as shall be convenient both for his age and capacity. And for those your pains in so doing, I will always be ready to show unto you like pleasure. Thus fare you well. From my manor of Otteforde, the xiith day of October. To Master Stapleton, Parson of Byngham. LXIII. To ROSELL1. fol. 34. Brother, I right heartily commend me unto you, and in Harl. MSS. like wise unto my sister your bedfellow, &c. And where of 6148. late I wrote to you, that ye should send your son to school unto Southwell, supposing at that time that those parties had been clear from sickness, so it is as I am now advertised that they die there. In consideration thereof, and forasmuch as I am credibly informed that Master Stapleton, Parson of Byngham, hath by his provision set up a free school in his parish, of whose good name and conversation I hear much report worthy of commendation and praise, I will therefore advise you that forthwith you send your said son thither unto school, to the intent the said Master Stapleton may have the governance of him, to whom I have written a letter in that behalf. The xii. day [of October]. To my right well beloved brother, Mr. Rosell. LXIV. To CRUMWELL. Crumwell's Right Worshipful Master Crumwell, in my right hearty Chapter wise I commend me to you: and likewise pray you to have Westminmy friend Mr. Newman m in your good remembrance for ster; Mr. Benett's advowsonage, so that it may please you to Correscall the same out of Mr. Benett's kinsman's hands, and to pondence. Original. send the same unto me by my secretary, this bearer, whom I do send unto you purposely at this time for that matter. [See Letters XLI. LXII.] See Letters IV. LIX. LXXVIII. CLIII.] And at such time as I may show you any pleasure, I pray you to be as bold upon me. From my manor at Otford, the xviith day of October. Your own assured Thomas Cantuar. To the Right Worshipful and my Harl. MSS. 6148. fol. 34. b. LXV. TO THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD". In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, &c. And forasmuch as I understand, by a supplication to me delivered by this bearer, the parson of that here tofore, through the procuration of one Mr. Robert ap David Lloyd, your receiver, the same hath persuaded divers of this complaintiff's parish, not alonely to withdraw their tithes and oblations, but thereunto by the said David Lloyd's sinister and misreport to you, caused his benefice to be sequestrate, and the sequestration thereof committed to certain temporal men, amonges whom, one named Howell Abowan, after he had received the fruits thereof, did so waste and consume them, that when the sequestration was relaxed, and this said complaintiff restored again, he could not, ne yet cannot obtain of the said Abowan any restitution of his said fruits; and where also, after that time you made a final determination between this complaintiff and his parishioners concerning the said tithes and other misorders, which for a certain time was well observed and took right good effect, whereupon it was thought that all things should have grown to a quietness, yet now, that notwithstanding, the said David Lloid hath (as this complaintiff reporteth) renewed the said variance, whereby, as well his tithes is now withdrawn again, contrary to your former determination, as n [Charles Booth. He died in 1535, and was succeeded by Cranmer's friend, Edward Fox.] ...... also ... denied him for the reformation thereof, against all right and equity in consideration of the premises, and inasmuch as you in your diocese ought, before all other, to see justice ministered, I exhort you, and thereunto require the same, the rather at this my instance and request, to see your foresaid determination concerning these matters of variance, to be executed with justice; for this complaintiff requireth of you none other favour in this behalf, but according to your determination he may enjoy the effect thereof. And surely loth were I to take on me the redressing of any such griefs within your diocese, unless for fault of justice I must be constrained thereunto: but herein I doubt not that your discretion and wisdom will suffer any such enormities to be unreformed, when the verity and truth of them shall be patified and made open unto you. Thus fare you well. From my manor of Otteford the xviii. day of October. To the Bishop of Harwarde. LXVI. To PALLGRAVE o. 35. I do commend me unto you: signifying to the same, that Harl. MSS. inasmuch as you write unto me, as well for the £6148. fol. agreement of the fruits of your benefice of St. Dunston's concerning the last quarter in the vacation time, as also for the oblations offered there upon your Church holiday, I will that you, for a final determination herein, do resort unto Pottekyns, to know your end, to whom I have committed the ordering of all such matters belonging unto me; for you may right well consider, that I am neither skilled herein, nor that it is convenient for me to meddle in such causes; and yet not doubting but that mine officer will minister justice unto all parties accordingly. And where you say also, that you are not able to pay further out of hand so much money, but thereunto requireth days of payment for the same: Sir, as [John Pawlesgrave was instituted to the rectory of St. Dunstan's, the 3rd of October, 1533. Newcourt, Repertorium, vol. i. p. 334.] touching that, I suppose you may better bear your necessity, than I may mine, considering both my great charges hitherto, and how I am thereby at this season compelled to prove all the friends that I can make, for the satisfying of such sums as be now due to be paid; and yet I think not the contrary but that I shall lack much for the accomplishment of the same. Therefore I reckon you will rather endanger yourself to your friends, than now to require any such commodity of me, being so far behind hand. To Master Pallgrave, Parson of St. Dounston's in the East at London. Harl. MSS. 6148. fol. 35. LXVII. To LORD CHANCELLOR AUDELEY. In my right hearty wise I commend me unto your good Lordship, &c. And where I am advertised by this bearer, Doctor Maye, my Vicar General within the diocese of Ely P, that by reason that Doctor Clyff 9 and other keepeth away from him the records and registers belonging unto his office, he cannot in divers matters and causes minister justice accordingly; and forasmuch also, as there is none other convenient way or means, neither by the course of the law spiritual nor temporal, for the obtaining of them, as I am in this behalf informed, I heartily require your good Lordship, that you will at this mine instance cause a sergeant of arms to call the parties which have the custody of the said registers P [Nic. West, Bishop of Ely, died the twenty-eighth of April, 1533. His successor, Thomas Goodrich, was elected the seventeenth of March, and consecrated the nineteenth of April, 1534. Le Neve, Fasti. Dr. Maye, as the Archbishop's Vicar General, seems to have governed the diocese in the interval. There were two Doctors Maye, brothers, and both eminent men. Dr. William Maye, who is probably the person here mentioned, visited the diocese of Norwich as Cranmer's commissary in 1534, became Dean of St. Paul's 1545, was deprived under Mary, and in the reign of Elizabeth was nominated to the Archbishoprick of York, but died before consecration. Dr. John Maye was Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, and in 1577 Bishop of Carlisle. Strype.] [Probably the Dr. Cliff, who was Chanter of York and Dean of Chester, and whose opinion on Confirmation is printed by Strype, Memorials, vol. i. App. No. 38.] before you, to the intent they may show reasonable causes why they ought not to deliver them: and in thus doing you shall both help to aid justice, and do also unto me singular pleasure, which to recompence I will be at all times ready and glad. This said bringer can further instruct your Lordship in this, to whom I pray you to give credence. Thus fare you well. From my manor at Ottford, the xxiiiith day of October. 6148. fol. 35. I greet you well. And where this bearer, my friend Master Harl. MSS. Chesewryght, one of the King's chaplains, hath the benefice of Wysbeche given unto him, within the diocese of Ely, whose suit unto me is for the agreement of the fruits thereof now in the vacation time, I will, that inasmuch as I can little skill in that behalf, that you, with Master Pottkyns, order the matter according to your discretions with favour. And thus fare you well, &c. LXIX. TO HIS CHANCELlor. 6148. fol. 35. b. Master Chancellor, I greet you well. And forasmuch as Harl. MSS. this bringer, the Vicar of Milton, complaineth and findeth himself aggrieved, as well for that he is overcharged for the King's subsidy, as also for an acre of glebe land withholden from him; which injuries the Abbot of St. Austen's doth enforce him to sustain, both contrary to an ancient composition, and also the Act of the Parliament favouring him in that behalf: I will, that you, in consideration hereof, examine r [Probably the subsidy granted by Convocation in 1523, consisting of the half of all spiritual benefices, to be levied in five years. See Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iii. p. 699; and Letter CXLVII. An Act of Parliament for a subsidy was passed in the same year, from which the clergy were graciously excepted, provided that they taxed themselves to a higher amount.] S [John Sturvey, alias Essex, Abbot of St. Augustin's Canterbury.] |