will be contented not alonely to give and grant unto the said
Jackeson, (finding you sufficient sureties, as well for the pay-
ment of your yearly rent, as also for the payment of five
pounds yearly over and above the said yearly rent, until the
arrearages be fully satisfied and paid,) according to the tenor
of the old lease, the occupying of his farm for the terms of
xxiiii. years, but also permit and suffer him to have now at
Candlemas the sale of his corn, and other profits which be
risen of the said farm; and thus shall you not alonely do
for me a right singular pleasure and gratuity, which I
would be glad to requite hereafter at all times accordingly,
but also bind the poor man, his wife, and children to pray
for you during their lives. And thus fare
you well.

Harl. MSS.

47. b.

Wellbeloved, I commend me heartily unto you all. Like6148. fol. wise praying you to be good masters unto John Jackeson your farmer, that he may have a new lease of your farm for xxiiii. years, to him and his assigns, according to the tenor of your former lease in all points and clauses. And for such debts as he oweth unto you, he shall and will find sufficient sureties to pay you at days, after the rate of five pounds a year, until the same whole debts be fully contented and paid, over and above the yearly rent for the farm; if it may please you thus to do for my sake, the poor man shall not alonely pray for you, but find such surety as well for the payment of the old debts as for the yearly farm, as shall be a good mean to you for the recovery of all that which is owing; and how ye shall be minded herein I pray you to ascertain me by your letters. From Lambeth.

Harl. MSS. 6148.

fol. 49.

CXXXVII. TO A PRIOR.

Brother Prior, in my right hearty wise I commend me unto you. And where this bearer Thomas Hogeson, my

servant, hath certain business and affairs to be done in those your parties, I require you for my sake, that if he shall need of your favour herein, he may have recourse unto you for the same; for the which at all times I will be ready to requite it unto you.

CXXXVIII. To—

In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you: like- Harl. MSS. wise desiring you for my sake, that you will bear such will bear such your 49. 6148. fol.

favour unto this bearer, Tho. H. my servant, as thereby he may the rather bring to pass such his business and affairs, as at this time he hath to do in your parties; and for the same I will be ready at any time to show you like pleasure accordingly.

CXXXIX. To

49. b.

brancer.

I commend me unto you. And where certain of your Harl. MSS. parochians were lately afore me at Knoll for certain 6148. fol. crimes and causes, as ye do know, and to some of them Christ. I have enjoined certain penance, as by a book enclosed Rememwithin these my letters you shall at large perceive; I there- Nov. 1820. fore will and require you, that upon Sunday, which shall be the last day of February *, ye see that the said persons do their penance penitently, according to the purport of the said book, and that you certify me duly thereof by this bearer my servant, of whom ye shall receive a monition for all such persons as can and will gainsay to the purgation of John Manyng, assigned to be made according to the contents of the said monition. Wherein [and] in all other the premises, I will that you do your diligent endeavour as shall beseem you. [1535.]

* [Sunday fell on the last day of February in 1535, which may therefore be assumed to be the year in which this Letter was written. Nicolas, Notitia Historica.]

MSS.

Chapter
House,

ster; Crum

ence. Ori

CXL. To CRUMWELL.

Right Worshipful Master Secretary, I commend me heartily to you. And where for the honesty and good serWestmin- vice of my servant Thomas Barthelet y, I do tender his prewell's Cor- ferment, and cannot, as I would gladly, do for him unless respond- he were disposed to be a secular, which, as I perceive, he ginal. intendeth not; I therefore minding to do for him otherwise Harl. MSS. by my friends as I may, being also now, as often times 6148. fol. 49. b. heretofore, bold upon you, to desire you to supply my necessities when I cannot compass the same myself, do by these my letters commend and present him unto you, with no less good heart and mind than ye presented him unto me, praying you heartily to accept him to your service at my hand, and for my sake to set him to such beneficial exercise as ye shall think meet for him, as he and his may pray for you : wherein I trust he shall do such service as shall always be acceptable and to the contentation of your mind. And how ye shall be minded herein, I pray you to declare to the bearer hereof. From Knoll, the first day of March.

Your own ever assured,
Thomas Cantuar.

To the Right Worshipful and my very
loving friend Master Secretary to the
King's Highness.

CXLI. TO CRUMWELL.

MSS.

Right Worshipful Master Secretary, in most hearty wise Chapter I commend me unto you. And as I understand

House,

ye

have

Westmin- sent for Dr. Benger of Wingham, so it is, that yesterday, the 13th day of March, I received a letter from my brother,

ster; Crum well's Correspond

ence. Original.

y [See Letter LXXIX.]

[Probably the same person who was afterwards sent to the Tower under the Act of the Six Articles. Burnet, Ref. vol. iii. p. 289.]

the Archdeacon of Canterbury a, concerning the said Doctor Benger, which I thought expedient to send unto you with speed: the words of the letter were these:

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"Upon St. Matthew's even last past, the said Doctor Benger being at my table, affirmed the authority of the "Bishop of Rome; and after many arguments and reasons "he said, These new laws may be suffered for a season, "but in time to come, it will cost broken heads, and set "men together by the cars; and then I said, Master "Doctor, take heed what you say, for I am sworn to the "King's Grace, and neither may nor will conceal any thing "contrary to his Majesty,' who answered again, and said, "I mean not here, but somewhere else out of this realm.'"

These words the Archdeacon writeth, but who was else present and heard the same he writeth not, wherefore I have sent unto him for the whole process of their communication to be sent in writing, with the seals of them that were present b.

This day my lord of Wilshire, my lord of Burgavenny, and my lord Cobham, were with me at Knoll, to counsel together of the King's commissions concerning the subsidy c, directed unto us with many other, and we have appointed the Tuesday after Palm Sunday for all the commissioners to meet at Madeston, at 9 of the clock in the morning. And forasmuch as the same persons be in another commission, concerning the valuation of the tenth and first fruits of the clergy, except viii that be altered, I have therefore sent for those viii to be also at Maideston the same time appointed, that under one journey we may finish two

[Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, and Provost of Wingham. See Letter LXXVI. note.]

Խ [The depositions of these persons are still preserved in the Chapter House. They confirm the Archdeacon's statement, and moreover assert Dr. Benger to have declared, "that by what authority we denied "the Pope, by the same authority he would deny the Scripture, and say "that Christ is not yet born: saying that he would abide by the same."]

[The Act for the subsidy, (26 Hen. VIII. c. 19,) and the Act for the valuation of the tenths, &c. (26 Hen. VIII. c. 3.) were both passed in the session which began the 3d of Nov. 1534. See Statutes of the Realm; Burn. Ref. vol. i. p. 320; Strype, Memorials, vol. i. p. 211.]

labours; and because that ye be in both the commissions, I pray you that I may know your pleasure, whether ye will be there, as I suppose ye cannot, or else, if you have any thing to advertise us of, that you would have done there. Thus our Lord preserve you. At Knoll, the 14th day of March. [1535.]

Your own assured ever,

To the Right Worshipful and my very

special friend Master Secretary.

Thomas Cantuar.

Harl. MSS.

CXLII. To

Sister, in my right hearty wise I commend me unto you: 6148. f. 50. signifying to you, that I have appointed one Mistress Creked to come to you within these iii or iiii days, late wife unto one of my servants deceased. And forasmuch as she was left very bare, and in great necessity and need, void now of all aid, succour, and friendship, and also hitherto brought up both wealthily and after an honest sort and manner, and so the rather unmeet either to serve or labour for her living, I am minded to see her to have both an honest living, and honestly bestowed; wherefore I require you, that with all favour you will entreat and entertain her when she shall resort unto you, and I myself will see you contented for her board. Over this, you must be content to forbear your chaplain Mr. Rix. My lord of Wilteshere, notwithstanding my many persuasions to the contrary, is so importunate for him, that he will not have no nay; insomuch that his mind is, that he come tomorrow sennight, which is Tuesday, unto Maideston, and so thence to depart with him home for altogethers. I pray you therefore that you will discharge him against the same day, so that he shall not need to rejourney again to you.

J [Probably the widow of Cranmer's servant John Creke. See Letters XVIII. XXXVII. LXXVI. LXXX.]