come me to do, to the pleasure of Almighty God, and the mere truth of the matter. From Dunstaple, the 17th of May, [1533.] Your Highness' most humble beadsman and chaplain, Thomas Cantuar. To the King's Highness. t XII. TO CRUMWELL. Otho. Right Worshipful Master Crumwell, in my right hearty Cott. MSS. w[ise] I commend me to you: and likewise I thank you for C. x. fol. your two [letters] and good advertisement by the same, Original, 166. which I trust I have h[itherto] satisfied, according to such Holograph. trust and expectation as the King'[s] Highness hath in me; for where I never yet went about to [injure] willingly any man living, I would be loth now to begin [with] my Prince, and defraud him of his trust in me. And therefore [1] have used all the expedition that I might conveniently use in th[e King's] behalf, and have brought the matter to a final sentence, to [be] given upon Friday next ensuing. Because every day in t[he] next week shall be ferial, except Friday and Saturday, therefo[re I cannot assign any shorter time ad audiendam sententiam, than ... Friday. At which time I trust so to endeavour myself furthe[r in] this behalf, as shall become me to do, to the pleasure of Almigh[ty God,] and the mere truth of the matter. Furthermore I pray y[ou to] think no unkindness in me, for that I have not hitherto [advertised] you of such process as I have made in this matter", for I [assure] you I have not hitherto t [This Letter has been much injured by fire. Several of the defects have been filled up from an extract printed by Heylyn, Eccles. Restaur. Qu. Mary, p. 7. Some others are supplied by conjecture. The latter are distinguished by Italics.] u [Crumwell, however, was not ignorant of the proceedings, having received an account of them from Bedyll, one of " the counsellors in the "law for the King's part," in a letter dated the 12th of May. It is there stated, that "My lord of Canterbury handleth himself very well, "and very uprightly, without any evident cause of suspicion to be noted "in him by the counsel of the Lady Katerine, if she had had any pre"sent there." State Papers, vol. i. p. 395.] not. written unto the Queen's Grace,...neither to no man living, xThom......... State Papers, vol. i. part ii. Lett. XIII. from the XIII. To KING HENRY VIII. Please it your Highness to be advertised, that this 23ti day of this present month of May, I have given sentence in your Grace's great and weighty cause; the copy y whereof I have sent unto your Highness by this bearer, Original Richard Watkyns. And where I was by the letters of Mr. 6148. fol. 2. Thurslesby your Grace's chaplain, advertised of your Grace's Todd, Life pleasure, that I should cause your Grace's counsel to conceive of Cran Harl. MSS. * [The remainder of the signature is burnt.] y [It will be found in Lord Herbert, Life of Henry VIII. p. 375; Burnet, Ref. vol. 1. App. B. ii. No. 47; Rymer, Fadera, vol. xiv. p. 462.] a procuracy concerning the second matrimony, I have sent Your Highness' most humble XIV. TO ARCHDEACON HAWKYNS. a In my most hearty wise I commend me unto you, and Harl. MSS. 6148. fol. even so would be right glad to hear of your welfare, &c. 23. These be to advertise you, that inasmuch as you now and Archeolothen take some pains in writing unto me, I would be loth gia, vol. xviii. p. 78. you should think your labour utterly lost and forgotten for lack of writing again; therefore, and because I reckon you Letters, be some deal desirous of such news as hath been here with Lett. CXIV. us of late in the King's Grace's matters, I intend to inform Todd, Life of Cranyou a part thereof, according to the tenor and purport mer, vol. i. used in that behalf. And first, as touching the final determination and concluding of the matter of divorce between my Lady Kateren and the King's Grace, which said matter, after the Convocation in that behalf had determined and agreed according to the former consent of the Universities, it was thought convenient by the King and his learned counsel, that I should repair unto Dunstable, which is within four miles unto z [The Coronation took place on Whitsunday the 1st of June. See Letter XIV.] a [Nicholas Hawkyns, Archdeacon of Ely, succeeded Cranmer as ambassador to the Emperor Charles V.] Ellis, Orig. first series, p. 80. Amptell, where the said Lady Kateren keepeth her house, and there to call her before me to hear the final sentence in the said matter. Notwithstanding, she would not at all obey thereunto, for when she was by Doctor Lee cited to appear by a day, she utterly refused the same, saying, that inasmuch as her cause was before the Pope, she would have none other judge; and therefore would not take me for her judge. b Nevertheless the viiith day of May, according to the said appointment, I came unto Dunstable, my Lord of Lincoln being assistant unto me, and my Lord of Wynchester, Doctor Bell, Dr. Claybroke, Dr. Trygonnell, Dr. Hewis, Dr. Olyver, Dr. Brytten, Mr. Bedell, with divers other learned in the law, being counsellors in the law for the King's part: and so there at our coming kept a Court for the appearance of the said Lady Kateren, where were examined certain witness which testified that she was lawfully cited and called to appear, whom for fault of appearance was declared contumax; proceeding in the said cause against her in pœnam contumaciae, as the process of the law thereunto belongeth; which continued fifteen days after our coming thither. And the morrow after Ascension-day I gave final sentence therein, how that it was indispensable for the Pope to license any such marriages. This done, and after our rejourneying home again, the King's Highness prepared all things convenient for the f Coronation of the Queen, which also was after such a manner as followeth. The Thursday next before the feast of Pentecost, the King and the Queen being at Grenewyche, all the crafts of London thereunto well appointed, in several barges decked с b [John Longland.] [Stephen Gardyner.] d[See Letters XII. LXI. "He was clerk of the Council, a learned man, and much made use of by Crumwell." Strype, Memorials, vol. i. p. 194.] 66 [Mr. Todd's correction has been adopted here. The reading in the manuscript is contumaciam.] [This Coronation is better remembered than most others, from its having been introduced by Shakspeare into his play of Hen. VIII. The details are given with great minuteness by Stow, Annals.] 1 after the most gorgeous and sumptuous manner, with divers pageants thereunto belonging, repaired and waited all together upon the Mayor of London; and so well furnished came all unto Grenewiche, where they tarried and waited for the Queen's coming to her barge: which so done, they brought her unto the Tower, trumpets, shambes, and other divers instruments all the ways playing and making great melody, which, as is reported, was so comely done as never was like in any time nigh to our remembrance. And so her Grace came to the Tower on Thursday at night, about five of the clock, where also was such a peal of guns as hath not been heard like a great while before. And the same night, and Friday all day, the King and Queen tarried there; and on Friday at night the King's Grace made eighteen Knights of the Baths, whose creation was not alonely so strange to hear of, as also their garmentsh stranger to behold or look on; which said Knights the next day, which was Saturday, rid before the Queen's Grace throughout the City of London towards Westminster Palace, over and besides the most part of the nobles of the realm, which like accompanied her Grace throughout the said City; she sitting in her hair upon a horse litter, richly apparelledi, and four Knights of the five ports bearing a canopy over her head. And after her came four rich chariots, one of them empty, and three other furnished with divers ancient old ladiesk; and after them came a great train of other ladies and gentlewomen: which said progress from the beginning to the ending, extended half a mile in length by estimation, or 8 ["On Friday at dinner, served the King all such as were appointed "by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath, which after dinner were "brought to their chambers, and that night were bathed and shriven "according to the old usage of England, and the next day in the morn"ing the King dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging." Stow, Annals, where is a list of their names.] [According to Stow, they rode before the Queen " in violet gowns "with hoods purfled with miniver like doctors."] i ["She had on a kirtle of white cloth of tissue, and a mantle of the "same furred with ermine, her hair hanging down, but on her head she "had a coif with a circlet about it full of rich stones." Stow, ibid.] k [Two of these "ancient old ladies," were the "old Duchess of "Norfolk, and the old Marchioness of Dorset." Stow, ibid.] |