Further you shall understand, that there is many here which wish you to succeed your uncle d; notwithstanding I would you should not think the contrary, but that there be a great sort which would it should not come to pass; nevertheless you be neither the nearer ne further off through such idle communication.

Finally, I here send unto you a bill for the bank of four ducats de largo, which sum I would you should not take it up before you have need thereof, and therefore I send it for your commodity and necessity; for it is none of the King's Grace's money, nor his said Grace knoweth nothing thereof, but alonely of my benevolence to serve your purpose, in case, as I said, you should lack the same. And thus fare ye well. From my manor of Croydon, the xvii. day of June. [1533.]

XV. TO THE MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE AND HIS BRETHREN.

6148. f. 22. b.

In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, and Harl. MSS. to each of you. And where of late I wrote unto you in the favour of one of mine ally, called Humfrye Stockewith, concerning his liberty in absenting himself from the offices of your town, the reasonable causes whereof I declared unto you in my other letters to you directed in that behalf, and since that time I have no understanding ne certification of your minds in that behalf: in consideration whereof, and forasmuch as I am some deal desirous to be advertised of your towardness therein, I heartily desire you to send me word by this bearer in writing, what you intend to do concerning the same. And if I herein may perceive any kindness

between the Duke of Orleans, afterwards Henry II, and Catharine de Medici, the Pope's niece. Burnet.]

["On the death of Dr. West, Bishop of Ely, his nephew and god"son Dr. Nicholas Hawkins, Archdeacon of Ely, at that time the "King's ambassador in foreign parts, was designed to succeed him; "but he dying before his consecration could be effected, the King "granted his license to the Prior and Convent, dated March 6, 1534, to "choose themselves a bishop; who immediately elected in their chap"ter-house, the seventeenth of the same month, Thomas Goodrich." Chalmers, Biogr. Dict. art. Goodrich.]

in you for the obtaining of my request, I will at all times be ready to show you like pleasure. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the xxv. day of June.

To Master Mayor of Cambridge and

his brethren.

b.

mer, vol. ii.

XVI. TO THE MASTER OF JESUS COLLEGE f, CAM

BRIDGE.

Harl. MSS. In my right hearty wise I commend [me] unto you, &c. 6148. f. 22. And so certifying you that I send you here a buck to be Todd, Life bestowed amonges your company within your college. And of Cran- forasmuch as you have more store of money, and also less need than I at this season, therefore I bequeath a noble of your purse towards the baking and seasoning of him. And whensoever I have so much money before hand as I am now behind hand, I shall repay you your noble again. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the

p. 285.

xxvi. day of June 5.

To the Master of Jesus College in

Cantabrige.

XVII. To

Harl. MSS. Right hearty and wellbeloved, I commend me unto you, 6148. f. 22. &c. letting you to understand, that by the great suit and in

b.

stance of my special friends I have overcharged my house with servants. Wherefore I desire you, that your son W. may be with you at home unto such time as my business be something overpast. I can put none of my servants from

[Wm. Capon. Le Neve, Fasti.]

f[Cranmer had been Fellow of Jesus College He vacated his fellowship by marriage, about 1512, but was re-elected on the death of his wife in the following year.]

[Mr. Todd places this Letter nearly twenty years later, under 1552. But he gives no conclusive reason for his arrangement; and the book of copies from which it is taken, may be fairly assumed from the known dates of some of its contents to have been wholly written before 1536. See Preface.]

me but such as have some friends to take unto, for else I
think they should be greatly hindered thereby, therefore I
intend to put none away but such as be my friends' children.
For lether I had be bold of my own friends that of
strangers, by reason that strangers will peradventure take it
more displeasantly and unkindly, than I am sure my own
friends will. Surely and unfeignedly I do like your son
singularly well, and therefore I intend to send for him,
God willing, again, as shortly as I may conveniently. More-
over I have spoken with Doctor Elyston in your favour, and
he hath taken day with me to St. James' day next, to the in-
tent he may be sure what the Chapel of St. Marget is worth
by the
year; that done, I trust that matter will come to good
effect, and that ye need not to doubt therein by God's
grace; and thus fare ye well. From my manor of Croydon,
the xxviti day of June.

XVIII. TO THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN h.

6148. f. 21.

My very loving lord, I commend me heartily to you. So Harl. MSS. it is that my servant John Creke, this bearer, is in good b. hope of a preferment in the University of Oxforthe, by means of special good friends which do and would earnestly labour for him, as he shall declare unto you; wherein I pray you, my Lord, right heartily, that he may for my sake have your favour and assistance, which when it shall lie in me, I would surely requite and recompense, God willing; who keep and preserve you. From Croydon, the vth day of July. Το my Lord of Lincoln.

XIX. To BALTHASOR.

In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you. And Harl. MSS. where it is so, that one of my chaplains, named Master Wit- 6148. fol.

h [John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, succeeded Archbishop Warham as Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1532. Wood, Fasti, p. 51.]

26.

well, by reason of a certain disease lying and being within his knee, is now under your cure for the remedy of the same: and as I am credibly informed [it] is so inveterately congealed, that it is not like easily and in short time to be dissolved, notwithstanding I understand you have declared hitherto as well kindness as diligence to him in that behalf; wherefore I heartily thank you for your said pains; requiring to continue your good towardness therein as you have begun, and so to use all such lawful expedition herein as may conveniently be devised, to the intent he may be the sooner released of this his pain. And in so doing I shall be ready to show you always such pleasure as lieth in me to do, when you shall the same require. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the vth day of July. To Master Balthasor, Surgeon unto

the King's Highness.

Harl. MSS.

6148. f. 26.

XX. TO THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN k.

In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, &c. And where there is a matter of variance between the Warden of All Souls College within the University of Oxford, and this bearer, Sir W. A. priest, for the interest of a chauntry lying and being within your diocese, from which he is expelled, as he saith, unjustly in consideration thereof, and forasmuch as all such variances begun without my diocese, by the statute I cannot call them before me; having also in consideration the great cost and vexation whereby the parties should be put to coming unto me so far: I heartily pray

[Probably John Whitwel, mentioned by Strype as the Archbishop's almoner and chaplain; Cranmer, p. 176, 179.]

k[John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, and Chancellor of the Univerof Oxford.]

[Probably the Statute 24 Hen. VIII. c. 12. for restraint of appeals to Rome; by which it was enacted, that appeals should thenceforth be made "from the Archdeacon or his official, if the matter be there begun, to the Bishop diocesan of the said see, if in case any of the "parties be grieved;" and if it be commenced before the Bishop diocesan, to the Archbishop of the province. Statutes of the Realm.]

you therefore, you being within three or four miles thereunto, to take some pains to set the parties at a unity and peace therein, according to right and conscience. And in thus doing, I will be as ready to show you like pleasure at all times. And thus fare you well. From my manor of Croydon, the viiith day of July.

Το my Lord of Lincoln.

XXI. To POTTKYNS.

26. b.

Master Pottkyns, I greet you well, &c. And where there Harl. MSS. is a collation of a benefice now in my hands through the 6148. fol. death of one Sir Richarde Baylis, priest of the College of Mallyng, according as you may be further instruct by this letter herein inclosed, the place and room whereof I intend to dispose, I will therefore, that you send unto me a collation thereof; and that your said collation have a window expedient to set what namem I will therein. And thus fare you well, &c. [1533.]

XXII. TO HIS CHANCEllor.

of a

26. b.

Master Chancellor, I greet you well. And where I sent Harl. MSS. unto for the process variance between Pery" and Ben- 6148. fol. bowe, supposing you had taken and examined the witness thereof, which I understand is not as yet done: in consideration thereof, I will that you forthwith examine the said witness, to the intent their depositions may be joined unto your said process, and then sent again therewithal unto [me]. Thus fare you well. From Croydon, the viiith day of July, &c.

m

[The name inserted was Stephen Padley, who succeeded Richard Bayley the 9th of July, 1533. Cranmer's Register, fol. 340. a.]

[See Letters XXVIII. XXXIII.]