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.]