of they had painted like unto hosts, and a bone that is]
[which is fixed by the correspondence of the com- in the tip of a sheep’s tail. All which trumpery]
[missioners appointed to enter into negociations with Damlip shewed unto the people the next day fol-]
[Mons. Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, at Step- lowing, which was Sunday, out of the pulpit, and]
[ney, May 1542, preserved in the German Corre- after that they were sent by the lord deputy to the]
in two friars against him, to testify that he had denied the presence of the body and blood to be in the sacrament; which when he perceived, straightways he withdrew himself, and since that time no man can tell where he is become; for which I am very sorry, by cause that I think that he is rather fled, suspecting the rigour of the law, than the defence of his own cause. In consideration hereof, and to the intent that the people of Calice may be quiet and satisfied in this matter, I have appointed two of my chaplains’ to go thither and preach incontinently: nevertheless it is thought that they shall do little good there, if the said prior return home again; for whatsoever hath been done heretofore, either by my chaplains or by other, in setting forth of the word of God there, no man hath hindered the matter so much as this prior, nor no superstition more maintained than by this prior; which I perceive to be true, both by the report of my chaplains heretofore, and of other men of credence. I have herewith sent unto your lordship two letters, which shall something inform you of the priors subtlety and craft, praying your lordship that in any wise he come not at Calice any more to tarry, but either that the house may be suppressed, or else that an honest and a learned man may be appointed in his room; and forasmuch as the prior is here now, I pray you, my lord, that I may have your authority by your letter, to command him that he return not again to Calice.
And where in my last letters I prayed your lordship to remember Mr Hutton, that he might be made an abbot or a prior, which I doubt not that your lordship will effectiously attempt with the king’s majesty; yet forsomuch as his presence with the king might, as I suppose, work something therein, meseemeth it were very good if he might come home for a little time to see the king’s grace, which I beseech your lordship may be brought to pass, if you can by any means. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the xvth day of August. [1538.7]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my very singular
good lord, my lord privy seal. CCXXXVI. To Crumwell
AFTER due commendations unto your lordship: so it is, that I have received also your letters concerning the prior of the friars at Calice, with letters from your lordship unto my lord deputy, which I sent unto him incontinently; and reading the copy
[king. Notwithstanding the devil stirred up a Dove [ Whereupon, during yet the days of the lord]
[.the prior of the White Friars, who with Sir Crumwell, were sent over doctor Champion, doctor]
[Gregory Buttol, chaplain to the lord Lisle, began of divinity, and Mr Garret who after was burned,]
[to bark against him. Yet after the said Adam two godly and learned men, to preach and instruct]
[had in three or four sermons confuted the said friar’s the people, and to confute all pernicious errors, who]
[erroneous doctrines of transubstantiation, and of ineffect preached and maintained the same true doc-]
[the propitiatory sacrifice of the mass, the said friar trine which Adam Damlip had before set forth; and]
[outwardly seemed to give place, ceasing openly to by reason thereof they left the town at their de-]
[inveigh, and secretly practised to peach him by parture very quiet, and greatly purged of the slander]
[letters sent unto the clergy here in England; so that that had run on it.” Id. ibid. Oct. 8, A. Ὁ. 1535,]
[within eight or ten days after the said Damlip was the archbishop had asked Crumwell for ^ the]
[sent for to appear before the bishop of Canterbury, parsonage of St Peter’s besides Calais, like shortly]
[with whom was assistant Stephen Gardiner, bishop to be void, and in the king’s grace’s disposition,]
[of Winchester, D. Sampson, bishop of Chichester, for master Garrett.” Vid. Letter CLV. p. 310.]
[and divers others, before whom he most constantly Vid. also Letters CXLV. CLXIV. CLXXI. pp.]
[affirmed and defended the doctrine which he had 304, 317, 321.]]
[taught, in such sort answering, confuting, and solu- [2 Vid. Letters COXXXII. CCXXXV. pp.]
[ting the objections, as his adversaries, yea, even 372, 375.]]
[among other the learned, godly, and blessed martyr [5 Arthur Plantagenet, created lord De Lisle,]
[Cranmer, then yet but a Lutheran, marvelled at it, April, A. Ὁ. 1523, and appointed governor of Calais,]
[and said plainly that the scripture knew no such June 2, A.D. 1533, was recalled by a letter from the]
[term as transubstantiation.” — Foxe’s Acts and king, (British Museum, Cotton. MSS. Calig. E.]
[Monuments, p. 1224. Ed. Lond. 1583.] IV. f. 34,0riginal,) dated April 17, the 31st year of]
of the same, I could not but mnch allow them, considering how frankly and freely you do admonish him and provoke him, as well to favour God’s word, as also to the right administration of his room and office. And as for the prior, according to your advertisement, I have him in safe custody, and so shall keep him until your return into these parties; and I doubt not but there will be matter enough for his deprivaton. Thus Almighty God have your lordship in his blessed tuition. At Lambeth, the xviiith day of August. [1538.]
‘I beseech your lordship to remember Mr Hutton, that by your means he may have some occasion to come over into England.
Your own evr assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my singular
good lord, any lord privy seal.
CCXXXVII. To Crumwell
Mv very singular and especial good lord, after my most hearty commendations
unto your lordship; these shall be to signify unto the same, that according to your letters to me addressed the 15th day of this present month, I sent for the orators of Germany, and required them in the king’s grace’s behalf, so gentilly as I could, to demore here until his highness coming nearer into these parties: whereat they were
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somewhat astonied, saying, that at the king’s request they would be very well content to tarry during his pleasure, not only a month or two, but a year or two, if they were at their own liberty; but forasmuch as they had been so long from their princes, and had not all this season any letters from them, it was not to be doubted but that they were daily looked for at home, and therefore they durst not tarry, unless the king’s highness would make their excuse of their long abode here unto their princes; and yet therein they would give me no determinate answer by no means that time, but they would consult together and make me an answer the next day after. And the next day they were fully determined to depart within eight days; nevertheless after long reasoning, upon hope that their tarrying should grow unto some good success concerning the points of their commission, which I much put them in his reign, [A. Ὁ. 1539,] on account of Henry’s sus- 186, 7. Camden Soc. Ed. Lond. 1846.] picions that he favoured the Poles and the Roman [ This paragraph is in the archbishop’s hand. catholic party; for although he officially professed [^ i.e. Francis Burgart, vice-chancellor to the
[himself an opponent of the Romish doctrines, he elector of Saxony, (vid. Letter CCXXXI. p. 371.)]
[and his lady were suspected of favouring them.” George a Boyneburgh, doctor of laws, and Frederic]
[He was also accused of want of management in his Myconius, superintendent of the church of Gotha.]
[affairs, so that, for the sake of obtaining money, he Henry VIII. “fearing least the German princes]
[was often compelled to put offices to sale, which might comply with the emperor upon some terms]
[should have been bestowed upon merit, and which for the sake of peace and quietness, and being also]
[thus often fell into the hands of improper persons.” jealous that after the return of their ambassadors]
[He was included, as a matter of courtesy,” they did not presently write to him,” as well as]
[amongst the commissioners who were sent over to “minding to have some of their learned men to be]
[Calais, March 1540, to examine into the state of sent over for further disputation, because he was]
[the laws of religion” there, who arrived on the 16th willing, if possible, to bring the German protestants]
[of that month; from whose investigations it was over from some of their articles in the Augustine]
[proved that the town had been very carelessly confession,.sent two agents, Christopher Mount]
[kept,” and that lord De Lisle ‘” had communicated and Thomas Paynil, to the princes.desiring to]
[with the pope and cardinal Pole, and that he had know the conditions they proceeded upon.” John]
[presented Damplip with 5s., to whom lady De Lisle Frederic, elector of Saxony, and Philip, landgrave]
[had also given 15s. On the pretext that the of Hesse, sent over the above-named persons as]
[presence of the commissioners in Calais afforded ambassadors and three others; but the object of]
[him a proper opportunity for a visit to the king,” their embassy came to nothing.” Strype’s Eccl.]
[he went over to England in obedience to the letter Mem. Vol. I. pp. 522, 3, 529. Ed. Oxon. 1822.]
[of recall, and “immediately on his arrival was sent Burnet’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol.I. Part 11. Ad-]
[prisoner to the tower.” He was not publicly tried denda, No. vii. 493—517. Ed. Oxon. 1829. Secken-]
[for the offences alleged against him, and died dorf, Comment. Hist. Apol. De Lutheran. Lib. rtr.]
[suddenly, as stated supra, Letter CXXXI. n. 1, Sect. 17. $. xvi. p. 180. and Ad. i. Sect. 19. 6. Ixxiii.]
[p.298. Vid. The Chronicle of Calais, pp. 32, 44, Ad. ii. (f). p. 225, 6. Ed. Francof. et Lips. 1792.]]
hope of on your behalf, they condescended and were very well contented to tarry for a month, so that they should be no longer detained; but that after the said month should be expired, they might take their leave, and so depart without farther tract of time, trusting that the king’s majesty would write unto their princes for their excuse in thus long tarrying: besides this they require in the mean time, while they tarry here, that we may entreat of the abuses, and put the same articles in. writing, as we have done the others’; which thing I promised them: nevertheless I would gladly have the king’s grace’s pleasure and commandment therein, whereby we shall the sooner finish the matter?.
Farther, by cause that I have in great suspect that St Thomas of Canterbury his blood, in Christ’s church in Canterbury, is but a feigned thing? and made of some red ochre or of such like matter; I beseech your lordship that Doctor Lee and Doctor Barbor, my chaplains, may have the king’s commission to try and examine that and all other like things there. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well, praying you to give farther credence unto this bearer. At Lambeth, the l8th day of August. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To the right honourable and my very singular
good lord, my lord privy seal. Cocxnxxviii. To Sir Thomas Wriothesley
[[ Vid. “A book containing divers articles, and the piece cut out of his skull laid in the same]
[De Unitate Dei, et Trinitate Personarum, De Pec- wound. These bones (by commandment of the lord]
[cato Originali,” &c. in the Appendix, which were Crumwell) were then and there burnt.— The spoil of]
[probably the articles that were agreed to. Vid. which shrine in gold and precious stones filled two]
[also Frederichus Mychonius, ad D. Thomam great chests, such as six or seven strong men could do]
[Crumwellium,” (Cotton MSS. Cleopat. E. V. f. no more than convey one of them at once out of the]
[227 Original. British Museum) printed by Strype, church.” Stowe’s Annals, p. 575, Ed. Lond. 1516.]
[Eccl. Mem. Vol. I. Part 11. No. xcv. pp. 384, 5. A proclamation, still preserved, (Cotton. MSS.]
[Ed. Oxon. 1829, and Letter CCXXXI. p. 371.] Titus, B. i. British Museum) was issued, chiefly]
[3 It appears by Cranmer’sletter(CCX XXIX.) concerning Becket,” at Westminster, Nov. 16, 30]
[p. 379, that the delay arose from the king’s having Hen. VIII. [4.n. 1538] declaring that there ap-]
[taken the answer into his own hands. State Papers, peared nothing in his life and exterior conversa-]
[Vol. I. Part. 11. p. 580.] tion whereby he should be called a saint, but [? “As for shrines, copses, and reliquiaries of rather esteemed to have been a rebel and traitor]
[saints, so called, although the most were nothing to his prince,” and that from henceforth he should]
[less, forasmuch as his highness hath found other not be esteemed, named, reputed, nor called a]
[idolatry or detestable superstition used thereabouts, saint;.and that his images and pictures, through]
[and perceived for the most part they were feigned the whole realm, should be put down and avoided]
[things; as the blood of Christ, so called, in some out of all churches, chapels, and other places; and]
[place, was but a piece of red silk, inclosed in that.the days used to be festivals in his name]
[a piece of thick glass of crystalline; in another should not be observed,” &c. Vid. Burnet’s Hist.]
[place, oil, coloured of sanguinis draconis,’.and of Reformat. Vol. 111. Part 11. Appendix, Book]
[other innumerable illusions, superstitions and ap- iii. No. 62. pp. 206, 7. Ed. Oxon. 1829. Also]
[parent deceits.His majesty.hath caused the Kennet’s Hist. of England. Lord Herbert’s Life]
[same to be taken away, and the abusive pieces of Hen. VIII. Vol. II. p. 215. Ed. Lond. 1706. ]]
[thereof to be brent, the doubtful to be set and [^ This was probably doctor Leigh, Cranmer’s]
[hidden honestly away for fear of idolatry.” Colliers commissary, [A.D. 1543.] Vid. Strype’s Mem. of]
[Eccl. Hist. Appendix, Vol. IX. pp. 170, 1. Ed. Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. pp. 167, 172. Ed. Oxon.]
[Lond. 1840-41. “The shrine of Thomas Becket 1840.]]
[[Sept. A.D. 1538] in the priory of Christ Church [5 Vid. Letter CCXII. p. 360.]]
[was likewise taken to the king’s use. “This shrine [ Thisletter has not been printed in any former]
[was builded about a man’s height, all of stone, collection of the archbishop’s letters.]]
[then upward of timber plain, within the which wasa [7 i.e. Wriothesley, afterwards Sir Thomas]
[chest of iron, containing the bones of Thomas Wriothesley.]]
[Becket, skull and all, with the wound of his death,]
would send for Mr Hutton?, to the intent that he might, by his presence, prefer himself in obtaining of the king’s majesty some honest living appertaining to these abbeys; these shall be to desire you to put my said lord privy seal in remembrance to send for him, so that upon some occasion he may come unto the king’s majesty for his preferment in this behalf. If there were here as good store of news as you have in the court, I would send you some; but here is none worthy of writing. Thus heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the 18th day of August. [1538.7]
Your loving friend, Cantuarien
To my very loving friend, Mr Wrysley, esquire.
CCXXXIX. To Crumwell
Mv very singular good lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto your lordship. And where that the orators of Germany, when they granted to tarry one month, required that we should go forth in their book and entreat of the abuses, so that the same might be set forth in writing as the other articles are’; I have since effectiously moved the bishops thereto, but they have made me this answer: that they know that the king’s grace hath taken upon himself to answer the said orators in that behalf, and thereof a book is already devised by the king’s majesty’^; and therefore they will not meddle with the abuses, lest they should write therein contrary to that the king shall write. Wherefore they have required me to entreat now of the sacraments of matrimony, orders, confirmation, and extreme unction”; wherein they know certainly that the Germans will not agree with us, except it be in matrimony only: so that I perceive that the bishops seek only an occasion to break the concord; assuring yoür lordship that nothing shall be done, unless the king’s grace’s special commandment be unto us therein directed. For they manifestly see that they cannot defend the abuses, and yet they would in no wise grant unto them.
Farther, as concerning the orators of Germany, I am advertised that they are very evil lodged where they be; for besides the multitude of rats daily and nightly running in their chambers, which is no small disquietness, the kitchen standeth directly against their parlour where they daily dine and sup, and by reason thereof the house savoureth so ill, that it offendeth all men that come into it”. Therefore if your lordship do but offer them a more commodious house to demore in, I doubt not but that they will accept that offer most thankfully, albeit I am sure that they will not remove for this time.
And whereas of late I did put your lordship in remembrance for the suppression of the abbey of Tudberye’; now I beseech your lordship, not only that commissioners may be sent unto that house, but also in like wise unto the abbey of Rocester’, or
[[? Hutton died 5 Sept. A. D. 1538, Vid. Letter sus est Protestantium proceribus, —splendide tamen]
[CCXXXIV. p. 375, n. 4.] vixerant legati et liberalem mensam exhibuerant.— [9 Vid. Letter COXXXVII. p. 377.] Seckendorf, Comment. Hist. Apol. de Lutheran. [9 Theletter written by the German ambassadors Lib. 111. Sect. 16,. Ixvi. (9). p. 180. Ed. Francof.]
[to the king, against the taking away of the chalice, et Lips. 1792. ]]
[and against private masses, and the celibacy of the [!? A Benedictine priory in Staffordshire, sur-]
[clergy, &c. and the king’s answer, which was drawn rendered 30 Hen. VIIL., and the site granted (6]
[up by Tunstall, are still preserved amongst the Edw. VI.) to Sir William Cavendish. Tanner’s]
[Cotton. MSS. Cleop. E. v.fol. 173,215, Original,in Notitia Monast. Stafford. xxx. Tutbury. Ed.]
[the British Museum. “They are also printed in Camb. 1787.]]
[Burnet’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. 1. Part 11. Ad- [^ A Benedictine abbey in Staffordshire, whose]
[denda, pp. 493—538. Ed. Oxon. 1829.] annual revenues amounted to £111. 1ls. 7d., was [! These four Roman catholic sacraments found suppressed (30 Hen. VIII.), the site granted (31]
[no place in the Augshurgh confession; but those of Hen. VIIL) to Richard Trentham. Tanner’s]
[baptism, the Lord’s supper, and penance, were re- Notitia Monast. Stafford. xxi. Roucester. Bur-]
[tained. Vid. Sylloge Confessionum, Ed. Oxon. net’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. I. Part 11. Appendix.]
[1827.] Book iii. p. 227.] [13 Sumptus illius legationis magnus tunc vi-]
Crockesdon’: beseeching your lordship to be good lord unto this bearer Francis Basset, my servant, for his preferment unto a lease of one of the said houses; not doubting but you shall prefer a right honest man, who at all times shall be able to do the king’s grace right good service in those parties, and also be at your lordship’s commandment during his life. Thus Almighty God have your good lordship in his blessed tuition! At Lambeth, the xxiid day of August. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien. CCXL. To Crumwell
Mv very singular good lord, after most hearty recommendations to your lordship; IPM I desire you to be good lord to this bearer, an old acquaintance of mine in Cambridge, a man of good learning in divers kinds of letters, but specially in the Latin tongue, in the which he hath obtained excellent knowledge by long exercise of reading eloquent authors, and also of teaching, both in the university, and now in Ludlow, where he was born. His purpose is, for causes moving his conscience, (which he bath opened to me, and will also to your lordship,) to renounce his priesthood; whereby he feareth (the rawness and ignorance of the people is such in those parties) that he should lose his salary whereof he should live, except he have your lordship’s help. Wherefore I beseech your lordship to write for him your letters to the warden of the guild there and his brethren, which hath the collation of the said school, that he may continue in his room and be schoolmaster still, notwithstanding that he left the office of priesthood; which was no furtherance, but rather an impediment to him in the applying of his scholars. “There is no foundation nor ordinance, as he sheweth me, that the schoolmaster thereof should be a priest. And I beseech you to be good lord unto him in any farther suit, which he shall have unto your lordship. Thus Almighty God long preserve your lordship! At Lambeth, the xxvth day of August. [1538.]
Your own ever assured, Cantuarien
To my very singular good lord, my
lord privy seal. CCXLI. To Crumwell
Mv very singular good lord, in my most hearty wise I commend me unto your lordship. And whereas I am credibly informed that Mr Parker, brother unto the abbot of Gloucester, is departed, who amongs other his promotions had the deanery of a college named Tameworth college”, within the county of Stafford, being of the king’s graces collation: these shall be most heartily to desire your lordship, (inasmuch as that country is destitute of learned men and preachers,) that you will have in remembrance Doctor Barons? unto the king’s majesty, for his preferment thereunto,
[The[Cistercian] monastery of Crokesden, or [? Probably Dr Barnes, “who had been amongst]
[Croxden, in Staffordshire, had an abbot and twelve the earliest converts to Luther’s doctrines; whom]
[monks, whose yearly revenues were, 26 Hen. VIIL., Fox, bishop of Hereford, being at Smalcald, in the]
[103 6s. 7d Speed.” Though this was one of the year 1536, sent over to England, where he was re-]
[lesser abbeys, and so should have been dissolved ceived and kindly entertained by Crumwell, and]
[by 27 Hen. VIII. yet the king was pleased to con- well used by the king, by whose means the corre-]
[tinue this house, which finally surrendered, 30 Hen. spondence with the Germans was chiefly kept up:]
[VIII The site was granted (36 Hen. VIII.) to for he was often sent over to the courts of several]
[Jefiry Foljamb” Tanner’s Notitia Monast. Staf- princes. But in particular he had the misfortune to]
[ford vii viii. Crokesden Burnet, Hist. of Re- be first employed in the project of the king’s mar-]
[format Ibid.] riage with Ann of Cleves; for that giving the king [?^ A college for a dean and six prebendaries. so little satisfaction, all who were the main pro-]
[Vid Tanner’s Notitia Monast. Stafford. xxvii. moters of it fell in disgrace upon it” He also con-]
[Tamworth. ] troverted against a sermon preached by Gardiner at]
Your lordship knoweth full well, that hitherto he hath had very small preferment for such pains and travail as he most willingly hath sustained in the king’s affairs from time to time. Howbeit, I doubt not but the king’s grace and your lordship doth perceive such fidelity and towardness in the man, that he hath deserved a greater living than this promotion, which is esteemed unto me but at the clear yearly value of xxli or thereabouts; beseeching your lordship eftsoons to be his good lord in this behalf, and that the rather at this mine instant request. Thus, my lord, right heartily fare you well. At Lambeth, the xxviiith day of August. [1538.]
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