and defence for us ayenst our neighbors the Scotts, withe out the whiche few or none of your Lordshipps supplyants are able to do the King is saide Hieghnes our bounden duetye ande service. Ande wee shall not onelye praye for his graciouse noble estate, but also for your Lordshipps prosperite with increase of honor longe to endure.

Your humble and poore beedemen
TH'INHABITANTS of the Lordship
of HOLME COLTRAM.

LETTER CXXXIII.

John Clusey to Lord Cromwell, in favor of a Nun of Shaftesbury, the natural daughter of Cardinal Wolsey.

[MS. DONAT. BRIT. MUS. 4160. p. 11.]

The name of this daughter of Cardinal Wolsey has not been handed down to us. Roy, in his " Rede me and be not Wrothe,” ascribes more natural children to him; and expressly names one Winter.

"Hath he children by his whoares also?
Ye, and that full prowdly they go,
Namly one whom I do knowe:

Which hath of the Churches goodes clerly
More than two thousand pownde yerly,
And yett is not content I trowe.

His name is Master Winter,

To whom my lorde his father

Hathe gotten of the Frenche Kynges Grace,

That when the bishop of Rone

Out of this lyfe is dedde and gone,

He shall succede hym in his place."

Of THOMAS WYNTER, the person here alluded to, who was Dean of Wells, archdeacon of York, and provost of Beverley, a particular account will be found in Wood's Fasti Oxonienses b. He had various other preferments, but appears to have resigned the greater part upon the Cardinal's fall, in 1529. He kept the archdeaconry of York till 1540. Fiddes has b Wood, Ath. Ox. 1st edit. vol. i. p. 673.

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printed the Grant of a Coat of Arms to him by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter, in 1526, the component parts of which are evidently taken from Wolsey's

Reginald Pole, afterwards Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, was sent at King Henry the Eighth's expence, to complete his studies at Padua, whither Wynter accompanied him as a fellow student and companion. Pole wrote to the King, and Wynter to Cromwell, to give an account of their arrival and first settlement there. The Letters, both in Latin, are preserved in the Cottonian Collection b.

The thirty-eighth of the Articles exhibited in Parliament against Wolsey, speaks of two natural children which the Cardinal had had by the daughter of one Lark:

66 XXXVIII. Also, the said Lord Cardinal did call before him Sir John Stanley Knight, which had taken a farm by Convent-Seal of the abbat and Convent of Chester; and afterwards, by his power and might, contrary to right, committed the said Sir John Stanley to the prison of Fleet by the space of one year, unto such time as he compelled the said Sir John to release his Convent-Seal to one Leghe of Adlington, which married one Lark's daughter, which woman the said Lord Cardinal kept, and had with her TWO CHILDREN: whereupon the said Sir John Stanley, upon displeasure taken in his heart, made himself monk in Westminster and there died."

RYGTHE honorable, after most humyll comendacyons, I lykewyce besuche you that the Contents of this my symple Letter may be secret; and that for asmyche as I have grete cause to goo home, I besuche your good Mastershipe to comand M: Herytag to give attendans opon your Mastershipe for the knowlege off youre plesure in the seyd secrete mater, whiche ys this, My Lord Cardinall causyd me to put a yong gentyll homan to the Monystery and Nunry off Shayfftysbyry, and there to be provessyd, and wold hur to be namyd my doythter; and the troythe ys shew

Fiddes, Life of Wolsey, Collect. p. 182.

b MS. Cotton. Nero b. vi. foll. 118, 122. Other Letters of Wynter occur, Ibid. fol. 163. Nero b. vii. fol. 182. and Titus b. i. fol. 390.

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was his dowythter; and now by your Visitacyon she haythe commawynment to departe, and knowythe not whether Wherefore I humely besuche youre Mastershipe to dyrect your Letter to the Abbas there, that she may there contynu at hur full age to be professed.

Withoute dowyte she ys other xxiiij. yere full, or shalbe at shuche tyme of the here as she was boren, which was a bowyte Myclelmas. In this your doyng your Mastershipe shall do a very charitable ded, and also bynd hur and me to do you such servyce as lyzthe in owre lytell powers; as knowythe owre Lord God whome I humely besuche prosperyusly and longe to preserve you.

Your orator

To the right honorabull

and his most especiall

good Master, Master Cromwell

Secretary to our good Lord the Kyng.

JOHN CLUSEY.

LETTER CXXXIV.

John Freeman to Lord Cromwell, upon the unnecessary and unlawful fees granted to various persons upon the Surrender of the Monasteries.

[MS. COTTON. TITUS B. I. fol. 394. Orig.]

YT may ples your good lordshipe to understond, that in the makynge of this half yeres resaite in Lincoln

shier, I well parsayve of the gyvyn owte of late, not only there, but also throwgh owte the realme, thies superfluus fees gyven by the late surrenderd Howses; whiche fees be gyven in three sortes. The furst to Bailles, hoa hath for smale somes resayving large fees; and where they have made a dosen, one war sufficient. Secondlye, they have gyven to generall Resayvors greater fees, whiche sorte shall never resayve no money; for the particuler bailles doth gather the rentes and so brynges it to the Kynges Resay vor, who stondes charged with the same. And the thirde sorte haith their fees to be. accounseill with the Howse, and yet the greatest nomber of theym hath no lernynge. Inded they gave counsell to th'abbot to gyve theym a Covent seale to robe the Kinge of part of his Revenues; wherfore me thinke they might lawfully at this Parliament be called in agane, and the Kings Highnes shuld resave therbye within his realme iij. or foure thowsand markes by the least yerly. And further as consarnynge the Kings leade within his realme, yf it wold ples his Grace to make sales therof it shuld turne hym to a great proffite. Their be merchantes within his realme, I thinke a great sorte, wold gyve hym iiij. for a foder, and fynd his Grace suerties sufficient to be pad yerly one porcion therof, whiche I thinke wold be no lees than xx M. a yere for the space of foure yeres, whiche ward a goodlye payment; and yet or the foure yeres ward expired their wold every foder be worthe to the Kinge

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xx. nobles, considering the costome in and owte. And further I thinke that c.M' of his pore Sugetes shuld be benefite takers of their retorns whither it war in money or in ware. And also the yeres beynge expired, it wold qwyken well agane one of the commodities of his realme that nowe is ded, whiche is the Myndesb of his leade. Yt may ples you to consider that and yf other owtward prynces wold take apon theym to redres their idell, fayned religiouse Howses, as the Kinges Highnes hath done, as I mystrust not but and their powers war accordinge as the Kings was and is they wolde so do, and than shall they have suche abundance of lead of suche like howses that they woll than sett litell by ours. Besechinge your lordship for my follyshe oppynyon, so boldlye to you to write of, that ye wold take with me no displeasure. And thus I remayn your pore man. From Lowthe the xth day of May.

Yours

JOHN FREMAN.

To the right honorable and his singuler good Lord my Lord Prevy Seale, be this yeven.