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 LETTER V.

Sir William Kyngston to Secretary Cromwell, May 16th.

1536, upon the preparations for the execution of my Lord
Rochford and Queen Anne.

[HARL. MS. 283. fol. 134. Orig.]

SIR,
Thys day I was with the kyng’s grace and declared the petysyons of
my Lord of Rochford, wherin I was answred. Sir, the sayd lord meche
desyreth to speke with you, weche towchet hys consyens meche as
he sayth, wherin I pray you I may know your plesur, for by cause of
my promysse made unto my sayd lord to do the same, and also I
shall desyre you further to know the kyngs plesur towchyng the
quene, as well for her comfyt as for the preparacion of skefolds and
hother necessarys consernyng. The kyng’s grace showed me that my
lord of Cantorbury shuld be hyr confessar, and was here thys day
with the quene; & not[223] in that mater, sir, the tyme ys short, for
the kyng supposeth the gentelmen to dy to morow, and my lord of
Rocheford with the reysydew of gentelmen, & as zit with yowt
[confession] weche I loke for, bot I have told my lord of Rocheford
that he be in aredynes to morow to sulfur execusyon, and so he
accepse[224] it very well, and will do his best to be redy,
Notwithstandyng he wold have reysayved hys ryghts, weche hathe
not bene used and in especiall here. Sir, I shall desyre you at[225] we
here may know the kyngs plesur here as shortly as may be, at[225]
we here may prepayre for the same weche[226] ys necessary, for the
same we here have now may for to do execusyon. Sir, I pray you
have gud rymembrance in all thys for hus[227] to do, for we shalbe
redy al ways to our knowlage. Zit thys day at dyner the quene sayd
at[225] she shuld go to Anvures[228] & ys in hope of lyf, and thus far
you well.
WILLM KYNGSTON.
 LETTER VI.

Sir William Kingston to Lord Cromwell, apparently May 18th 1536.

[MS. COTTON, OTHO C. X. fol. 223.]

Syr,
Thys shalbe to advertyse you I have resayved your lettr wherin yo[u
wolde] have strangerys conveyed yowt of the Towre and so thay be
by the [meanis] of Richard Gressum, & Will-m Loke, & Wythepoll,
bot the n̄ mbr[229] of stra[ngers past] not XXX. and not mony; Hothe
and the inbassitr of the emperor had a [servaunt] ther and honestly
put yowt. Sr yf we have not an owre[230] serten [as it may] be
knowen in London, I thynke he[re] wilbe bot few and I thynk [a
resonable] humbur[231] ware bes: for I suppose she wyll declare hyr
self to b[e a good] woman for all men bot for the kyng at the or of
hyr de[th. For thys] mornyng she sent for me that I myght be with
hyr at [soche tyme] asshe reysayved the gud lord to the in tent I
shuld here by[r speke as] towchyng her innosensy alway to be clere.
& in the writy[ng of this] she sent for me, and at my commyng she
sayd, M. Kyngston, I he[ar saye I shall] not dy affore none, & I am
very sory ther fore; for I thowth [than to] be dede [an]d past my
payne. I told hyr it shuld be now payne it w[as so sottell. And then
she said I] hard say the executr. was very gud, and I have a ly[ttle
necke, and put he]r hand abowt it lawyng hartely.
I have sen[e mony men &] also wemen executed and at they have
bene in gre[te sorrowe, and to my knowle]ge thys lady hathe meche
joye and plesur in dethe. [Sir, hyr Amner is conti]newally with hyr,
and hasse byne syns ij of the clo[cke after midnight. This is] the
effect of hony thyng that ys here at [thys tyme, and thus fare yow]
well.
 Your . . . . . .
WILLM̄ KYNG[STON.]
 LETTER VII.
From the Earl of Northumberland, addressed “To his
beloved Cosyn Thomas Arundel, one of the Gentlemen of
my Lord Legates prevy chambre.” It was written soon
after the death of the Earl’s father, in 1527. Referred to at
p. 339 of Wolsey’s life.

[FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.]

Bedfellow, after my most harte recommendacion: Thys Monday the

iijd off August I resevyd by my servaunt, Letters from yow beryng
datt the XXth day off July, deliveryd unto hym the sayme day at the
kyngs town of Newcastell; wher in I do perseayff my lord Cardenalls
pleasour ys to have such boks as was in the Chapell of my lat lord
and ffayther (wos soll Jhu pardon). To the accomplyshment of which
at your desyer I am confformable, notwithstanding I trust to be able
ons to set up a chapel off myne owne. But I pray God he may look
better upon me than he doth. But me thynk I have lost very moch,
ponderyng yt ys no better regardyd; the occasion wher off he shall
persayff.
Fyrst, the long lyeng of my tressorer[232], with hys very hasty and
unkynd words unto hym, not on my parte deserved.
Also the news off Mr. Manyng, the which ys blon obroud over all
Yorksher; that neyther by the kyng[233], nor by my lord cardenall am
I regardyd; And that he wyll tell me at my metyng with hym, when I
come unto Yorksher; which shall be within thys month, God wyllyng:
but I ffer[234] my words to Mr Manyng shall displeas my lord; for I
will be no ward.
Also, bedfellow, the payns I tayk and have taykyn sens my comyng
hether, are not better regardyd; but by a fflatteryng Byshope of
Carel[235] and that fals Worm[236] shall be broth[237] to the messery
and carffulness that I am in; and in such slanders, that now and my
lord cardenal wold, he cannot bryng me howth[238] thereof.

I shall with all sped send up your lettrs with the books unto my lord’s
grace, as to say iiij Anteffonars[239], such as I thynk were not seen a
gret wyll; v Gralls; an Ordeorly; a Manuall; viijth Proffessioners, And
ffor all the ressidew, they not worth the sending, nor ever was
occupyd in my lords chapel. And also I shall wryt at thys time as ye
have wylled me.
Yff my lord’s grace wyll be so good Lord unto me, as to gyf me
lychens[240] to put Wyllm Worme within a castell of myn off Anwyk in
assurty, unto the tyme he have accomptyd ffor more money recd.
than ever I recd., I shall gyff hys grace ij Cli. and a benefiss off a C.
worth unto hys colleyg, with such other thyngs resserved as his
[grace] shall desyre; but unto such tyme as myne Awdytors hayth
takyn accompt off him: wher in good bedfellow do your best, ffor els
he shall put us to send myselff, as at owr metyng I shall show yow.
And also gyff secuer credens unto this berer, whom I assur yow I
have ffonddon a marvellous honest man, as ever I ffownd in my lyff.
In hast at my monestary of Hul Park the iijd. day of August. In the
owne hand off
Yours ever assured,
H. NORTHUMBERLAND.
To my bedfellow Arundel.
 LETTER VIII.
The Earl of Northumberland to Cromwell, denying any
contract or promise of marriage between Anne Bullen and
himself.

[ORIGINAL, COTT. LIB. OTHO c. 10.]

Mr Secretary, This shall be to signifie unto you that I perceive by Sir

Raynold Carnaby, that there is supposed a precontract between the
queen and me; wherupon I was not only heretofore examined upon
my oath before the Archbishopps of Canterbury and York, but also
received the blessed sacrament upon the same before the Duke of
Norfolk, and other the king’s highnes’ council learned in the spiritual
law; assuring you Mr Secretary, by the said oath, and blessed body
which affore I received, and hereafter intend to receive, that the
same may be to my damnation, if ever there were any contracte or
promise of marriage between her and me. At Newington Green, the
xiijth day of Maye, in the 28th year of the reigne of our soveraigne
lord King Henry the VIIIth.
Your assured,
NORTHUMBERLAND.
 LETTER IX.

Queen Catherine of Arragon and King Henry VIIIth to Cardinal

Wolsey, a joint letter, 1527.

[MS. COTTON, VITELL. B. XII. fol. 4.]

Mr. Ellis has printed this letter in its mutilated condition; I

have ventured to supply the lacunæ from the copy in
Burnet’s History of the Reformation, vol. i. p. 55. Burnet
obtained his transcript when it was in a perfect state, but
has unaccountably attributed the first part of the letter to
Anne Boleyn. It is however said by Mr. Ellis to be in the
hand-writing of Catherine, and cannot but be considered
very interesting.
My Lord, in my moste humblyst wys that my hart can thinke [I desire
you to pardon] me that I am so bold to troubyl yow with my sympyl
[& rude wryteng, estemyng] yt to prosed from her that is muche
desirus to kno[we that youer grace does well.] I paersave be this
berar that you do; the wiche I [praye God long to continewe,] as I
am moste bonde to pray, for I do know the g[reate paines and
trowbles that] you have taken for me bothe day and nyght [is never
like to be recompensyd on] my part, but allonly in loveng you next
on to the [kinges grace above all] creatures leveng; and I do not
dought but the [dayly proffes of my deades] shall manefestly declaer
and aferme my wryte[ng to be trewe, and I do] truste you do thynke
the same. My lord, I do assure you I do long to heare from you som
newes of the legat, for I do hope and [they come from you they]
shall be very good, and I am seur that you deseyre [it as moche as
I] and more, and ytt waer possibel as I knowe ytt ys not: And thus
remaineing in a stedfast hope I make anend of my letter, [writtyn
with the hande] of her that is moste bounde to be——
 ➔Here Queen Catherine’s part ends, the rest is in the hand-writing
of Henry the Eighth.
The wrytter of thys letter wolde not cease tyll she had [caused me
likewise] to set to my hand desyryng yow thowgh it be short to t[ake
it in good part.] I ensure yow ther is nother of us but that grettly
desyry[th to see you, and] muche more rejoyse to heare that you
have scapyd thys plage [so well, trustyng] the fury thereof to be
passyd, specially with them that k[epyth good diett] as I trust you
doo. The not heryng of the legates arywall [in Franse causeth] us
sumwhat to muse; nottwithstandyng we trust by your dily[gens and
vigilancy] (with the assystence of Almyghty God) shortly to be easyd
owght [of that trouble.] No more to yow at thys tyme but that I pray
God send yow [as good health] and prosperity as the wryters wolde.
By your lovyng so[veraign & frende]
HENR[Y R.]
 LETTER X.
Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey.

[FIDDES’ COLLECTIONS, p. 256.]

My Lord, after my most humble recommendations this shall be to

gyve unto your grace as I am most bownd my humble thanks for the
gret payn & travelle that your grace doth take in steudyeng by your
wysdome and gret dylygens how to bryng to pas honerably the
gretyst welth that is possyble to come to any creator lyving, and in
especyall remembryng howe wretchyd and unworthy I am in
comparyng to his hyghnes. And for you I do know my selfe never to
have deservyd by my desertys that you shuld take this gret payn for
me, yet dayly of your goodnes I do perceyve by all my frends, and
though that I had nott knowlege by them the dayly proffe of your
deds doth declare your words and wrytyng toward me to be trewe;
nowe good my Lord your dyscressyon may consyder as yet how lytle
it is in my power to recompence you but all onely wyth my good wyl,
the whiche I assewer you that after this matter is brought to pas you
shall fynd me as I am: bownde in the mean tym to owe you my
servyse, and then looke what a thyng in thys woreld I can immagen
to do you pleasor in, you shall fynd me the gladyst woman in the
woreld to do yt, and next unto the kyngs grace of one thyng I make
you full promes to be assewryd to have yt and that is my harty love
unfaynydly deweryng my lyf, and beying fully determynd with Godds
grace never to change thys porpos, I make an end of thys my reude
and trewe meanyd letter, praying ower Lord to send you moche
increase of honer with long lyfe. Wrytten with the hand of her that
besechys your grace to except this letter as prosydyng from one that
is most bownde to be
Your humble and
obedient servante,
ANNE BOLEYN.
 LETTER XI.
Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey.

FROM FIDDES’ COLLECTIONS, p. 255.

Collated with the Original in the Cottonian Collection. Brit. Mus. Otho
C. X. fol. 218.

My Lord, in my most humblyst wyse that my powuer hart can thynke

I do thanke your grace for your kind letter, and for youer rych and
goodly present, the whyche I shall never be able to desarve wyth
owt your gret helpe, of the whyche I have hetherto hade so grete
plente that all the dayes of my lyfe I ame moaste bownd of all
creators next the kyngs grace to love and serve your grace, of the
whyche I besyche you never to dowte that ever I shalle vary frome
this thought as long as ony brethe is in my body. And as tochyng
your grace’s troble with the swet I thanke ower Lord that them that
I desyerd and prayed for ar scapyd, and that is the kyng and you.
Not doughthyng bot that God has preservyd you bothe for grete
cawsys knowen allonly to his hygh wysdome. And as for the
commyng of the legate I desyer that moche; and yf it be Goddis
pleasor I pray him to send this matter shortly to a good ende; and
then I trust my lord to recompense part of your grete panys, the
whych I must requyer you in the meane tyme to excepte my good
wyll in the stede of the power, the whyche must prosede partly from
you as ower Lourd knoweth to whome I be syche to sende you
longe lyfe with continewance in honor. Wrytten wyth the hande of
her that is most bound to be
Your humble and
obedyent servante,
ANNE BOLEYN.
 LETTER XII.
Cardinal Wolsey in his Distress to Thomas Cromwell.

MS. COTTON. VESP. F. XIII. fol. 76.

From Fiddes’ Collections, p. 256. Collated with the Original.

Myn owne enterly belovyd Cromwell,

I beseche you as ye love me and wyl evyr do any thyng for me,
repare hyther thys day as sone as the parlement ys brokyn up, leyng
aparte all thyngs for that tyme; for I wold nat onely commynycat
thyngs unto yow wherin for my comfort & relief I wold have your
good sad, dyscret advyse & counsell, but also opon the same
commytt sertyng thyngs requyryng expedicion to yow, on my behalf
to be solycytyd: this I pray you therfor, to hast your commyng hyther
assafore, with owt omyttyng so to do, as ye tendyr my socor, reliff &
comfort, and quyetnes of mynde. And thus fare ye well: from Asher,
in hast, thys Satyrday in the mornyng, with the rude hande &
sorrowful hert of your assuryd lover
T. CARLIS EBOR.
I have also serteyn thyngs consernyng yowr sylf wych I am suere ye
wolbe glad to here & knowe: fayle not therfore to be here thys
nygth, ye may retorne early in the mornyng ageyn yf nede shul so
requyre. Et iterum vale.
Mr. Augusteyn[241] shewyd me how ye had wryttyn onto me a lettre
wherin ye shuld advrtyse of the comyng hyther of the Duke of
Norfolke: I assure you ther cam to my hands no suche lettre.
 LETTER XIII.
From Wolsey to Dr. Stephen Gardener, Secretary of State.

Communicated to Mr. Grove by Mr. Littleton, afterwards

Lord Littleton, who possessed the original. It is now in the
Ashmole Museum at Oxford.
My owne goode Mastyr Secretary,
Goyng this day out of my pue to sey masse, your lettres datyd
yesternygth at London wer delyveryd unto me; by the contynue
wherof I undyrstand, that the kyng’s hyhnes, of hys excellent
goodnes & cheryte ys contentyd, that I shall injoy & have the
admynystracion of Yorke merly, with the gyftts of the promocyons
spiritual & temporall of the same, reservyd onely onto his nobyll
grace the gyft of v or vj of the best promocions. And that hys
pleasure ys, I shal leve Wynchester & Saynt Albons. As hereonto Mr.
Secretary, I can nat expresse howe moche I am bowndyn to the
kyng’s royal majeste for thys hys gret & bowntawse liberalyte,
reputyng the same to be moche more then I shal ever be abyl to
deserve. Howbeyt yf hys majeste, consyderyng the short & lyttyl
tyme that I shal lyve here in thys world, by the reason of such
hevynes as I have conceyved in my hert, with the ruinyuose of the
olde howsys & the decay of the said archbyshopryck at the best to
the sum of viii C Marcke yearly, by the reason of the act passyd for
Fynys of Testaments, wth also myn long paynful servys and poore
degre; and for the declaration of hys grace’s excellent cheryte, yf
hys hyhnes be myndyd I shal leve Wynchester & Saynt Albon’s, wych
I supposyd, when I maid my submyssyon, not offendying in my
trewth towards hys royal parson, dygnyte, or majeste royal, I should
not now have desyrvyd to have left; and much the more knowyng
his grace’s excellent propensyon to pyte & mercy, & rememberyng
the francke departyng with of all that I had in thys world, that I may
have summe convenyent pension reservyd unto me, suche as the
kyng’s hyhnes of hys nobyll charite shal thynke mete, so orderyng
his that shal succede and my lyvyng, that the same may be of lyck
valew yeerly and exstent. Whereat my trust ys, and my herte so
gevyth me, that hys majeste wold make no dyffyculte, yf yt may
lycke yow friendly to propone the same, assuryng yow that I desyre
not thys for any mynde (God ys my judge), that I have to
accumulate good, or desyre that I have to the muke of world; for,
God be thankyd, at thys ower I set no more by the ryches &
promocyons of the world, then by the roshe undyr my fote; but
onely for the declaration of the kyng’s favor & hyhe cheryte, & to
have wherewith to do good dedys, & to helpe my poore servants
and kynnysfolks. And furthermore that yt wold please the kyng’s
excellent goodnes by your freindly medyacion, consyderyng how
slendyrly I am furnyshyed in my howse, nowe specially that the
apparell of Wynchester and Saynt Albons shal be takyn from me, to
geve and appoynt unto me a convenyent fernyture for the same,
non ad pompam, sed necessariam honestatem. And yf I may have
the free gyft and dysposycion of the benefyces, yt shalbe gretly to
my comfort. And yet when any of the v or vi pryncypall shal fortune
to be voyd, the kyng’s grace being myndyd to have any of them, hys
hyhnes shalbe as sure of the same, as though they wer reservyd.
And thus by his nobyl & mercyful goodnes delyvered owt of extreme
calamite, & restoryd to a newe fredome, I shal, with God’s mercy &
help, so ordyr my lyff, that I trust hys majeste shal take special
comfort therin, & be pleasyd with the same: Spero quod hoc, quæ
peto, non videbitur magna. Howbeyt I most humbly submyt and
referre all my petytions, immo ipsam vitam, to his gracyous
ordynance & pleasure, praying yow to declare & sygnify the same,
supplying myn indysposycion & lacke of wyt, conceyvyd by reason of
my extreme sorowe & hevynes, that the same may be to the kyng’s
contentacion, wherin I had lever be ded then to offende in word,
thowght, or dede, and as towching the grantyng of the fee of one c
li. for Mr. Nores duryng hys lyff for hys good servys done unto the
kyng’s hyhnes, for the wych I have always lovyd him, and for the
singuler good hert and mynde, that I knowe he hath alweys borne
unto me, I am content to make out my grawnte upon the same, ye
& it wol please the kyng to inlarge it one c. li. more; and semblably
cause Mr. Thesauror hath the kepyng of the kyng’s game nygh to
Fernam, I wold gladly, if it may stand with the kyng’s pleasure,
grawnte unto hym the reversion of such thinges as the Lord Sands
hath there, with the ampliacon of the fee above that wych is oldely
accustomyd, to the sum of xl. li. by the yeere; & also I wold gladly
geve to Mr. Comptroller a lycke fee, & to Mr. Russel, another of xx. li.
by the yeere. Remyttyng thys and all other my sutes to the kyng’s
hyhnes pleasure, mercy, pity, & compassion, moste holly.
Beseechyng hys Hyhnes so nowe gracyously to ordyr me, that I may
from hensforth serve God quietly & with repose of mynd, & pray as I
am most bowndyn, for the conservacyon & increase of his most
nobyll and royal astate. And thus with my dayly prayer I byd yow
farewell. From Asher hastely with the rude hand and moste hevy
herte of
Yowr assuryd frende & bedysman,
T. CARLIS EBOR.
 LETTER XIV.
Cardinal Wolsey to Dr. Stephen Gardener.

This Letter was also communicated to Mr. Grove by Mr. Littleton. It is

now in the Ashmole Museum at Oxford.

MY OWNE GOODE MASTYR SECRETARY,

Aftyr my moste herty commendacions I pray yow at the reverens of
God to helpe, that expedicion be usyd in my persuts, the delay
wherof so replenyshyth my herte with hevynes, that I can take no
reste; nat for any vayne fere, but onely for the miserable condycion,
that I am presently yn, and lyclyhod to contynue yn the same, onles
that yow, in whom ys myn assuryd truste, do help & releve me
therin; For fyrst, contynuyng here in this mowest & corrupt ayer,
beyng enteryd into the passyon of the dropsy. Cum prostatione
appetitus et continuo insomnio. I cannat lyve: Wherfor of necessyte
I must be removyd to some other dryer ayer and place, where I may
have comodyte of physycyans. Secondly, havyng but Yorke, wych is
now decayd, by viii C. li. by the yeere, I cannot tell how to lyve, &
kepe the poore nombyr of folks wych I nowe have, my howsys ther
be in decay, and of evry thyng mete for howssold onprovydyd and
furnyshyd. I have non apparell for my howsys ther, nor money to
bring me thether, nor to lyve wyth tyl the propysse tyme of the
yeere shall come to remove thether. Thes thyngs consyderyd, Mr.
Secretary, must nedys make me yn agony and hevynes, myn age
therwith & sycknes consyderyd, alas Mr. Secretary, ye with other my
lordys shewyd me, that I shuld otherwyse be furnyshyd & seyn unto,
ye knowe in your lernyng & consyens, whether I shuld forfet my
spiritualties of Wynchester or no. Alas! the qualytes of myn offencys
consyderyd, with the gret punishment & losse of goodes that I have
sustaynyd, owt to move petyfull hertys; and the moste nobyl kyng,
to whom yf yt wold please yow of your cherytable goodnes to shewe
the premyses aftyr your accustomable wysdome & dexteryte, yt ys
not to be dowbtyd, but his highnes wold have consyderacyon &
compassyon, aggmentyng my lyvyng, & appoyntyng such thyngs as
shuld be convenient for my furniture, wych to do shalbe to the
kyng’s high honor, meryte, & dyscharge of consyens, & to yow gret
prayse for the bryngyng of the same to passe for your olde brynger
up and lovying frende. Thys kyndnes exibite from the kyng’s
hyghnes shal prolong my lyff for some lytyl whyl, thow yt shall nat
be long, by the meane whereof hys grace shal take profygtt, & by
my deth non. What ys yt to hys hyhnes to give some convenyent
porcion owt of Wynchester, & Seynt Albons, hys grace takyng with
my herty good wyl the resydew. Remember, good Mr. Secretary, my
poore degre, & what servys I have done, and how nowe approchyng
to deth, I must begyn the world ageyn. I besech you therfore,
movyd with pity and compassyon soker me in thys my calamyte, and
to your power wych I knowe ys gret, releve me; and I wyth all myn
shal not onely ascrybe thys my relef unto yow, but also praye to God
for the increase of your honor, & as my poore shal increase, so I shal
not fayle to requyte your kyndnes. Wryttyn hastely at Asher, with the
rude and shackyng hand of
Your dayly bedysman,
And assuryd frend,
T. CARLIS EBOR.
To the ryght honorable and my assuryd frende Mastyr
Secretary.
 LETTER XV.
Cardinal Wolsey to Secretary Gardener,

Desiring him to write to him and give him an account of the king’s
intentions with regard to him. (From Strype.)

Myn own good mastyr secretary, albeit I am in such altiration and

indisposition of my hede & body, by the meansse of my dayly
sorowe & hevynesse, that I am fen omit to writ any long lr̅ e̅ s. Yet my
trustyng frend, Thomas Crowmwel, retornyng & reparyng unto yow,
I cowde nat forbere, but brively to put yow in remembrance: how
that aftyr the consultation takyn by the kyngs hyghnes opon myn
orderyng, which ye supposyd shulde be on Sunday was sevennyght,
ye wolde not fayle to advertyse me at the length of the specialties
thereof. Of the w̄ ch to here & have knowleg, I have & dayly do looke
for. I pray yow therefore at the reverens of God, & of this holy tyme,
& as ye love & tendyr my poore lyf, do so moche as to wrytt onto
me your seyd lr̅ e̅ s: wherby I may take some cumfort & rest: nat
dowting but your hert is so gentyl & pityful, that havyng knowleg in
what agony I am yn, ye wole take the payne to send onto me your
seyd consollatory lr̅ e̅ s. Wherby ye shal nat onely deserve toward
God, but also bynde me to be as I am, your contynual bedysman.
Wrytten this mornyng at Asher, with the rude hand and sorroweful
hert of yours with hert and prayer.
T. Cardinalis Ebor. Miserrimus.
To the right honorable Mr. Secretary.
 LETTER XVI.
Cardinal Wolsey to Secretary Gardener.

To draw up his pardon. (From Strype.)

Myn owne good Mastyr Secretary,

Aftyr my moste herty recommendations, with lycke thanks for your
goodnes towards me, thes shal be to advertyse yow that I have
beyn informyd by my trusty frend Thomas Cromwell that ye have
signifyed onto hym to my syngular consolation how that the kynges
highnes movyd with pety & compassyon, & of hys excellent goodnes
& cheryte consyderyng the lamentable condition & stat that I stand
yn, hath wyllyd yow with other lords and mastyrs of hys honorable
cownsell, to intende to the perfyghtyng & absolvyng without further
tract or delay of myn end & appoyntement; and that my pardon
shulde be made in the moste ample forme that my counsell cowde
devise. For thys the kyngs moste gracyous remembrance, procedyng
of hymself, I accompt my sylf not onely moste bowndyn to serve &
pray for the preservation of hys moste royal majestie, but also
thancke God that ye have occasion given onto you to be a sollycyter
& setter forth of such thynges as do & shall conserve my seyde
ende. In the makyng & compowndyng wherof myn assured truste is,
that ye wole shewe the love & affection wych ye have & bere
towards me, your olde lover & frende: so declaryng your self therin,
that the worlde may parceyve that by your good meanys the kyng ys
the bettyr goode lorde unto me; & that nowe newly in maner
comyng to the world, ther maye be such respect had to my poore
degree, olde age & longe contynued servys, as shal be to the kyngs
hygh honor & your gret prayse & laude. Wych ondowtydly shall
folowe yf ye optinde yowre benyvolens towards me, & men perceive
that by your wisdome & dexterite I shalbe relevyd, & in this my
calamyte holpen. At the reverens therefore of God myn owne goode
Mr. Secretary, & refugy, nowe set to your hande, that I may come to
a laudable end & repos, seyng that I may be furnyshyd aftyr such a
sorte & maner as I may ende my short tyme & lyff to the honor of
Crystes churche & the prince. And besides my dayly prayer & true
hert I shal so requyte your kyndnes, as ye shall have cause to
thyncke the same to be well imployde, lycke as my seyd trusty
frende shall more amply shewe onto you. To whom yt may please
yow to geve firme credens and lovyng audyens. And I shall pray for
the increase of your honour. Wryttyn at Assher with the tremyllyng
hand & hevy hert of your assuryd lover & bedysman
T. CARDLIS EBOR.
To the ryght honorable and my singular good frende
Mayster Secretary.
 LETTER XVII.
Cardinal Wolsey to Secretary Gardener,

Desiring him to favour the cause of the Provost of Beverly, and to

intercede with the king for him and his colleges. (From Strype.)

Myne awne gentil Maister Secretary,

After my mooste herty recommendations, these shal be to thanke
you for the greate humanite, lovyng & gentil recule, that ye have
made unto the poore Provost of Beverly: & specialy, for that ye have
in such wise addressed hym unto the kings highnes presence, that
his grace not onely hath shewed unto hym, that he is his goode &
gracious lorde, but also that it hath pleased hys majeste to admitte
& accepte hym as his poore orator & scholer. Wherby both he & I
accompte our selfs so bounden unto you, that we cannot telle how
to requite this your gratitude & kyndenes; mooste hartely praying
you to contynue in your good favour towards hym, & to take hym &
his pore causis into your patrocynye & protection. And, as myne
assured expectation & trust is, to remember the poor state &
condition that I stond in, & to be a meane to the kyngs highness for
my relefe in the same. In doyng wherof ye shal not onely deserve
thanks of God, but also declare to your perpetual laud and prayse,
that ye beyng in auctorite, have not forgoten your olde maister &
frynde. And in the wey of charite, & for the love that ye bere to
virtue, & ad bona studia, be meane to the kyngs highnes for my
poore colleges; and specially for the college of Oxford. Suffer not the
things, which by your greate lernyng, studie, counsaile & travaile,
hath bene erected, founden, & with good statutes & ordinances, to
the honour of God, increase of vertue & lernyng established, to be
dissolved or dismembred. Ye do know, no man better, to what use
the monasteries, suppressed by the popis licence, the kyngs
consente concurryng with the same, & a pardon for the
premoneri[242], be converted. It is nat to be doubted, but the kyngs
highnes, of his high vertue & equite, beyng informed how every
thing is passed, his mooste gracious license & consente (as is
aforesaid) adhibited therunto, wol never go aboute to dissolve the
said incorporations or bodyes, wherof so greate benefite &
commodite shal insue unto his realme & subjects. Superfluities, if
any such shal be thought & founden, may be resecat; but to destroy
the hole, it were to greate pitie.
Eftsones therefore, good Maister Secretaire, I beseche you to be
good maister & patrone to the said colleges: “Et non sinas opus
manuum tuarum perire, aut ad nihilum redige.” Thus doyng, both I,
& they shal not onely pray for you, but in such wise deserve your
paynes, as ye shal have cause to thinke the same to be wel
bestowed & imployed, like as this present berer shal more at the
large shewe unto you. To whom it may please the same to geve
firme credence. And thus mooste hartely fare ye wel. From
Sothewell, the xxiijth day of July.
Your lovyng frende,
T. CARLIS EBOR.
To the right honorable & my singular good frende Mr
Doctor Stephyns, Secretory to the Kings Highnes.
 LETTER XVIII.
Cardinal Wolsey to Secretary Gardener,

Desiring his favour in a suit against him for a debt of 700l. by one
Strangwish. (From Strype.)

Myne awne good Maister Secretary,

After my mooste harty recommendations, these shal be to desire, &
mooste effectuelly to pray you to be good maister & friende unto
me, concernyng the uncharitable sute of Strangwishe for vij C li.,
which he pretendith that I shulde owe unto hym, for the ward of
Bowes. And albeit there was at his fyrste comyng to my service, by
our mutual consents, a perfecte end made between hym & me for
the same, yet nowe digressyng therfrom, perceyvyng that I am out
of favour, destitute of socour, & in calamite, he not onely newly
demaundyth the said vij C li. but also hath made complaint unto the
kyngs highnes, surmittyng, that I shulde, contrary to justice,
deteyne from hym the said vij C li. For the redresse whereof, it hath
pleased the kyngs majeste to direct his mooste honorable letters
unto me; the contents wherof I am sure be nat unknown unto you.
And insuing the purporte therof, & afore the delyvere of the same
thre days by past, notwithstanding my greate necessite & poverte,
onely to be out of his exclamation & inquietnes, I have written to my
trusty friende, Mr Cromwel, to make certeyn reasonable offres unto
hym for that intent and purpose; moost hartely beseching you to
helpe, that upon declaration of such things, as upon my part shal be
signified unto you by the said Maister Cromwell, some such end, by
your friendely dexterite, may bee made betwixt us, as shal accorde
with good congruence, & as I may supporte & be hable (myne other
debts and charges considered) to bere. In the doyng wherof, ye shall
bynde me to be your dayly bedesman, as knoweth God, who
alwayes preserve you. From Sothewell, the xxvth day of August.
Yours with hert & prayer,
T. CARLIS EBOR.
To my right entierly welbiloved frende Mr Stephyn
Gardener, Secretory to kyngs highnes.
 LETTER XIX.

Lettre de Monsieur de Bellay Evesque de Bayonne à Mr le Grant

Maistre. De Londres le xvij Oct. 1529.

[MSS. DE BETHUNE BIBLIOTH. DU ROY, V. 8603. f. 113.]

Monseigneur, depuis les lettres du Roy & les aultres vostres que je
pensoye sur l’heure envoyer, cette depesche a estée retardé jusques
à présent, parce qu’il a fallu faire & refaire les lettres que je vous
envoyé tout plein de fois, & pour ce aller & venir souvent, tant les
Ducs mêmes qu’aultres de ce conseil à Windesore, dont toute à
cette heure ils les m’ont envoyées en la forme que verrez par le
double d’iceux. Ils me prient le plus fort du monde de faire qu’on ne
trouve mauvais si en ces expéditions, & mesmement en ce que
touche le principal de la depesche, je ne suis de tout satisfait comme
je vouldroye, & aussi eulx mesmes, s’excusans que leur manière de
négocier envers leur maistre n’est encore bien dressée, mais pour
l’advenir doibvent faire merveilles, & en baillent de si grands
asseurances & si bien jurées, que je ne puis me garder de les croire;
je n’ay point refreschy mes lettres au Roy, car je ne voy point qu’il y
en ait matière.
Au demourant, j’ay esté voir le Cardinal en ses ennuis, où j’ay trouvé
les plus grand exemple de fortune que on ne scauroit voir, il m’a
remonstré son cas en la plus mauvaise rhétorique que je viz jamais,
car cueur & parolle luy failloient entièrement; il a bien plouré & prié
que le Roy & Madame voulsissent avoir pitié de luy, s’ils avoyent
trouvé qu’il leur eust guardé promesse de leur estre bon serviteur
autant que son honneur & povoir se y est peu estendre, mais il me à
la fin laissé sans me pouvoir dire autre chose qui vallist mieux que
son visage, qui est bien descheu de la moitié de juste pris: & vous
promets, Monseigneur, que sa fortune est telle que ses ennemis,
encore qu’ils soyent Angloys, ne se scauroyent guarder d’en avoir
pitié, ce nonobstant ne le laisseront de le poursuivre jusques au
bout, & ne voyt de moyen de son salut, aussi ne fais-je sinon qu’il
plaise au Roy & à Madame de l’ayder. De légation, de sceau
d’auctorité, de crédit il n’en demande point, il est prest de laisser
tout jusques à la chemise, & que on le laisse vivre en ung
hermitage, ne le tenant ce Roy en sa mal grâce: Je l’ay reconforté
au mieulx que j’ay peu, mais je n’y ay sceu faire grant chose: Depuis
par un en qui il se fie, il m’a mandé ce qu’il vouldroit qu’on feist pour
luy de la plus grand partie, luy voyant qu’il ne touchoit au bien des
affaires du Roy qu’on luy accordast la plus raisonnable chose qui
demande, c’est que le Roy escripvist à ce Roy qu’il est un grand bruit
de par delà qu’il l’ait recullé d’autour de luy, & fort eslongé de la
bonne grâce, en sorte qu’on dict qu’il doibve estre destruict, ce que
ne pense totalement estre comme on le dict; toutefois pour la bonne
fraternité, qu’ils ont ensemble, & si grant communication de tous
leurs plus grans affaires, l’a bien voulu prier de y avoir égard, affin
qu’il n’en entre souldainement quelque mauvaise fantasie envers
ceulx qui ont veu qu’en si grant solemnité & auctorité, il ait servy
d’instrument en cette perpétuelle amitié tant renommée par toute la
Chrétienté; & que si d’adventure il estoit entré en quelque
malcontentement de luy, il veüille ung peu modérer son affection,
comme il est bien sûr que luy vouldront conseiller ceulx qui sont
autour de sa personne & au maniement de ses plus grandes affaires.
Voilà, Monseigneur, la plus raisonable de toutes ses demandes, en
laquelle ne me veulx ingérer de dire mon advis, si diray-je bien qu’il
n’y a personne ici qui deust prendre à mal telle lettre; & mesment là
où ils considéreront, comme de facit ils font, qu’il sont forcés de
prendre & tenir plus que jamais votre party, & d’advantage
asseureray bien que la plus grant prinse qu’ils ayent peû avoir suz
luy du commencement, & qui plus leur a servi à le brouiller envers le
Roy, a esté qu’il déclara à ma venuë decza trop ouvertement de
vouloir aller à Cambray, car les aultres persuaderent au maistre ce
que c’estoient, seulement pour éviter d’estre à l’expédition du
mariage, & outre cela vous promets que sans luy les aultres
mectoyent ce Roy en ung terrible train de rompre la pratique de paix
dont vous escripvis quelque mot en ce temps-la, mais j’en laissay dix
fois en la plume, voyant que tout estoit rabillé, je vous les diray
estant là, & je suis seur que le trouverez fort estrange: Il me semble,
Monsieur, que à tout cela, & plusieurs aultres choses que bien
entendez de vous-mesmes, on doibt avoir quelque égard, vous
donnerez, s’il vous plaist, advis au Roy & à Madame de tout cecy,
affin qu’ils advisent ce qu’il leur plaira en faire, s’ils pensent
n’empirer par cela leurs affaires, je croy que voulentiers, outre ce
que sera quelque charité, ils vouldront qu’on cognoisse qu’ils ayent
retiré ung leur affectionné serviteur, & tenu pour tel par chescun,
des portes d’enfer; mais sur tout, Monseigneur, il desire que ce Roy
ne connoisse qu’ils en ayent esté requis, & que il les en ay fait
requerir en façon du monde, cela l’acheveroit d’affoller; car pour
vous dire le vray, & hormis toute affection, je vous asseure que la
plus grant prinse que ses ennemis ayent euë sur luy, outre celle du
mariage, ce a esté de persuader ce Roy que il avoit tousjours eu en
temps de paix et de guerre intelligence secrette à Madame, de
laquelle ladite guerre durant il avoit eu des grants presens, qui
furent cause que Suffolc estant à Montdidier, il ne le secourut
d’argent comme il debvoit, dont avint que il ne prit Paris; mais ils en
parlent en l’oreille de ce propos, afin que je n’en soy adverty. Quant
auxdits presens, il espère que Madame ne le nuyra où il en sera
parlé, de toutes aultres choses il s’en recommande en sa bonne
grâce. La fantaisie de ces seigneurs est que luy mort ou ruiné, il
deffèrent incontinent icy l’estat de l’Eglise, & prendront tous leurs
biens, qu’il seroit ja besoing que je misse en chiffre, car ils le crient
en plaine table; je croy qu’ils feront de beaux miracles, si m’a dict
vostre grant prophète au visaige bronsé, que ce Roy ne vivre gueres
plus que........ au quel, comme vous sçavez, à ce que je voy par ses
escriptures, il n’a baillé terme que de la monstre de May. Je ne veulx
oublier à vous dire que si le Roy & Madame veullent faire quelque
chose pour le Légat, il faudroit se haster, encores ne seront jamais
icy ses lettres que il n’ait perdu le sceau, toutefois il ne pense plus à
cela, elles serviront pour le demourant, aussi venant icy mon
successeur, comme chascun s’attend qu’il viendra dans peu des
jours, ils luy donnassent charge d’en parler; le pis de son mal est
que Mademoiselle de Boulen a faict promettre à son amy que il ne
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