here introduced, as well as one transcribed from the Original, now extant in the Exchequer Re • maketh much more Building there than you do, because you have Men from London. We fay, No: Yet we cannot be believed in that Matter. And alfo you are spoke of, because your Grace fhould take Mafter Doddington to be Steward; for it is faid, That he is not beloved in that Country. I made 6 anfwer, That he had never had the Staff in his Hand. Alfo you are spoke of, that your • Grace fhould give away an Office that you had granted to • Mafter Edwards. I faid, It was not fo, that ever I heard of. Mafter Stubbs fays, That he hath no Money for your Grace, as he hath made answer to Mafter Cromwell. As yet he is at Kingston; at his coming to London he will provide a • Piece of Baudkin, or Cloth of ⚫ Gold. Also Mafter Efton fays, 6 6 That your Grace hall have no Wine of him this Year. Alfo Mafter Amyda fays, He • has no Plate for your Grace as yet; but I perceive, from what he fays, he will deliver · none, unless your Grace fend him old Plate. And alfo, as foon as here is any Ship from Hull, your Grace fhall have • Quails fent. you. Other News here is, one Henry Man fpeaks • much Honour of your Grace, in ordering yourself among the <Gentlemen in the Country. I • have made your Recommenda tion to all that your Grace • commanded me, with many 6 cord more that heartily asked for your Grace. Mafter Treasurer, • Mafter Comptroller, Mafter Secretary, and the most part of the Gentlemen in the Court, when they faw me, came to know how your Grace does, and was right glad to hear of the Behaviour of your Grace. Mafter Alward is at Ipfwich, but he hath made Answer for your Chapel-book to Mafter Cromwell: And as for more 'Books we cannot get of Mafter Stubbs. He fays, He is in Premunire, and cannot tell how be fall do. The King's Highnefs hath given, to Master Secretary, Hanword Term of his • Life. The King is at Windfor; 6 6 how long he shall tarry there 'I cannot tell. Thus Almighty God preserve your Grace in good Health, and long Life, to his Pleasure. At London, the 10th Day of June, by your true and faithful Steward, ROBERT SMYTHE.' Endorfed, To my Lord Cardinal's good Grace.' cord-office, from Mr. Lawrence Stubbs, another of the Cardinal's faithful Friends, and the Gentleman mentioned in Mr. Smythe's Letter. Defires Cromwell to come to him. The Cardinal ftill continued to keep a close Correspondence with his faithful Servant and Friend, Cromwell, and, as he was fettled at Cawood, he required him to come thither, that they might tranfact fome Affairs together, which were not proper to be communicated in Writing; and at the fame time familiarly gives him an Account how he paffed his Time, and what Satisfaction he took therein. To this Cromwell anfwered, by a refpectful Letter, which is preserved in the Exchequer Record-office. In the first Part he gives his Master Cromwell's an Account what was faid of him at Answer. Court, and fpeaks of his Retirement in the following Words. • reafon of your late great oc a as cupying thereof, and partly becaufe the King's Highness hath fince taken much of the fame kind; and alfo for that Florence and the Country thereabouts, from whence fuch • Cloths come, doth not, • Merchants fay, make fuch Stuff; but do now occupy themselves more in War than in Merchandize. I befeech your Grace • take this for no Delay in me, for, though I be a Priest of small Lands, and Promotions, and a poor Man, daily futtaining great Charges by abiding here at Wefiminfier, in the King's Buildings, and also am at great Coft in defending myself in an • Action of Premunire, and other "Your wife, yet I fhall not fail to purchase for your Grace the faid Cloths, though I should for the Payment thereof lay to pledge and fell all the Plate I ' have. Since your Grace has been ' in Trouble, I have fold Lands to the yearly Value of 81. and spent the Money. Your Grace 'fhall ever have me a true and faithful Servant to you, and daily Orator, as knoweth the Holy Trinity, who have your Grace in his bleffed Tuition. • Written at Westminster, the ift Day of July. This Gentleman was Prefident of Magdalen College in Ox ford, and owed his Preferment to the Cardinal. "Your Grace is right happy, that you are now at Liberty to ferve God in your own Way, not "doubting but you have learnt by Experience, to "banish and exile the vain Defires of this unstable "World, that does nothing but allure every Per"fon therein, especially fuch as God has most en"dued with the greatest Gifts, &c. Wherefore, your "Grace being as you are, I judge you would not "be as as you were for a hundred times as much 66 as you were poffeffed of." Then he gives him a Relation of what was tranfacting both at Home and Abroad, and concludes with affuring his Mafter, "That he would render him all the Service he poffibly could during the Remainder of his Life;" but excufes himfelf from coming down to him, for that his Affairs would not permit him, and conceived he was much more capable of ferving him by staying at London, than if he was with him. The Cardinal received this Letter ve Enemies buy in The Cardinal's burting him. ry kindly, yet at times he expreffed fome Uneafinefs at his not coming to him On the other Hand there were not wanting Perfons about the Court, who not only inviduously represented the Cardinal's publick and generous Actions, but, as they faw with Envy the Friendship that fubfifted between him and Cromwell, they likewise earnestly endeavoured to break it, as appears from what Cromwell tells his Mafter in another Letter. Cromwell's "That his modeft Behaviour and Humanity had gained him the Love "and good Refpect of the Country, where he liv ed, as well as in the Court; but your Enemies deprave all. Sir, fome there be that do alledge, your "Grace keeps too great a House and Family, and "that you are continually building; for the Love of "God therefore have respect and refrain. VOL. IV. X X * Creatures pot to be pleafed in any Shape, " I 66 66 66 "I am informed your Grace hath me in some Dif“fidence, as if I did diffemble with you, or procure any Thing contrary to your Profit and Honour; I "much mufe that your Grace fhould think or fufpect it fecretly, confidering the Pains I have taken: "Wherefore I defire you to fpeak without feigning, if you have fuch Conceit, that I may clear myself. I reckoned that your Grace would have "written plainly to me of fuch Things, rather than fecretly to have mifreported me; but I fhall bear your Grace no lefs Good-will. Let God judge between us! Truly, your Grace fomething over-fhoot"eth yourself; there is Regard to be given to what "Things you utter, and to whom." 66 It appears from this Letter that Cromwell kept certain Scholars in Cambridge; for he concludes with entreating the Cardinal to prefer them to Benefices that fhould fall in his Archbishoprick. His Anfawer. The Cardinal immediately answered it. Tho' Cromwell was full pert in his Letter "I fufpect not, fays he, and that may appear "by my Deeds, for I ufe no Man's Help nor Coun"fel but yours. Complaint, indeed, has been made, "that Cromwell has not done me fo good Offices as " he might, concerning my Colleges and Archbi 66 fhoprick, but I have not believed them. It's true, "I have afked of our common Friends, How Crom"well hath behaved towards me? and, to my great "Comfort, have found you faithful: Therefore I " befeech you to continue ftedfait, and give no Cre"dit to the falfe Suggeftions of fuch as would make a "Variance between us, and by that Means leave me "deftitute of all Help." This Letter had the defired Effect, for they were thoroughly satisfied with each other. The King feeks to bring Wolfey into his Viers. During the Time that the Cardinal refided at Cawood, feveral Applications were 'made to him, as well by Promising as Threat Threatning, to prevail on him to aid in concluding the Affair of the Divorce according to the King's Mind, without having any Regard to the Orders of the Court of Rome; but he pofitively refused to intermeddle any further in the Affair: Therefore his Majefty, finding him inflexible, determined his entire Ruin, as the Sequel fhews. The Clergy of the Cardinal. The Cardinal, not yet being acquainted with this extraordinary Refolution, continued to employ his Time agreeable to his Function. The Clergy of the Cathedral Church of York, consistent with their Duty and Good-liking, attended him, who treated them with a Refpect that fhewed their facred Relation, declaring, "The moft 66 fpecial Cause of his Coming was to be among them, 66 not only as a religious Brother, but as a Father.' This kind Treatment was moft dutifully received, and, in communing with his Grace, they begged, "That he would come to the Cathedral at York to be "installed, according to the Custom of his Predecef"fors." He took Time to confider of this, and at laft confented to it; but infifted, "It fhould be done "without that great Shew and Pomp practifed heretofore, because the Misfortunes he had met with "had fufficiently weaned him from the Grandeur of "the World." Prepares for his The Monday next after All-Saints Day was appointed for his Inftallment, and, contrary to the Cardinal's Knowledge or Defire, great Preparations were made at York, in order to receive him into that City in a Manner equal to his high Dignity, the Abbots, Priors, and neighbouring Gentlemen of the Country, fent in all Sorts of Provifions; fo that, the Week before the intended Ceremony, every Thing was got ready for his Reception: But the preceding Sunday an Accident happened, which gave the CardiX x 2 nal |